Given the decline in network viewership do they still have a monopoly? None of the networks have a monopoly where I live because none of broadcast a signal that can reach me.

Picking an example from Spokane, if channels 2 and 4 merged and one of them went away, would it matter? One of the networks would likely get dropped and its frequency would be available. In fact you could make that a condition of the merger. Sure you can have your merger, what frequency are you giving up?

The TV stations won't care, they make money on distribution fees to cable, satellite and streaming but they spend money on powering and maintaining transmitters. The MBAs will be drooling over the chance to dump legacy costs for streaming income.

Too bad it wasn't the T2 chip. Having the complete documentation on that would make getting Linux on Apple's hardware a lot easier.

The "shareholders" and the corporations supply nothing you are not willing to pay for. Do you want to go back to wood heat? Or ride a horse to town? Everytime I suggest giving up the unspeakable of air travel I get shouted down.

The people have spoken. They want air travel and around the clock electricity, heat in the winter, cooling in the summer, out of season fruits and vegetables shipped from distant locations, and 5090 video cards because 120 FPS simply isn't enough even even though your eyes run at 25 FPS which movie studios have known for a century.

To meet the "enemy" look in the mirror.

It's on YouTube as well. She makes a good point and has been consistent about it too.

There is an end to physics somewhere. Sorting out quantum gravity and those screwy neutrinos is about all that is left and neither of those are going to put dinner on the table. If a billionaire wants to keep looking for a warp drive that's fine, but with his or her money.

Look at chemistry for another example, probably the easiest one to see. Are there any holes in the periodic table? No. Very determined researchers with money to burn even filled out an extra row. Is an element with a three second half-life useful? No.

Vast quantities of particle physicists have been trained and have little in field to do and that is part of the problem. I could say the same about astronomers as much as I like Becky Smethurst. The general term is 'over production of elites' in this case intellectual elites.

This is one time I will point out I have a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering and might be part of the problem myself. But I went back into industry as the academic rat race didn't impress me especially when all the grant proposals insisted that I explain the applicability of the proposed work to the effects of climate change, and this was back in the 1990's. I'm sure it's worse now.

"Ignore those dreams of a farm in the country"

As a farm kid, the 996 would be an upgrade. 6 AM to 8 PM seven days a week would be closer. The cows need milking on Sunday too.

I have a can of mushrooms that has a proposition 65 label. They are so ubiquitous that no one pays attention anymore. Analytical chemistry can routinely get to part per trillion levels, at that purity level everything is contaminated.

So it's up to you to not choose that investment from the list. I certainly won't.

Rats, no mod points, but you are correct.

Oh yes. When Nvidia is paying $2 to get you to buy $1 of their chips it's definitely a bubble.

Buy the way, ask AI how many record high closes has the S&P 500 set this year and write it down. The repeat the question later today, then a couple times tomorrow, and so on. This is exactly the sort of thing AI should be good at, but instead it spits out random numbers so far between 2 and 29.

"Linux missed this opportunity. It is not usable as desktop for common users."

Some distributions are not suitable for common users, some of the are quite suitable. There are multiple articles and videos on best Linux for Windows refugees out there.

"It's astonishing one company could generate this amount of electronic waste."

Apple has been doing this for decades. Nor are they getting better, the workings of the T2 chip is a great secret and the later Intel Macs and all the M-series use it. It has been partly hacked but Linux on Apple Silicon is not fully there yet. The T2 does several things besides security.

You are half right, supply and demand are market forces.

That argument would carry more weight if you actually posted California's low, low electrical rates.

The toxic capitalism was supposed to come first. Feudalism, capitalism, socialism, communism, Marx said so.

Wrong again.

You are overlooking the legal way to bring in agricultural workers, the H-2A program.