The government saw its biggest decrease (5%) in debt to GDP ratio in 20 years, thanks to inflation.  According to FRED, debt to GDP has rewound 2 years.  The producer price index hit 10%.  The lion kingdom was surprised how normal 10% inflation can be.  You just accept that everything is higher on a daily basis & don't curb your spending.  



https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/governments-see-biggest-inflation-driven-155551871.html



In news that surprised no-one, the jetson nano page that everyone has been reloading was changed from being restocked on Feb 19 to being discontinued.



Interestingly, archive.org showed it still in production as recently as May 2021.




Nowdays, it's incomprehensible that an embedded GPU ever existed for such a low price.  If embedded GPUs ever come close to that performance again, they're going to be thousands of doll hairs.

The lion kingdom wonders if any government could force TSMC to release the trade secrets which allowed them to produce GPUs, so someone else could restart manufacturing.  Obviously, US has no interest in anything but its welfare agenda, but allowing someone else to manufacture a strategically important GPU that TSMC no longer produces could be a big win for a superpower like China or Russia.







They all went for traditional male breadwinners, doctors, lawyers, executives in Calif*. The social preferences of the last 20 years are all in the open on instragram & linkedin. You don't need an academic paper to know what people are really choosing. The lion kingdom believes it's more egalitarian in poor midwest states where every other guy isn't the next Marc Benioff. When the option is taken away, they're more likely to settle for a programmer or a janitor.


Maybe we'd be better off if the social order wasn't dictated by our caveman genes.  Confusers can dream, think, land rockets backwards, but all humans can do is run an evolutionary program.  Lions wonder if they would run faster & live longer if their ancestors selected for fitness more than finances.  












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