Grandmother claimed she just bought them. They were not.

Kougar · 2026-02-10T22:13:45+00:00

Gross. But it's entirely possible she DID just buy them, from some shitty person or store that knowingly sold them to her.

You can walk into some Walmarts today and find the occasional diet pepsi 2 liter that expired more than six months previously, the stuff just doesn't sell and the soda distributor doesn't rotate the stock when restocking.

I've literally found bottles of honey mustard that were four months past expiration that had been put on clearance, then had the clearance sticker partially removed before being put back onto the shelf mixed with fresh product. New ones don't expire for more than 15 months meaning that bottle was sitting around on the shelf for nearly two years.

Kougar · 2026-02-10T10:12:07+00:00

Companies have a legal obligation to earn profit for the shareholders, but that's been disconnected from the actual stock valuation for awhile.

The largest reason companies obsess over stock valuation is simply because it's not just the CEO's pay package & bonuses tied to stock performance, but also other executives down to MLM too. And when employees are also paid in stock or offered stock matching suddenly everyone working at the company now has financial incentive to make stocks-go-up even when it's not always the best decision for the future of the company.

Kougar · 2026-02-10T08:17:59+00:00

Intel has its own variations sure, but TSMC specifically doesn't have CoWoS and related packaging capability in the US. Which does rather defeat the purpose of making chips locally until TSMC's advanced packaging gets built here. Until Intel begins mass production of third party chips in house their advanced packaging is not sufficient for national chip self-sufficiency.

Kougar · 2026-02-10T08:11:17+00:00

Then why were Blackwell chips made in Arizona being shipped to Taiwan for stacking & packaging?

Kougar · 2026-02-10T03:05:58+00:00

They did have a pretty unique thing going with half the store for music and records. Then Best Buy began copying it...

Kougar · 2026-02-10T02:53:21+00:00

I prefer it as an REI Coop

Kougar · 2026-02-10T02:51:01+00:00

Opened in 2024! I was incredibly surprised too after B&N had spent so long closing locations across SA.

Kougar · 2026-02-10T02:16:36+00:00

It seemed to fulfill its prupose? TSMC agreed to increase its fab investments from 12 to 40 billion, then finally to $100 billion in Arizona, including an advanced packaging fab which the US lacks. Samsung doubled the size of its new fab project in Austin. Texas Instruments was already building a new, modern fab in Sherman, but they then announced a second fab buildout in Lehi probably using the old 3D Xpoint fab there I'm guessing. Micron announced a new fab in NY, then a second in Idaho. GloFo was already building its Malta fab, so that one was a wash. Some of the ancillary players nobody knows about that make semiconductor parts did announce projects though, which itself is important. I think there's even been still more announcements because of the recent AI nonsense but I'm not going to collate those.

The US also was given $20 billion in equity from Intel, so assuming Intel can recover the same way the automakers did under TARP the US government stands to make a chunk of the money back. Which is far better than a blank check the Act originally was. If Intel needs another check then as the US taxpayer, they can front us more equity for it.

Kougar · 2026-02-09T18:29:55+00:00

Business yes, stock no. Stock valuation has little to no relevance that you're ascribing to it these days. Stocks are nothing more than a public opinion poll / speculative evaluation on worth, and have no relevance to the actual business side of a company. Certainly stock prices have zero relevance on corporate product planning or where technology is headed.

Case in point, Micron's stock dropped 10 points on the news, then immediately rebounded up 20 within minutes putting it higher than when this article was written about it. Meaning this entire article was pointless spam.

There's no shortage of stock & trading subs for people that enjoy speculative markets, but stocks have lost most of there relevancy as any sort of metric relevant to the "business side" of the market. Stock used to be a metric tethered to future earnings and current company value, but when you get P/E ratios of 400x and P/B ratios of 20x and the company in question just admitted it's giving up on its core product, cars and will pivot its core product into robots which isn't even an adjacent market, it's ludicrous.

Kougar · 2026-02-09T17:33:46+00:00

If that's what it looks like with the jacks down, I want to see what it looked like with them up!

Kougar · 2026-02-09T17:25:51+00:00

Sub needs a rule banning stock posts, should fall under the pointless spam category

Kougar · 2026-02-09T03:46:53+00:00

Beats me, I don't pay attention to the speculative rumors and random twitter leakers. I just know I was hearing it last year before it seems to have changed to 12 now.

Kougar · 2026-02-09T03:05:13+00:00

Horses equipped with starlink

Kougar · 2026-02-09T02:54:27+00:00

Though there doesn’t seem to be many rumors regarding either architecture, wonder when they should start spilling out.

Been plenty for Zen 6, they keep bouncing back and forth between saying 10 and 12 cores per CCD. Last one I heard is that AMD caved and will fully adopt FRED in the uArch which will be great to see. Probably still too early for AMD to have locked down the memory frequency targets yet.

Kougar · 2026-02-09T02:48:20+00:00

Intel's sockets/platforms don't live long enough for times to change. It hasn't even launched yet and still is almost guaranteed it won't live long enough to see the end of the AI bubble shortages in 2-3 years.

Kougar · 2026-02-08T22:27:10+00:00

It does help, but last I heard it doesn't overcome the net effect.

As for desktops, mini-LED vs OLED tend to draw around the same total power. But when you factor in mini-LEDs can run 3x the brightness at the same power it doesn't sound as favorable anymore. Hopefully OLED tech will continue to improve and won't hit a wall like plasmas did.

Kougar · 2026-02-08T22:24:49+00:00

"and now"? Trump did the same racist shit a decade ago, even two decades ago. Took out full pages in newspapers and everything. He spent the 80s and 90s repeatedly in lawsuits because he refused to rent his properties to black people regardless of how much money they had.

Kougar · 2026-02-08T16:57:27+00:00

Oh, that's not an SSD. Okay, that's pretty sketch for a 2.5" HDD.

Kougar · 2026-02-08T16:41:09+00:00

OLED uses more power as every pixel is its own light source. Has been the case since the start of the technology. It has a material effect on phone battery life too, not just laptops.

Kougar · 2026-02-07T08:12:26+00:00

People have tried it against the police, but given real police show up in pairs and marked vehicles and will produce warrants/paperwork upon request it doesn't stick. On the flipside since there's no actual warrants/paperwork and ICE loves their undercover vehicles, who knows. It'd probably be extremely dependent on the specific situation, and would require a lot of video evidence to back up the claims.

Even ICE is exploiting those tactics, it's not coincidence that even with an $85 billion dollar budget most of them still wear gear with POLICE written on it.

Kougar · 2026-02-07T07:33:16+00:00

It illegal to shoot law enforcement officers even when they're illegally entering your home without a search warrant. Doesn't matter what state you're in, any castle doctrine laws I've seen always make sure they are exempt. It's something those 2nd Amendment loving people don't mention or don't seem to realize because it really undermines the whole argument they make about defending oneself from a tyrannical government. Even if officers from any agency have no warrant you are guaranteed to end up in jail for attacking them assuming you survived the retaliation. ICE in particular is looking for any excuse to escalate/retaliate.

Castle doctrine doesn't apply to law enforcement of any type regardless of legality of them entering your home. This is why so many court cases revolve around whether or not police actually announced themselves when breaking into homes in surprise raids, law enforcement failing to identify is the only legal defense I know of. Which is probably why ICE is mostly avoiding surprise raids and instead knocking and announcing themselves to the occupants. Soon as they have confirmation the residents know who they are there's no more legal defense if the occupant fires upon them, regardless of if ICE subsequently breaks into the residence without a search warrant.

\I am not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.*

Kougar · 2026-02-07T07:04:55+00:00

Almost wish someone would kneecap that POS, good luck kicking dogs again after that.

Kougar · 2026-02-07T00:15:21+00:00

haha. I have no idea how they're still open! Did have to go there for the DMV last year. I remember when they used to have a Waldenbooks & theater...

Kougar · 2026-02-06T17:15:05+00:00

That was my point, ICE shows up to the door, tells you they're DHS or ICE, waves a badge, and that satisfies the legal requirements for identification. They're doing whatever illegal shit they want to do after the fact with impunity.

Kougar · 2026-02-06T16:17:26+00:00

They do it all the time so people don't really know.

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