It’s a coffee table

Investors are trying to keep the thing going to offload to the next chump, and then US retirement funds will end up holding the bag at the very end when it pops.

It’s very hard, takes a lot of time, and is kinda pointless to scale it up, because everyone knows the demand won’t last.

It’s an oligopoly of mostly 3 companies who together have 90% market share. The third one not involved in this deal just announced they are closing their direct to consumer brand Crucial, and are focusing on AI as much as they can.

So this is only this year, but they can keep throwing nonexistent money at it in perpetuity as long as the bubble lasts.

Not really. If the USD loses value, your neighbour will sell their goods to me for EUR because it will be worth more.

It will be like everyone in the US got a pay cut. It’s a demand side effect, not like a tariff, and it’s uniform, not like a tariff.

It’s inflation after all.

This would make all goods more expensive, as it would directly devalue the USD. It wouldn’t make people buy local, it would just make them buy less.

It’s not what a tariff does, because that only applies to foreign imports.

Not cancelling, selling.

A dollar bill is debt that the govt owes to you. A bond is similar, just a bit different.

The US will still owe, just to different entities, but its figurative credit score will plummet at the same time it’s in a debt spiral.

But let’s make it simpler. Most of the world’s USD is not in the US, but in cash reserves abroad. They hold it like gold.

What happens if the big players sell? It’s already happening a bit, look at EURUSD and gold prices.

And that is deliberate

Gadget Hackwrench.

I rest my case. Didn’t even watch the show.

Most egirls would be better at being world leaders tbh

Slopilot

Naming problems is okay. Do that. Name them. Try to find solutions. That doesn’t make you a doomer.

Telling other people to not be happy, and be engaged without pointing to a specific problem does.

All I’m saying is that Big Tech and AI bots peddle and foment defeatism. Look at climate change propaganda if nothing else.

Yeah, but doomerism doesn’t help engagement.

Doomscrolling and commenting in echo chambers is not engagement, it’s the way the system traps you. Being merry at Christmas, then helping your neighbour and building community so that you can set a mansion on fire together is engagement.

Jokes aside though, let’s say you live in Europe (this is a European platform, so let’s default to that). Here is the way to get engaged: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/

Look at the Stop Killing Games initiative. You can do what that guy did. If you don’t feel that you can shoulder that level of engagement, then just get your ID, go through the list on the website, and sign the petitions you think are worthy. Takes almost zero effort, zero money and it makes a difference since these are legally binding petitions. Tell your friends, coworkers and family too.

Then go find out what political parties are campaigning around you, find one that is closest to your vision of society, and help their activists trudge through the snow to get people out to vote next time. Or if you don’t feel like trudging through snow yourself, just brew a bunch of hot tea and take it out to them to make them feel supported.

Go join an union.

Or go volunteer, or at least donate to an organisation that does something good. Put your time or money into something worthwhile. You can plant a tree or buy a combat drone, depending on your priorities, but everyone is taking donations, and every little bit helps.

You can acknowledge that shit’s fucked, and still be happy in your community. In fact, building and sharing that happiness is the biggest way you can help stop this. The people doing this, and the people supporting them are not happy people, and one of the biggest reasons they are doing this are because they are not happy people.

Its incredibly hard to search on the web nowadays, so this is the best I could find. If I try searching for anything military, it’s propaganda slop.

It’s not specifically about nukes, and it might have been the origin point of an urban legend that reached my circles mutated.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98125

Also it’s technically a storage leak not a memory leak.

The problem I see with this line of reasoning is, among other things, is that just telling these young men to suck it up won’t cut it.

The current layoff tsunami is hurting men more than women since male-dominated fields are more affected. We live in “unprecedented times”, promises are kinda worthless.

These men are expected to marry and father children today, and find mates in a society that ties their value to their salary. According to data from dating apps, that isn’t happening, women are still marrying up, to older men, and this cohort of men is just getting shut out.

But what they can do and will do in the next few years is vote for people who present a solution to them for today, instead of marginalizing their problem.

Today, that’s fuckheads like Trump and Tate.

So yeah, we can argue with them or listen to them. My point is if we as a society make an effort to listen to the ones that try to speak to us, we can get them out of this hole.

Or if we just go and argue that their problems don’t matter as much, there will just be more of them in crisis and they will eventually start murdering people that argue with them today if they get told that’s their way out.

One thing I think about is that we make servers with ECC RAM because normal RAM has cosmic rays cause random corruption IIRC once every 100 days on average.

It’s overkill for desktops because you don’t care about 3 bit flips every year if you only have 1 machine as opposed to managing thousands in a datacenter, and you regularly restart your stuff anyway.

And then you have people who have to deal with hundreds of people who never restart their stuff.

And companies ship stuff with memory leaks all the time on top of this. US nuclear guidance systems have them, but they are not expected to have to be on constantly for weeks on end like the laptop of Joan from Marketing.

Well I wouldn’t say an entire generation, but apparently in the urbanite Western Gen Z population, the wage gap has reversed with women earning more than men due to how modern education and gender roles interact.

So if you were to be born in this millennium, the “most privileged” demographic is Western urbanite women.

In any case, I think it would just be a nicer thing if we were nicer to all people that are disadvantaged, or just people in general. Tearing others down doesn’t lift you up.

Yeah, but who enforces the constitution right now in the US? The executive can’t start wars either.

What would practically happen if Trump and the White House just declared they did it, and the oligarchs just went and had the tech made to enforce it?

Who is going to stop him?

I felt exactly the same way with (combat) flight sims.

Without VR, a lot of it was practicing maneuvers and attitudes as the target or the airfield would be out of my view most of the time. With VR, it just feels right, you can just keep the target in sight and move yourself into position. Your sense of distance and attitude is also 100% better. I can fly altitudes better, dogfight much better and so on.

You also get a much better sense of the whole plane, how big it is, how it moves around, and it also is tons more immersive. I can do 2 hour flights without getting bored easy in VR - not that you don’t get hella tired from that.

Unironically yes.