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For what it’s worth, I had the same instant reaction as @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net. In particular, (a) if he’s nearing retirement, then he’s way too young for the type of behavior, and (b) the belligerence and anger reaction when contradicted match what I’ve seen with family that had dementia, and it sounds like that’s new.

As for the question at large, I can’t confirm your experience. Where I live, older people behave just like younger people when it comes to stating opinions or telling stories. They are more stuck in their ways, no doubt, but I guess it’s harder to change the way you do things if you’ve done it successfully one way for 40 years.

I get the why, but with what?

The issue CFIUS seems to have is that Lumileds’ product portfolio relies on compound semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) chips

Wud? GaN technology is everywhere these days, including in tons of USB chargers imported from China. That can’t be the real reason.

Music is a weird art form, because something sounding familiar is very important to our ear. Many people have a really hard time liking music that is too foreign to their taste and end up sticking with only a select few genres.

Where familiarity is important, AI can deliver easily. I would think as much as we hate the idea, there is a pretty significant market for AI-generated music, specifically because it’s so predictable and follows convention to a tee.

The number of Republicans who approve of Trump’s performance on inflation sank by 10 percentage points (from 83 to 73 percent) since last summer.

Alright, I understand a lot of things are political in nature, but what the hell is wrong with people who see inflation go up and think, “He’s doing a great job on this issue!”

Never forget his borrowed Nobel peace prize!

I mean, when your two best allies in the world are Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán, and you are cozy with Vladimir Putin, you really should revisit your genocidal priorities in life, don’t you think?

Right? Argentina having a beef shortage is weirdo bizarre, like Russia running out of vodka or Saudi Arabia out of oil.

If it were just divorce, that would not be as bad. Former allies are increasingly concerned they are going to be the next target of Trump’s greed. Canada and Europe, automatic American allies forever, have to make contingency plans for a US invasion. That’s absolutely nuts.

I can only imagine how a soldier must feel like when they get to eat stuff like that, and then they are fighting a war that is so dramatically unpopular at home, and all it seems to do it make everything more expensive.

I would think retention is going to become a major problem for the US military.

What this poor girl has gone through is heinous enough, all statutes of limitation should be suspended indefinitely in her case. Honestly, hearing how many victims of child sexual abuse escape Stockholm syndrome years later, maybe child sexual abuse should not come with a statute of limitations, at all. I guess child abuse in general, not just sexual.

I know that lawyer try out every single tactic in the playbook, hoping that something sticks, but the sheriff trying to hide behind, “She waited too long,” is abhorrent.

Man, America must be the Heaven of Goody-Two-Shoes if “overstaying your visa” counts as the “worst of the worst”!

Just kidding. She was probably embroiled in some terrorist activity, like carrying a Chunky Vance meme on her phone!

Get outta here with your sensible, practical solutions! ;-)

Just imagine what kind of a shit person you have to be to save the cost of fuel for cremation, let the bodies rot, and hand the families a bag of concrete. “Scared and desperate?” More likely greedy AF.

You know, I believe that Putin has a really incredibly competent staff of economists around him that are managing this war very efficiently. While the goals of the war are repugnant, looking at how Nabuillina has managed a very difficult financial and economic situation in a way that ordinary metropolitan Russians barely noticed is impressive.

That said, political collapse does not need to come from economic collapse. I was shocked at how determined Ukraine was to run as fast as possible from Russian overlordship towards the West and Europe, but that left me with the impression that Russians know the advantages of not living in an autocracy, too.

Putin has been gambling on tying himself to Russia herself: his win is Russia’s win, and his loss is Russia’s. I suppose at some point people might be figuring out that Putin is not the same as Russia and that they are better off with a different set of institutions.

Well, yes, but a lot of people have seen this coming for the past four years and nothing happened. This time the signs are much stronger. I am hopeful.