IDK, a lot of that data center AI hardware is built to self-destruct after a few years. It’s going to take time for the factories to retool before we see prices drop back down.

You require documentation so you can check if they have a criminal past. If there’s no documentation then treat them like someone on parole and give them an ankle monitor. It’s not rocket science, we just our politicians’ job security depends on not fixing problems.

Oh, so there’s a 40% chance he’s a wife beater as well.

Joking about how right wing cis transphobic women are „actually“ just men in drag

FTFY

It’s not even profitable though… At this point it seems it is just about control, like they would rather have a money pit then let independent workers, ie creatives, have any profit.

They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

Admittedly I struggle to comprehend how one can express regret without also expressing a desire to change their pattern of actions. I see businesses do that because they can act like a psychopath. Which I guess is why I don’t see it as an apology but a giant red flag.

One thing I learned from non-violent communication is that we are not responsible for their feelings. To worry that we might say something that can push them further down a rabbit hole is them weaponizing their emotions. We should treat them with greater civility than they showed here, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t tell them how odious their politics are.

I feel like an apology is more than saying “I was wrong”, it’s also saying “I will do better in the future”.

When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.

Oh I am sure they planned and maybe even got the Saudis to consult. But I still think they are too stupid to realize the flaws of those plans. Even if they were as smart as they think they are, it’s difficult to predict how things will work after the civilization they depend on for their power collapses. Hell, it probably doesn’t matter how smart you are, such a scenario is inherently unpredictable.

It’s projection. She knows that in her retirement she has stopped “providing value”. I doubt she paid you for the ad-hoc legal and accounting work you did for her, so she is happy for you to provide value without compensation. I would simply tell her that if she doesn’t want to have to find her own retirement home she needs to start paying for your services. This is the kind of person who thinks value is what you pay for, so long as she isn’t paying you she isn’t valuing what you do for her. The whole “you are a negative value” is exactly what she is to you, she is taxing your time, energy and emotions to make up for some perceived economic loss for raising a child she chose to have.

It took me about 4 tries to find a good therapist. I know it’s discouraging but keep your eyes open for a good therapist.

“I have money in the bank that measures my value”

Thing is, they need to bring their help and the help won’t be happy if their families are left high and dry. These people are just too fucking stupid

Remember, every accusation is a confession. If you don’t want to be a waste of time to be around then don’t act like that’s true of others.

Back in the day people would gather on a porch and play music. Relatively free. Wish I knew how to play an instrument …

I’m skeptical they could do it in a way that meaningfully inherits stability from Linux. Imagine bolting on their service control on top of systemd or map their registry system to /etc. They either bring all the bad over to Linux or write something that doesn’t support the windows ecosystem.

Oh I didn’t mean that I am a contrarian, obviously we are the exception 😉

More like Jesus became a big problem for people with power and was made to suffer for it. Bonhoeffer was not saying that we should conceal our suffering in a way that it isn’t a problem for others. This was is in a larger essay about how people cope with Nazism at the time, very clear-headed but was calling out those who did little because they didn’t want to suffer and how we judged harshly those who lost everything.