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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing weird about it. End of the world seems within our sights. Perfect time to pick up a self-destructive habit, imo 😅

  For real though, i quit a few years back and it’s been such a game-changer. I also chalk the fact that i did something positive and healthy as the reason why we seem to be nearing a potential ‘end-of-world’ scenario. If i just would have continued suckin down those cancer sticks we would likely be in a much better position, globally. Sorry guys 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dang it, know I need new hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More likeImage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's always money in the banana stand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that won’t be enough for the double-tap 😤

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan on his exit from Activision Blizzard: 'It was the biggest f**k you moment I've had in my career'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This really seems to be the direction that any successful venture eventually turns into: a vehicle for rich investors to insert their control and their ideas for the sake of turning out more profit for themselves. It’s never about making a better product or making it more affordable or accessible–it’s never about improving anything if it doesn’t satisfy the demands of someone with money that came along and bought enough stock in the company to take charge of it.

  I have wondered about that in the past, how a small company goes public and picks up funding from a billionaire. Now he sits in his little office running his little company with 2 guys in black suits and sunglasses watching their every move. I just don’t get the warm and fuzzies when i think of capitalism anymore. To succeed puts you in league with some unbelievably ruthless and selfish people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well i didn’t have “Year of the Linux Laptop” on my 2026 bingo card! That’s awesome!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might as well have said “THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go figure the margins are that thin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

  I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds terrible, but i want to see an example. Any chance you can link me to a video that demonstrates this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, we owe the globe a lot these days 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moats are back!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of life is that though. So now you’re stuck in a fancy prison and can’t trust anyone around you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates a no-show at India AI summit, event marred by organisational chaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s one of the “good billionaires” 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  😄🥂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got that dairy air 😍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their inspiration:Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a pair of slip-ons I’ll throw on when i need a quick trip outside

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhhh, not what i was looking for! 🫠 Guess that’s what i get for asking a kaiju for PC components though 😅 I’ll have to remember this for next time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr. Godzilla, i would like one RAM please 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is really it’s purpose, as far as i can see

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, there’s efficiency–just in the wrong place. He efficiently made a 4% bump in Tesla stock value by telling a few lies. That’s all this is, and has been: profiting on hype/fomo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Test Presentation Impreses After Cancellation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words, they’re digging deep in the nostalgia bin to avoid having to create something new

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why aren’t there harsher penalties for behavior like this? They’re given 4 weeks to comply, and then all is fine as long as they stop? Seems like the message they’re sending is “you can track our kids, just be more careful not to get caught next time… If you do, you can at least rest assured that there’s no real punishment”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting! I was under the impression all data centers were causing similar problems, but leave it to the X Man to go the extra mile to really fuck things up. That piece of shit has unlimited money and still pulls shit like this.

  Just to add to what you said, it appears Musk is in violation of EPA standards and they may be doing something about it: techspot.com/…/110971-epa-shuts-down-xai-off-grid…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also read reports that the noise levels and pollution coming out of these things is staggering. Not to mention they appear to be built as quickly as possible with little regard for laws and regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CIRO confirms data breach exposed info on 750,000 Canadian investors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love this whole schtick, “oopsie! We weren’t careful enough with your personal info–here’s a voucher for free protection after the fact, because we failed to provide it to you when it mattered”

  …and that’s it! Business as usual after nearly a million people have their personal info compromised. As long as this is the punishment, it’s simply a business expense at worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “where’s the Tylenol?!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You raise an excellent point, one which i was hoping to find out more about as well. It turns out Tesla has been working hard to keep pretty much any pertinent information to answer your questions firmly under lock and key.

  From this Electrek article electrek.co/…/tesla-robotaxi-had-3-more-crashes-n…

  Unlike other companies reporting to NHTSA, Tesla abuses the right to redact data reported through the system. The automaker redacts the “narrative” for each reported crash, preventing the public from knowing how the crashes happened and who is responsible.

  Based on the limited information in Tesla’s reports, we know that one of the new crashes involved a Robotaxi driving into a car backing up, another involved a cyclist, and the last one involved an unknown animal.

  So he’s basically fudging the numbers and anytime he’s questioned he points at the fudged numbers and says everything’s great, he’s great, now get out of the way while he deploys a fleet of these un-manned deathtraps to “half the US population” according to a properly ultra-super-inflated kind of claim only a douchebag like Leon can make. No, seriously–he actually claimed that by the end of 2025 he’ll have these things serving half the population of the US.

  electrek.co/…/elon-musk-with-straight-face-tesla-…

  🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this part to be even more alarming:

  All of the Robotaxi crashes so far have occurred with human safety monitors—who have been trained to take control of the car in the event of a software error—present in the vehicles.

  This is significant because, as TechCrunch reported on Monday, Tesla is starting to send out its Robotaxi fleet without safety monitors.

  So despite a pitiful record with people trying to correct the cars mistakes, they’re now ready to move on to running them without assistance?!? I am furious at the idea that our safety on the roads is this negotiable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if Susan isn’t being compensated several million dollars a year, what incentive would she have to help cancer patients? 🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looking for the next good browser, that’s all. Just the same as i was willing to ditch reddit for greener pastures, even with the snarky cunts that came along too lol