And by investment in AI, I mostly mean the capex for the datacenter buildouts, but that’s all in service of software (models, etc) that are mostly developed in SF.) If that halts the rest does too.

As someone who lives and works in SF and cares deeply about halting democratic backsliding, I have incredibly mixed feelings about this.

Donate enough and you get a pardon for that crime. Or your import business gets its tariffs lifted. Or those unfavorable regulations stop being enforced. The SEC looks the other way.

This whole thing is so stupid, a competent congress would pass immigration laws that provide a fast and easy path for there workers to be here legally...

I'm still gonna throw a little more money into this well and test out some vintage new old stock Western Electric 396A tubes. For science. I expect no difference, but they are gonna look cool. Pretty sure I've talked myself out of getting a _real_ tube amp...

It's been fun to experiment, but it tells me that Schiit Gunnr at $229, or Magni Unity with the DAC for $189 would have been audibly identical. And like I said previously, the only difference from a MacBook Pro headphone jack is this gets louder.

I set both amps to 70dB. I have both turned on, and just swap the cable. I've also tried my HD 6xx and HD 600 into each amp. I *can* hear a slight difference between those headphones. But HD 600 between the amps, can't hear it.