Sad but true. Intel’s performance was poor over the last year. Shuddering thinking about my Mac with Intel CPU, there must be burn victims from this thing. Still, less competition is never a good thing.

That’s the realist view, agree. It is hitting to suck for many, many people but they made their own bed.

I think this is going to be the end of the USA as we know it. After this period, democracy will be significantly impacted.

Agree. It is unfortunate however, that when being impossibly rich and protected for the rest of your life, you still work on how to squeeze the most out of humanity instead of focusing on something greater.