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Sounds like you live in a contrarian chamber. People really do hate the “new Outlook” (basically it’s just Hotmail) and Windows 11 adoption has been slower than for most other versions of Windows. The requirements often mean needing to buy a new computer which a lot of people can’t afford, especially if prices go up because of tariff nonsense.

There will be a lot of people still running on out of support Windows 10 systems at the end of the year.

That show wouldn’t work anymore, Colbert got out of that at the exact right time. No matter how ridiculous of a parody of the right wing he could come up with, the real life idiots would be saying and doing things even more ridiculous the next day.

I’ve heard a carwash will take them out.

Yeah it will be much worse since so many things people use are a lot more technologically advanced and therefore more complicated to replace. Like my grandfather was a young man in the 1930s and he used a horse for transportation. Didn’t have a landline phone much less a smartphone. Much easier to replace imports with domestic production when most people just needed food and maybe electricity.

Are people now willing to go back to that kind of a life even for a few years under the promise that things will be better someday? It’ll take at least two years (in most cases, closer to five) to build a factory to produce many of the products we have.

And who’s going to invest the billions of dollars needed to build the factories? Wealthy people under the belief Trump will keep the tariffs in place for years?

Yup. There’s a significant cost to having a war with a country you do a lot of trade with. You don’t want to pay that cost while having a war at the same time. That could lead to economic collapse. It could even result in your military lacking the resources need to execute the war.

But if you sever trade beforehand, pay the costs of that first, then once your economy has stabilized you can invade other countries without risking economic collapse.

As a child, I thought hammers were bad. Now that I’ve hit myself in the head with a hammer repeatedly, I’ve now confirmed that I was right all along.

Cool… if I ever need leather boots I’ll check out the ones from Germany or Japan then.

No, the way it works is they start an investigation so they can suspend it later. That way if he doesn’t do exactly what they want they want they can just re-open the investigation. It’s how they handled the Mayor of NYC.

To keep a scumbag loyal you need to keep the threat of jail time hanging over him.

One of the talking heads on one of those business news shows summed up the theory about lowering interests rates as “it’s like burning down the house to cook a steak.”

There’s no plan here, it’s just a deranged old man surrounded by sycophants doing all of the things people previously told him wouldn’t work.

He purchased the sword which resulted in a trade deficit so he started imposing tariffs.

They don’t know enough about the world to know which ones to remove.

Giving them too much credit. They probably just had ChatGPT do everything.

LLMs are already at the point where they could replace middle management in most places. Of course that’s more of a reflection on how poor middle management is, not how good LLMs are.

And yeah the C-suite probably could be replaced too. Yeah the LLMs will hallucinate and make terrible decisions sometimes, but that’s not different than what the C-suite is already.

Wanting to replace skilled labour with AI is proof of that. They don’t know enough about what their employees do if they think an AI will work as a replacement. But if they can mange employees with an inaccurate understanding of what they do, then an AI with a inaccurate understanding of what employees could replace that manager.

I always liked the suggestion that biggest problem wasn’t actually the machines themselves, it was humans letting the machines think for them. We’re seeing a lot of that happening now.

a casting for a prosthetic made over 40 years ago was used to recreate the image of Peter Cushing so that he could appear as Grand Moff Tarkin again.

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

In the end it was really creepy to have a dead person have so much screen time in a movie.

ITT: People casually spreading anti-semitic conspiracy theories about Israel controlling the US government.

Are you MAGA? You sound exactly like a MAGA.

Yeah we all understand that Americans have no concept of what an alliance is.

The issue is his general lackadaisical approach to sensitive and classified information. The Signal group chat debacle is not a one off thing, this dude just doesn’t give a shit in his handling of sensitive information with no regard to whether it’s classified or puts people’s lives at risk.