Dogiedog64
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- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 1 day ago:
Come on now, people can’t actually be humoring this fever dream, can they? It’s just so fucking stupid…
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 day ago:
Real talk, check your shit for bed bugs. THEY WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE IF NOT DEALT WITH.
- Comment on 30 years after cliffhanger vote, Quebec separatists voice hope for independence 2 days ago:
Fucking dumbfucks. If they actually went independent and seceded, Quebec would collapse immediately. Their economy and social structures simply aren’t built to be self-sustaining.
- Comment on a sight to behold 1 week ago:
Holy shit lmfao.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Some real 5D chess plays from the big MS these days lmfao. I’ll stick with Linux, thanks.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 weeks ago:
Cheaper to buy a new one than more ink. Fucking extortionate.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
If all of that were the case… why aren’t they ALREADY profitable? There are only 2 companies in the actual LLM/AI space, OpenAI and Anthropic, and OpenAI is already so dominant that Anthropic is a noncontender. Since that is the case, why aren’t either of them profitable? If they were, they’d be screaming about it constantly; Altman would be on stage every single goddamn day boasting about it; OpenAI would be posting monthly, if not WEEKLY profit reports, just to show how much money they were making as “”“The Future™️”“”; public investors would be POURING IN like nothing else mattered!!!
So where is it? Where’s the profit? Where are the reports and press conferences, the investor statements and the IPO’s? Where’s the goddamn money, Lebowski???
And don’t say they’re in the “growth stage” or whatever. 4 years in and a TRILLION DOLLARS LATER, there’s no profit to be seen, no remarkable products to use, nothing of substance except billions burned building bespoke data centers and polluting the planet. The whole AI “”“industry”“” is a lie.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Hard to do that when there’s no profit NOW.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 3 weeks ago:
There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that’s including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 3 weeks ago:
Just read the sections on Sociopaths and Psychopaths. They describe your average marketing department.
- Comment on welp 3 weeks ago:
The main difference between Science and fucking around is that Science has you write things down. So long as you record everything you did, even if it ended up with wildly unexpected results, it’s valid.
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
Upon investigation, the source of this image is an AI slop account smh.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 5 weeks ago:
He once sucked 49 dicks in a night at a sex party.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 5 weeks ago:
Yes it does, and Grant O’Brien is a STRONG contender for that title.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's depressing, man 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three 5 weeks ago:
So this article does raise some good points - mainly that there are in fact 3 distinct bubbles here with LLMs. However, it handwaves 2 of them as being “irrelevant” for any company that just “”“acts smart”“” and “”“navigates things properly”“”. While it correctly points out that absolutely ABSURD amounts of money are being spent ($7 TRILLION race is the term they use), it compares the AI hypetrain and infrastructure buildouts to the Dot Com Bubble, Amazon, and PayPal, without making the critical connection of “Amazon and PayPal were focused on solving a single problem and spent magnitudes less money to solve it; what the fuck have these LLMs actually DONE??? Where has the fucking money gone???”
Overall, I rate this article a 3/10. It’s pure AI-copium disguised as economic analysis. I recommend many of the pieces by Ed Zitron instead.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Justified crashout TBH, Boomers tend to be insufferable.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 month ago:
Hey man, I appreciate it. I’m currently living with my folks right now, so I’m not struggling or stressed much, but even they can see the writing on the wall. We’re in Hell, and it’s not getting better anytime soon, so they’re very supportive of me trying things to become more employable. As for things improving soon, I don’t see that happening without a massive twist of fate, since modern politicians and techbros seem dead set on burning everything down for short term profits. Gonna do my best to face each day as it comes, though.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 month ago:
I graduated with a bachelor’s in Economics, because I found it interesting. Nobody told me that even entry-level roles in that field required a master’s or better. After 2 years of working in Craft Beer, and a year unemployed looking to continue that, I’m now going back for a bachelor’s in Fermentation Science, because that’s a field AI slop will never be able to “”“disrupt”“”.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 month ago:
I’ve been unemployed for over a year, with several years previous experience doing delivery and warehouse/logistical work. These are fields that are constantly in demand, because that’s just how America’s economy is structured. I have sent out so many applications that I have lost count, and I’ve never gotten past the second round of interviews. Whether I use LLMs to cater my resume or not, it doesn’t matter. I’ve talked with multiple recruiters and career counselors, at the advice of parents, friends, and associates, to try and better structure my resume, and they’ve all come back and told me that it’s a “very strong document”, and that there was little to improve on with it. The notion of “just dust off your resume and apply to a bunch of places” has finally, truly failed, and the title of this article is 1000000% correct, because there’s no logical or rational way that the job market could be so supposedly full of opportunities, yet so impossiblly hard to break into, even with years, or even decades of experience.
WE ARE IN HELL.
Now I’m back at University, getting a second degree in a field I’m legitimately interested in, and all anyone around me can think to say is “It’s great that you’re trying so hard to get a degree in a field you’re interested in!.. but what are the job prospects of that field? Have you talked to a career counselor about it? Are you sure you want to do this?” because the market is so fucked beyond belief that nobody can even think of pursuing a passion professionally anymore. We are in Hell. We are in Hell, and have been for years, and we won’t be leaving anytime soon, to the detriment of all.
We are in Hell.
- Comment on uber eats 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Don't worry about the job market on Earth, Gen Z: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say you’ll be working in space soon 1 month ago:
Oh yeah? We’re gonna be working in space? Mining asteroids and exoplanets for multiplanetary megacorps? Yeah?
Fucking prove it then.
Just because some Techbro CEO has a wet dream about it doesn’t mean it’ll happen. They’re talking a lot of shit for their $0 in space tech investment.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 1 month ago:
Slices, because they’re a part of the pie.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 months ago:
When it’s stripped down to its bare essentials, yeah. They’re a cult founded on internalized hatred and externalized rage; if there’s no external target for that rage, it turns inward, and the whole thing self-destructs.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 2 months ago:
Fascism, as an ideology, is utterly fascinating to look at sometimes. It strikes so many wildly different mental chords that you can get lost trying to understand the minds of its believers and followers without even trying to, all while just drinking your morning coffee.
At what point are the right happy?
To answer this, it is utterly critical to mention that Fascism, as an ideology, is fundamentally predicated upon the idea that the Fascist “In-Group” is better than whatever “Out-Group” they are focused on at any given moment (Jewish people, LGBT+, Black people, Mexicans, etc.). To that end, they will stop at NOTHING to crush, oppress, exterminate, and ultimately obliterate that Out-Group completely, all the while screaming to their fellows and to anyone that will listen that the Out-Group is simultaneously infinitely weak and easy to crush, as well as insurmountably strong and impossible to resist. This contradiction allows them to drive themselves into a frenzy, by pissing each other off, as well as draw in new recruits who hear about the Out-Group as “weak” and decide they want to get in on it. Meanwhile, anyone who thinks deeper about this contradiction more easily writes off their movement as sloppy, reactionary, and ultimately harmless, since they clearly don’t know anything, letting them amass real public support under the radar for DECADES; we’ve seen this in America, with Fox News doing tons of heavy lifting for almost 50 years now in the Fascist PR department. It WORKS.
Once the In and Out-Groups are established, and public support starts to amass, the Fascists move to take public office, often starting in smaller, local elections that nobody runs for, elections that they can get a bunch of their buddies in the In-Group to vote for. Once they achieve public office, they try to continue ascending the public ranks to further their group’s political legitimacy, often forming alliances and coalitions with other right-wing and conservative groups to garner additional support in the legislature. For a historical example, the actual Nazis did this in Weimar Germany, starting as a fringe group in local elections, slowly climbing the ranks and gathering support, and ultimately working with other conservatives to seize power. Once sufficiently embedded in the system, they start purging members who aren’t sufficiently zealous and loyal to the In-Group, now a Political Party, and continue raging about the Out-Group, but on a state-side, or even national scale.
At this point, several things can happen. If there isn’t strong enough leadership in the party, it can splinter into a bunch of factions that hate each other, but still work together because they hate the Out-Group more. If there IS strong leadership in the Party, then they tend to make a mad grab for power, and consolidate it as much as they can. We saw this with Jan 6, Germany saw it with The Night of The Long Knives. Should this fail, the whole Party may very well self-destruct from infighting.
Now, you may ask, “what does any of this have to do with my question???” Remember, the entire time they’ve been climbing the political ladder, they’ve been raging at the Out-Group constantly, whipping themselves ever higher into a frenzy, garnering more and more support as they gather legitimacy in local elections. And now that they’ve made their mad grab for power, should it succeed, they can actually ACT on all their rhetoric that more rational, level-headed people wrote off at the beginning.
It starts with outright oppression, the boot of the state on the neck of the masses, usually focused on the Out-Group, but everyone feels it. Then it escalates, usually into mass-confinement and deportation of the Out-Group, while the oppression on everyone else gets worse. But as the rhetoric never ends, so too must the escalation; Extermination. Once the suffering and deportation of the Out-Group isn’t enough, always they turn to extermination. And once the Out-Group is gone…
Well, they’ll just find a new one. And another. And another. Over and over, until there’s only one group left, after all the purging and expulsion and deportation and death - the In-Group. But they won’t stop there. No, they keep going, denoting various internal factions as the Out-Group, targets to purge and exterminate. Constantly, accelerating as the numbers get smaller, until the whole Party explodes.
So. To answer your question, the Right will NEVER be happy, no matter how hard or how many Out-Group members they purge and exterminate. Because Fascism doesn’t have an endpoint where the In-Group “”“wins”“”. The entire ideology is fundamentally predicated on that singular idea, that the In-Group is better than the Out-Group, and the Out-Group MUST be destroyed, no matter what, and any questioning of that directive brands you a traitor to the Party and a member of the Out-Group. They’ll continue down that road, purging and screaming and oppressing and exterminating until the only thing left is a room of Party leader corpses full of bullets from each other’s guns. Or until they’re stopped. Whichever comes first.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 2 months ago:
I was on board with this article until they described all the power fantasies that techbros were having as facts. AI isn’t going to kill us because it grows sentient and “gets ahold of nuclear codes”; AI will kill us through sheer, painful, ecological collapse as Techbros seek to scale their models ever larger with more datacenters. Either that, or the economy collapses first, killing the tech (and likely the Techbros), and leaving us to ecological collapse anyways because of 200 years of industrial ratfuckery on a planetary scale.
AI won’t kill us because it’s smart, it’ll kill us because it’s so, SO dumb.
- Comment on Routine - Official Release Window Trailer | gamescom 2025 2 months ago:
I love the 1980’s cassette-futurism aesthetic they got going on, and the very impressive fluid dynamics/light processing tech. Considering this game has been in the works for 12+ years, I bet it’ll be an exceptional horror game!
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 months ago:
In no small part because they see it as a time-limited gateway to permanent, infinite profits through market consolidation, job cutting, and government contracts. After all, if they get there FIRST, it’s all theirs, and the infinite profits then will make up for all the money spent now. Never mind the fact that in doing so they’ll destroy the environment, the economy, and the world long before they can actually SPEND those profits on anything.
