You can’t really make that judgement based on one year or even a few in one location.

I can also tell you that this was the coldest summer in recent memory for me, felt like one of the coldest summers in my life honestly. I remember it would be near or even above 30C during daytime for weeks in the summer.

Doesn’t mean the planet was any cooler though, people in the other end of europe were pretty much melting at the same time. And most summers recently have been scorching hot here, I’m talking about 2-3 straight weeks of 30C.

AIPAC apparently spent 9 million on campaign ads for her to avoid getting a Muslim in her seat. No idea if they’ve been “paying her” directly in any way.

Sooooo we going to see another live execution?

Will it also be renamed the Donald J Trump family farm or is this one safe?

The Source Seppuku license sounds moderately hilarious, I think a lot of people here on Lemmy would approve of it if crypto wasn’t involved (the people who call permissive licenses “cuck licenses”). Luckily there’s no way to legally enforce it.

The whole nazi anime lady is pretty bad though, and terminating someone for having cancer is beyond fucked.

It’s a global issue, not a 62% of Americans issue. Tons of retirement funds outside of the US also invest in US indexes among others.

Before I moved my second pillar (tax-deferred pension system that gives you a tax discount if you don’t cash out before 55) out of the bank’s fund into the “pick your own” system, it was like 30-40% in American indexes IIRC.

Plus if enough people buy enough land and just sit on it, the price goes up a lot!

Surely nothing bad will happen

Or this AMD

I don’t know why anyone was surprised by the “data center first company” thing, she’s been cozying up to Trump and AI companies for a while now.

I mean a certain type of lady could absolutely be into a weird, dumpy, married billionaire.

Or a certain type of guy, it’s not a gender thing.

The Chinese are already producing cheap video cards!

The Moore Threads MTT S5000 came out this or last year and is apparently competitive enough with nvidia offerings for AI training and inference. I suspect the spy was from some other Chinese company, but it could also have been Moore Threads looking to catch up faster.

There’s also the MTT S80 which has been out for like 3 years, is cheap and has 16 GB GDDR6 (hey 3 years ago that was pretty decent still). Unfortunately the drivers suck so it’s not great for gaming, or doing anything else graphical.

Gaming is unfortunately kind of irrelevant to them, it seems. It doesn’t really bring in money.

5% is barely more than a normal daily 2-3% swing on any stock that nobody would really even write an article about. Thursday it dropped 9%, a lot more significant than this 5% drop in the middle of an already negative trend for this month.

not reliable transportation

Neither are a lot of people’s cars. I’ve personally been known to buy beaters that should’ve long been discarded and keep them running for a few more years, sometimes they even leave me in better condition than they came to me but that’s because I need to repair them because they have a tendency to develop issues after hundreds of thousands of kilometers (current one actually isn’t even that old, only a bit above 400k km). Usually issues that don’t leave me stranded, but still issues that can take a week or 2 worth of nights to fix as a single dad who can’t work on his car until the toddler’s asleep.

I’ve had breakdowns on bikes too (my legs have too much torque and I dislike shifting down all the time to accelerate so I’ve literally broken a bunch of pedals among other things), but bike repairs are quick and cheap. And when the bus breaks down, a replacement one is sent - something I’ve experienced multiple times in my life.

So I wonder in what universe would a bike or bus be a less reliable method of transportation than a car, unless it’s also specified that the car must be max 5 years old or something.

It’s more like 32% of the wealth for the 1%. And most of the 1% is not billionaires. Billionaires own around 5%.

Their real problem is millionaires. Or even just old people in general. People over 55 own 73% of the country’s assets and any time you see that BlackRock and Vanguard and so on own a large share of a large company, that’s their index funds, largely used by retirement funds. Of course even among old people it’s strongly skewed towards the top 10 or 20 percent owning most of the wealth.

Billionaires are just a corner case of the millionaire problem, and taxing millionaires out of existence would also take care of the billionaires.

Centrism won 2020, kinda. Exactly because of the president who pissed everyone off first

That IS rude tbh. At least put it to work

What he implied was that in a shortage of RAM, RAM that’s sitting in a PC doing nothing, is useless to most of the world, whereas RAM in a shared resource (data center) gets utilized significantly more. Which is not incorrect. It’s just that 1) personal freedom, 2) why should the shared resource be allocated to a private company

If I need something that can’t carry big objects, I can take my wagon. Rear seats down, it’s got as much cargo space as the cybertruck if not a bit more. Of course, it can also go through a car wash or a pothole without setting me back a fortune. Hell, it can even go off road better than the cybertruck, despite not being a truck.

I also paid under 2k EUR for it, but that’s just because I’m an idiot who likes depreciated cars. A brand new one (Audi A6 Allroad) can be had for under 100k so that’s still about as much as a cybertruck, for something that can do everything the cyber truck does and a lot of things it can’t.

They’ll have to build a cybertruck for the movie then, because the current ones aren’t going to exist 50 years from now. At least if they go through a car wash or something

This is the elite wet dream, yes. Replace all pesky humans with machines

I’m proposing that the elite be replaced with machines. I’m not saying it’s easy, nor necessarily even possible, certainly not at the current level of technological and societal development.

Except it does work, if you have a unbiased media

There’s no such thing as truly unbiased media, it’s nearly impossible. Or are you proposing banning all media that isn’t state media? Private media will always have an agenda. Often so will state media though, and that can easily become even more dangerous.

and an educated population.

Doesn’t work. Or are you going to force everyone into poli sci majors? Majority of Europe has free higher education and in most countries the far right has been on the rise again. Even plenty of educated people vote for those parties. Hell, I can tell you that many of the people IN those parties, at least in my country, have degrees one might consider relevant to good governance (history, law, etc) and yet they spew hate.

What if the Ai suggests things that are bad for the rulers of society?

The idea is that the AI has to be the ruler of society and nobody else can have power over it. It also involves developing perfect AI first. I did say it was a pipe dream, didn’t I?

There will always be corrupt humans directing our systems, to stay rich and powerful.

It goes without saying that the existence of private property is part of that plan. The AI would decide who needs how much resources. The book you’ve named yourself after is kind of relevant, but the inner party still consisted of humans and they had ulterior motives. As O’brian himself said, the party’s ultimate goal was nothing other than just the control itself. The AI would have to have an ultimate goal of maximum human happiness, freedom and longevity, as much as possible without giving people freedom to have power over others.

Which means we need less technology, less machines, less surveillance, to have a society where humans can feel free and happy.

Doesn’t work either, unless society is fewer than 100 people or so. Above that we start developing these nasty things called hierarchies. Rulers and such. No human rulers can be allowed to exist if we want a truly just society. Impartial, completely neutral humans don’t exist. Democracy doesn’t work because voters can be swayed and BDFLs are just that, FL. They die and the next one might not be very B, but will be just as D if not moreso.

Nearly impossible to get rid of him.

Tesla’s bylaws require 66.7% of all outstanding shares to get rid of him. Not just 66.7% of those who vote. Musk alone holds like 13% of common stock, too.

Index funds and such don’t typically vote to disturb things, but they’d have to here. It would have to be nearly unanimous among everyone other than Musk himself.