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will I ever be able to afford a disk drive ever again?

Its mainly AI and data centres using it all up on someone else’s dime. Trump, tariffs, inflation and supply chains are another part of it, but it’s mainly AI. Give it time. Either the AI data centre splurge will collapse and those will be sold crashing the market, or they won’t and it’s a stable market and production capacity will increase, hopefully bringing prices back down,

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3 die in France as temperatures to exceed 105 F in Europe heat wave

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Yeah, and I'm from australia, where normal temps can be higher than that too. You know what? We build appropriately. We hydrate. We use air con and shade. People are accustomed to it.

I also recognise that many other countries are not used to these temperatures and that although we've faced them before in Australia, we are now facing them more often and with more intensity. Also, with more floods at other times. More droughts and more extreme weather events of other kinds.

People are dying due to climate change. In this case, it includes two children who died in a car.

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Do you think that Trump is being blackmailed?

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I don’t think so. Trump is undoubtedly a con man. However, I think it’s going to be studies about the media and misinformation channels that dominate history books. Trump doesn’t have psychological insight. He acts on impulse and is a compulsive liar and narcissist. It’s how he was portrayed and how social media, in particular “engagement” driving views and clicks that will be studied. Obviously, the owners of these channels realised the power of the algorithm, just like previous oligarchs realised the value of newspapers and tv stations. It just became more hidden and personalised how we were being manipulated.

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66% of canadians have an unfavourable view of the USA

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One nation are polling higher than the major parties and she is rating highest as preferred prime minister. I expect it to be like reform, where they get more seats than they have ever had, but still not much. However, what’s shocking is how quickly they got that support, despite all their policies being anti their supporters. Except when you add racism. We have lots more racists than you think. America found that out the hard way. We’re on track for similar.