I think it shows that Opera browser was sold to a company that is now trying to milk profits out of it. There's no reason to pay for this.

You mean the one about a sidekick named Boo-Boo who is more sensible, and arguably smarter, than the "smarter than the average bear" main character?

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy â" and four times the subprime bubble

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Wind and solar have been able to provide base power for at least 15 years debatably longer.

I do not understand why old nerds are so obsessed with nuclear. It's just not a very good technology. It works but only under very specific social circumstances. The technology is extremely dangerous when not properly handled and since we as a society are obsessed with quarter to quarter profitability it's basically guaranteed that we are going to eventually cut the corners needed to keep it safe.

You can see this with every single nuclear project that keeps failing. The government is still overseeing them and making them do it safely so they keep over running costs and eventually the project fizzles out because they don't get to cut the corners they want to cut.

Think of all those condos in Florida that are just waiting to collapse. That's the kind of building quality you need in a nuclear power plant to make the kind of profits that attract private investment. Basically you need to be able to set up a time bomb waiting to go off in about 20 or 30 years. Long enough for any statute of limitations to have passed.

France can do nuclear but France is a completely upside down world compared to America or most countries. I mean for fuck sakes they tried to raise the retirement age in France to 64 and there were riots in the streets.

Nuclear is a social problem not a technical one but techie nerds don't like to think about social problems.

Seriously are there any fans of nuclear power here that will address the social problems instead of just telling me statistics about deaths or something like that. Explain to me why the problems I just raised above aren't problems or are already solved. I would love to hear somebody actually try to tackle them instead of misdirecting to some other topic.

I've been pointing out that nuclear doesn't work because of social problems for a few years now at least and I have never once had anyone attack my position.

That's before we get into wind and solar being perfectly suitable for the power grid just about everywhere except maybe possibly Japan with their uniquely bizarre land arrangements (and even then again it's debatable)

Right now inflation is 3% but without Trump tariffs it would be 2% and we would be going into a strong economy because of the interest rate cuts we'd be getting.

Trump and a heritage foundation that commands him wants a national sales tax. So he wants those tariffs to replace the taxes that he and his Rich buddies can't quite get out of paying. As a percentage it's not much but it's still tens of billions of dollars that they can make us pay.

Problem with the national sales tax is it's regressive. It disproportionally hurts people that work for a living. That reduces consumer spending and it just wrecks the economy.

While all this is going on they are doing massive amounts of deregulation and opening up the 401K programs to corruption and theft.

We fucked up and we're about to find out.

We put a guy who isn't allowed to run a charity because he stole from a children's cancer charity in charge of our finances.

bad things are going to happen now and they can't be stopped. If you are meeting this and you are under 65 you are fucked. If you are over 65 congratulations you just might die before the worst of it.

I'm tempted to agree. But I will say this, you know how people say, "ohh, I had all this apple stock, but I sold it in 2008 because I was already up by a factor of 10." And now it's up by another factor of 50. Well, this is then, for some small number of companies... but which?

You know what company I think is poised to make a vast amount of money on AI? Waymo. (That is, Alphabet, as in google). I know, Alphabet is already valued at $3T which seems pretty insane...

Yeah. And Vance also has a functioning intellect, and is probably more amenable to being told what to do by his masters.

Toyota Corollas sales numbers peaked in the UK in 2006. They peaked in Europe a few years ago (and have been on a steady decline). Worldwide they are estimated to ship only 66% of the volume in 2025 vs 2024 based on current projections. And beyond the Corolla Toyota is really struggling across all markets. Toyota's global production peaked in 2007, and while they were rising in popularity in Japan, their export volume has plummeted since then.

Toyota will still be around in 10 years, as will the Corolla. But there is simply no logical basis for assuming that in 10 years the volumes will remain the same. In order to do that they need to actually turn around the currently declining trend.

That may be true in America, but that is a reflection of American patriotism and little to do with the cars themselves. The incumbents are doing just fine. Tesla hasn't been the top EV brand in Europe for many years, even before they were renamed SwastiCars because of his antics.

The problem is GM and Ford had no incentive to provide any meaningful alternatives for Americans, and most of the models available to me in Europe simply don't exist state side.

I actually do think it's batshit crazy to ban someone because they are simply creepy *in your eyes* as opposed to someone who has broken the social construct we call the law.

I guess you're also a fan of vigilante justice? If I look through your post last week were you also one of the people suggesting the police impound that Waymo which made an illegal u-turn because you think it feels wrong that no fine was issued, and despite no legal basis for actually doing what was suggested?

First they came for Prime Video Thumbnails, but I said nothing because I did not care about Prime Video Thumbnails.
Then they came for ...

Wait they didn't even come for Prime Video Thumbnails first. Revising historical art is the norm today. What do you like and care about? I'm sure we can find and example of some moron who thinks they need to gatekeep what the art looks like 20-100 years after the fact.

Do you read? I read. I also like James Bond. But this here isn't Amazon's fault in the current edition of Casino Royale:
In one passage, Bond's assertion that alleged African criminals are "pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought, except when they've drunk too much," has been shortened to "pretty law-abiding chaps I should have thought." The revised novels have also removed racial slurs referencing Black people and changed them to "black person" or "black man."

Ah yes Jeff Bezos, noted woke liberal. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.co...

So woke they had steaks with ketchup together at a tacky country club.

I'm talking about convenience. With a hybrid you can get most of the benefits of a electric car without the downside. The smaller batteries don't turn into major fire hazards during a crash as much either.

So Elon thinks he can weather the loss of the subsidies because only about a quarter of his business depends on them. He is not a clever businessman. He's just somebody that blended into some huge government contracts using his father's connections and a golden parachute he got from PayPal after he was fired for incompetence.

Just because you can get a bunch of money doesn't mean you're smart. Our civilization rewards crooks and liars as long as they don't fuck with the top 1%.

Do you get paid for responding to bots?

Anyway the comment is mostly mine but I suspect there's a bit of nonsense in it I didn't say. There is a guy training his chatbot off of my comments and it mostly copies my comments but then adds a few bits of nastiness that aren't anything I would say. I think he's building a chat bot designed to mimic people so that he can either impersonate them or maybe get them caught up in automatic moderation systems.

That said the solution to our problems isn't more motherfucking cars it's public transportation. Not that our civilization is going to survive another 20 years to see that happen. Car obsessed guys like you will doom us all. Like that meme about how for one brief moment a lot of shareholder value is created.

If you're under 60 though the economy collapsing is probably going to prevent you from being able to afford a car much longer though. I don't see how we prevent the economy collapsing when we keep putting imbeciles lunatics and pedophiles in charge of everything because 47% of the country is freaked out by queer people and 4% aren't allowed to vote

Given that, we could be stuck with der Trumpenfuhrer for at least a few months after he kicks off - Satan rest his soul. Pretty much everything important he does is scripted by his handlers anyway, and the off-the-reservation shit he posts on Lie Social can easily be duplicated by standard LLMs.

I'm not sure who's scarier as President - Trump, or that odious eyeliner model "Just Dance" Vance.