the tech space is very much innovate or die

Is it still? The VC funding has started drying up and every tech company has started worrying about profitability now. I think the old innovate or die mantra has played itself out.

And IBM & Motorola diminished in part because they stuck to older industries where cost became as important as innovation and didn’t lower their cost.

Yeah, it is a fantasy. But it is an appealing one to some.

You’re right in that the trade is legalized, but it is really hard to analyze the social effects as the only state to legalize it has purposefully kept the trade away from most civilization. You have to go out of your way to go to a Nevada brothel in a way you don’t have to in other countries.

Hell, it is probably a reason why Vegas has a prostitution problem in the city.

You also have some newer mods who are controlling the narrative for profit.

I feel like she might go for Senator in 2028.

Outside of Trump, Presidents typically win a state office before going on to President. While AOC could go for governor, I don’t see her really going for that role.

It wasn’t really.

Outside of Florida being Florida, it looks like Helene hit inland a lot harder than previous hurricanes. Usually hurricanes lose a lot of their energy by the time they hit the Appalachian Mountains. So you’ve got a lot of mountain regions dealing with the worst flooding they have ever seen.

I’m not putting any work stuff on by home computer. I’m not giving work admin rights to that.

Going down that dark rabbit hole, I can see how some people might see some benefits.

Entire classes of jobs get reserved for you. All white collar jobs and the better blue collar jobs go to those with the right skin color and genitals.

You get a government provided sex maid to serve you at home. She is less likely to leave you because she less legal and economic options to do so. If she acts up against you, you are allowed to “correct” her.

There is a hierarchy of deference that you are high up on. You may not rank in the 1%, but your word means more than someone of a different gender or ethnicity.

People may be willing to risk their freedom for that elevated position.

Yeah, but the law was written in a way to keep it out of all major cities in Nevada.

That may be the way consoles go.

We aren’t seeing the kinds of innovation happening in hardware that justifies dropping backward compatibility and the AAA gaming market hasn’t released games in the quantity they did before.

So Sony and Microsoft can update the hardware in a way to maintain backwards comparability and game companies have the option of developing to the current generation only, both generations with different graphics, or the older generation.

Why? Amazon seems to have built an amazing system with AWS, but does it need the same amount of staff time to maintain it that it needed to develop it?

If Amazon acknowledges that it isn’t going to be developing new products to the scale it did for the past decade, it probably doesn’t need the headcount it had before.

Yep, and that is a lot worse.

No, Shazam. Aquaman is into too many environmental issues to be conservative.

I’ve just found that beard growth is easier for me in general as I’ve gotten older.

Broadcast television ratings have been in freefall for at least a generation. They’ve just adjusted by making these shows a lot cheaper to make, including adding a lot of unscripted content.

I know this was discussed heavily when Jay Leno had his crappy show on at 9:30. It had terrible ratings, but it was cheap enough to make that NBC still made money even if it couldn’t charge as much for ads.

People have tablets, phones, and computer screens that they can watch streaming from. I don’t see why a streaming service would give out actual equipment.

But that’s TV manufacturers, not streamers.

Not really.

The only reason there is one fewer name than expected is because of Bush, which had the father appear on the ballot four times and the son appear twice. The Bush family was a very old school political dynastic family.

The only outlier on the Democratic side is Hillary Clinton in 2016. She used her husband’s political career to help her, but they were a self made political family. You also have the case where Biden could have been on the 2016 ballot and there would be no change in the number of names.

How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn’t have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this?

Fucking liberals who want to destroy everything, just like how I’ve heard on the few news sources I have bombard me with propaganda all the time.

We’ve been talking about climate change either way. We’re also not talking about climate change, but people claiming climate change while vandalizing.