If nothing else, it is demotivating. Even putting information up on websites. Why bother if I’m just going to primarily feed AI. I’m not sure we know what a sustainable model for AI really is. You cannot have just AI feeding AI, what could go wrong with that. You cannot really motivate real people to actually write stuff if there is no reward at all – not even a reader or user connection – and then there are the financial reward issues if someone is going to do that full time and is not already FI. I notice even online forums are dying, Reddit seems a shadow of what it was and I sometimes wonder if we are just talking to AI agents.

Individuals probably don’t care, but corporations do. So it depends.

I live in a medium size city in the US, and we have a plug-in hybrid. Even the 40 mile range limit works most of the time for us. I would think EVs in the UK would work even better (lot of areas less range needed and denser).

We all know they didn’t make much effort to protect them either. They didn’t make much effort to even protect their own citizens.

Plus prices are sticky, and the system has huge lags anyway. But I agree, has anything actually changed?

The US iٌs large and varies widely by region and subculture. Also life of the upper middle or lower upper class is often depicted. No one is acturally shown working mostly.

Thanks.

Is this approach cross platform (meaning does it have Linux support for example) or are they talking about just Windows support? Isn’t the whole point of Electron that it is cross platform, not that it is fast or resource efficient?

The thing about twitter, it never was general interest. It was more about media and public personalities which media loves.

Sounds similar now but more Truth Social like. Who could have known.

I agree with that. I also have concerns about the whole electoral process. The work around for popular vote would require us to know what the popular vote is. How does a state even know that in a “certified” way, and if it it really close, there is no way to do a nation wide recount. There are a lot of practical issues with implementing nation wide popular vote. So I have reservations about this.

The other issue of course is the whole gerrymandering thing. The need to really have elections demand a 50% vote either by IRV or a separate run-off election to eliminate spoiler effects. There are tons of issues overall with our electoral system. One big issue is we have a system that empowers 2 parties and makes it difficult for those parties to have any meaningful competition at all.

I do not think it favors Republicans. It simply favors population which means cities which means more liberal.

Trump winning 2024 was just stupid people mad about inflation, COVID, race, and Biden running gain. Yes they should have been mad about the lack options in the D side. The other issues were all fake. Inflation was solved a year before the election for example.

We will see. What they can do is kind of limited with Trump and his minions still in the executive and judicial branch. Maybe we will have an attempt at oversight at least. Some of the states though have flipped enough so at the state level maybe something can be done. One nice thing is some new and younger faces.

Stayed up too late watching election returns. Nice seeing some younger people win.

Fankly Europe does need to be more independent anُd has needed to for a long time. Sad any of us have had to endure Trump though. Though it has made this obvious.

I love it when CEOs think that it is a messaging issue. The issue is community costs not messaging.

Make is fine unless you want to build on Windows. Then you kind of need something else. It is the very slow process creation infrastructure that kills Make as a tool on Windows.

I wonder if this includes the age dependent increase or do you have to add another 4% of this as you get 1 year older. I know last year at age 64 my cost was about the same as Medicare + medigap (plan G like) + drug plan + max IRMAA at age 65.

Edit: OK a summary of my costs roughly. ACA costs for 2027 at 64 would be $12645.60, my out of pocket would be roughly $3505.76 for an annual medical cost of $16151.38. This is one person age 64 roughly. For medicare traditional plus medigap and drug with maximum IRMAA would be about $14602.20 + out of pocket drug costs $715.90 for a total of $15318.10. For no IRMAA (just the basic part B), the more common cost is $7150.20 plus the same drug cost of $715.90 for a total of $7866.10. The medicare cost is probably a little higher as I don’t know what the medical out of pocket would be, but for traditional medicare and very good medigap, the out of pocket for medical can be quite small.

So rough total, ACA total medical $16151.38 (100%), medicare max IRMAA $15318.10 (95%), and minimal IRMAA 7866.10 (49%). Again, one person.

Kind of sad that there seems to be minimal effort to make Python mainline fast. There are so many projects to accelerate Python. Some even work really well. Some as much as 100X faster, and most at least 10X faster.

So it is quite terrible that we don’t all have to rent time on someone else’s computer, and use their software, and services. What an ass. What is terrible is that all the AI BS is driving up PC prices, energy prices, using up water, and polluting neighborhoods. Maybe you guys should be clean and efficient on one hand, and be paying for these things at marginal prices since your the new kid on the block. Instead your stealing from the rest of us.

Maybe pin some other useful links to non-reddit sites. I’d love for lemmey to have an active personal finance community, but as we can see traffic is pretty low. Another site you could link is: https://www.bogleheads.org/ . They have a wiki and probably the best non-reddit forum. There are some other useful wiki sites around the web, but I don’t have a good list.

For financial news, I guess the best lemmy link forum I know is the Beehaw Finance section (https://beehaw.org/c/finance), but it tends to be news not personal finance.