I knew the Orange Buffoon could help fucking up the oil markets like he’s fucked up every other market. I put a ton of money into US oil futures and now hopefully I’ll make some money on his idiocracy.
You aren’t wrong. But what you just described is exactly why most companies choose thin clients.
No customization, no unauthorized software installs, no distractions for staff and they will just run forever without major updates. All IT has to do is maintain a server or offsite cloud environment.
Would I personally want one… no. But I can see this as an alternative to non techie people who just need a cheap computer for email, web browsing and the occasional word document.
I doubt that very much. When I visited they had signs notifying the public of land mines around major parks in the countryside or mountains. There were even areas the locals told us not to venture to as they still had land mines dating back to WWII that hadn’t been fully cleared.
Bag on it all you want, but that man has 6 kids which is probably 6 more than most adults on this site. As long as he isn’t a complete scumbag he will likely he will pass most of his views and questionable morals to his kids.
Normally you have a chance to deprogram these kids through higher education but Republicans have recognized this and are trying their hardest to sabotage higher Ed.
When the disaster that was the W. Bush Presidency ended I had coworkers who had pictures of Bush on their office wall for 8 years like he was their Dear Leader and it was fucking North Korea, claim they never supported him and they were really Libertarians.
They will never admit they were wrong. They will just get angry and attack whatever policy or solution the other party brings to the table.
The AI bubble is starting to pop. All of these companies have made hardware and data center investments far beyond what is needed or can be sustained. The debt is piling up and they are scrambling to justify the immense build out. Musk allowing porn and CSAM on Grock for paid users , Chat GPT pushing commercials, Microslop putting copilot in everything and forcing adoption. Oracles server utilization remains low, Etc. etc.
They now need to show immense growth and adoption in order to keep getting loans or justify burning cash to their shareholders.
Chat GPT and Oracle will be the first to fall, then xAI etc. Google and Microslop have other revenue sources that can weather the storm. But they won’t continue their massive investments.
I like that version of the lore but I added my own. Enterprise A is actually the Yorktown… but why was the Yorktown available you may ask? I mean it would have had a captain and crew right?
Well it was one of the ships that attempted to intercept the whale probe during Star Trek III The Journey Home and had its systems soo badly scrambled that it lost all power and was running life support on batteries. (Which happened in the movie and was a transmission received by Earth, it is even mentioned that they were trying to assemble solar sails to attempt to make it to a habitable planet.)
Well the fearless crew of the Yorktown didn’t make it and the entire crew suffocated or froze in the cold blackness of space…
Starfleet isn’t so big that it can waste a starship even if it’s full of frozen dead people. So they spaced the bodies, cleaned it up and stuck Kirk with a malfunctioning potentially haunted ship as a kind of punishment.
This explains why nothing worked on the Enterprise A in Star Trek IV as its systems were still pretty scrambled from the Whale probe and was haunted by the long dead crew of the Yorktown…
Stick some pretty 20 something white girl in front of a camera advocating for god in the face of those godless immigrant communists who control higher education. Instant Faux News interviews, do the podcast and YouTuber rounds, bonus points if she is already an influencer… it’s just easy money.
I bet a few believe it, most just back her up because she’s white, Christian and playing in their team.
There are no morals or ideals on the right, just grifts.
I mean I understand where he is coming from. There are sooo many kinds of honey on the market… which one is it exactly? Can you post a link so we can block it?
I agree, the problem is you have to consume at some level you need food water clothes etc. and for poorer people 100% of their income goes to just buying the basics. You also don’t want to put other citizens out of jobs because of a boycott, that would get unpopular quickly.
For this to work long term you need to get the top 10% or 20% of consumers to cut back on the extras. I.E. Amazon Prime, Netflix, Chat GPT subscriptions, hold off buying an iPhone or electronics, etc.
If you did that and caused consumption to dip even 5% you would hurt the companies that the oligarchs run and in turn hurt Trump.
The worst crime you can commit under capitalism is not participating, not buying, not renting, etc. These tech companies are built on debt that is serviced by profits.
Moving the needle down and impacting their income by even 5% will have a huge impact on a business’s bottom line and in turn a CEO’s income, bonuses and stock options etc.
If you want to make Trump and his regime change then you have to hit the only people he will listen to… his fellow oligarchs.
*Automatically nationalized and leadership at those companies should be investigated and tried for fraud.
These CEOs need to take accountability not a golden parachute. They know when a business is failing and when they are defrauding investors and the public.
The government will not let SpaceX fail, it’s a strategic asset and Musk knows this. He is going to tie his Xai to it and saddle it with all the debt it is incurring. When the AI bubble pops he will be able to ask for bail outs to keep SpaceX afloat.
I knew the Orange Buffoon could help fucking up the oil markets like he’s fucked up every other market. I put a ton of money into US oil futures and now hopefully I’ll make some money on his idiocracy.