You could get a 990pro 2 terabyte Samsung SSD for €150 just last year. Memory had become a commodity product.

Memory is still a commodity product, in that there isn't a huge amount of difference between vendors selling products that comply with a certain technical standard. Sometimes the prices of commodities (wheat, silver, crude oil, etc) go way up when supply and demand get out of balance.

I did buy one of those for 155eur on 9 November 2025.

Very lucky me!

No there are Jewish sects who claim to know how old the earth is.

(It is considered tradition in my country to ridicule and insult people's most closely held beliefs but they always get a pass for historical reasons)

So many different races and religions that it's best to stick to good old secularism.

Secularism can mean a wide range of beliefs. A secularist might be a communist of fascist or a libertarian or a socialist or.....

How does race come into it at all? Religion is about belief and most religions welcome people of any race.

In American English, “race and religion” is an old-timey expression that’s typically used as a broad identifier in a melting-pot context, eg. “We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions…” ~FDR

I suspect the comment means culture, which is frequently confused with race. But culture is also not uniform and will differ by individual etc.

Then maybe my other point applies. Secularism can exist within many cultures

Religion relies on assumptions that cannot be proven physically, secularism just avoids those assumptions (I say this as a Christian who finds secular biblical scholarship fascinating and helpful).

Do you mean an empiricism-only view? That has its flaws as you know.

Secular humanism has been accepted as a religion for First amendment purposes.

Non theistic Buddhism is still considered a religion.

Worldview might be a better term for us to use in understanding people's first amendment rights. And also the idea that there is no neutral worldview. E.g. "secularism" is directly hostile to many religious viewpoints, and to the degree that its proponents use it to oppose religion, secularism becomes a religion/worldview/belief system.

How do you use an Apple device without taking part in their ecosystem?

You can use a Mac just fine without using any services from Apple.

Their ecosystem is, frankly, much better. I won't bother with Windows but I certainly don't mind icloud.

The Chinese government cares a lot about civil unrest. Which is why they are being much more careful with AI. They remember how the CCP came into power.

More concerned about America. Its freedom of speech means that every douchebag billionaire tech bro is allowed to run of their mouth and rile up the proles.

In my country white males actually started to believe in their own bullshit so they let a little Jewish girl take the medical exam as a joke.

They immediately regretted it but the results were already printed in the newspapers. The rest as they say is history.

Imagine being in the eye of the hurricane. Every day your country is slipping into a fucking shit show but you have to delude yourself that everything will be fine because the alternative is becoming "tank man".

It is all fascinating to me.

In the full video, tank man proceeded to climb onto the tank and have a conversation with the operator of the tank.

I highly doubt you could do that in the US without being shot.

Why do Americans have to worry about the packaging of Japanese snack products? S&P is up 10.5% YTD

>Why do Americans have to worry about the packaging of Japanese snack products?

We don't but we worry about similar issues caused by the same root cause.

What space economy? Aside from satellites- which have been a known quantity for a long time- I'm not seeing it.