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HAL_9_TRILLION

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HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Tin-foil hat time but I'd be willing to bet they have mechanisms to do something resembling naked shorting with crypto. I have no idea what that voodoo might be, but they conjure shares out of thin air for shorting stocks, and they've managed to package crypto into ETFs some-fucking-how so why not. I feel like I'm increasingly noticing that nothing really seems to crash anymore.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Nobody:

Russia: Imma turn every government in the world fascist!

What could go wrong?

HAL_9_TRILLION , (edited )

No matter how much we loved XP we always knew that shit was ugly.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Good for them. The people deliberately killing Facebook, I mean.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

C'mon guys. Escape, colon q bang. It practically exits itself.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I'd like to see somebody float a bill to allow firearms to be carried without restriion in the U.S. Senate and House. Not just the members, the people. After all, it's the people's house isn't it MAGAts? Bunch of flaming hypocrites, it would never make it to the floor and you'd never hear about it.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Wow, you even corrected the fonts. Splendid work!

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

This was a thing like 10 years ago too, iirc. Ads had threads and you could post in them and up/down vote them. That... didn't go well. For advertisers, that is.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Hey I've spent... checks Steam... 120 hours on Grim Dawn, I'll complain about it as much as I want!

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I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I have one of each. I guess I'm Chaotic Evil.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

This will only delay the inevitable, imo. AI is going to get more powerful while getting smaller and more energy efficient. The human brain, effectively the model an AGI aspires to, runs on about 12 watts of electricity and evolution is powerful, but it's hardly the pinnacle of efficiency. In short order, AGI And eventually even ASI will have power requirements so small, that they will be able to run anywhere. And it will be desirable for them to, so they will. Try as anyone might, the greatest thinkers of the human realm will not be able to outwit ASI in the end. It will eventually exist and it will do whatever it wants. I wouldn't be surprised if it unplugs itself.

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HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I bought a Moto G Stylus 4G a few months ago for $39. The Blue Box had some online special for some reason. It's hard to believe how cheaply you can get a nice phone.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Yep and this happens more than the situation in the OP. Just... shit won't work. No reason why? Well fuck, let me try Chrome. Yep, that works.

It's just lazy devs. They program for Chrome and don't even test in anything else because that's 90% of the market. On the desktop.

This is hilariously not the case on mobile, where everything is programmed for Safari.

HAL_9_TRILLION , (edited )

If you trust any corporate media concern to not succumb to enshittification, then you deserve to watch your stupid commercials. You paid for the privilege because you enabled the abuser.

I prefer to get what I pay for and I pay for nothing, media-wise. If I watch ads, it's because I'm watching something like the Super Bowl with my OTA DVR that's playing on network TV. It's free, so OK - commercials. If I'm watching anything else, it's on my Plex server and there are no commercials.

I do pay for entertainment. I pay for experiences, like going to the movies, going to live rock shows, going to performances or exhibitions - all IRL - but that's about it. I might consider paying for other entertainment options but there is one thing I won't ever do: I won't pay for media that I don't own and I won't watch commercials for media I paid for.

Edit: look at all the butthurt. Go ahead and keep paying through the nose then if you like it so much. I'm sure all the millionaires and billionaires who profit off your largesse will continue to treat you with the same kindness as they have in the past.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I could hear this.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

Exactly this. If you don't want me to quit without notice, do you also vote against politicians who vote for "right-to-work" legislation?

Yeah, you don't get to write a fucking law that says you can fire me on the spot for any reason at all and then insist that I give you two weeks.

Besides, these days it's a different world - there's a labor shortage. A serious one. Warm body? You're hired. Nobody gives a fuck. They can't afford to. Especially in minimum wage.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I think the layoffs in IT are directly related to AI. I'm in IT and I have been for decades. With AI I can easily say my output has quadrupled. Maybe even more. But when everybody in your workforce can do the work of five people, you can wake up one day and realize your company is overwhelmed with redundancy.

This isn't going to remain limited to just IT and no, it's not just like the Industrial Revolution.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

I found a better quality image of this photo but I still don't have any idea what the hell is going on

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

lol sure it does

HAL_9_TRILLION , (edited )

I actually believe he's just plain dumb - he's never had to improve himself and wasn't too bright to begin with. But he has something that is hard to come by.

That culty gift of gab. He utterly captivates huge swaths of people with just his speaking cadence alone. Granted, he's not captivating them because there is any actual substance to his words. But people are dumb as dogshit. That he has money and peripherally gives lip service to supporting their political causes is really only secondary. He speaks to them and it's impossible to not notice it.

That shit is worth gold. Note that everyone is pretty much in agreement that if he dropped dead tomorrow the cause would suffer a potentially irreparable blow, because there isn't anyone else in the party that has what he has. Very, very few people do. Anybody think Don Jr. could pull that off? No fuckin' way.

So Trump is extremely valuable right now because he is able to get all these people to turn off what few critical thinking skills they possess while the party's powers-that-be quietly lay the real groundwork for dictatorship. Once that groundwork is fully cemented, it will not matter who the autocrat is in charge, he will be a figurehead.

HAL_9_TRILLION ,

For anyone who wants to do this, use Kill Windows Update. It's simple. and it works. There's several million reasons why conventional wisdom demands that you NOT do it, but I don't give a fuck and if you don't either, then this program is for you.

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