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- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 2 days ago:
Yes, you did. Meh.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 days ago:
Right, that meant “be slightly better than Microsoft”. They never tried to “do no evil”, no sirree, that’s far too difficult.
- Comment on China reaches energy independence milestone by ‘breeding’ uranium from thorium 1 week ago:
Nuclear power isn’t clean, stupid headline. Did we learn nothing from Fukushima or Three Mile or Monju? … Bonus points if you heard of Monju, which is on point because it, too, was a breeder reactor.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
Not really comparable, maybe. This is more scam and less substance… There is no definition of “AI”, is there? If you bring up the fundamental problems with genAI, they just pivot to expert systems. Classic scam artistry. They know they’re selling hot air, promising digital workers that are already complete failures.
Of course computers will continue to be used in various ways … Just like we’ve seen since 1951, right?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
Oh, I think it’s a wonderful plan for the startup. They don’t own space, they don’t have any control over space, they’re selling something that they know they can’t possibly deliver because they would have to get people to agree that they’re allowed to steal sunlight and space, and that would never happen. It’s great for them. They can get some cash.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 weeks ago:
Or maybe this bubble is no different from past tech improvements: mostly small changes over time, occasional big steps, certainly not linear or predictable. In other words, even if most of what you wrote is true, the bubble itself is still a complete failure.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 weeks ago:
Prove it.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats 2 weeks ago:
No, no. It was “Don’t be evil.” A much lower standard, because it allows and encourages occasional evil acts. That meant being slightly less evil than M$.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 2 weeks ago:
They find it entertaining. Sad, maybe, because OP didn’t bother to use their brain for a few seconds.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh I think eventually will arrive fairly soon.
- Comment on JD, you dog. 2 weeks ago:
“Better the couch than me.”
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
Have you looked up sexual assault or rape rates in your community or country? It is definitely a high enough number to scare a normal person. Probably many of those crimes are repeat offenders, but that doesn’t help the victims.
There’s another question that I don’t think you can answer. How often do women close to you talk about this subject? And if they never have, then maybe there’s a good reason for it. Because we can find the above data and we know that people around us have gone through some horrible stuff.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure who’s she targeting because I know a lot of guys who would love to have birth control pills.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
I disagree, because most of them won’t give us boxes to permanently hide it or disable it… They deny choice because they know that most of us would turn it off. They are selling snake oil and know it.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 weeks ago:
OpenStreetMap for the win, my peoples.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 3 weeks ago:
It’s really interesting that I agree with you, but so many people insist that they’re new and fancy tools are somehow making their lives significantly better. And obviously it’s an opinion question, it’s not like they’re lying, but I just don’t see the value that many of them do.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 3 weeks ago:
Guess that means we should tax them more, right? They said they’d be good for the economy, got those tax breaks, and now they’re cutting jobs. Screw 'em.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 3 weeks ago:
The almost equivalent claim is that going to work sucks. This second claim is perhaps more instructive.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
Right, and we should protect them by passing laws penalizing companies from such shitty software. Cuz the average person can’t access the source code.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 3 weeks ago:
Might wanna get that return shipment prepped, my insomniac friends out there.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 3 weeks ago:
Of course a massive stock market collapse would affect regular non-investing Americans. When companies go out of business, when inflation kicks into high gear, that affects entire communities.
But exactly how, that’s the question. If you know the answer to how, then you can easily prepare for it. Still, pretending that it won’t hurt you because you’re poor seems to be at odds with the past.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 3 weeks ago:
I would say Japan never recovered. The yen is weak, the cost of living is skyrocketing, and Japanese people have said in large-scale national polls that they struggle more to make ends meet than they ever have. Also, the rich are getting richer, and there are far fewer permanent jobs than there were two decades ago.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 3 weeks ago:
Here, OP is asking about their situation even if they have almost no investments. In other words, they’re asking about the downturn on the national and global economy, and how that could make their life bad. Since it obviously can (through, for example, job loss or difficulty obtaining groceries), then some amount of preparation might be reasonable.
Another good question is what to do if you have medium-size investments and you don’t want to see them tank. That’s what you are talking about.
“That was never real money anyway.” Rich people sometimes say that, but everyone else knows you’re wrong. We save a percent of our paycheck every month to make sure we have money for retirement. We all wish we had guaranteed benefits, but that system was scrapped by greedy rich assholes decades ago, so now we are gambling that our savings will increase, because if they don’t, we’ll be working until the day we die… So if we feel like that money is real, maybe we’re right.
And if you feel like the money isn’t real, can you give it to us? Couldn’t hurt, after all, because it’s all fake.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 4 weeks ago:
Nobody cares what the UK thinks. The company has no presence over there. Down with the British. :-)
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 weeks ago:
Unclear if this would impact any app store that has no Texas or U.S. presence. Is Texas planning on blocking websites? It would be entertaining to see.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 5 weeks ago:
That’s basically untrue. If a building is rotten and full of mold, then it might have to be torn down before anything new could be created. Then it might have negative value, but the property itself could still have a lot of value.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 5 weeks ago:
So it sounds like your insurance company is trying to game the system. This isn’t necessarily a problem with insurance as a concept, it’s just something that happens because private companies are greedy m************.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 5 weeks ago:
So look. That’s like asking why people are not Libertarians. A name is just a name. Everyone knows this. Actions matter a lot more.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 5 weeks ago:
All of the examples are commercial products. The author doesn’t know or doesn’t realize that this is a capitalist problem. Of course, there is bloat in some open source projects. But nothing like what is described in those examples.
And I don’t think you can avoid that if you’re a capitalist. You make money by adding features that maybe nobody wants. And you need to keep doing something new. Maintenance doesn’t make you any money.
So this looks like AI plus capitalism.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 5 weeks ago:
The job market in the US? Trump explains that.