It’s theocracy that’s barbaric. Republicans would have the US reshaped into a Christian version of Iran’s government with Trump as the Supreme Leader.

The homicide rate can never measure up to a government that oppresses its own people.

TL;DR: Turns out he gave a sheet.

Trump has been extremely hostile to renewable energy and electric vehicles. Now he has intentionally caused a massive shortage of oil, globally.

He’s probably got some investments that will be extremely profitable if the price of oil goes way up. Except I seriously doubt he factored in “economic collapse” and “his own base literally coming for his head because they all drive gas guzzlers” into his plans.

The real problem isn’t investments in AI. It’s that they don’t know WTF they’re doing!

Huge companies are spending millions of dollars on AI services they don’t know how to use and aren’t even aware of cheaper and superior alternatives.

Just buy some AI hardware your damned self already!

GLM-5 was just released and is at something like 95% parity with the latest models from Big AI. That means for merely a few thousand dollars you can get the same damned service for a fraction of the cost. A single Nvidia DGX spark can handle the AI requests for hundreds of employees simultaneously and there’s free, open source tools that automatically distribute requests across a cluster of the things.

Yet here we are: Businesses are so used to the Chicago School of Economics methods that they’d rather spend a million dollars a month on a service than a one-time, mere thousands of dollars cost on hardware they have to run and maintain themselves because “it’s not a core business function.”

Minor point: Only one of these people is actually an expert on AI.

training models requires expensive hardware

Right now. In ten to twenty years this won’t be the case. Also consider the diminishing returns from adding more hardware to the problem of training AI: Despite monopolizing the entire world’s supply of DRAM, AI models are only gaining marginal improvements.

The curve of hardware expense against model capabilities is moving to intersect unless something drastic changes. Big AI needs a huge breakthrough in order to stay ahead of that curve. I don’t see that happening because all the big breakthroughs that are happening now are in regards to efficiency which makes things worse for them and makes training cheaper, faster.

I bet you were blocked from winning. In fact, if you look closely at this conspiracy theory you’ll see that all the pieces line up!

Every journey begins with a single step.

I’ve seen this movie I think.

“Carbon monoxide” is just another phrase police use to hide supernatural events a la “gas leak”.

Ah but we’ll never run out of electricity. We will run out of oil.

Furthermore, adding new electric capacity is easy in comparison to adding more oil infrastructure.

What they do every day:

• Generate 8 social posts across platforms

Ew.

Yeah like… What the hell did we build our embassy out of that a great big explosion outside merely cracked some glass in the doors‽

There’s not even pock marks on the frame!

Sharing the trauma makes things better?

They should do a study about teams that really know each other! The “kiss to make it better” thing might be even more effective.

“My doctors and nurses were being all lovey dovey with each other… They started making out, suddenly! That’s when I noticed the pain had gone away… It was just… Gone! Precious moments between nurses became real relief. They noticed me watching and I told them not to stop!”

I didn’t watch the video but… Why TF did he choose Pop! OS with Cosmic Desktop‽ That’s not something a non-technical user would choose. That’s like… Beta software (Cosmic) running on a Linux distro made and tested for very specific hardware sold by System76.

That’s like trying to put wheels made for a truck on a random sedan. Like, yeah you can do that with a bit of effort but why? It makes no sense.

If you’re going to put a Linux distro on random hardware pick something universal and stable that was made to run on random hardware like Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Especially if you’re new to Linux.

Also, if you’re going to do something ridiculous like this why not just start with Gentoo? Don’t use the GUI installer either! Go the LFS+ route and take care picking your file systems and compile flags 😁

BTW: Out of all the random people I’ve ever known to “try Linux”, the ones who had the best first-time experience all used KDE (Plasma) as their desktop. That means Kubuntu, Bazzite, or SteamOS. For newbies, always go with KDE. Seriously: Its interface for settings and the launcher are familiar enough to both Windows and Mac users that they don’t have a hard time while also being different enough that they don’t make bad assumptions about how things work (which is a problem for Gnome).

Want gas to be cheaper? Get more people to buy electric cars!

That remote is missing the power button and it’s kinda creeping me out.

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A dog can’t withdraw affection strategically.

Oooooh no. No. I’ve adopted many dogs over the course of my life and this is absolutely untrue. Especially of really smart dogs.

Example: If my dog wants me to take her for a walk, and I go to pet her instead, she’ll pull away and grunt, then literally punch the closet with the safety vest inside. She knows that I always put on the vest before we go for a walk and knew exactly how to communicate what she wanted, haha.

Another: On pizza night, I go get a hot bag (everyone should have one!) from the garage and then leave to go get the pizza. Not only does she know what day of the week this happens, she knows the relative time. She will bark at me to get my attention and then lead me to the bag!

“I guess it’s time to go get the pizza.”

Furthermore, she will not try to get out when I take the bag to the front door like she often does. If I’m holding the bag, she will stand far back from the door and if don’t move fast enough she’ll try to shoo me out!

She will not be passing up free pizza crust, thank you! Move your ass, human!

Here she is, the other day, lying directly on my chest, slowly inching her face closer and closer to me, indicating it’s time to get up:

How lazy are they that they think it’sn’t already taxing enough‽

Not even X rated‽ I guess only boring people buy such things.

“Hot librarian” must be having a downturn.

I mean, if you bought the glasses at least put on a show for your watchers from time to time! The employees at Meta should also be required to give each hour a ⭐ rating.