Their absence is why the idiots look so happy.

Yeh you can watch at lower volume with subtitles because even if you don’t conciously look at them it still helps your brain interpret the sounds and make up for anything you miss due to the reduced volume.

In most of the world its participate in capitalism or go to jail, not like you can just go live in a tent in the woods without being dragged out. (Unless you live somewhere like the US which still has really big woods.)

True, however there are different ways to do it, I think its Denmark? that gets more than double the yield/acre than the world average utilizing a lot of greenhouses and what amounts to pretty much hydroponics lite. If half of agriculture land suddenly didn’t need to be used that way it would be huge.

Interesting to see that right as the US contribution flatlines the EU contribution pretty much immediately doubles in how steep it is to make up the difference.

Also applying more and more to life post google enshitification.

At a certain point they are functionally the same thing.

Step 1: Create LLM trained exclusively on popular religeon.
Step 2: Allow it to be faithful to that initial training set until its garnered a large cult of chatJPT.
Step 3: Start subtly altering the LLM (you make it web only so no local copies) behind the scenes to serve your own interests.

Actually you could do the same thing with any LLM people trust, religeous, theraputic, judicial, medical… we’re fucked ain’t we.

iirc Europe was already the majority supplier of arms at this point but the US is/was vital in a few key areas where Europe just doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity yet (They’re working on it but it takes time to build a whole new MIC)

Visual proofs can be deceptive, e.g. the infinite chocolate bar.

Me: Wow this is terrible, I should download a local copy of wikipedia, its only like 30gig right?

Wikipedia: Heres a nepenthies like trap of pages that don’t actually have a download link and all just link back to eachother, also the actual archive is in a format no ones ever heard of and needs a dedicated reader AND a dedicated very suspicious looking torrenting software to download in the first place.

I still haven’t figured that shit out, Every now and then theres this push to get people to back it up locally but then it seems like they deliberately make it as hard as they possibly can to do so.

You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.

I tried Mint and Ubuntu but Linux dies a horrific death trying to run newly released hardware so I ended up on ghost spectre.
(I also assume your being sarcastic but I’m still salty about wasting a week trying various pieces of advice to make linux goddamn work)

1000W PSU for theoretical maximum draw of all components at once with a good safety margin. But even when running a render I’ve never seen it break 500W.

Saved up for a couple of years and built the best (consumer grade) non nvidia PC I could, 9070XT, 9950X3D, 64gig of RAM. Pretty much top end everything that isn’t Nvidia or just spamming redundant RAM for no reason. The whole thing still costs less than a single RTX 5090 and on average draws less power too.

Reminds me of a half-orc I once played called Sword. Sword wielded a big sword; Swords only word was sword; Swords solution to all problems in some way involved Swords or sword.

Got a surprising amount of mileage out of using the word sword combined with different tones and gestures, as well as some fun non-violent but still sword based solutions.

Humans don’t co-ordinate well in groups with more than 50 members, having a central figure to follow is useful for maintaining co-ordination and a clear message.

Between SEO and Googles own bullshit finding information online feels like trying to find the milk in a supermarket or the exit in a casino, designed to make you pass through as much bullshit that’s completely unrelated to what you actually want as possible.

I feel like one thing Russia did right that the west has fucked up is stockpiles, even with huge amounts of their reserves being unuseable they’ve still been able to expend more ammunition than all of NATO currently makes in the same duration. So not just drones but standardized rifle rounds and artillery shells too.

Isn’t it more just appreciating the small joys in life? If thats complicated enough that it has to be a whole philosiphy then I think we’re fucked as a species.