tinglymintyfrsh's comments

What if you have friends who are basically family who more-or-less live with you? Are they not part of the "household"? "Sorry, Bob, while you maybe my daughter's godfather and donated a kidney to me, you're now going to need your own Netflix account because Netflix wants to mash the 'pump corporate profits' button that has been a primary contributing factor of both embarrassing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and inflation post-pandemic."

Also, there are nontraditional families with multiple homes. How many accounts do they need?

OTOH, enterprise parts are built and supported towards conservatism and reliability.

There is crossover and a spectrum between the 2, but this case isn't a complete surprise.

What is the equivalent of Pantex in Russia? Who services them?

I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true.

We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence.

Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.

Because something is difficult doesn't mean it's okay to rationalize more of it. Marketing something as "nontoxic" has a storied history of failure. DDT for one.

Cost/benefit analysis always. Perhaps in a survival or humanitarian crisis situation the risks of water-borne diseases would be far greater.

The main barrier to change is a widespread attitude problem: neglect rather than translating intent into action. The average American doesn't know anyone lacking housing and won't get personally involved to help "a stranger".

Furthermore, social workers and aid agencies generally don't take any proactive steps to get out to where unhoused people are or ask what they need. They're usually employees with performance standards and grand initiatives unrelated to practical and meaningful assistance.

Finally, the social safety net in America is a disgrace. Even in so-called liberal states, it treats recipients like criminals and doesn't respect them or their time while delivery inadequate resources to lift anyone out of dire situations (averaging $140 in cash and $225 for food per month). The recent debt hostage crisis engineered by far-right Republicans to attach punitive restrictions on ABAWDs and non-ABAWDs is a further punitive, collective attack on the poor for the crime of being poor.

Perhaps Campbell soup shouldn't be Xerox or art either?

PS: VLK XP doesn't suffer this problem.

Edit: Nice utility to extract product keys from a live system. https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

I use an Deciso OPNsense where it doesn't insist on breaking itself on the orders of corporate overlords.

America is only a Good Place(tm) for the very rich while its suffering expands out in a Power law distribution. No other "rich" country abuses homeless, the disabled, the almost homeless, and the working poor with as much unequal treatment as much except so-called "third-world" countries. The middle class of America is small, privileged, and unaware of the suffering and exploitation of ~100 M Americans below it and of its enablement of the "1%" to continue the status quo.

There's a danger to society when the common case becomes a factory town. Too many risks of depending on the company store for everything.

1. Most Americans aren't good with money.

2. If you know someone will start bidding much too high, low-ball them first.

3. The tourist is a universally hated abomination that deserves to be lightened of its burden.