If you want to get back into the hobby of computing and or video gaming then you need to enforce antitrust law.

Everyone in the industry knew these shortages were coming and everyone knew they were going to last for a decade or more.

In a free market several of these smaller semiconductor companies would have just entered the ram market and we wouldn't have had the shortages.

Those companies and the banks that would have supplied them know that if they try they will just be run out of business and no one is going to protect them because we don't enforce antitrust law.

On top of that it's just hard to borrow money because someone keeps causing runaway inflation...

In America if you want to have computers you need to vote democrat. We are two party system because of our winner-take-all for his past the post voting system and that's not likely to change anytime soon. And we both know which of the two parties actually enforces laws of the white collar kind.

Pick your local equivalent if you're not American but if you're going to keep voting for people who promise you the world and deliver high inflation and zero law enforcement on white collar crime then you're going to get what you get and that means you're not going to be able to enjoy your hobbies anymore.

Right now there's a lot of old computer hardware people can pick up and play with but that stuff is starting to end up in the hands of people who want or need it and the price is going up. It'll be another hobby you're just cut off from in 5 or 10 years Max unless something changes.

Oh, and I'm sure taking video games away from jobless angry young men with nothing to lose will turn out great for everyone. I'm sure you won't run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people.

You sound like a criminal. It's a Communist. Either way stay put. A nice man from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will be by for a chat.

Reviews of these 8 gigabyte laptops running Windows 11 have them unable to complete basic tasks like web browsing and conference calls.

Unless the ram is upgradable this is going to be a disaster. People just return them because they feel broken. Microsoft is trying to solve the problem but internal culture means they can't. Every division of Microsoft is fighting to be profitable and so they want to gobble up your RAM and use it to serve up advertisements and synergize with other companies for profit. This is why the windows 11 weather app uses 3 GB of RAM.

Dude the Epstein class has been routinely trading companies for tens of billions of dollars. Often with little or no hope of ever making a profit. One of the reasons the economy is constantly collapsing is that the "Job Creators"can take these absolutely fucking batshit insane risks and because they are too big to fail it's always worth it. If it blows up in their faces we bail them out and they get a cushy job from their buddies and if it pans out it's a huge increase in profits and career opportunities for them personally.

This is why Sony spent something like half a billion dollars on Concord even though it was a shit game and everybody knew it. There was a CEO who was gambling that it would be a hit and would rocket his career to the Moon!

The thing is when you have people that powerful you cannot hold them accountable. You just can't it's not possible. And it's useless to pretend you can. You have to not let them get that powerful in the first place or you have to deal with the mess they make in your life.

But for some reason we always like to pretend we're going to hold them accountable THIS time. Kind of like how the Centrist Democrats keep thinking voters are going to come to their senses about electing psychopathic pedophiles to run the country. No matter how many times the pedophiles when their election everybody just gets flustered when they do and tries it all again.

It's a running gag on left wing forums where somebody says there's no way Trump will wiggle through this mess, Trump wiggles through the mess and then oh well, nevertheless...

Well akshually....

Grok is hard at work fixing that.

And cut their work hours. If you want babies that's what you need to do.

Clean water and environmental regulations that keep lead out of your paint fight crime. Free school lunches so kids don't grow up hungry fights crime.

But on the other hand it feels like Bright Street lamps make crime harder and America is a nation of 12-year-olds so we are very much feels over reals.

You go there for one of three things. First consistency. If you're in an unfamiliar place you at least know what you're going to get. Second speed. Stopping for breakfast or dinner at a McDonald's is going to take 5 minutes. Going home and cooking all the food for yourself save some money but you lose sleep. I just threw together a pizza using dough I had already made and that was half an hour of work. Add another 20 minutes for making the dough. I keep saying this but Americans work more hours than the Japanese for fuck's sake. You give up enough sleep so that you can cook a little food here and there and you keep doing that long enough and it's going to catch up to you health-wise just as much or more as the shitty food at McDonald's.

Basically we put people in bad situations and when they make bad choices in a bad situation because they have no good choices we blame them for that. But man is it fun to get outraged isn't it? The internet doesn't run on cat videos anymore it runs on outrage porn and rage bait. I miss the old internet.

The point is to create data that can be mined to go after political enemies.

Nobody gives a shit when your car gets stolen. But you better believe that if you upset the Epstein class there are systems in place to deal with you.

If you want to see how fast you can get canceled for real as opposed to getting your third Netflix special tell some jokes about Israel's occupation of Palestine and let me know how that goes for you... Or crack a few jokes about how netanyahu knew about October 6th well in advance.

Bombing the shit out of Iran and cutting taxes on billionaires and more money on research fixing fruit.

It's not just how much money we give the billionaires they actively hold us back. We have had the ability to make limitless energy from wind and solar for a good 15 years now and we're not doing it because the billionaires said no. We used to have cheap houses because we built new cities but we can't do that because the billionaires said no. We had shorter commutes from work from home and of course work from home for the people who could but we can't do that because the billionaires said no.

And we could have universal Health Care that costs a third of the money but we can't do that because the billionaires said no.

People point out that if you took all the billionaire money from those 12 psychopaths that have it it would only be like 20 trillion dollars barely have the national debt. But that ignores all the ways they're fucking us over and holding us back from what we could be doing and from our true potential.

You just been lucky or you're good at picking fruit or you're buying the really expensive stuff.

There are some really pricey grapes, like $8 a pound and crap, that are usually pretty good. Occasionally they go on sale and I've picked them up but when they do you can't buy very many because if they're on sale it's because they are going to go bad today or two.

Stone fruits are usually pretty safe too but it's a pain in the ass ripening them up. Still they don't taste like wood.

I gave up on watermelon. I bought two of them that were just completely inedible. I thought I had picked out good ones but nope.

That doesn't taste like wood.

Seriously it's a huge pain in the ass buying fruit now because so much of it tastes like garbage. Over farming means there aren't enough nutrients in the soil and they grow the fruit to be too large so the tree cannot get the flavor components to the fruit.

Grapes especially are a total crapshoot. And oranges are just a waste of money now. They're just balls of cellulose.

I mean I think it's kind of hard to fuck up a banana but if anyone can do it it's large grocery store chains...

And we need to stop giving him credit for things engineers do. He's not a visionary he had none of these ideas. Most of the hard work was done by NASA many years ago and they abandoned it because it wasn't worth the trouble.

The only reason muskrat picked this up is because the prospect of a cheap reusable rocket would be more profitable and it gave him something he could promise investors to keep the line going up so that he could use boosted stock prices to inflate his net worth and keep the scam going until he was where he is today.

And where he is today is about to loot your 401k and your retirement savings in general. I keep saying this but go look up Patrick Boyle's YouTube video on the SpaceX IPO. The entire thing is a complicated scam to steal our retirement money by forcing your retirement investments into high risk companies with limited viable addressable markets.

It is possible the engineers doing the work to keep the scam going we'll produce real work. They are not scammers and they are actually trying to produce good useful work. However none of that is going to pay off in your lifetime or mine. The absolute best case scenario here is that the rockets can be reused a few times marginally decreasing the cost of multiple launches.

But like I said NASA abandoned reusable rockets. They did not do that without good cause. We simply do not have the material science to make a rocket that can be easily and safely reused again and again. Maybe we will someday but we don't have it now. And we're not likely to have it anytime soon even if we threw all the money in the world at it. So any gains are at best going to be marginal and we have vast amounts of money going to something where we could be taking those resources and putting them into something more productive.

But something more productive would not keep the stock scam that Elon Musk has been running for some time going. Several people have pointed this out before me but guys like Elon Musk do not want successful companies. Successful companies are expected to deliver reliable returns now. What Elon Musk wants and guys like him are companies that are perpetually on the cusp of some big breakout so that they can be massively overvalued based on potential value. They want nothing but the potential and never anything real. If muskrat ever actually produced something real that worked consistently he would be expected to convert that into a long-term profitable company and his stock prices would collapse as they settled into their real long-term value. That would of course tank his net worth. Because it would bring it down to the real world instead of shooting it up to the Moon as they say.

I guess what I'm saying is don't be distracted by the occasional bit of useful tech that squeezes out of all these nasty little stock scams. Because sooner or later you and me are going to have to bail out these two big to fail companies and their politically connected Insiders and when we do we're going to lose everything just like we did in 2008 and spend 20 years trying to rebuild...

So Marx didn't really have a vision. He identified the problem as the ruling class but he couldn't come up with a solution to that. It was basically just fuck it I don't know what to do kill the fuckers was his solution.

But I don't think he ever thought that was a viable solution per se I just don't think he could come up with anything else.