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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • 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.





  • 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.



  • 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.




  • 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.