I can tell you this:

Apple TV has a popular show. It makes about four million on views versus ten million on production. Per episode.

For their best.

Thereâ(TM)s no money to promote it.

Sorry Mr Pedant. This is 2025, not 1937. Can you show me where one of these hydrogen jet engines is for sale today?

Not enough, and not at night or on cloudy days.

I remember reading about this and electric planes in Aviation Week and other media long ago. Hydrogen takes up something like 5 times the volume of jet fuel; there's no room for it. Hydrogen jet engines don't exist, and using fuel cells to spin electric motors is going backwards. Batteries might some day be energy-dense enough to be useful, but their weight doesn't diminish during flight like liquid fuel does.

The basic arithmetic just doesn't add up. Short range electric airplanes are not only short range, but their payload is limited. They're solutions in search of a problem.

Pretty sure it was snapd that drove this decision. It's truly horrible for real daily desktop usage, causing many seconds lag for app startup and certain operations like selecting files to attach to email in Thunderbird.

Snap / snapd is pretty much like Windows Vista when the world was so used to Windows XP.

FWIW, I've used various Linux distros for my main desktop machine since 1994. Never in all these years have I seen anything like snapd which makes a high end desktop feel so sluggish.

Think of it from the other end. Assume I am telling the truth, and that the audience did give a standing ovation. Instead of just saying unpossible, think what it would take for you to do so, or people you know.

How about if you had seen nothing but silent movies with an organ accompaniment for years? Then you see a new movie with spoken dialogue and no dialogue cards. Would that not be astounding enough?

What about the first color movie? The Wizard of Oz was one of the first big releases in color, but starts in black and white and switches.

Star Wars was not quite on those levels, but it had a huge impact. That is why people stood and applauded.

I was in Japan in August or September 1978, 15+ months since its release in the US, and Star Wars was showing there. I met a couple of Mormon missionaries who had been in Japan when it was released in the US so had not seen it, and when it showed up in Japan, they were not allowed to see it. But they sure wanted to talk about it.

Nobody. But that crowd did. Remember, this was before CGI, when 2001 was still the gold standard for science fiction movies.

I got out of the Navy in 1976, in San Francisco. A kid at the corner grocery kept going on about this fantastic new sci-fi movie coming out, and I just scoffed. Nothing could beat 2001. As May got closer, there was some "world preview" announced for a Thursday, so I took the bus out to the theater on Arguello and Geary (?), and wondered what all the lines were for. No one stands in line for science fiction movies! But they were for this. So I stood in line. Someone came down the line announcing this line was for ticket holders only, and I wondered what the heck was going on; no one buys tickets in advance for science fiction movies!

Then someone else came down the line, announced they had a few more tickets for sale, and I rocketed up, got my ticket, and was in the third row, looking up at the screen, scrunched down so I didn't have to bend my neck so much. Someone came out on stage, or maybe just on the floor in front of the screen, and gave a little speech about being the world premier. No idea who it was now.

And then the movie started, oh holy mackerel! That weird scrolling introduction "In a galaxy far far away" and then that huge spaceship, laser blasts all around it, theater rumbling, and then the REALLY HUGE spaceship came chasing it, firing all those laser blasts, theater felt like an earthquake compared to all my experiences with theaters, especially watching 16mm movies on the ship mess deck, holy holy mackerel!

And when it ended, nobody left. Well, I was third row, couldn't see the whole theater. And when the credits got to "modelers" everyone stood up and gave them a standing ovation.

Wikipedia says the world premiere was at a different theater and not on a Thursday. So I don't know what I saw. But I do know Hans shot first, screw Lucas.

I used to be such a huge Google fan. My businesses spent tens of thousands a month on Google.

But now, I think I spend $19.99 a month on Google. Maybe. I need to cut that off.

I don't use gmail anymore. I haven't used google search in forever. I am using Chrome right now but need to replace it.

Who uses Google anymore? For anything?

Not anymore.

I have merchant accounts and I absolutely can offer cash discounts today.

Ummmmm, whatchew got, some kind of 54 minutes per hour clock, eh?

"The average American workday now concludes at 4:39 p.m., a notable 36 minutes earlier than it did just two years ago when the clock-out time hovered around 5:21 p.m"

Because it was one.

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Higher interest rates would be better for the economy long term as folks save instead of borrow.

High interest rates encourage people to save, and savings creates more secure jobs.

Low interest rates cause malinvestments and create false jobs.

Read Mises, Rothbard about the business cycle. Itâ(TM)s all because of low rates and bad investments.