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that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

We've touched on this just a few days ago. Thanks to AI, the prices of electronic goods are soaring.

Yes, cheap laptops have become an endangered species. Without the excellent $600 MacBook Neo, they’d be on the precipice of extinction. But halfway through 2026, our hopes that the rising prices would be contained to cheap laptops have been washed away by reality. Today, price increases have come for every tier of the laptop market — and plenty of other consumer tech products, as well. Midrange laptops are priced like premium options from last year. High-end devices are arriving with price tags that are making our eyes water. Game console prices have gone up by hundreds of dollars, too.  Usually price increases are difficult to attribute to a single cause, but that isn’t really the case here. These price hikes are because of AI.  Data-center construction by big AI players and a rush to manufacture the hardware to fill those data centers is creating unprecedented demand and diverting components across the supply chain. Because of that, the parts necessary to build laptops are now more scarce and more expensive. [ ... ] AI companies are building new data centers to grow and improve their products. The processing requirements, or “compute” demands, for AI are increasing by 4.5 times per year, according to the Epoch AI research institute. To meet that demand and keep up with the competition, companies have to build more data centers full of servers, and constructing them requires the same kinds of materials as building any other computer. 

It's bad enough that big tech wants to build monstrosity data centers in your county and drive your electric bills up in the process. But those data centers are also sucking computer chips out of the market causing the prices of electronics to soar. Multi-billionaire tech broligarchs get even more filthy rich at your expense.

Most people want greater regulation of AI.

Voters of both parties want tighter AI regulation, poll finds

Of course Trump is siding with his donors in Big Tech. He doesn't care what you pay for electronics.

How big tech got its way on Trump’s AI executive order

Over this holiday weekend, members of House and Senate will be spending more time back home. If you see your Congress creature at some festivity, demand a moratorium on new data centers and tighter regulation of AI.

Third time we bought artichokes, she said, "It was good!"

She was an inquisitive and intelligent person. She recognized what she didn't know, she asked questions, she remembered what she was told, and she identified a resource for learning more.

Democracy .. a challenge.

^^^ When you're a billionaire getting even richer through graft, you don't have to care what regular Americans are going through.

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