A lot of investments gets amortized over many years so even if you're investing all your free cash you'll still show a lot of profit.

One of the first things to do on a fresh install is to disable the Web search results in Start menu search. There's a setting in the registry to do it.

There's also a setting on the Settings app's Search page, which you can conveniently reach via the kebab menu on the search results.

For games, part of that mere „output” is 3d graphics, so replicating the internals of Direct 3D exactly right and getting the Linux GPU drivers to cooperate. That’s a hardcore task.

Fun fact: MS Office also uses Direct3D :) See "Graphics" requirement here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requiremen... We put a ton of effort into D3D11 specifically to get MS Office running.

I have plenty of such scenes in my city still, but these people are usually either pensioners, or local unemployed drunks who have an entire day to fill. People with jobs don't hang outside, unless they're with their kids.

Putin is not a mad dictator ruling against everyone’s wishes. He’s a leader of a large establishment elite which shares his views and gets very rich. If you replace Putin, most likely outcome is his replacement will not be very different (and probably worse, since the country will be even more anti-Western after the assassination)

Nope. Putin _is_ a mad dictator completely disconnected from the realities of Russia. Just like Maduro in Venezuela. So if he's killed, nobody is going to be bothered by this except a few dozen of his closest allies.

Putin's regime is purely authoritarian ("information autocracy") it has _no_ ideology. Moreover, the government in Russia does everything it can to keep the population passive.

And before you ask, Iran was different because it's _not_ an authoritarian country. It's a full-blown totalitarian theocracy with an official ideology and the elites there actually _believe_ in their doctrine. They have a core of people who will die rather than betray it. And most importantly, they have actual institutions that can survive the death of individuals.

Except, like Trump, they get more stupid as you go.

There must limits to stupidity, mustn't there?

One would think. I don't think we've hit the limit yet.

Quick google math says you get 6 tires from a barrel of oil vs roughly 20 gallons of gas. Unless EVs mean you change tires every 300 miles or so I think we're good.

My ICE vehicles go through many more pounds of gasoline than they do tires. A set of tires is ~100lbs of material. 50,000mi of gas on a 30mpg vehicle is 10,000lbs of gas.

The big concern is burning oil products into the atmosphere: that means fuels. Using oil to produce rubbers and plastics is less of a concern.

Consequences would be nice, but actually forbidding it for the future would be enough. Obama promised to do it, but didn't, and everybody kind of forgot and moved on.

    > Obama promised to do it

Do you know how the three branches of government work and who writes the laws?

The legislative produced Frank-Dodd...which Trump and Republicans later scaled back...

Do we still have three separate branches?

We sure did when Frank-Dodd was written by the legislative and then signed into law by the executive.

GP's comment is about the aftermath of 2008, entirely missing the fact that the legislative did in fact create laws which were signed by the executive and then later, in 2018, dismantled under a different administration.

It's a matter of simple facts here.

Frank-Dodd wasn't nearly as strict as the post-1929 regulation (Glass-Steagall act) that actually prevented such crisies for half a century.

Sure, but is that Obama's fault? See GP

If it wasn't in his power to toughen regulation, why did he promise it in his campaign?

So do you or do you not understand how the branches of government work?

An executive's promise can only mean "I will sign the bill" because aside from executive orders, legal structures originate from the legislative.

"It's funny because it's true". Parts of the German green movement (esp. the anti-nuclears) were actively funded by the KGB.

Any proof for this claim?

I get a lot of "UFO: Enemy Unknown" vibe from the art.

Have you looked at the Wikipedia article? China is specifically addressed there, with elite (as in - highly educated people) overproduction and unemployment reaching such levels that government is now suggesting they should seek manual labor jobs.