They DID see it coming, but they thought they were part of the in-group that wouldn’t be affected. A disturbingly large number of us Americans are A-OK with fascism because they think they’ll reap the benefits with none of the downside. We love punishment when it happens to The Other.

Doesn’t matter. People are already blaming weather services even though they DID forecast and warn if floods. Camp just decided to ignore it.

But I got bamboozled in 2007-2012 by the financial crisis and instead of blaming Bush and his cronies, I decided to blame the newly elected black guy. Everyone else should now suffer since my privilege was exposed as not rich enough to be unaffected!!!

TV streaming STARTED fragmented. Just it was all bundled together in a cable subscription. The (ineffective) moderator in that were the cable companies like Comcast, who were always trying to negotiate the price of a channel down. Suddenly with streaming, you could start your own service and getting dropped by someone like Comcast wasn’t the death sentence it used to be. The TV content creators are dealing with the end user for the first time.

The music industry long ago learned they get better sales when all their vynal/cassettes/CDs are available at Kmart/Walmart/Best Buy/etc. The music industry DID fragment a bit with online streaming, but those quickly failed. And the artists soon realized that being cool and exclusive to iTunes lead to less money for them.

If you have old coax cable already in your walls, MOCA 2.5 devices can be used to turn them into 1 Gig Ethernet.

In tech, nothing is for life.

But, I would recommend something you can install OpenWRT or OpenSense. If sorting out hardware isn’t for you, I have a Ubiquity UDM Pro and love it. I miss some of the fine tuning of OpenWRT, but the extra security features on the UDM seem worth it to me.

“Be objective as freedom dies, damnit!!!”

Will he immediately surrender to Putin?

Yet they’ll head out and vote Republican every time.

They’re living in the past, trying to stimulate an economy that no longer exists, and not realizing they are the reason that economy doesn’t exist anymore.

He is living in the past.

Problem is, we’ll be getting even worse spyware with the backing of the Chinese government.

When the core tenants of your Republicanism is racism and the belief Democrats are baby killing Satanists, you don’t have to think about it, you just vote R.

We won the last two world wars with out producing everyone and engaging in attrition. Hey, let’s outsource our manufacturing capacity so we can fuck over unions! What do you mean we’re not prepared for a world war of attrition???

I keep voting Republican and they keep attacking my ability to have a decent life. Weird. No Democrats

Meh. Our big bombers are always in range of anyone in the world because of midair refueling.

I had to support HP Personal Page back in the day. HP can’t write software.

While good in the way you outline, you are underestimating HP’s fuckwhittery.

The heady days of using Copy-b and Copy-c in the Commodore 64 days. Back when floppies were really floppies.

Tesla was overinflated because it was run as a software startup, where they had money pouring in from venture capital. They had money coming in, but it wasn’t simply from sales. Let’s see if that stalls too.

But wasn’t his Tesla shares used as collateral for the Twitter financing? If Tesla tanks enough, won’t his Saudi banking backers raise hell?