Tar_Alcaran

Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.

I broke a Ford windscreen once. Insurance paid 1100 euros to replace it. Without insurance you can bet it would have been a non-heated windscreen for a few hundred.

With Tesla, you can turn a $2,442 windshield installation into a $3,174 windshield installation through the power of interest.

Ok but 2442 is already insane. Yes it’s heated, yes there’s a rain sensor, plenty of cars have that, and their windshields cost half as much.

I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

Oh no, people are being prioritized over profits!

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It’s even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it’s removable. It’s kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that’s also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

“AI”, referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

For example, [Hungary has] dropped to 26th place among EU members in terms of anti-corruption controls and to the last, 27th place in terms of the quality of regulation.

That’s out of 27, just to be clear

Yeah ok, if you want good shoes, it gets expensive fast.

But if you know where to find cheap larp gear, please let me know.

Cheap? Mytholon. Cheap and good? Sorry, not really. I mean, Mytholon has great fabrics, but they’re not exactly sewn straight or neatly.

But a thousand bucks will get you there easily, depending on admission cost and food of course.

Edit: depending on what you want, Burgschneider is pretty great. Not super cheap, but definitely good and not crazy expensive

Do note that “establishing a no-fly zone” means you’ll need planes over the border. Which means you’ll need to bomb the shit out of every AA missile in Russia. Which means you’ll need to destroy every airfield as well, because their planes will defend their AA missile launchers.

I mean, I’m all for it, but it’s important to note that the Libya no-fly zone was established mostly through bombing the shit out of Libya, not through air-to-air engagements. Russia will be worse.

It’ll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It’ll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

1000 bucks will get you a pretty awesome larp outfit, as long as you’re not looking for plate armor.

Yes, doing something useless is often cheap.

I know both, but I still went with “Duke Nukem isn’t a game” as my first thought

the bombing of Yugoslavia, Libya and the invasion of Iraq.

Those three aren’t remotely close to the same thing.

The bombing of yugoslavia was a UN authorized intervention against warcriminals killing civilians.

The bombing of Libya was a UN authorized intervention against a warcriminals killing civilians.

The invasion of Iraq (depending on which one) was a horrible farce led by the US to distract people from internal issues.

For art owned by individuals, it’s easy. Yes, absolutely.

But imagine Amsterdam gets ransacked and they steal the Nighwatch. A hundred and fifty years from now, the painting gets returned to the great grandson of Femke Halsema, the last mayor of Amsterdam.

Is that right? Should it go to the grandnephew of the king? Or the son of the last museumdirector, who had it under permanent loan? Or the granddaughter of the final prime minister? Should it be donated the the people of Nova Hollandia (the fictional successor state)?

There are no easy answers here

I feel rather mixed about this. They’re not going the national archives or anything, but into the private collection of some dude whose ancestor happened to be king.

I have no idea if this actually benefits the people or just the dude.

The US isn’t bombing anyone, Israel is.

You should turn on the news

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/21/trump-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites/84303364007/

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt