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  • Product iteration is slow and it’s very likely that these things coming out now (the 12 in specific) were in the pipeline before the 16 released.

    Yeah, I agree, something to do with the 16 should have been given in this release. I disagree wholly with the idea of creating two new skews before making true the implicit promises of the 16 (upgradability, interchangeability, and a 240 watt charger. Though, no charger like that exists for USB-C yet from anyone so that ones a bit more understandable)

    The PC I personally assume was them being pressured by investors to do something “AI”. That’s a real thing that as a web dev I’ve been seeing like crazy. Investors are pushing absurdly hard for something AI. This, likely, was the quickest to ship product they could hold up to satiate the beast.

    Yeah, it is disapointing. Understandable though and I personally didn’t expect an upgrade any time soon myself but it’s a slap in the face for the 16 buyers and concerning to say the least. If the 16 fails to deliver on a laptop with an upgradable dGPU, it’ll be another on a very long list.


  • I guess there’s not much to this argument at this point between us. I hope you’re right, and I would assume some resistance, but do doubt it to be significant. The courts are captured, national dems are weak, and even when talking about the power of state dems I’ve not seen much strong and resilient push back. Lastly, national dems have quite a bit of power in state politics. Don’t doubt the ability of a crab to pull down it’s fellow crab in it’s own attempt to leave the bucket.

    Thanks for the conversation. Though I’m a bit more pessimistic I can see you’re at least a reasonable person


  • Not really if it’s threatened and the dems instantly fold. A dozen or so congress members and few senate members in support of freezing elections, the threat of violence, and a continuation of what see we now. That’s about all that’s needed.

    Still, though it’d argue it unlikely, military intervention cannot be ruled out

    On this being a separate situation it’s not really. It’s just an expansion of your own hypothetical. In a world where red states halt elections they would also pressure blue states to do the same. Blue states would likely fold as they have to many of the more important issues recently.


  • OK. That’s a wild thing to say. If you’re willing to say that the red states may illegally fail to hold elections can you not recognize the likelyhood that they’d stop, by force, blue states from doing the same?

    Do you seriously think blue states wouldn’t fold if pressured to stop elections?

    I’m not convinced that any of this will come to pass and elections will be stopped but if they want to they can and will.




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    I absolutely love this type of place. I used to walk for an hour or two each night when I lived in populated areas and passing through closed supermarkets and airports in the fog was always one of my favourite times.

    There’s just something about these places that were filled with busy just a bit ago now completely serene. Still.

    That and parks are a strange but beautiful time