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Consoles have been riding on their momentum of their brands

This is entirely wrong. Consoles have been riding consistency and ease of use. Sure, if you look just at the spec sheet consoles make no sense. But when you look at the whole experience combined with price, this is where consoles have always won. It's always been easier to hook my console up to the TV and start playing. The Steambox closes this gap with the overall experience, but still loses out on price.

If consoles continue to enshittify, this might change.

Ohioans need to elect better reps then, don't they?

I'm not sure I understand the question.

In some states you have to click into the listing before learning that there's an extra $500 cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate :)

And the “house rules” still require you to clean the place before you leave.

First line in the article:

Each figure is the shareholder wealth a founder’s company created, now held by index funds, pensions, employees and co-founders, minus what the founder kept.

What's wrong with unpasteurized milk

A substantially increased risk of disease.

What's wrong with [...] beef tallow?

A substantially increased risk of heart disease.

telling people it's all "black magic" and "wizardry" (and worst of all, saying "even RF engineers don't understand RF") makes it seem like it's not worth studying.

I think the opposite is true. It being advertised as difficult to understand is one of the reasons I personally decided to study RF Engineering. The prospect of learning something so challenging pulled me in. The Smith Chart helped.

Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

I wish I could say such behavior was shocking. Everything Springer touches turns to shit.

That’s a pittance compared to their revenue.

values that people in the US might care about (freedom of speech, limited govt, etc).

The US federal government forced Paramount to take Colbert off the air. Seems that people in the US don’t actually value these things.

What values specifically are you optimizing for here?

Probably not being fascist.

So wealthy people can go ahead and violate your privacy interests, but not really anyone else? I’m sorry, but this is a bad answer to the problem. The solution is to fix the redaction process, not to go with some awkward indirect solution that creates its own set of problems WITHOUT solving the original stated problem.

The Bolsheviks certainly were good at it, yet we don't learn about the 23+ million they massacred in US schools.

Those of us who paid attention certainly did.

I don’t need an AI to tell me about Tiananmen Square. I need it to do boring grunt work.

Is looking up nutrients a significant daily burden?

That’s the same MSRP as the Samsung foldable.

Why would having goals on fiber, protein, and vitamin intake be an eating disorder?

The jokes about "5G gives you cancer" is probably not as funny, if you think about the sleep you miss while you doom scroll.

802.11g was good enough for that, no need for 5G.

Where in this article do you feel that people are being looked down on?

The Chinese Communist Party and United Russia might say the same thing.

Indeed, but they do make a pretty compelling schadenfreude.

CEOs with poor backgrounds.

What's the percentage here?

Trump equivocated when it came time to condemn people shouting “The Jews will not replace us” and the Proud Boys. Anyone who thinks it’s just about illegal immigrants is delusional.

The current administration was voted in with an anti-immigration mandate

Given that they’re underwater for approval rating on immigration it seems both you and they have misread the room. Most people’s objections have to do with immigrants who are violent criminals that are going around neighborhoods hunting for cats and dogs to eat. This is what their campaign was highlighting as a problem. They have not been cracking down specifically on those immigrants. For this, they have no mandate.

GP isn’t entirely wrong, our governing apparatus has made this something to be expected.

Do you have information on this? I’m curious to see.

The chief of police stands proudly by his decision. This will happen again.

Maybe others see it differently than I do, but the actual spending isn't so much the issue. It's the fact that these people with so much money exist at all. That much money translates to a tremendous amount of power which allows them to bend the law to their will.

I can ask Claude on my own.

I've already used up the tokens, why donate money to Anthropic?

Subway is consistently the worst sandwich shop in a given city. I’m sure worse sandwich shops exist, but I’ve never been to one.

Their employees were caught viewing and sharing nude photos of their customers on slack.