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Afforesson Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage

Except this makes no sense. There isn’t enough power to run all these new chips, so the demand must be speculative, not growth.

Afforesson We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

Sounds like you have zero empathy for the real costs AI is driving and feelings that this creates for website owners. How about you pony up and pay for your scraping?

Afforesson The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing

Thanks for doing the meme! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

You are very intelligent!

Afforesson Detroit's carmakers to save billions in emissions rollback

False. The US Auto market is subsidized and regulated in opaque and convoluted ways that distort prices and demand significantly.

Afforesson German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional

The knee jerk anti communism is your propaganda showing. Marxist historical materialism is a mainstream mode of analysis. Nothing inherently leftwing or revolutionary about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism

For the gamers, the Victoria series by Paradox uses historical materialism as its gameplay.

Afforesson BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia

You are missing the point. I don’t dispute the sales data, I agree with it, it supports my point. It’s not out of preference, it’s enforced by regulations and encouraged by the tax code.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popu...

Afforesson BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia

Wrong. American car choice has everything to do with government subsidies, car safety standards and fuel standards. Consumer choice doesn’t matter in the US Auto market.

Afforesson BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia

Yeah, I came to the same exact conclusion last year. Heck, even Ford’s CEO drives a BYD and thinks their a major threat.

This administration seems set on demolishing American industries though. Such a shame, but maybe we can finally get decent rail once all the car lobby’s are dead. (But probably not)

Afforesson World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

Desire for children is above the replacement rate, though.

There is a gap between the world we live in and the world desired. One solution would be to close the gap.

Afforesson The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

CEOs are not the living embodiment of a company. They are an agent with their own values too.

Afforesson California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy

California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.

Afforesson How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

How was my response uncivil? Your reply is bad faith because it provides no evidence.

Afforesson How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

I’m an active DSA member. What about you?

Afforesson How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

Voting is the minimum of civic duty, not the maximum.

Afforesson When the U.S. tried to replace migrant farmworkers with high schoolers (2018)

Setting aside the moral component, and focusing on the economic; the Trump deportation plan is red carpet invitation for consolidation. Agriculture today is a declining mix of many medium and small growers, with a few mega growers that have increasingly concentrated their market share of output. Deportation will greatly accelerate this trend, consolidating most agriculture under a few mega growers. Small and medium sized farm operations can’t afford the capital for complex automation to replace manual labor - but mega corps can.

Afforesson Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job

Majesty I & II were implemented like your idea of this game…

Afforesson New Mac Mini with M4

This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.

Afforesson US satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed

You can’t wait for escalation? Are you pro-war???

Afforesson Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change

US military has no peer.

USPS is very good, better and cheaper than UPS or FedEx.

Wish antigovernment types didn’t lie and had actual complaints.

Afforesson Mozilla wants you to love Firefox again

I don’t know if Firefox can be saved. I say that using Firefox for iOS right now.

I use Firefox because it’s not chrome, not because it’s good. Mozilla’s reputation is trash, Firefox is riddled with ancient bugs, and the bleeding hasn’t stopped.

I’d like to be wrong but I don’t see how.

Afforesson US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication

I like how Apple got the city HazMat to tip them off to the EPA inspectors, personally. Is that a new “best practice?” I am taking notes.

Afforesson Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

Better Corollary: If you worked somewhere that made remote permanent you made the right career decision.

Afforesson Home ownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/health/seniors-home-equit...

Afforesson Tesla uses new Texas law to avoid Austin's environmental regulations

Are you confused? Only local initiatives can be done by voters in Texas.

https://letthevotersdecide.com/learn/how-to-file-a-ballot-in...

Afforesson Tesla uses new Texas law to avoid Austin's environmental regulations

You say change things at the state level, but carefully don’t mention how that’s impossible in Texas. Care to give some advice how, or is that just a brush-off? There’s no state referendums in Texas. Republicans have a gerrymandered supermajority and they crush outsiders. So it feels manipulative when you say that without mentioning the impossibility of it.

The local laws exist because changing the state laws are impossible, I know, I’m an Austinite.

Afforesson The 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers

Private life.

Did you miss those key words?

Afforesson Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds

I'm an A/C, neither AA nor CC. Not a lot out there on that, some say "slow" is dominant, but that leaves me confused because I have none of the problems you've described and I drink 200-400mg of caffeine a day (monster energy + 3x 12oz soda).

Afforesson A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians

Which given the 8-10 year pipeline to become a physician, means we have yet to see the effects. It will take years more.

Afforesson Microsoft now demands to know why you won't use Edge when you download Chrome

Someone who desires undesirable things is never “smart.”

Thinking so is how groupthink works.