Consider that the cost of energy is going to be the limiting factor on AI. When the VC dries up, who is going to pay the light bill?

To be clear: I’m talking about a possibility, not a prediction.

We’ve nothing to go on but incomplete and likely incorrect public information. It would be foolish of me to entrench around speculation.

Superhero movies are big budget police procedurals where the goal of the heroes is always to protect the status quo.

the greatest, highest earning, and most influential game of all time is Clash of Clans. It earns about $5mil a day.

Titles like Elden Ring, Zelda, Bioshock, KoTOR, God of War, Skyrim and the Witcher are obscure also-ran games that titans of the game industry (people who fund video game development) consider them failures.

EDIT: I changed some stuff.

I’ve always suspected that many of these kinds of images were staged or propaganda.

Every so often you’ll see a meme on Reddit with a bunch of American teenagers being athletic in the 60s. The meme suggests that people were healthy and fit back then, but I happen to know that the footage was for a physical fitness push at the time (gotta do more pushups than the commies) and the athletes were far from typical students.

Even popular egalitarian movements face significant resistance to social and economic change. This will not only come from elites who stand to loose from social change, but also from common people who for one reason or another oppose that which benefits themselves. Beyond the social and economic connections to the elite, the social inertia to change is on the side of capital.

The solution, from Bolivar to Lenin to Castro has been to force the people to be free because you can’t have socialist democracy if people would vote to return to capitalism or colonialism.

Leftists have long talked about “educating” the populace, but this is another tempting avenue for creeping totalitarianism. It’s not like capital is innocent of coercion, but so long as it accommodates the ignorant, it has an overwhelming advantage over a system that requires an improved humanity.

I suppose we’ll iron this out. Remember that the social anchors for capital are hundreds of years old and have their roots in feudalism and aristocracy. Socialism is young and her sins are close in our minds not because their failures are extraordinary but because they’re recent.

According to the SCOTUS, the State and police have no constitutional duty to protect the public, uphold the law, or enforce court orders.

source: (warning child harm)

DeShaney v. Winnebago
Town of Castle rock v. Gonzales.

I enjoyed the channel “forgotten weapons”. I think guns are neat, but I don’t wanna hear any right wing NRA bullshit. The presenter avoided politics and I was happy.

Then he did a series on guns from Rhodesia. OK, I give him the benefit of the doubt, though people who are interested in Rhodesia are way more sus than those interested in Nazi Germany. But then, the channel featured anti-riot weapons at the height of the George Floyd summer and I can only view that as pro-pig messaging. Fuck that channel.

A quick Google search of the name leads to results about British adventurer and environmentalist David Mayer de Rothschild…

This is likely the explanation. GPT has some kind of bug in the antisemitism filter.

Suction machines are used to remove excess mucus from the sinuses and throat in medical settings. The public should not use these machines because you can accidentally stimulate a nerve in your throat that can cause your heart to slow, beat irregularly, or stop.

My wish is to take my dollar and by one share of Tesla at market price.

Musk’s abrupt firing of the team initially seemed like a display of power—a way to assert control and show he could make tough decisions in the face of investor pressure.

This is justification for wrecking 500 employee’s lives? So he could show he’s a tough business boy? In order to reassure people who’ve gotten over 50% returns for a decade? In a company that’s “worth” more than the GDP of Saudi Arabia?

Investor confidence is so important to Musk because he knows Tesla is a bubble.

There are two genres of capitalist optimism.

one is the “it’s going to be different this time baby I swear” and the other is “prayer to an angry god”. This piece obviously is of the former category.

It’s not fair to describe the western models as “closed”. All the tech bros have a open-source ethic that would embarrass a FOSS developer. At least when it comes to training data.

With something called sodium citrate and a splash of milk, you can make quality cheese behave like Velveeta. Search “sodium citrate” cheese if your interested. Oh, and you can make sodium citrate from baking soda and limes so it’s not like it’s unhealthy or anything.

I happen to loathe Velveeta because of Jimmy Carter so I was excited to get my nachos at home again.

BBQ pulled pork.

Brown a pork shoulder, rest it on a bed of onions, and slow cook/ braise it in a sweet marinade. (a can of soda works great).

(optional) Once the meat is fork tender, shred it, spread it out on a thin layer on a cookie sheet and broil it in the oven to recreate the burned/ dehydrated texture of smoked meat.

Serve with BBQ sauce and pickles on a warm hamburger bun.

It seem like all of America, left and right, has fallen for the myth of working class prosperity during the post war boom. You’ve heard the mantra: a single earner could afford a house, car, and college for a family of four. This was never true for the majority of Americans. And for those few who did enjoy this lifestyle, it was achieved not by the owners sharing more of the wealth, but by excluding women and PoC from mainstream economic life.

Furthermore, most of this prosperity from housing, transportation, and education was made possible through government largess. Examples include the Interstate highway system and the GI bill. And all these government loans, grants, and scholarships were exclusive to real citizens: white men. Sometimes this was explicit in the law, sometimes it was enforced through sneaky regulations like ‘red lining’. Even when the law included minorities, there were still barriers for PoC and women to collect what they were entitled to. These barriers ranged from Kafkaesque bureaucracy to murderous terrorism.

Morality isn’t objective. This is because you can’t say “people shouldn’t hurt each other” without implying “hurting people is bad”. And you can’t say “hurting people is bad” without implying that “suffering should be avoided”. And it’s turtles like that all the way down.

The bedrock of moral thinking is not rational. Somewhere, in everyone’s thinking there are unexamined values. Cultivate your sense of confusion because most of life works this way.

The Jedi order is 15% vague Eastern Philosophy that George Lucas half-remembered. 75% of cannon events trying to ret-con this philosophy into the media. And 10% of fan wishful thinking.

They barely do anything in the prequels to give motive to Anikin’s rebellion. The only times it’s seriously covered in the Disney cannon is a few episodes of Clone Wars where the council abandons Asoka, and some plot-lines that were teased in a canceled show.

Ted always sucked. The whole production is designed for self-promoters to flatter rich liberals and reassure them that they’re good people. Besides, a playlist of just Ted presenters who turned out to be a fraud would be hours of content probably.