I’m on Win11 and see almost none of the issues people like you are talking about. No doubt they exist! Maybe it’s because I’m on a plain vanilla ISO and I stripped the crap out early on? Same SSD I had 4 computers ago on Win10, just get moving it over. Talk like yours makes me afraid of a fresh install!

If it’s as bad as people say, I’ll give up and go Debian. I was largely staying Windows so I could be familiar and support my coworkers. Unemployed now. Who cares?

And you dare not risk your financial data when plotting a migration! Been there, done that, no one ever suggested moving from Excel to another product.

Excel is the fucking backbone of Microsoft Office. It’s solid and backwards compatible for a couple of decades. Excel is the one reason business sticks with Office. It never fails, everyone knows it, nothing can replace it. You cannot trust any other spreadsheet to perfectly translate if you move away from Excel. The world runs on Excel.

I never imagined Microsoft would fuck with Excel. Ever. There’s a fairy tale about killing the golden goose, can’t remember how it goes.

None of that happens without a charismatic cult leader. They cannot replace Trump and I’d image they’re shitting bricks behind the scenes. LOL, can you imagine the backstabbing and power grabs going on as Trump dives further and further into dementia and heart failure?!

I’d laugh, but I’m afraid they have a succession plan, a plan that might work.

That 10% is why you believe. A kid had an opportunity, took the shot, failed, end story.

Same for Charlie Kirk. Exact same story.

No economic system is immune to flowing money to the top. We need strong education, “economic morals”, to stay strong. No slogans, no, “My system is better!” Education.

We already have a wealth of history to draw on, see what has worked and what has failed.

Capitalism was working just fucking dandy when we had unions to reign in the owners and a trust-busting government. You children annoy me.

“sOciAliSM!”

As if there’s any economic system that can’t be played to route the money upstream. As if your thin education and experience can replace real-world history with slogans.

Capitalism is the best economic system we’ve ever invented. Democracy is the best political system we’ve ever invented. Problem being, both need serious guard rails. As with any other system you can imagine.

The electorate has to be educated as to systems and morals. Cut the education? No system can withstand ignorance.

I can never tell if politicians honestly believe the National Socialism of the Nazis was actually socialist, of if they’re taking advantage of dumb voters. If it’s the opinion of a “man on the street”, then yes, he’s that dumb.

On top off all that, company culture flows from the top down. Tell me what you think of your company culture, I’ll tell you about your CEO. Also, imagine the sheer disgust of ultimately reporting to AI. People might have a few giggles at first, but moral would crash pretty quickly.

Reading these comments and people seem to think his money works like their money. It’s so naive it’s disheartening.

With what money? The vast majority of his “wealth” is imaginary. When Tesla investors, who know damned well they’re riding a bubble, finally decide they’ve made enough money, risked it long enough and it’s time to bail, the bubble pops.

Not saying that because the man is a raging douche nozzle, it’s simply reality.

People are buying only because it’s a growth stock. Eventually enough people will get nervous and cause a stampede. Lots of owners are going to left holding the bag, an empty bag.

Thank you! Someone around here gets it. Look at these comments. People seem to think he’s actually holding that much cash.

People are only buying Tesla stock because it keeps going up, nothing to do with their perceived value of future earnings. It’s fucking insane, reminds me of Wall Street, 1929. Fittingly enough, the world is making the same mistakes of 100 years ago because all the people who learned from those mistakes are dead.

Almost all of that money is imaginary. Look at Tesla’s $1.5T “worth”. If you liquidated the company down to the staplers and pens, you’re probably only going to get a few billion.

If we’re saying that $1.5T represents current assets and future growth, yikes. Tesla ain’t doing so hot and I hardly expect them to turn it around with this genius at the top. The stock price merely reflects people buying because people are buying. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd! Someday that stock is going to crater.

Anyway, same goes for Musk. He can turn but a fraction of that net worth into cash. Imagine if he started selling Tesla stock. First off, the market would panic seeing the CEO dumping his own stock, the price would plummet, instantly. Even if word didn’t get out, the market would still be flooded, driving the price into the ground.

CAVEAT: None of this considers the value of SpaceX. 🤷🏻

Japan will be the test case for declining populations. They will be the first to show us the consequences and the right and wrong ways to deal with the issue.

Short of Malthusian disasters, I don’t think any sort of economy in human history has had to deal with this.

One would think we’d all have a clue after COVID. The supply chain shocks reverberated for years.

As the population ages out of the work force, and fewer replacements are coming in, where’s your tax base to support UBI? And if you say tax the rich, they won’t be rich long with no workers to leech off of.

Less than a billion I think, but several hundred million? Anyway, you’re right, they ate it all paying off investors in the form of stock buybacks. Rural folk got nada.

Yeah, very weird expansion. We don’t even have much in the way of utilities at camp. We can get water, but certainly no sewer. Hell, you can’t even build “permanent structures” on my land. And I assume the surrounding land is even worse for flooding and being protected wetlands.

Sounds like I can get a power pole for free! Still working on that.

The roads are private, anyone can travel them, no problem, but they’re on us to maintain. Couple of dudes use tractors to level them and someone dropped loads of gravel and red clay to fix the slippery bits. (Shit like this is why country people think they don’t need no goddamned gubermint. You’d have to live it to understand.)

This is a Cox Cable endeavour. Used to contract for them, finest ISP I ever heard of. Apparently the Cox family took it public, then bought it back, said fuck you to the stock market and ran it themselves again. Hard to describe to those not in the business, but their cable plant is head and shoulders above anything I’ve ever touched. I assume they’re rich as hell and I wish them well, well deserved for once.

Had not thought of that! Been 20-years since I’ve been at an ISP, times change.

I’ve not done much before and after, and so wish I had. Turned some real junkers into art. My kinda art anyway.

Here’s my comment on the shotguns.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/19708241