This is precisely why they're panicked. They've just had record stock numbers, record income, record everything. This system depends on constant growth. They need to keep that growth going or the shareholders will pull out, and it will cause their stock to crash.
This all built up just like the Crypto-Rush of 2020-2021. Which you can see in the chart. It went up, peaked, and then dropped when crypto crashed. They're betting big on AI, when it turns out AI isn't as profitable as they thought it would be, it will crash also.
If their winning position was truly "top dog" they wouldn't be shivering, shaking and pissing themselves begging for people to purchase their crap using insane lines like "The more you buy the more you save."
It’s all marketing, no explanation. The “American Dream!” they shout alongside other empty slogans and quotes. A million quotes about George Carlin and “you need to be asleep to believe in it.” Believe in fucking what!!?
Of course you have to be asleep to believe in it, because the idea is like a fucking fever dream. Something everyone has a vague idea about, but doesn’t fully remember or understand. And there’s a lot of contradictions.
Oh great. The rightoids are probably creaming themselves at the idea of a headline that says something like “Palestinian Supporters disrupt parade, sign says ‘Genocide Now’”
Proof: what are the other source management softwares? (Don’t mention Mercurial, that’s cheating).
Also for Linux, it’s down to the license and history. Linux isn’t a bad investment because all commits directly to the kernel are given freely to all. And it’s not Unix. It doesn’t have the stain of AT&T and their sue happy ways. Also Linux dominates all computer markets except for user desktops. Servers, phones, application specific utilities, etc.
it depends what CD, but its a roll of the dice to use isopropyl alcohol.
I used it to get the "Blockbuster (Do not remove)" sticker off a ps1 game that i bought at a retro game store. It covered the entire disc. I thought I was going to ruin it. but I decided I had no choice as it was getting caught in my PS2 and would potentially break both if I left it alone.
It worked out, but it was a scary and calculated risk.
When you shop at big box stores, the money leaves the community and goes to the wealthy 0.01%ers.
But the evil of their methods is that typically once they move in there's literally no other options left. Everything else either goes out of business or your wages drop so low you can't afford anything else.
These are a blight on American society.
These types of stores didn't used to be possible for various reasons. But removal of anti-trust regulations and a focus on car-centrism have enabled this hellish combo of monopolistic box stores that can pop up, kill the competition and leave a wasteland behind in which it is both financially and legally impossible for the local population to bring back local stores.
Local stores tend to be in the older town areas where dense-buildings were once legal, and are grandfathered in. These get bought up and flattened and replaced with a mcdonalds or a gas station while the walmartification is in full swing. Then once walmart implodes there because no one can afford it anymore, walmart closes and the other chains close as well. No one can afford to replace walmart or the gas stations at scale for the obnoxious amount of land they use, but they also can't replace them with more dense buildings because its literally illegal.
This is precisely why they're panicked. They've just had record stock numbers, record income, record everything. This system depends on constant growth. They need to keep that growth going or the shareholders will pull out, and it will cause their stock to crash.
This all built up just like the Crypto-Rush of 2020-2021. Which you can see in the chart. It went up, peaked, and then dropped when crypto crashed. They're betting big on AI, when it turns out AI isn't as profitable as they thought it would be, it will crash also.