bitteroldcoot

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yup! I have to say that my country has been a decades long disappointment to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it looks like Israel is paying them to do this. So yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On a more practical level, why????

  It takes an enormous amount of ultra pure water to make a micro chip. There is a worsening water shortage in that area. This is the worse place to do this.

  Also if you built it in the eu, you have easy access to a huge market and ready customers. Also the Middle East is constantly immersed in war. If Iran wants to really hurt Israel just start blowing up Nvidia.

  On a purely practical level, this is really stupid. So the only explanations are politics, or they are being paid to do this. As to whom engineered this I have no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It does a hell of a lot worse things than that. try asking it about some of the things trump is doing. Both google gemini and chatgpt have added signifiant political correctness filters.

  I’ve been testing the different ai models for a while. they are absolutely terrified of offending trump and maga. They generate pages of gaslighting crap rather than give a straight answer.

  And that is on top of their inherit inability to give an accurate answer. I asked about medicare IRMAA income brackets, and it just made numbers up. Luckily I knew the answer before I asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you didn’t even look at the link I provided?

  It lets you select the warhead size and whether it is an air burst or ground burst. Also since the Cold War ended, most countries, except china, have opted for smaller warheads and better precision. Most rogue states can only manage a fission bomb not a fusion devices, the same goes for India and Pakistan. And a fission device is what is used as a tactical nuke by the major powers. It is what Russia is threatening Ukraine with.

  So the most likely device to go off now, is about the same yield of one of the original ones used on Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggest playing around with this.
  https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
  it’s a nuclear weapons detonation simulator.

  You need to understand that it’s profitable for the media to overly dramatize what nukes can do. Modern media profits from fear. In reality the destruction is very localized. Think of an area you are knowledgeable. Does the media portray anything you do correctly? As long as you are not in major target city or military base you will be fine. I had a 20 minute commute to the base I worked on. Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked. It wouldn’t even break the windows.

  FYI: I use to work for the army, I was on the peripheral of their prep for nuclear war. When you actually dig into the effects, it just a big boom. Meanwhile you have trucks and rail cars full of toxic material and poisonous gas driving through your town every day and for the most part nothing ever happens.