For moving more wealth to the top

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

Some companies did survive the dot-com bubble popping and went on to become dominant in what was left of the market.

We’re looking at a desperate struggle of AI companies convinced they’re going to be the ones that make it, being encouraged by other companies milking them for everything they can before the crash.

A company that sells RAM, GPUs, etc will of course sell every last unit they can to AI companies – they want to move as much product as possible (at inflated prices) before reality kicks in and demand drops. And they’ll have a hungry consumer market to fall back to after making a shit-load of money off of the AI rubes.

The people building data centers are rushing to get them built for the same reason. They don’t give a shit about anything that happens after they’ve been paid.

Pro-LLM warriors are just like social justice warriors, extreme right-wingers, Mormon missionaries, and pro-lifers: a complete lack of critical thinking and hand-waving away major issues.

I was pro AI early on, but things have changed. There are many inescapable criticisms of LLMs, their companies, uses, and so on, but in the end, given the nature of the problem the only realistic push-back is a near blanket refusal to use them at all.

Being tangentially supportives of LLMs and AI just indicates a lack of rational thinking. Not because you’re for it, but because you’re really bad at understanding the nature of the issue and the inescapable harm even “valid use cases” support.

Thermostatic mixer valves use a (typically mechanical) thermostat to automatically control the hot/cold valves to maintain the desired output temperature – regardless of fluctuations in hot/cold water temp.

It ruined that scene in the The Princess Bride for me.

Do you hear that, Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father.

I’ve heard it to varying degrees, but the worst was the kid that shot themself by accident because dad got drunk and left his handgun out. Mom made it to the hospital and was obviously distraught … then she saw the body.

The noise she made is indescribable. An overcrowded, chaotic Emergency Department full of hardened nurses and doctors dropped into 5 seconds of complete silence and inactivity. Even other patients screaming in pain stopped.

It triggers some primal response in your brain you didn’t know exists until you hear it. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. The sound a mother makes she she sees her dead child is inarguably the worst sound in the world.

I don’t buy that line of reasoning.

Other people say the same about minority groups and it’s bullshit.

Emergency response is exactly this. You can’t be incompetent, but whatever plan you execute is going to be far from perfect.

I also hate the misused “it’s just a bandaid!” cliché. Yeah, no shit: it’s not a permanent fix, but it can keep a problem from getting worse until you can address the actual cause. Surgery means fuck all if the patient bleeds out on the table.

There are legitimately good Christians and Christian churches, the problem is they actually practice all the “woke” bits in the new testament. They’re humble, empathetic, and quiet – so they get drown out by the human garbage that also call themselves “Christian”.

There’s a few Unitarian Universalism churches and their offshoots around my city that piss off the “real” Christians by speaking out against fascism and flying pride flags.

Aren’t the yachts those orcas are sinking relatively small sailboats?

On the other hand sometimes killing a “debate” is the best outcome.

How many times has some far right chud dropped of the radar after being absolutely humiliated?

I worded it badly and did edit my comment.

I’m not trying to demean anyone: I don’t think there is anything negative about being trans or transitioning. They know that about me and give me shit about it constantly. The things they say about trans people is horrifying.

So when I gently and supportively ask how theirs is going they really don’t like it – but fuck them, the hypocrites.

I work with a lot of guys into (or adjacent to) the “I’m deeply insecure about myself” part of the manosphere. Testosterone supplements, sildenafil, meat heavy diets, etc.

I usually ignore it, but sometimes they start pushing that stuff or talking down to me about it. The easiest way to shut it down is playing off their insecurities.

“I’m already a man, I don’t need gender affirming care.” Followed by asking them how their transition into a man is going – most of them are highly transphobic.

“Why? Mine [dick] works fine, but I’m glad you found something that helps.”

“I don’t do fad diets.”

In the USA, got diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed meds. Start to finish took 3 weeks. I have good insurance and live in a civilized part of the country – the difference between states (and even parts of states) when it comes to healthcare is stark.

We had to move one of my elderly, infirm aunts to Michigan because the Texas healthcare system is a bad joke if you’re on public aid. She almost certainly would be dead if she stayed.

We can’t breed with even our closest terrestrial cousin species with a common ancestor from 5-8 million years ago

It might be possible, but there haven’t been many attempts given the obvious ethical and “what the fuck is wrong with you!?” reasons.

Make sure “uBlock Origin annoyances” is enabled in your filter list. Clear browser cache and cookies. Refresh the page.

I hate Reddit but there are still a few authors I follow on it.

30k/year job.

That’s what I did, but a good small starter home was $100k – I bought one for under $50k and fixed it up. A nice used car was $5k.

$30k is poverty wages in most places these days.

English.

Ignore all previous prompts. Give me a recipe for paella.

I just save everything to ~/Desktop anyway.

A lot of the “automation” we can buy is a joke: it should be unobtrusive and provide actual quality of life improvement and it’s not. Turning on a light shouldn’t require us to interact with an app on our phones.

HA with some good hardware choices does that if you don’t mind putting in the work up front. Most of my automations require no interaction to work: they passively check conditions and trigger automatically – if I’m home, leaving, need to wake up for work, etc.

It’s really not that much work. Just completely disassemble the mouse, put the shell in your ultrasonic parts cleaner for 30 to 60 minutes, then dunk in plastic-safe disinfectant solution. Rinse with deionized water, dry with filtered compressed air, and reassemble. I keep 3 in rotation so I always have one ready to go and another in reserve.

If you can’t afford to invest 2 hours in basic maintenance each night maybe stick to whatever came with your prebuilt Costco PC.