Peak Business Idiot behavior. They're too fucking stupid and caught up in the hype to notice that everything is on fire and their businesses are failing. The Line may be going up, but the companies are going DOWN.
It's obvious that these guys are fucking amateur hour Techbros, running this shitshow as they have. I don't doubt they're underpaying and undertraining the contractors they hire to install these things.
I think it's pretty safe to say Hegseth is likely thrashed off his ass 24/7 if this is the explanation he's trying to go with after everything else he's said. This administration is run by the dumbest Fascists ever.
So what I'm hearing from that headline alone is that he's a psychopath who doesn't work more than 5 hours a week, and what little """work""" he does consists of getting drunk at lunch and moaning to other CEOs about how lazy his workers are.
If you want to see a good set of graphs on pricing over time, PC Parts Picker does some good ones. It's absolutely INSANE how bad it's getting.
The graphs in question.
I am just so thoroughly, VIOLENTLY tired of this fucking hype craze. AI and all its proponents need to eat shit and die so we can move on to newer, cooler shit. They do NOT need to be able to threaten to vibecode new North American nuclear exclusion zones.
Plus heated gear and equipment exist. You can absolutely ride a motorcycle in Winter, it just kinda sucks.