Wow that’s pretty great savings, a lot of what I saw basically said to expect to pay over a normal listing. Seems like a pretty good deal considering the amount of customization I assume you get, you just need somewhere to live while it’s building.

Do you have any resources for what you used to plan your build? Or did you mostly hire professionals to figure it out?

I wonder at what point Powell decides he should raise rates. Trump has already been publicly stating he wants them lowered faster and how he also wants to fire Powell but it’s not clear if he will be (legally) able to.

Last I saw there was a court case making it’s way up the courts to overturn a legal precedent regarding the executives power to oust members of independent boards so it’s technically possible he will be able to legally oust Powell and install a lackey if the supreme court decides to throw out existing precedent. I think you’re right and both global markets and the dollar will reel if that happens. The fed is supposed to be independent and that obviously is not the case if Trump can fire anyone who doesn’t do whatever he asks.

The supreme court seemed to grow a spine on the Kilmar case so maybe they’ll continue to have one when this case makes its way up.

Building something myself is something I’ve thought a bit about. Most things I read try to talk me out of it but when there’s no decent home inventory there’s no decent home inventory. There are also advantages of being able to customize stuff.

Do you have an expectation of how much it will cost relative to existing homes in the area you’re building in? Of course one of the things you’re supposed to plan for is cost overruns lol but I’m still curious how expensive you expect it to end up being.

I’ve always wondered if they do this to encourage people to buy lots of socks at once and change over the whole wardrobe. Like the companies are just trying to fleece the whales of sock buying or something.

Sounds maybe unlikely idk. It just drives me insane that no company keeps the same design for more than like a year and I have no explanation why they do it.

Fair enough, and even if they did I think op in this comment chain was talking about monopoly level advertising so I guess my comment wasn’t really warranted either way.

I’m surprised to read they don’t at least hoard user data. Very un-big-tech-like of them.

They most certainly do

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/15/apple-ad-business-could-reach-6b-by-2025-with-41b-from-search-ads

I don’t think it’s in his interest to do any of that. He does not control the machinery that influences public opinion and he doesn’t have money like the richest people in the world have money.

You’re not completely wrong, but I think he still needs at least most of them. They help inform him of strategy via data harvesting and the means of selling it to his supporters, trump does not have the ability to do that all on his own.

Why would you ever accept this anti consumer bullshit for a slightly better screen? It might not even take a year before the current cutting edge not “the best” anymore with how fast tech cycles. I would absolutely go out of my way to get a device I can deprive of an Internet connection and still use.

Nvidia is huge on producing AI and is certainly data-hungry. Without actually knowing, I would bet it’s about as bad as anything else. Since all your data is passing directly through their servers it’s trivial for them to do whatever they want with it.

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Sure, but there’s a limited bandwidth for people’s intake of information. This in particular is no longer a cause for alarm.

False alarm

Updated to add at 1700 UTC, April 16 In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the CVE program.

Only lasted less than a day before it was intentionally corrupted by 4chan and shut down for idolizing Hitler

A lot of platforms only update at the end of the month. S&P 500 is down 11.54% and NASDAQ composite is down 12.5% in just the last 5 days.

Thanks for writing an essay so I no longer feel the need to lol. I hope your post gets more visibility.

I fucking hate advertising. I want it banned to the greatest extent that we can do so. But if we want actual change, it needs to be a lawfully applicable strategy. We don’t need to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Banning ads for medication is a great start that everyone can agree on for instance. We should work up from there.

The most insidious stuff is the content you don’t even realize is an ad, like comments and methods of boosting/lowering visibility on social media. That is a thorny issue.

I don’t disagree, but I hear the same sentiment often and it downplays the reality of the fact they keep succeeding in various ways, like trump staying out of prison and the supreme court getting stacked.

I mean, if the intention is just to crash the economy the methods don’t need to be smart. Who the fuck knows what the real goal is here, the stupidity might just be there to obfuscate what the real intentions are.

Even if Trump has no clue what’s going on his bank rollers and handlers like Thiel and Putin might have more strategy in mind.

We need answers

Retarded was an archaic medical diagnosis for a group of things. It literally just means slow. Nobody is actually “retarded” today. There is a fundamental difference between those words. One can literally apply to anyone and one is explicitly used to insult an obvious and immutable characteristic.

Tbf retarded is just synonymous with stupid at this point. Nobody is retarded in a medical context anymore afaik. Gen Z probably wasn’t even alive when the term meant anything but an insult