CK is just another dead soldier in his culture war, and as he’s said, he only likes soldiers who don’t get caught (and killed).

These types of machines certainly have their place, and if it meets your needs, go for it.

The big downside is going to be a lack of upgradability. Most of the core components will be soldered to the motherboard, so no CPU or GPU upgrades, and no replacements if something breaks. I know the one you linked was just an example, and not necessarily “the one,” but its on-board graphics are similar in power to a GTX 1650. Lots and lots of games available at that level, but you’ll be locked out of anything newer with no clear upgrade path later.

For reference, I own something similar, but even older, as a secondary machine. It’s fine for what it does. Just be aware of the limitations. There are ways to build a similar-powered full desktop for about the same price. At that point it’s a tradeoff: would you rather be able to upgrade later, or do you want the simplicity and small form factor (portability, aesthetics, etc)?

Oddly enough, anyone who knows who he is thinks Zaslav is “way overpaid.”

It’s an epidemic of “how do we cut staff by 15-20% without paying millions in severance” with no regard to what it means for the company beyond the next four fiscal quarters.

People who have been sprayed with dihydrogen monoxide have a 100% rate of dying.

The security of their bank balance.

If he gets away with even running again, he’ll win with 90% of the vote like Putin.

Masculine manly Republican men stop thinking about gay sex challenge (impossible).

‘People who spend too much time on Facebook’ overlaps with ‘People who need cheap lawyers.’

If humanity wants to live on another world, we will first have to terraform it to suit our biology.

Likewise, in order to spread, brain worms would need to find a suitable host to terraform the rest of the species they want to inhabit. They should encourage unhealthy behavior, sow distrust in science, and be in a position of authority.

Hypothesis: RFK Jr died years ago, and is being controlled like an undead meat puppet by brain worms looking to conquer earth.

Well they say all new tech is driven by the porn industry, so, um…

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/consumer-review-fairness-act-what-businesses-need-know

The Consumer Review Fairness Act makes it illegal for companies to include standardized provisions that threaten or penalize people for posting honest reviews. For example, in an online transaction, it would be illegal for a company to include a provision in its terms and conditions that prohibits or punishes negative reviews by customers.

The only people he thinks he’s responsible to are enrolled in the White House medical plan.

We can start with the opposite: deflation.

If your money is worth less today than it will be tomorrow, you won’t spend it. Burying every extra penny in your back yard would be the optimal saving strategy. But if nobody spent money outside the absolute essentials, commerce would grind to a halt. No jobs, no entertainment, no standard of living.

So the central bank wants a little inflation. It encourages people to spend some, powering the economy. Too much is bad, though, so they target 2-3% annually. The number of levers and dials they have to make that happen is finite, so it doesn’t always fall in that range over a given short time period, but it’s pretty accurate in the long term.

By printing more/less money, or making borrowing easier/harder (the fed rate, in the US), they can influence the amount of cash floating around to try to keep things in that ideal range.

Whether a currency-based economy is the best way to distribute resources is a whole different discussion, but every modern society works essentially this way.

The neo-nazi playbook is to use benign language to soften their otherwise unpalatable ideology.

Want to create an echo-chamber where the worst politicians can do whatever they want? “States rights”.
Want to disguise the racism as patriotic? “America first”.
Want to be able to say anything, any time, and play the victim card when people call out the bullshit? “Free speech”.

All the intricate rules of Calvinball.

BBD (best by date) is going to be 1 year, or some other legally specified number of days, from the date of manufacturing/canning. It can fall on the end of a month, but not intentionally. 28-Mar-2025 was a Friday.

I still vote for 3.

The 7 above is also missing some dots on the right, so there’s an entire vertical strip of erased ink. The numbers are up to 5 dots wide, but the existing 3 only has 4 dots on the bottom. It’s possible that a fifth is supposed to be there one spot higher, matching the missing number, but it just got clipped by the erased part.