This is true. I took the long, nine-year route to my degree in the 90s. When I started, my classes were $23/credit hour. I figured I would work part time and go to college part time, and I was in no hurry. I watched the price of a credit hour increase every single semester. At the end of my college career, a credit hour cost roughly $300.

It quickly got to the point where my part-time job was no longer sufficient to fund my long-view college aspirations. Five years after I took my first class, I had a grand total of 24 credits. I realized that my plan to graduate debt-free was no longer viable, so I realized that I was going to have to take on debt. I got Pell grants and student loans. Fortunately, I had the good sense to stay living at home with my parents. I can't overstate how much that contributed to my eventual graduation.

But yes, college/university prices have exceeded their return on investment.

And this is called the amplitude.

You first.

And lack of access to imported things.

Magats - Are you tired of winning yet? This is not a rhetorical question.

Given where we are - the Brownshirts are murdering each others' leaders in a power struggle while Pee Wee Goebbels was working up to a Reichstag fire false flag - this doesn't seem like the most important detail to me, my rather bad addiction to coffee aside. But as a nation of consumers, maybe it will get someone's attention.

Socialism with American Characteristics

Iowa's rolling farm fields of coffee

Half of this sentence is remarkably stupid. Remote work isn't the drag on profitability. The relentless lemming hiring (everyone else is hiring, so I need to keep up even though we can't afford it) undoubtedly played a big role, which is part of management incompetence. His management is responsible for his company's insolvency. Remote workers are probably responsible for keeping the ship afloat longer than it would have survived otherwise.

Italians were subject to racism when they began immigrating to the US in large numbers. (For that matter, so were Irish.)

They were not initially allowed in to the White People Club, and got the Other treatment for quite a while.

As is normal for this sort of thing, it still hasn't entirely faded. I lived in NYC not too far back and heard Italian slurs quite a bit.

Depends on what you are talking about. Are you talking wavelength or amplitude?

The Nissan Ariya is based on the same platform (AmpR Medium) as for instance the Renault Scénic E Tech and the Renault A390. It was formerly known as Renault–Nissan Common Module Family (CMF) EV. It is a shared platform with Dongfeng Motor Corporation. In July 2025, Dongfeng and Nissan formed Dongfeng Nissan. One of the products coming from its assembly lines is - tada! - the Nissan Ariya.

They don't even need to be "Chinese programmers". My Geely made EV has Google built-in (for those who don't know it's basically the entire andoid auto platform running locally in the car but also capable of all car related tasks such as running the instrument cluster), relegating the programmers to be glorified UI designers on an American packaged software platform.

To be clear China didn't just embrace them. China used this transition to solve a multi factor problem.

1. Address not just emissions but also local city smog issues. - This is just the latest move
2. Address dependence on fuel imports - China is the world's largest importer of oil, they have little resources of their own and are wholly dependent on other countries.
3. Kill the dependence on foreign car companies locally - the entire Chinese car industry was dominated by Europeans. The wanted a Made in China for China approach and within 2 decades VW and Audi were relegated to minor players. This was recent. Up until 2022 new car sales were dominated by German brands in China.
4. Create a whole new emerging industry they could dominate - you addressed this point.

And if you interpreted it like that you wouldn't be in compliance with not just the GDPR but data export laws as well. Visitors to the EU are subject to EU law.

Yes quite, but you're presenting it as an absolute.

Reality is that there's a continuum between complete anarchy and Stalanistic style central control.

MKV offers no compression. It is a container. If your file is 700mb smaller in MKV it's because you actually recompressed the video stream with a different underlying codec or different parameters.

In fact MKV is a container that contains *MORE* overhead resulting in *LARGER* files than MP4 for the same content stored. That is largely due to additional features not present in the MP4 container format.