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- Comment on xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 9 hours ago:
If penguins are still dinosaurs, then earth is still solely inhabited by single cell organisms and we’re clearly not.
- Comment on We've grown fat with information, but are starving for wisdom... 10 hours ago:
Eh, I disagree on both parts.
Lots of information out there, but it’s the equivalent of a Forrest full of virtually identical berries, 90% of which are poisonous.
And people are broke as fuck these days, you need wisdom to survive like that, and you earn it the hard way.
It’s just that when they have to devote so much energy to meeting their base needs, they can’t be assed to think about more abstract things.
Which is why the wealthy are never happy unless everyone else has nothing. When we’re comfortable enough to think ahead, we start asking why there’s any oligarchs to begin with. And their propaganda pitting us against each other isn’t as effective.
People are wise, you’re just judging fish by how well they can climb trees
- Comment on Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video 1 day ago:
If you’re only complaint was people just read headlines…
That’s literally why headlines were invented.
But I think in this specific case, it makes sense that people who could tell it’s bullshit just from the title commented without watching it.
That’s a very human thing and has always happened. If you think it’s new you just never noticed it.
- Comment on Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video 1 day ago:
The best way I’ve been able to explain it:
Whatever country behind it all that holds all the blackmail, is likely the country that no other country ever openly criticizes or ever holds accountable for anything.
And that’s not Russia, people shit talk Russia and sanction important high ranking members of their government all the time.
In comparison, Israel acts and is treated exactly like a country that has blackmail on everyone else
And they have a very clear motive to put the blame on Russia.
To me, that’s a valid enough reason for why so many people find the idea that Russia orchestrated it all ridiculous.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 2 days ago:
It’s a big cliche and doesn’t work anywhere else…
But in Hawaii you can literally do anything you want on the road, as long as you throw up a shaka after.
- Comment on Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun 3 days ago:
No, hes merging them as some convoluted grift to make money somehow.
Which if we’d have had anything resembling a ratio ale go went in the last decade would have wiped all his government contracts.
At this point we need to just seize all his shit.
Fuck him, what’s he going to do about it with no money?
There’s the fun part about oligarchs, all it takes is everyone deciding they don’t get to keep their money, and they don’t get to keep it. Easiest thing in the world these days when it’s digital.
- Comment on The Epstein affair will probably make a great movie one day, but it can't be made until enough of the producers in Hollywood that have connections to people in the story have retired or died. 4 days ago:
Not because Hollywood is full of rapists tho…
More likely because talking about Epstein’s connections to Mossad lead to people (even Tucker Carlson) being killed shortly after.
newsweek.com/jeffrey-epstein-mossad-tucker-carlso…
Like, everyone wants to act like the endgame was just raping kids, but they didn’t need an international ring for that. The ring existed to gather blackmail on the rich and powerful, and that black mail was/is being used to ensure the people responsible don’t get held accountable by any country.
The same reason we won’t hear the real story, is the same reason at the end of the day most countries do whatever Netenyahu asks of them.
That’s how blackmail works, you get them for a “small” thing, but every time they do something so you won’t release it, that gets added to the list of blackmail material. So be ause the pile of blackmail material keeps growing, you get the mark to agree to worse things.
The shit that happened on Epstein’s island was horrible, but if we ever find out what people agreed to do to keep it quiet it’ll be French revolution vibes.
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 4 days ago:
Why do you think they targeted him?
Before Epstein the ring was run by Maxwell’s dad for the Israeli government, Epstein just inherited it.
There’s a reason Israel is the country everyone turns to for surveillance, they’re blackmailing the people making the tech.
Like, it’s easy to get hung up on the raping of children, but the real sick shit is what they were blackmailing them to do so the evidence wouldn’t get released. What do you think these people wouldn’t agree to just to keep the lid on what’s in the files?
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 6 days ago:
I mean, pullups and running are very different…
Running you just need anything warm, nothing else matters. Pullups (outside in the winter?) you can’t sacrifice grip and should go with something like Mechanix gloves. Just enough to get a layer between you and the bar.
So really, the solution is two items.
If you really want one single solution, military surplus FROG gloves.
They won’t be as warm as mittens when running, but you’ll be able to easily get your sleeves over them to seal up and trap air. And they’re designed to deal with wet/cold as well as the fire resistance they’re named after.
But still won’t have the straight grip as Mechanix gloves, or the warmth of bulky gloves/mittens that would be useless for pullups.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
It’s wild that the first generation to do LSD in mass
I want to say hippies were less than 1% of that generation, but for some reason I think it was recorded as 2-3% which would be a gross over-estimate.
But for every hippie you think of sticking daisies in rifles, there was 100 spitting on Black kids for going to the school they were legally required to go to.
It would be like if in 2080 they think we’re all catboys with blue hair and 37 facial piercings.
Sure, those people exist as a fringe demographic, but they’re not the norm.
Bmost hippies had more issues with peers their own age than their parents age, that part of the folk tale gets left out tho, because the people who want us to think they were hippies and “grew out of it” were the ones beating hippies for being different.
All they were ever trying to do was lie to younger generations in the hopes they’d confirm to decades old social norms. Like, it’s weird how many people still don’t understand the boomers just lie about shit instinctively. They grew up in a world filled with lead and are literally incapable of caring about logical inconsistenciez. They want you get generations to think they were cool, so they just fucking lied about what they were like as a generation.
If you ever run into a real deal old hippie some day, ask them what the majority of people their age was like back then.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
2k is 1440p.
720 doubles to 1080.
1080 doubles to 1140
1140 double to 4k.
Companies all skipped 2k for the most part because all consumers cared about was resolution. That’s why the jump to 4k took so fucking long, for the most part we skipped an entire resolution generation. So even with 4k, all the other stuff wasn’t caught up.
Pretty much the same thing happened with 4g, the telecom corps agreed on a set of requirements to say they’d reached a new generation, but the numbers needed to go up before the tech was ready, so they all agreed to just claim 4g arrived, that’s why there was so many different flavors of 4g.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
People really need to understand a lot of what “smart” TVs do is upscale the “4k” signal to something actually resembling real 4k.
Like how some 4k torrents are 3GB, and then a 1080p of the same movie is 20gb.
It’s “worse” resolution, but it looks miles better because it’s upscaling real 1080 to 4k instead of taking existing shitty 4k and trying to make it look better without just juicing the resolution.
So we don’t need 8k.content for 8k.tvs to be an incentive. We need real 4k media, then 8ks TV would show a real improvement.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 6 days ago:
Boomers economic policy is like if Issac Newton saw an apple falling from a tree, and came to the conclusion it would always accelerate at the same speed no matter what, even though the ground with the entire ass planet behind it is right fucking there.
Numbers can not constantly go up, it’s just that’s what was happening their whole lives and they can’t accept that their childhoods was a blip and not how things always were and always will be.
They just can’t wrap their heads around it. They have such shit tier empathy they can’t comprehend that they’re an exception.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 6 days ago:
Everyone’s different.
The Humane Society is a great place to start, but you can also just be cognizant of your surroundings and put effort into helping people when they seem to need it. You don’t need to change anything else, just “be a helper”.
- Comment on What if the Epstein files are the distraction? 1 week ago:
They get to that level of wealth and power by a compulsive need to one-up each other…
Which means they’re gonna do horrible shit just to be the one who’s done the worst shit.
Let that cycle spin for a couple decades, and shit gets ugly
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 1 week ago:
The vast majority of people are wired to get a dopamine boost from helping others.
Doesn’t matter how you do it, can be as inconsequential as noob sitting in a video game, or real world productive like volunteering at a soup kitchen.
But it’ll help.
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 1 week ago:
Yes…
Advertisers want you to pay attention to ads…
Unless OP is a corporation trying to get people to buy things, I don’t see the connection besides the word “attention”.
But I don’t think I’m gonna be able to help you understand that if that didn’t work
- Comment on We say things like "time is money" but really the most valuable thing you have (and which everyone covets) is your attention. 1 week ago:
And it’s attention that we crave
You.
You crave attention, lots of people don’t
You shouldn’t assume everyone else thinks like you and is built like you, it’s never true and a sign of low empathy
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 1 week ago:
Isn’t this all just propaganda anyway to tank the value after the change?
What?!
Larry Ellison bought it last week, bad things you’re hearing isn’t “propaganda”…
It’s people who know what is happening, or even just who Larry Ellison is
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
Sony charges a monthly fee to play online…
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 week ago:
It’s really getting to the point Gabe needs to cash out and turn Steam into a non-profit…
I trust him while he’s alive, but some day he’ll die, and who knows what will happen to Steam.
We could wake up one morning and find out there’s a $10 monthly fee to access Steam’s “services” including every game you ever purchased.
We can’t just cost on the hopes nothing changes forever.
- Comment on Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores 1 week ago:
Did they ever get it to be actual AI?
Last time I heard about it they were just paying very low wages to people in India to watch everyone on webcams or something stupid
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 1 week ago:
Ease of use, manages updates and just keeps it all together.
My first PC games you had to exit windows and load the game thru DOS, it meant we learned how computers actually worked, but it was a hassle.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 1 week ago:
Not really…
The reason it will domino is AI companies can’t afford the hardware, so Nvidia “invests” in AI companies and trades hardware for shares.
They have like 100 billion just in OpenAI, which they’re leveraging into loans to make more of the chips no one can afford.
If openai goes down, the banks call in the loans Nvidia has openai for collateral. So then Nvidia will have to sell all their other shares of other AI companies to cover the loans, and likely will have to drastically cut production of AI chips, driving the cost up.
Now all those other AI companies that Nvidia just sold, can’t afford the higher price, because they couldn’t afford a subsidized price along with shares.
As those companies fold, it makes even less people who would even want to buy those AI chips at any prices, driving Nvidia further down and maybe all the way to bankrupt
That’s when it starts fucking with index funds and the wider market
But all those shadow banks won’t really get hit. They’re not holding stocks to make money, they’re buried treasure chests filled with liquid assets in case of emergency. The only way they’d be hit is if the currency they’re held in collapses. Even then, that method almost always includes safety deposit boxes with precious metals/jewels to account for that
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 1 week ago:
You’ll know because when it dies it’s going to cause a huge market crash and take a shit ton of other companies with it…
- Comment on Does TikTok's new Terms of Service track race, gender identity, and immigration status? 1 week ago:
Huh?
Assuming that’s true it wouldn’t mean “no”, it would mean:
They do, but they used to too
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 1 week ago:
There’s two types:
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Mental addiction
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Physical addiction
For #2 it’s pretty clear cut: they get the shakes between 12-48 hrs without drinking
For #1 there’s a lot of grey area, but basically someone who becomes agitated when they can’t drink on their normal schedule or won’t do certain activities if they can’t also drink.
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- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 2 weeks ago:
Things in atmosphere can color the light, but most likely they’re thinking about incandescent lighting on TV and at night.
- Comment on It's not a bubble! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 2 weeks ago:
Well nVidia just sells the hardware to the AI companies, so even if the bubble pops, they won’t go bankrupt.
Except all those companies are in an investor circle jerk with each other…
If AI bursts it doesn’t just hurt nvidia’s sales of products used by AI.
Nvidia has over $100 billion invested in OpenAI:
www.cnbc.com/…/nvidias-investment-portfolio.html
And even more billions invested in other AI companies. Because the AI companies can’t afford to buy what Nvidia is selling at the price.
This means Nvidia “owns” a bunch of those AI companies, and can take loans out on the valuation…
If AI goes bankrupt, all those investments are worthless, which means banks call in the loans that used it as collateral. It could easily wipe out Nvidia.
It’s not just one surface level thing, even tho that’s all you seem to have thought of. You’re worried about a couple hundred million in sales like it’s not sitting next to 100 billion dollar loan.
Like bro, come on man…