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Figures they would do that there. Actually, swamp coolers should work well there (I'm assuming it's dry there). Mist systems also work surprisingly well in dry climates.

I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions when they all started pulling price shenanigans.

Now I either use Stremio, properly "Arrified", or sail the high seas with qbitorrent, which, by the way, has a very good search function not enabled by default, and which many people don't know about. (Google qbitorrent search jackett)

To look for things I usually go to rotten tomatoes.

Also, there are frequent posts here or on other sites where people post their favorite shows/movies, which are often great for discovering less known shows.

What are these?

Investors should have learned by now that Musks endeavors are 100% ADHD cycle projects; hyper focus, obsess, launch, start to lose interest, hop on the the next, abandoning previous project, instead of building on the success.

Upvoted for proper spelling of "Lo and behold".

Things are probably going to get worse in the short term, but the AI bubble is going to burst. Magnitude? We'll see, but when investors realize that these companies cannot make a profit, and open source frontier models that allow you to run AI in house are removing vendor lock in, things are going to change. Also, LLMs are a dead end, and have little room to improve.

Newer paradigms are appearing, such as Yann LeCun's JASP, which actually learns, and other approaches, which will make LLMs obsolete, and are way less hardware intensive.

Another factor is the Chinese closing in in consumer grade RAM. If it can be proven that no backdoor or other shenanigans are there, they will balance things somewhat.

While current reality is what it is, there may be a massive social and traditional media manipulation by the big three and other interested parties to fuel fear of rising prices forever, to push people to buy as much as they can at these prices. I have no proof of this, but I don't think it's far fetched.

And let's not forget that for media outlets, fear and tragedy sells. (I think Hearst or some other news mogul said that last century.)

I agree. Definitely better, yes. What I was pointing out is that the whole organic/Bio thing can be deceptive, often in a subliminal way. There is quite a bit of marketing there.

That said, I do buy BIO eggs, free range chicken and meats, the whole shebang. I just try to remember that it's better than regular industrial, but not from my great aunt's farm.

What I haven't made my mind up about is fish. I do fish, and eat what I catch. Sadly only in the summer, as I'm landlocked most of the year. The thing about intensive fishing VS. intensive fish farming causes me a bit of unease.

There, there...

I believe the EU requirements are minimum space (6 hens/sq. meter, not exactly running space), and organic feed, which is basically no GMO, no synthetic fertilizers/pesticides. grain-fed labeling is only compulsory if you label as such. Fish flour feed, if it's from fisheries, is allowed, since it's from wild origin.

I used to be a partner at a company the produced BIO produce. The things we were allowed to do within EU rules would surprise most consumers. Things like using copper sulfate, and other "natural" pesticides without limits, phosphate and other fertilizers which are not synthetic, greenhouses with artificial lighting, etc.

From your user name I'm going to assume that you are a Finn. It's possible that Finland has stricter rules for BIO/organic (good), but EU regulations are way less strict than what people assume. People see the BIO/organic label and assume that grandma was hand feeding the hens from her apron.

Rocket Lab, and other space companies, are also being dragged down because they are bunched in for being space economy, despite being a way more sensible company. I predict that the Xshit sandwich will gradually lose steam, while RL will steadily climb again, and skyrocket (I am legally required to make that pun) when Neutron launches. That's my bet. Then again, Tesla is still obscenely overvalued, despite selling objectively last gen EVs that have dangerous fake autopilot, and which are effectively subsidized in the US by the gov't by virtue of bans and tariffs. Large funds, billionaires, and many retail investors are buying Nazitard's stock like meme stock buyers. There is going to be a lot of hurt sooner or later. BTW, how is starship, or whatever the exploding giant dildo is called, doing?

Out of school? Kind of. I wrote my first programs on a PDP 11 on a TTY. An actual perforated paper, daisy wheel TTY. No CRT. I was an admin of a Wang VS100 in the late 80's. Later I was a systems Manager at a small campus, and admin'd one of the servers myself, in the gopher/usenet era. My first browser was mosaic (Or was it Lynx? can't remember), and I coded my first website in HTML, no version number, HTML. Last time I bothered to look, my reddit account was 17 years old, and that was my second acount, I lost the password to my first, older account. So yeah, I was out of school. I do look younger than I am.