It didn't cost Trump anything. He looked at a landscape of candidates that couldn't get over Bush-era policies being rejected by Americans and grabbed the reigns. Some of the old guard hate him for it and others are happy enough to go along for the ride as long as they can continue to enrich themselves. Trump is the end result of our voting system that requires parties to realign themselves to get past the post. In many ways he looks a lot like a Democrat from the 60s, but it doesn't matter what he is as long as he can win and deliver on what they want.

Eventually someone else will realize they can do the same thing with the Democrats party as well and whoever that is will likely be just as successful. They'll no doubt be helped along by Republicans fumbling the ball as much as anything else, but the Democrats trying to run on their current party platform are as dead in the water as McCain and Romney were. I don't know what that will look like and it won't be too radically different (at least at first) from where the party is now, but it will be a shake up and it will require longtime members to hop on the tiger.

It's a bit like the Ouroboros, only we have two snakes devouring each other's tails as well. It's a terrible system, but it might just be the least terrible humanity has tried so far.

Go home, you're drunk.

If the site runs afoul of some British law, why don't they just block the website? Not even China hassles individual websites with fines, they just put them on the outside of the Great Firewall and go about their business. Just tell the Brits that they're not an empire anymore and can kindly fuck off.

I predict the opposite. Once we kick out all of the Mexicans and have to do the work ourselves we might actually start caring about the conditions.

Singapore's health system cost even less and the life expectancy is about three years higher there compared to Denmark, so perhaps the Danes should adapt Singapore's superior market based system. Of course the reality is that it's not quite so simple and that the U.S. would not become magically better under either system because the population of the country is fundamentally less healthy and more expensive to provide care for. The obesity rate in the U.S. is more than double that of Denmark and nearly a quarter of those in the U.S. are classified as morbidly obese. Denmark does have higher slightly higher alcohol consumption than the U.S., but drug use (particularly hard drugs) is much higher in the U.S.

Since you mentioned education it will probably shock you to know that the percentage of Danish students enrolled in private schools is over twice that of Americans and among the highest rates in Europe.

You're surprised that someone who has been pushing tariff-based protectionism isn't as big on free market principles as Reagan was?

The government shouldn't be spending tax payer money on this, but as badly managed as Intel has been for years now I'm not certain that the government could screw them up any worse.

I thought that AMD's upscaling solution was done on their regular GPU cores, but I'll admit that I haven't been following that for a while. Frame generation is only really good if you have a high frame rate to start with anyhow, otherwise it's just going to create a lot of additional input latency and make the controls feel sluggish as the interpolated frames can't respond to input. A handheld is probably the worst use case for that kind of technology as the hardware isn't going to be powerful enough to deliver the frame rates where you can get away with it.

I usually aim for at least six years on a phone and that's something that's likely to grow longer. There's very little reason to upgrade every two years as far as I'm concerned. Everything on my current phone is already good enough for what I use my phone for and nothing new that any company has added since then offers a compelling reason to upgrade.

When I was younger I definitely wouldn't have been the type to upgrade more often, but the advances were also far more significant then as well. I'm not sure I'd care for a foldable device even if the technology were more mature. Sure it reduces the height of the device when folded, but it doubles the thickness. That's going to be less comfortable in the pocket and means unfolding it each time I take it out.

This is why your device suffered from an extreme thermal runaway event. If they can deduce any kind of water exposure after that you obviously didn't pour enough petrol on it. Make sure that you keep mentioning how lucky you were that it wasn't in your pocket at the time and asking whether or not they will cover damages to your table and they'll be happy to replace the device for you.

Cisco has over 40,000 employees in the U.S. alone and roughly that many again worldwide. This isn't even 1% of their U.S. workforce and is probably the company cutting people that don't do anything or from some team that was working on something that never materialized. Of course that doesn't sound nearly as alarming.

It's way, way worse than you're suggesting. Steam at least sells you the game. Microsoft wants to sell you a subscription to Game Pass. In the future they hope bundle the pod you can live in and bugs you can eat along with the subscription.

Yikes. People were upset over the PS5 Pro price and that was for a full console. The specs on this put it squarely below a 6500 XT. The AI cores seem like a waste of space that could have been devoted to more shader cores.

I think that they'll at least be able to avoid having scalpers buy up everything and relist it on eBay though as I can't imagine too many people would want to pay that much for a handheld, much less anything on top of that.

Do the seals last as long as the software and security updates for the device? That's good enough for me and (I suspect) most people, though perhaps still not as long as some would like. I treat the feature as an indication that my device won't get damaged in the rain or if it falls into a sink, pool, etc. anyway.

Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney could agree to have a threesome with me. It could happen. Whether it's more or less likely to happen I leave up to the imagination of my fellow reader. Mine is rather preoccupied with other thoughts at the moment.

Young people are clearly stupid then. The Nordic countries have some of the best free-market policies on the planet. Sweden for example has no minimum wage, a large percentage of their road network privately owned and managed, a robust charter school system offering choice in education, and a corporate tax rate lower than that of the U.S. among other policies that make socialists scream.

They do have "free" healthcare, but it's paid for through a tax system far more regressive than the U.S. In the U.S. you only pay 24% on income above $100k and up to $191k. In Sweden you pay 20% on anything above $60k and that's on top of the municipal tax rate which averages around 30% for every dollar of income. You may or may not pay additional state income tax in the U.S. but the overall tax burden for middle class individuals is much smaller. There's also the 25% VAT (though there are some goods or services that have half or quarter the rate) that you would have to admit is worse than the sales tax even in the most expensive cities in the most expansive states.

The other Nordic countries are all similar. If they didn't have productive economies supported by some of the strongest free-market capitalist policies, they wouldn't be able to afford such a nice welfare state. If you want to look at what a welfare state under socialism looks like then take a gander at Venezuela which nationalized much of its large industries and drove them into the ground. The people there are slowly starving and some estimates indicate a fifth of the population has fled to other countries. The U.S. government has had to build camps because a lot of them are making it to our boarders or have steady slipped across in the past several years.

That's what socialism is and what it does, but there will always be fools of any generation trying to defend it.