It's normal that the most expensive version of something changes price less, often not at all, when other models are experiencing high inflation. The most expensive model is already the highest price the buyer can bear.
Cheapest 9070XT is now priced less than a mid-priced 9060XT.

Same with anything else; cheap milk doubled in price, but grass fed organic milk didn't change at all.
Cheap eggs quadrupled in price, pasture raised local eggs didn't change.

I paid $439.99 for my 9060XT in January, exact same model is $649.95 right now, a difference of $210,62.

Definitely a thing.

On the contrary, when you introduce your experience as relevant to a conversation then people's assessment of your experience is something they evaluate. That's why you share your experience; because you want others to take it into consideration. You'd have to be very simple-minded to think they'll just agree with you blindly without weighing your words.

Cast iron isn't unbreakable, and if you think it is that's very consistent with a person who packed it poorly, resulting in damage. Everything you say is just reinforcing that the system was working, you were a poor seller and rage-quit when people demanded you do better.

Yes. And... "duh?" Are you an idiot? (Don't answer that)

On most purchases it says, "Buyer pays return shipping." There is no financial gain by smashing something and then paying shipping to return it. They end up out their shipping, they lost money. So yes, you demand they return it and use their refusal to return it to win any dispute. And you put a comment on their feedback that they refused to return it. (And don't add additional insults that make you look bad, just give the relevant facts concisely)

It's not rocket science. There are lots of sellers who have huge numbers of sales, and they don't have the levels of bad buyers that the neckbeards on slashdot claim. Less than 1 in 1000. People who claim most of their buyers are trying to scam them are toxic sellers. In the case of the slashdot neckbeards it's probably unintentional; they're probably just too anti-social to comprehend what the normal "common sense" market expectations are for a seller. I mean, just click on their comment history.

Almost anything that has a big battery would actually power your house for several days if it can handle V2L. My Ioniq 6 has a 77kWh battery. If you're just running some essentials like your fridge and the lights, I think you might be able to last a week?

Even being relatively more rare isn't an issue right now, or it might be, but only in a very few places. Most of the time, the chargers are empty. One presumes as EVs become more popular, there will be even more charging stations. One of the major gas stations in Canada (Petro Canada) even has its own chargers at some stations.

Also, I think PHEVs may be a good alternative right now, since something like 90% of people's driving is 50km per day, and most PHEVs can handle that on a charge. Then you plug in at night and you're gtg. They would represent a major reduction in fuel consumption if we just got that far.

Nobody wants expensive cars, and EVs are undoubtedly more expensive. But otherwise, that claim is horse hockey.

Since I charge overnight (from an outdoor outlet, not even an L2 charger), I never have less than a 60% charge on my car at home. I spend less time overall at stops if you consider the totality of my life than when I had a petrol or diesel car. I recently drove 400km each way to another city, and I spent about 20 minutes at one L3 charger on the way there, and maybe 30 minutes total charging on the way back, and I needed to walk around and go to the washroom anyway. There's basically no difference in my road trip times from before. I used to be able to get about 1100km on a single tank of diesel with my VW wagon (my Ioniq 6 gets "only" 520km on a 90% charge), but I still had to stop every few hours to pee and stretch my legs and take on food. The human body is not meant to drive 6 hour stints. (I raced bikes and had a girlfriend in the USA in my 30s so I would drive 600km each way on a weekend on a fairly regular basis. No regrets, but I don't recommend that as a way to spend your time.)

I just drove 400km each way to visit family in another city. I'm Canadian, and the distances between cities here are considerably longer on average than in the USA. I had no problem charging in the middle of large mountain parks where there was otherwise no mobile phone reception. This is such a stunningly brain-dead take, I can only assume you've never actually driven anywhere with your eyes open. There are L2 and L3 charging stations everywhere even here. I live in a town of 30k people and I could go charge at some Mercedes 800v superchargers if I wanted to. I have a very hard time believing that Canada is ahead of the USA in infrastructure in this regard.

Also, while my townhouse has a driveway, I'm only using my outdoor outlet to charge right now. It's fine.

Neither, it's just more popular right now.

Cyrix released their MediaGX CPU with integrated GPU (and audio chipset) in 1996.

I guess you'd be shocked to learn that that is actually an everyday occurrence. It's usually pronounced "Delphi" instead of "Pascal," though. It's popular in enterprise because it provides deep windoze integration at the same time as portability to mobile OSes.

You started strong but, as usual, you quickly went off the rails.

He's just an executive who got lucky who made a ridiculous buyout offer he can't finance so he can stay relevant. He's not "in power." He's in charge of a shitty little company that is failing slower than expected because they're popular with dude-bros and incels. He wasn't elected to anything, he isn't running for office, and the political system has nothing to do with this story at all.

I have about $500 of vintage tools I ordered from ebay in the mail right now. I've also got over a dozen camera lenses that I purchased on there.

They're a thriving business with a high profit margin, reasonable debt load, good cash flow, and consistent modest earnings growth.

It's just ordinary slang.

I was picturing a woman with a lot of makeup and an affected smile typing loudly, measured. You know she can type twice that fast, but she knows everybody stopped to listen.