Honestly, I hope every company that donated to Trump collapses as a result of their technofascism. Microsoft gave a million dollar bribe to Trump’s “inaugural” fund so F 'em

Not great with hardware tbh… will I soon be able to nab 64 or 128gb of ddr5 compatible with my American gaming pc?

Yeah, the one thing this Admin can’t hide at the end of the day is how much money has been evaporated between the war and whatever financial schemes they’ve enacted along the way. Hope the Repubs love paying for that

I’m guessing a big part of the problem isn’t even the Tesla politics or the right-wing perception of EVs… it’s probably close to 100% cost. They’re expensive AF and everyone in America is poor. Most EVs are touted as a luxury ordeal with luxury prices. China can do cheap EVs, but that doesn’t work with American business’s demand for profit margin.

Maybe it’s time the corporations go through some austerity measures?

As a non-dev person who recently started using AI to get into doing some computer programming, I think the marketing by the CEOs has done a lot of harm. People who truly know what they’re doing and who are very careful thinkers could see all along that this technology is not at a point to where the following hype was true:

-it will not entirely replace human workers,

-it’s almost certainly not going to be better at what it’s doing than a true expert,

-and it remains to be seen whether or not it will ever be able to generate truly unique, bespoke, and fundamentally new solutions… you know, like what humans had to do for every single issue that came before…

And what it’s really good at from my perspective is allowing a non-expert person to generate productive materials in an area where they are not a master-level technician/developer/knowledge worker. It has really dissolved the barrier of entry and the value associated with routine technical skills, for better or worse.

The practical issues though involved with massive data centers, the price rises associated with computer parts, and all the other environmental garbage that’s happening is pretty discouraging though. This technology has legit potential for benefit, but the companies and CEOs have ultimately made it into a moral conundrum whether or not it should be put to use.

Typical capitalism, imo …

It’s all true lol

It’s crazy. I generally try not to go to locations where there are snipers present, no matter who’s side they’re on.

It’s not the engineer that gets anything extra when the business people make a cut to the product, lol. The engineer is going to be the one arguing against it, but ultimately unable to steer the ship at all…

Once again, everyore and everything else ends up suffering to acommodate the Repubs. Ugh

Just let the farmers deal with it. If meat becomes unaffordably expensive, then let them eat vegetables I guess? This is what they wanted

70 billion to fund the most backward, violent, uneducated, and lazy portion of our society. They couldn’t make it through college or even get a real beneficial blue collar job like welding or car mechanic work, so they just drive around in their cars and enact violence on others.

It can be true that both parties suck and should lose lol

I think this response ignores the whole software distribution aspect, like phone apps have to be downloaded from the Play Store or whatever… if Signal has an office in Canada, maybe the employees would be forced to comply with the request or face legal troubles? If Signal doesn’t comply, Canada will just force Google and Apple to cease distribution, which I imagine is what would happen. I’m sure people would still be free to download it on their own accord if they could get a hold of it and get it running.

But idk?

Is this the final straw we needed to make America great again?

Religious people should really keep this sorta thing in the privacy of their own home… Lol

Not a great take on the issue. People only get one life, and you expect them to spend it suffering on account of the greed of the Epstein class? People should be free to fight or leave without judgement either way, imo.

Yeah, same thing with Putin. His dismissive attitude toward the soldiers lost in his own war… Trump would happily send a few million of his own American soldiers to their deaths if he wanted to, for even vanity reasons, and it wouldn’t even register.

I just can’t trust my fellow Americans anymore after this. I’m surrounded by losers.

I did look up sales volumes/revenue as I was typing my original comment and was pretty disappointed seeing the endless rise. My values seem to drift further from society’s every year it seems lol… maybe for the best…

Not sure if this is in response to internal bean counters or reduced external demand, but it doesn’t even make sense to buy from them without Prime nowadays. I can literally get items from almost any local store the same day or next day for cheap or free. Some online retailers can get me stuff same week, and Amazon with their massive warehouse down the block can’t do it within five days most of the time unless I pay for shipping… At which point I’d rather just shop almost anywhere else.

I refuse to subscribe to Prime because I’m sick of all these companies trying to lock me into their own business. I’ll just go source locally, shop around online, or pay the shipping at Amazon once every two months when I truly can’t find what I need at a reasonable price anywhere else.

Yes lol