the reality is that the working class can currently afford tape drives and might not be able to in 3 years

as a manufacturing worker, this argument doesn’t work for us. every second of our day is already mapped out anyway, we’re struggling to keep the breaks we have

i wanna do this ;(

yeah it’s useful to call yourself a feminist and it doesn’t cost much. you might be overthinking this, do not deprive yourself of future interactions with people who share your values

we aren’t capable of maintaining that one for longer than a presidential term. much shakier ground than forcing the biblical apocalypse so all the evangelicals can finally go to heaven

you are not more clever than the cocaine you consume

oh, i forgot the tankie part. China’s recent quantization of deepseek v4 has basically made it impossible to monetize a token. they definitely have like, dozens of backdoors established in these AI companies as well as really good methods to manually scrape their weights just from clever interaction, and also just plain good scrappy techniques for utilizing old GPUs and RAM. the result? say you’re a rich idiot who wants access to powerful AI. you can just run a free Chinese model on your own computer, or, if you’re rich enough, your own data-center! and the AI companies get none of your money. China is undermining a critical revenue stream for AI and I’m pretty happy about it

i think Europe is about to experience what America and old colonies have been cushioning them from for 50 years. We’re all gonna be struggling soon, if not economically then instead from climate-change-induced famines that wipe out entire established farming areas, we are all ignoring the long-term effects of data-centers because the short term is enough to make us all cry in rage, but eating will be difficult if we don’t stop throwing electricity into the AI hole

i need old thinkpad

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the vegans i know are great

you are my people

we are so cooked as a people when a competent president comes in, it’ll be Obama all over again but worse, maybe 10 years before we get a snowden situation revealing all the secrets

i blame simcity 3000. it made me eco, and he was the only eco guy with a platform targeting teenagers in 2005

yay labor day

what’s that meme? a schizophrenic is talking, listen and learn

like for real the last 28 years have been extremely good for your credibility as truth seekers

i still use Google for speed testing bc it works better than ookla

is there a good alternative that I’ll feel good about using?

the truth machine made me realize that i never have to lie again

tales of symphonia taught me that trusting everyone you meet is not as stupid a decision as it looks

and simulacra and simulation taught me that no one needs to lie in order to fool you

lots of learning about what it means to tell the truth

as a socialist white American who opposes the imperial regime i kind of know how the ~12% of anti-Zionist Jews who want global recognition of their identity feel. we want our existence recognized but we accomplish LESS THAN NOTHING and then we get upset that we are lumped in with genociders, meanwhile the majority planned this and wants this. when Jewish anti-Zionism accomplishes anything, it’ll be recognized, until then yall are basically like white American socialists, you try again and again but despite your efforts things are getting worse, fast, and there are SEVERAL groups of people who are CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING something far worse than you are who get to speak instead of you, for now. (white Americans have it a little better rhetorically because we don’t have compulsory military service and our settler-colonialism is, for some reason, referred to using the past tense)

I’m not upset that you’re whining about it, i whine too, but no one is going to take us seriously until we prove, materially, that it matters in any real way that we believe the correct thing. it’s not happening yet, but if this continues without any real accomplishment, when gen alpha gets old enough they are going to globally accuse you of LARPing like Gen Z did with the communists here, and you’ll split into “anti-Zionists” and “non-Zionists” like we did here with leftism, as the Palestinians begin to dwindle into the tens of thousands, then thousands, then hundreds

close enough. even proximity to perfection is perfect in a way