Periodic expansions and contractions are a persistent feature of capitalist economies. And the US and much of the world are ran by the idea that bigger is better: bigger boom, bigger bust. It does maximize the profits for those who are well-positioned and protected. And the the dot Com and other bust cycles drained away my parent's retirement, like so many others.

Gen X are the new boomers. We have most of their flaws and outlook. At times we seem to have more self awareness, but at others we are overconfident in that awareness and look like fools.

Rather than focus on generalizations based on generation, I prefer to divide people up between people mature enough to adapt to observed reality and people who deny reality. Either can cry or get angry when the world doesn't work the way they think it should, either for themselves or for others.

This one belongs in the trash though.

Cool. I'm glad people are aware of and catch measurement errors so quickly. It's almost like there are multiple independent sources and when a temperature seems to be out of what is expected from a weather model and heat map, it's worth investigating.

As for weather station standards because the source of false measurements used for the basis of the global warming hypothesis, if that is your argument. I would say you need substantial evidence that there is a relationship between a few known faulty weather stations out of many thousands of weather stations operating in the world.

A a hypothetical pattern of lying is a very weak argument. I would abandon it. Attack the argument and not the person. What logical reasons do you have, if any. What premises do you reject and why. Just basic courtesy when trying to have a rational discussion.

Some scientists nailed predicting the frequency and amount of record breaking temperatures. Out of 17 climate model projections published from 1970 to 2007: 10 closely matched observations and 14 matched after accounting for differences in atmospheric conditions.
Patterns like high and low temperature cycles are something a statistical model is good at predicting.
P.S. I hope it doesn't come as a shock to you that there are multiple climate models.

Great. Nobody asked for this.

$25B-$100B total investment for a modern memory fab in the US, depending on the capacity you want to build out. At the larger size you'd be manufacturing at a reduced capacity and getting some revenue before the total investment was needed. Potentially allowing you to split a campus between multiple process nodes for a long-term upgrade path.

The US is about 20% of the consumer DRAM market, so about $20B. Dropping perhaps $40B to build those fabs means a significant fraction of the market would need to be captured to have a good annual return or even to get a positive total return.

Memory shortages are a tough problem to fix with supply side only. Putting a tax on RAM that ends up in a data center instead of a consumer product is the immediate short cut, but it would slow the momentum for the AI industry in any country that dared to do it. So I can't see it happening in the US unless we admit we don't need to "beat" China at popping the biggest AI bubble.

There are a bunch of photos of Trump meeting with AI executives earlier this week to sign the so-called voluntary safety pact. But really it was a meeting to work out data center expansion and keeping the investment money rolling in for AI businesses. Trump and AI billionaire class are running the US right now, so I doubt there will be any relief for consumers to get better prices and inventory for consumer products, or to realistically protect consumers from AI malfunction and abuse.

I'm blasted with 30+ text messages a day. Most of them AI generated or at least AI directed. They use varying fake phone numbers so my blocking doesn't work. And for whatever reason, Google's AI powered spam detection does not stop many of them, about 10-15 get through every day. It's almost like everyone who matters is happy with how the system is working.

I prefer the first option, it sounds the nicest and easiest. Assuming infinite growth is possible.

Or it is a play to place corporations under central government control, basically corporate statism. Such a system typically buys billionaires a seat at the table. Considering that table is of the most powerful and economically significant government in human history, that is likely a very interesting arrangement for the billionaire class.

I'll stick with my laptop from 2019. It shipped with 16GB and I upgraded it to 32GB. In today's prices that's a small house or 100 lbs of ground beef.

First one to pop the bubble is the "winner"

I'm not arguing that there is an immutable physical constant of the universe, but that culturally and philosophically our society normally expect the responsibility to be attached to the role of leadership. Even though as a cynic I admit that is not how things always work out in the Real World. But if the People that elected him don't care then I guess he doesn't have to be held responsible.

The person at the top ultimately has to take responsibility for process faults and staff incompetence of the agencies he oversees.

How can I track and capture your clicks if a third-party non-browser app is sucking up RSS feeds? The Internet does not exist to be a convenience for individuals, it is sole purpose is to serve the pipeline to consumerism. Data is collected, sold as market research, and people are bombarded with ads. Precisely what the Founding Fathers and Adam Smith intended!

P.S. disagree if you're a communist

Your question is a bit loaded, so I softened it a bit: In what circumstance does the President have the constitutional authority to levy tariffs?

And I gave it a follow up question: does the President currently carry that authority?

So the second prompt basically repeated what it stated previously.