Or were you expecting me to take such silly bait?

I mean don't get me wrong anything is better than the orange turd. But for some reason guys like you enjoy burying their faces into piles of feces. Go figure.

It's very common for sensors to be on ISA, but that's really about it any more. It was common for a long time for mouse and keyboard, but I don't think even they are there now. If you put the sensors on some other bus, and there are several options, you could reasonably ditch ISA.

Hmm, wow, apropos of nothing except running sensors to see whether I was still using ISA, I seem to have a bunch of temp sensors in my system now. Besides the mainboard (which uses a nct6798, which it says is on ISA) there's the two real and one emulated that are exposed on the processor, 2 on my NVMe storage, and one on each of the wifi and wired NICs.

What's happening at Microsoft today is a direct result of what happened at Microsoft in the past. Their entire history is relevant, not only because it is part of how they got to where they are now, but also because every action you take affects every potential action you can take in the future. These mass firings are attempts to change their corporate culture, but they're too deeply steeped in equal parts incompetence and market manipulation to do business any other way.

You seem to have a hard-on for capitalism, don't feel bad, it's a common sub kink. You love being dominated by dollars. But think for a second about the benefits of educating someone in a way that increases their employability. I personally would argue that any degree does that because a degree is often just used to prove to employers that you have the patience to get one, but the specific definition of a degree that makes you more employable isn't important to this argument right now.

If that someone is employed, then instead of paying for social services for them, they will be paying their own bills. Isn't that something you would like to see promoted? Further, people who are educated and successful most commonly have educated and successful parents. Don't you want people's kids to grow up to be successful so that they can pay their own way? Isn't that something that would be worth investing in? You know, the future?

Unless you're a doom cultist, in which case nobody should give two twinkly shits about your opinion since you're not planning to be here in the future, you should be able to recognize the value of empowering others who then go on to empower others. Then you get to live in an empowered society. Isn't that what you want?

Whoosh. I would use an exclamation point, but since this is dark humor territory, I will simply leave you to figure out what I meant on your own and without emphasis.

I'm not against that, but the telcos are, and they have enough money to prevent it from happening.

I only care about his stance on chicken.

Your idea is that a bunch of ignorant chucklefucks should dictate behavior to a better educated minority simply because there are more of them. It's argumentum ad populam and it's bullshit every time.

If you could reasonably put all the waste in one area it might take up that little land. But you reasonably have to have zones around them that you're not using for anything else. It's also not just the space, it's the shipping and sorting and processing.

"But they each need to be marched through the camps and made to look at the bodies and smell the crematoria stench."

That won't be possible until we get into the full swing of our Holocaust, by which time it won't help

"The purpose of the fee is Universal Service Fund.. That is the fee all of us pay on top of all our Landline phones and Cell phone bills collected for the purpose of providing universal service. At this point the focus of these funds should be on making sure that 100% of households have gigabit internet available."

We tried and failed at that already. The telcos pocketed hundreds of billions of dollars (insanely this is not an exaggeration) and we got nothing for it. They did buybacks and have big executive bonuses though.

As crap as Google's AI search results are, and they very much are crap as they often give completely nonsensical answers which do not make sense on any level, they absolutely do point to sources. I know because I read those sources, which often prove that Gemini is hallucinating.

Anyone with a brain would read the provided links to find out if they said what Gemini says they said, because they often do not. If this is decreasing traffic significantly then it's proof positive that most people are stupid. That, of course, would not be news.

But should we be trying to protect business models which depend on people being smart? They are bound to fail eventually.

What the hell else did you think I meant? Look we didn't use to send kids to school at all. Then the world got to be a more complicated place and they needed at least a sixth grade education to be of any use to anyone. Then the world kept getting more complicated and they need it a 12th grade education. Now the world's even more complicated so they need to go all the way through at least a bachelor's.

Without all those College grads nobody's going to make enough money or be productive enough to hire all the plumbers and HVAC guys that people who don't ever actually get their hands dirty think everyone should be doing. Never mind the fact that those plumbers can't keep doing the basic work by the time they have 50 and without a growing economy they're not going to be able to do what they used to do and just hire a bunch of guys to do the work they aren't physically capable of anymore.

The systems that you're relying on for your worldview are breaking down and you aren't adjusting for that. Eventually it's going to bite you in the ass unless you die of old age first. If you're over 60 then you can probably carry on and keep yelling at clouds but if not you should probably seriously consider where you're at and where your country is at

Yeah it's cheaper than a real University but well, try to find a job with a community college degree and let me know how that turns out for you.

I mean it's better than a diploma Mill but trust me employers know the difference between a full-on public university and a community college.

Now you could try to do your undergrad work, I.e the first two years, at a community college but this is been shown to be a huge problem because the workload is much less at a community college and it doesn't prepare you for your 300 level courses. It's not impossible but odds are good that you're going to drop out when you hit that brick wall of a real public university's workload. It doesn't help that we have drastically increased the workload at public universities over the last few years at the prompting and demand of businesses that didn't want to have to pay for training.

I literally paid out-of-pocket for my kids to get on the job training. I can't tell you how pissed off I was when I saw the courses and the work they were doing and realized it was literally them being trained to do the job they would do out of college. Of course after a Year's worth of direct on the job training they still got paid like shit as though they didn't know how to do the job even though they were fully capable of hitting the ground running because, again, I had just paid around $15,000 intuition for a Year's worth of on the job training.

Basically our entire civilization is collapsing.

That you fell for the propaganda but it's still bothers me that you fell for the propaganda.

Prior to the year 2000 the government paid for 80% of college tuition. By about 2006 it was down to 30%.

The raw cost of college did not change appreciably. Yes there was inflation and yes there was more inflation than there should have been but that's also because we keep grabbing all the money and giving it to the 1% which causes inflation because of course it does. If you're going to give 90% of your monetary supply to 1% of your population congratulations you are going to get inflation when those people use the money to buy up their competitors and jack up prices.

But again it wasn't until very recently, post covid really, that the shit really hit the fan on inflation when the oligarchs and the 1% decided they were going to cash in their chips.

All this means that college costs have been pretty fixed. What hasn't been fixed is the percentage that individual students are required to pay out of pocket. That's what changed.

But look at me I'm explaining. And like Saint Reagan said when you're explaining you're losing. You're going to go back to Fox News and get a head full of propaganda or maybe just your local TV station that's owned by a fox affiliate. The point is your brain is going to get flooded with propaganda and my little tiny post isn't going to be able to compete with that.