@peterrhague Im not kidding
Even in 1990, when the Soviet Union was collapsing and supermarket shelves were empty, the electricity was still on, and even the refrigerators with no food inside were still working.
How did the UK manage to become something even worse than the collapsing USSR?
I did 5 laps of the Nurburgring today, helped on several by a friend who knows the ring well (and by two passenger laps tonight).
Didn’t want to go crazy as I need my car fit for the rest of the trip, and we’re in a heatwave.
I totally get it. It’s just so interesting, challenging, addictive.
Watching the 911 GT3 RS taxi come screaming by 😲
One chap almost binned it in front of me, said hi and oops on the way back into the parking area (good catch!).
What a place. Even the car park is incredible.
Ed Miliband would not like it though - the freedom, the joy, the community!
Microchips and memory chips are a major factor in consumer prices. Everything from phones to refrigerators to cars to home appliances now have these chips inside of them.
Unfortunately, these chips are also needed in Ai. The Ai boom is causing a chip shortage that is having an impact on many other products.
For example, Micro was a recipient of subsidies via the CHIPS act. They received the taxpayer cash, then they decided to focus on Ai chips instead and sacrificed capacity for other consumer goods, creating a shortage in those sectors.
We can see this trickling into the inflation stats for consumer goods. Is it right for Micron to take subsidies, meant to increase chip capacity for American consumer goods, then have the CEO Sanjay Mehrora shift his focus instead to the Ai market?
If a company like Micro is going to accept the money from the CHIPS act, it should have been used for the intended purpose.
@shavnyuy The same is happening in Europe. Brutalism is taught instead of classical architecture.
Realise is by design to keep the populationr dumb. Its not only an African problem.