The only time it had luster was when it was pinned against the SpikeTV VGA's

When your competition is Funkmaster Flex rapping about how Good Madden was after it won Game of the year, you win by default.

One of my ram sticks went bad in my computer after running for 7 years. Because of the way I bought them (1 kit of 4x8MB DDR4) I had to send all four back and decided to drive to Micro Center to upgrade to 4x16 DDR4 Sticks in the interim and use the RMA'd sticks for another build.

On November 10, that cost me $299.
A year ago I could have upgraded using the same sticks for $149.

On Black Friday, I went to the same Micro Center to see what deals they had and decided to check on the RAM prices since they were inflating.

On November 26. The same exact RAM sticks were $399.

They literally went up $100 in less than 30 days.
It's even crazier since those sticks are DDR4 and have less demand since most people are upgrading to DDR5 at this point and were probably there in stock when I bought some of them on the 10th. They just marked them up since it would cost that much to replenish the stock when (most likely if at this point) they get more DDR4 RAM.

I posted this over two years ago. it's still true today: K12 Does not teach kids to think. It teaches kids to react

Basically, kids today can't do math because they were taught to react to math from a game on an iPad while using a Ti-83 calculator to pass standardized tests.

So imagine giving a 7 year old Frog Fractions on an iPad that he plays between his Screaming Minecraft vtuber and AI Chinese generated Spiderman / Super Mario Bros. YouTube watching sessions and then wondering why he can't do fractional math and sounds like someone from Idiocracy.

No. They probably don't want to hear the Roosters crowing in the background when employees are working from home on a Teams call and figure that since livestock isn't allowed in the office they can avoid that type of interruption.

And no. This isn't a joke. I've had at least three calls like this from Xerox Support over the past 5 years when their support site would crash and I had to call them for toner and parts support. To be fair I always got the parts and support on time so Kudos on Xerox but its definitely not something you expect to hear on a business support line.

Derelict in this use case is correct. In this case, you have landowners who don't have any interest in farming the land. Think a landowner who inherited the property from their farmer grandpa and don't have any plans to farm it but don't want to sell it for some reason. In those cases they lease the use rights yearly to farmers that do. Otherwise the farm would sit there growing grass and trees and therefore become derelict.

It shouldn't take a genius to realize that if a landowner is just profiting from land use, an energy company offering Lease + energy profit sharing looks better than just a straight land lease, even if the land lease is significantly higher up front.

First off, he's right about farmer destroying solar. There are big energy groups buying any farmland they can get cheap and putting Solar farms on them.

Locally there's a solar group that bought out leases for land that farmers were planting on that would otherwise be derelict. Even when the farmers offered to buy or lease the land at significantly higher value than what it's worth (or in one case, higher than what the solar company was leasing it for) the leasing company refused because the solar group offered stock in their company that if the solar farm is profitable would result in a solid revenue stream that would be sustainable for at least a few decades until the panels wear out.

The problem with this is that food demand is not getting smaller, and once you dedicate farmland for solar, it basically makes the land useless for anything but solar since the solar shade blocks plant growth and once the solar panels are degraded and/or the company goes under, now you have rows and rows of useless solar panels that were cemented into the ground as well as their wires and conduits (and possibly chemicals if batteries are involved) that you will absolutely have to find and remove at a significant cost in order to even attempt to return that land back into farm capable condition.

Meanwhile, Malls, Stores and Plaza's have these huge parking lots that you can easily install solar canopies in that not only shade the cars of customers and can be used to charge parked electric cars, but you immediately have an electrical customer in that Mall, Store or Plaza and the stores aren't going to care since they see it not only as a green thing, but as a customer service thing due to the shade.

Now to be fair I don't know if Trump is banning all solar or just farm solar, but it makes sense to ban farm solar to encourage more parking lot canopy solar if that is what he's planning. As for wind, I'm not sure why he's banning them other than because he doesn't like the look of them or he read that study from 50 years ago that says wind turbines kill birds (because wind turbines in the 70's moved at significantly higher RPM's than modern turbines) even though 1 solar thermal plant reportedly killed more birds and insects per year than all of the bird strikes on all modern windmills combined.

No. He'll interview the I Am Hunger in America girl.

This isn't the First time AI imagery has been used for political purposes and it will most definitely not be the last.

This is the American Electrola DXC-100
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.radiomuseum.org%2Fr%2F...

This was a radio made in 1993, cost around $250-$300 in 1993 money, was made in Pittsburgh PA and qualified for the Made in USA logo at the time. 2000 (2 batches of 1000) of them were sold by a primarily shortwave Rush Limbaugh clone named Chuck Harder that was previously selling Drake branded radios made in Japan before one of his listeners challenged him to sell a "Made in USA" Radio. It's so American, when you turn it off, the Display says "USA 1" on it.

And it's made out of 80% US parts. The other 20% is made from friendly foreign components (Think Europe, because in the 90s JAPAN BAD! EVIL! TRADE WAR!!)
And it sucked. The first batch could barely pick up local AM or SW stations and the 2nd Gen while better, didn't justify the cost when a GE Superadio III or a cheap Radio Shack rebadged Sangean would smoke it for 1/3 the cost. Within a few months Chuck was selling Drake receivers again.

So Even in 1993, when we still had a semiconductor and computer industry in the US, we couldn't even build a simple radio out of 100% American made parts.
So what snowball's chance in hell do you think we have to build a PC out of 100% American parts in 2025?

At this point, I think Idiocracy should be taught in schools just like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 are.

It's an allegory of how Stupidity is just as dangerous as Totalitarianism and Cencorship.

Bookmarking? In 2025?? Well that's just uncivilized!

In 2025, I need all of my content links uploaded to the cloud so it can be paraphrased and narrated by an AI that sounds like Patrick Stewart complete with corresponding random vertical videos of random things getting assembled from my smart hub screen as I fall asleep at night to maximize content retention. Anything less is too much of a bother.

Where I live, Most of our stations are owned by either IHeartMedia or Cumulus. The "DJ's" are all nationwide cookie cutter Random Factoid Top 40 Celebrity News spewers that are basically placeholders to give them an excuse to tell you what car dealership bought the Studio, News desk, Weather center, Traffic report, ETC's Naming Rights in between more commercials and playing stingers of one of their station "Brands" such as Kiss, Froggy or Real.

At this point an AI DJ would be an improvement. They might actually play music on the station instead of commenting how a gecko loses it's tail when it feels threatened and how he wished he could do that when confronted by his girlfriend. (actual random factoid one of our stations used BTW)