LOL, just from some of the videos I've seen of some of the current CHINESE robots, this guy would be dead in about 30 seconds with them in the ring.

I agree! Paper ballots. Heck, 40 years ago, the election was known by 1am on the east coast. Today? It might be WEEKS! (takes time to print new pre-voted ballots).

Paypal used to be a useful tool that did useful things. Now it's just a way for rich people and con artists to extract money from others who apparently don't know better. It's infuriating how many nonprofits are losing truck loads of cash to paypal as the fees continue to climb. The ones I'm involved with switch to Zelle a while back for the majority of all transfers and that has been a huge step in the right direction though of course not without its own set of tax weirdness.

Go look on the google earth map. Look up: Haizi Mongol & Tibetan area, along with Talatan Solar Panel Park & Tengger Deser solar park. Along with that, close to those three is Qinghai Lake. Good source of water. China has been building up their solar out in the dessert areas, along with water reserves. Not to mention all of the "support" they have provided for the "anti-data center protests" in America & elsewhere. These tech types are NOT going to abandon their goal of AI data centers. China will welcome them with open arms. And of course he tech types will be somewhat protected by the CCP....until they get enough AI data to figure they aren't worth the trouble.

I just go to the deflock.org site. Couple months ago, it showed 150 cities that got rid of flock. Now it's over 275!

Hey, if you want one, no skin off my teeth. Seeing this is Apple's FIRST fold, I'd hold off. But, on the other hand they have had MANY years of reverse engineering to see the good & bad of folding phones to hopefully know what does and doesn't work. Apple is great at marketing. By saying over and over again that due to the complex nature of the device, low production and availability it can create "demand" and if they sell out quickly, they call it a super hit! If it didn't sell quickly, Apple wouldn't be stuck with excess inventory. Either way, Apple wins. They can test it all they want, but it will be interesting to see how it holds up in the real world.

Does that include the FORTY TRILLION in debt the U.S. government has? It has BALLOONED since the 70's when they took the government off the gold standard. Politicians on BOTH SIDES of the political isle have been on a drunken spending spree ever since!

That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).

It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.

Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.

I'll start by saying I've never owned a console from Microsoft or Sony. I've seen them, I've seen game demos in stores, etc, but I've never owned one.

To me as one random consumer I fail to see the drive to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, or from the previous XBox to the newest. The games don't look that different. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the two consoles are really offering much difference from each other either. Both consoles are primarily hawking the newest Quake look-alike, or the latest professional (or college) sports titles. I see very few games for either that don't fit into one of those categories.

In other words my argument here is that they have sold to their core market already, and the demand has dissolved for the rest of the public. Even if we ignore the cost, the benefit is no longer clear to many people. Why upgrade to the newest console, other than to say you have it?

female bots paid less? Oh I can't wait until the "equal rights" crowd gets ahold of this! Next, white male bots paid more than black/brown/yellow AI bots?

Other than media sites like TMZ, National Enquirer, Radar Online, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN who the h*ll watches those "look at me look at me" things anyway? Just another event, that the hollywood types can get dressed up, smile for the cameras, then go to a huge party afterwards.

This was started before Trump was president. Under Biden, Obama and pretty much every president going all the way back to the startup of all of the alphabet government agencies. But, because Trump is the president, this is HIS fault?

I just wish websites would find another way to "prove I'm not a robot". Sick of the popup that you have to checkmark that has cloudflare stamped on it.

I can't recall the last time I ate a burger at McDonald's that tasted better than the wrapper it was served in. A while ago I tried the McRib as well and was left wishing it had stayed in the 90s.