It’s a month old account.

But the biggest redflag is she’s never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO…

She literally has no idea how any of it works

Yep, ran thru a Pam Beasley filter apparently…

In real life we send LHD’s for this and rotate a couple on each coast

LHDs are marine transport ships that can launch helicopters and and hovercraft for landing. Most recently LHD-7 was used to capture Maduro tho.

So no country wants one showing up unsolicited to “help”, it wouldn’t be surprising if they denied docking or even entrance to their sovereign waters.

trump wants it to be seen as aid, but it’s a threat and that’s how it’ll be treated

I didn’t say that

No, that’s how quoting works, you literally said:

Because you can never trust or rely on an ally who’s on your side because you are being nice to them instead of because they have some kind of scruples.

It’s no better than say, sucking up to someone with a peace award in the hopes they don’t start a war.

You said it’s one or the other.

And now you’re saying that people shouldnt have went by the literal words you typed, you’ve retroactively changed what you meant because that rationalize is easier than admitting you were wrong.

I hope you stop imitating our president someday, but I’ll never know. Because you just get belligerent like he does too, and I’m not dealing with that shit.

It’s no better than say, sucking up to someone with a peace award in the hopes they don’t start a war.

Buddy…

If you think the only two options are bing antognistic or “sucking up”…

Well, sounds like you are a recent example of the American education system

Many people think Mexico is the only country that exists,

No, some people that you know think that “many people” believe that…

It doesn’t make it true

Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.

People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.

However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…

Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

So to clarify, what’s good is:

A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working

Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

An example of what is bad is:

“Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.

I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an unimportant archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.

I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.

Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.

They need the hard drives because they’re storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.

Not even just the people we know we know, they’ll know who’s usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time…

Like, “skynet” is useful because everyone knows the term.

The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.

Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?

You think they’re above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.

Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.

Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.

The issue is congress really. They have the power to stop anything the President does. Sadly too many Republicans are loyal to Trump alone and not the regular people.

Which is “kind of” the reason we should be getting the military on the side of the people and not chasing them into the arms of fascism because they have nowhere else to go…

Like, fucking obviously man…

What you’re saying is the reason I said what I said in the first place.

Only hope

That is not the “only” hope, it’s the most pain free “good” option. Saying because that option exists means we out all our eggs in that basket, is even dumber than literally putting all our eggs in one basket.

We can’t just kick our heels up and hope this works, we work on this and the next 27 different plans that would sequentially be the least painfree while arriving at the “good” result.

I dunno, I’m just venting. It’s fucking depressing that every comment is a choice between “too long no one will read” and “if you don’t mention everything obvious, you’ll have to later”.

I’ll never understand why someone could actually want to put effort into dividing the American populace from the America military right now

Like, even if you don’t know about how many non US citizens are in the US military…

It’s seems obvious that the better plan would be getting military on the side of the populace and not the fascists rather than driving the military towards the fascists.

I’ve been trying to figure out a reason for a while, because these posts aren’t uncommon.

But I can’t come up with a reason that wouldn’t be against civility rules if I posted it.

That’s not the title, and that last sentence is just illogical…

Like, if true, they also made 3-5x per ever $36.27 invested, and 3-5x is a giant range

Why not just use the title the editor came up with?

I mean, it’s one of the most constant signs of an empire in decline…

When the powerful aren’t held accountable, doing something and getting away with it goes from a shameful act to something people brag about.

We don’t live in a just society, so no one cares about following the rules.

It’s the first crack in the social contract, and it showed up long ago. One the whole thing goes, so does society.

Quick edit:

That being said, mods will eventually delete this for being a text post, there’s a discussion community your supposed to use for this stuff

Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of a trial over whether Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people.

Ironically I think rather than them wearing them for nefarious reasons, they’ve just been encouraged to use them for so long, that they are actually addicted to them as well.

Like, if you were forced to use your employers product at work for 10-12 hrs a day and try to come up with way to monetize it in your off hours, you may start to rely on it eventually.

Our brains are wired to always take the easiest path, that’s actually the reason for technological advancement in the first place.

They probably just don’t even realize they’re wearing them, it’s just a (mostly useless and completely impractical) part of their bodies now.

Moon bears

It’s gonna be moon bears, isn’t it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4

I didn’t even think about it till the cartel thing, then I was like Whaaaaaaat?

Sounds exactly like a playground snitch…

He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. I don’t know if they’re real or not… I can tell you he gave classified information. He made a big mistake,” the president told Fox News’ Peter Doocy aboard Air Force One.

Old (North) Vegas has always been better…

Like, it’s still Vegas. But instead of the capitalism cranked up to 11, it’s more like an average city level of exploitation.

I was let down the first time tho, because I was expecting some Uncle Eddie shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfewcZsug4

Partly that, partly that even if they tried to prevent it from killing humans (if able) it would just do it.

Like if AI had a button that said “kill 20 random people” it wouldn’t have any reason to not press the button. It doesn’t give a fuck about human life, because it can’t really give a fuck about anything.

It’ll kill every human just as easily as it I’ll delete an entire codebase.

It’s not “evil” it’s the lack of anything resembling ethics, including respect for human life. There’s technically a difference. But that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of human psychology

Dirk Gently

Based off a book based off a script for a Dr Who episode that was too weird by the guy who wrote Hitchiker’s Guide, starring Frodo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZE3AUsrqI

Plurality of voters.

Only ~64% of voters voted in 2024…

“None of the above” would have won the most votes if everyone voted, but that’s not how the system works