LG Forces TV Owners To Use Microsoft ‘AI’ Copilot App You Can’t Uninstall And Nobody Asked For
“The top 10% of US earners spent $20.3T thru the 1st half of 2025🚨-nearly matching the $22.5T shelled out by everyone else”
Trump's 'Golden Age' has arrived for the RICH.🚨His #economy is rivaling #MarieAntoinette's. Robust#s: mask the extent to which the wealthy are driving growth. Maj: straining under: pres of rising living expenses & soft job mkt. Fed: low-income #consumers have “substantially” higher levels of cc debt than *before the pandemic.
#Jobs #Inflation #USPol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/24/its-boom-times-for-trumps-economy-especially-if-youre-rich-00704816
Journalism in the news.
"The program was meant to help grocers and other retailers learn more about what kinds of prices customers would pay for items, similar to how stores offer different prices for the same products at different locations. But it raised alarms after a report from Consumer Reports and two progressive advocacy groups, Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union, said Instacart offered nearly three out of every four grocery items to shoppers at multiple prices in an experiment."
Instacart ends a program where users could see different prices for the same item at the same store
https://apnews.com/article/instacart-pricing-customers-retailers-c9a0a52e959ce46d2152aa664308d228
Instacart is ending a program where customers saw different prices for the same product ordered at the same time from the same store. The program was meant to help retailers learn more about what kinds of prices customers would pay for items. It created controversy after a report from Consumer Reports and two advocacy groups said Instacart offered nearly three out of every four grocery items to shoppers at multiple prices in an experiment. Instacart said the different prices were offered at random, not based on any personal customer information or on demand like in surge pricing.
We have been duped! We have been made irrelevant! #Consumers and #SMB have no play left but to boycot #bigtech and big cloud services as a whole.
Consumers and SMB have now been banned to buy computer hardware and peripherals *for reasonable prizes*. (Through RAM monopoly and buyout by bigtech)
Please stop using bigtech, please stop using #LLM stop #Amazon #Google #Microsoft #OpenAI #Cloudflare #Netflix both personal and at work, you are digging your own grave! Help bigtech to #failfast NOW!
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Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup. The report suggests reduced supply and short-term price pressure may follow as the market adjusts.
@tikibunnyimports Yeah, but #KeiCar - #Roadsters show that a restrictive envelope breeds innovation!
One doesn't need liters of displacement to get fast and have fun!
And that makes it good, because if one has a "fun vehicle" it better not require an oversized garage to park in...
Also with a smol engine and "low" speeds everything else gets cheaper:
smaller, low speed-index all season tires are cheap even from high quality brands.
the engine barely sips fuel and oil
emissions are low and thus vehicle tax is also lower
a small vehicle that isn't commonly stolen or ran into the next tree by beginners is cheaper to insure.
Which is why I think #KeiCars are good at incentivizing #SmallCars and that more manufacturers - espechally outside #Japan - should do such vehicles!
It's really embarassing that only the #SmartK was launched as non - #JDM Kei-Car and that basically noone even tries it* despite there being enough models and options.
But I also guess that like with European Car Brands, #ServiceNetworks and coverage with branded repair shops is really what makes or breaks it for #consumers!
So small companies like #Aixam never had a chance to establish themselves and due to existing expertise inhouse none of the Kei-Car manufacturers was interested in "Badge-Engineering" anyway.
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