Yeah that’s the key point there, IE was faster, because it was using your memory even if you didn’t want to use it. So loading netscape was running 2 browsers at a time, and thus slower than using 1.

I think further that needs to be noted though, the motorcade and claims of “a knife” are both moot… The shoddy work from the get go for this no bid contract is the actual thing to blame. If I recall actual pool experts have said over and over again that, were the job done anything close to right, that neither knives nor armored cars should have damaged it… the fact is they just threw on one cheap slap of paint in one layer, on something that should have had several layers worth. Or they could have just left it as it was and not made everything 100x worse.

Personally my favorite tattoo of an idea to play with the viewers ignorance. I want a tattoo that is just “Leviticus 19:28” as a fun poke at people who get bible verse tattoos.

It’s expensive, a lot of pain and time… so it’s usually a safe assumption that it has a meaning to them. But obviously like everything it’s not universal… clearly there is a (hopefully small) percentage of people who get a tattoo because of a random drunkin whim, or to impress someone etc…

well yeah why I used the word “more evil” rather than just evil.

I believe with both deadpool and wolverine they kind of rule that the portion with the dominant part of the brain gets the body and the other portion is supposed to waste away.

Though I do know there was a deadpool comic in which a doctor basically gradually took pieces of deadpool including portions of his head, and freezing them, Deadpool took them out of the freezer and put them in a garbage bag, and they merged into a more evil franken-deadpool.

Trump came to Drain the Swamp and end wars. He’s going to keep on doing it!

And no president has done those things so many times. He should get the nobel peace prize for how many times he’s ended the war in Iran.

and, he had to create a literal swamp in washington so he could get to work on draining it.

Missing the key point though… your general concept is absolutely right… it’s failed over and over again because it can’t keep up with the fact that it’s cheaper and better performance with what you can buy locally, on top of bandwidth access etc… But there’s 2 ways to make one product a more common option, option A, try to make the one you want them to use better, but with AI they’ve done something different, they are working towards making local systems worse.

Key point is, the direction of attack. Instead of making remote compute better, cheaper, faster etc… what if the attack is make local hardware, more expensive, harder to get, less reliable, or even illegal.

Right now, all of that is happening, on top of course of windows being more bloated, hardware costs are multiplying at a rate never seen before, even for outdated hardware. Netflix and spotify have already adapted the public into no longer buying physical medium for movies and music, and as people are also noting, governments making more and more regulations come in place on say OS’s needing age gates, 3d printers needing to report to the government etc… It’s literally an orchestrated perfect storm to be pushing people away from owning computers.

The point is they aren’t trying to “catch up” to local hardware, they are trying to hinder the ability to obtain local hardware.

I don’t think they said they were “better”, if I recall they did “almost as much with far less resources”. and really the bigger thing was they were releasing a lot as open source.

IMO I think that’s what the real tech giants are worried about. Honestly I think I’m actually seeing the real goal of AI… and the worse part of it is, AI is the secondary feature.

Sam Altmen made a comment on wanting to see basically compute sold as like a utility to people. Crucial is getting out of selling hardware to people. I’m leaning towards the idea that the ballooning hardware costs isn’t a side effect, it’s the primary intention. The idea of it is basically to move all of computing to a model more like Netflix, or say what Googles stadia gaming console was etc…

The goal is a future where personal PCs are a rare luxury like power generators. For normal use we get crappy thin clients to connect to cloud services with our software. Super government and corporate friendly. Everything super accessible by government and scannable for AI training etc… Encryption can basically become meaningless because they can log straight into the machines.

China’s a big threat because… they could encourage in house models. IE an agent that runs in your house, or companies run them in their server rooms, and most importantly they can be trained individually with your personal data and company data, without creating the privacy and security nightmares of wondering if chatgpt could share all of your personal information with a random dude or competing company. Plus if we are talking individual hardware, that hurts the actual overall goal of shifting all focus of all hardware manufacturers towards data center modules that consumers and even medium sized businesses can only rent.

I don’t recall ever seeing someone in modern times defend Nixon

I do from about 12 days ago.

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

because it takes luck and a certain kind of unethicalness to do so. IE you can go in there and have chatgpt write you 20 romance novels etc… and publish them on amazon. but more likely than not they will all be buried and all you are really doing is making it less likely for a real up and coming artist to be discovered. Point is most of the AI slop requires some kinds of connections or something to make it actually make money… 99% of it is just trashing the environment and making long shot legitimate creations even less likely to be discovered.

In short most of us aren’t looking to make the internet and the world worse, for what effectively amounts to a .01% chance to make money… most of those who actually manage to string it out and make big profits before the bubble pops are ones who already have a lot of resources and connections to do evil and unethical things already.

I’m sure some it’s just limited time etc… i do agree with the gist of it though, wouldn’t be the worse idea for creators to just crosspost everything they upload to tiktok or youtube shorts to loops as well, but I guess it’s more just out of their field of view to begin with anyway. Problem I suppose is, a second part of the linux/windows problem we ran into.

not only are there less users on linux, but the overwhelming majority of them, at the bare minimum have a windows machine or a dual boot system to run software they really need or want to run windows things if they need to. Likewise even people dabbling in loops, still view youtube shorts and tiktok. Meaning they don’t even count as additional users.

Sanders is a Senator. Are we defining Senators as local, now?

Why wouldn’t we, in a country with a population of about 230 million people, about half a million are qualified to actually run for office there, because you have to live in Vermont.

This is the problem. Why isn’t there?

Why aren’t there 2 in every state is the real question. I’d say among the issues is, 1. again senator isn’t entry level, So people who Bernie reached in his 2016 presidential bid, are still getting their feet in the door, pushing through the beurocracy and the pacs trying to keep them from getting elected to lower offices etc…

and yeah a lot of it is to be blamed on us the voters, that there’s not enough of us showing up for the primaries. and just not enough people that want to do good, that are taking the swim into politics.

Really that’s probably the key problem on the whole. Politics as a whole is a really tough career field to get into, and it’s very analogous to starting a business. You need to spend a ton of money and survive with 100% of your time being devoted to trying to start, with only a possible chance of eventually making money IF you can somehow stay afloat for a year with no income. Which sadly is why it creates this world where 99% of people making it through politics are nepo babies and people who have already sold their loyalty to big money.

I think the key is he’s in a local position. Point is no matter what, his “replacement” has to run and win. Point is, he helps good people win wherever they happen to be. For the most part senator isn’t an entry level job. Right now I’d say it’s fair to say Bernie is to my knowledge the best currently sitting senator, if I’m missing something blatant he’s at minimum top 5.

Senate isn’t exactly a position where you can pick an heir apparent, and for the most part people can only win with experience winning a mayorship, governor or house of representatives seat first. Fact is there’s 99 senate seats with people not as good as him to replace, 465 house seats, 50 governors, tons of mayorships etc… that he can throw his weight at besides his own. Yes it would be great if there was a 40ish year old bright and scrappy contender for senate in vermont that bernies endorsement would make a shoe in… but to my knowledge there isn’t.

Bernie Sanders is well loved, but also extremely old, and doesn’t seem to have passed the torch to the next generation of like minded politicians.

I mean what would you call AOC, and Mandami, there’s no torch, Bernie is 1 of 100 senators. He’s never tried to sell himself as some special perfect person. Isn’t any time he endorses someone that passing the torch. He doesn’t have to step down to have an air apparent. I’m sure if someone with good ideas went to run in vermont he’d probably step down for it. but right now the game is national, and he’s playing it on a national level.

I mean in fairness, the models are the failures. Say you run a journalism site. You pay a good salary for the journalist, Then obviously they need researchers, maybe a legal expert to look over and make sure none of that opens you up to lawsuits etc… Then you’ve also got at least a bit of bandwidth etc…

So now you’ve got to weigh your options of which evil you need to actually make all those payments. Untargetted ads aren’t even going to come close to breaking even. Everyone’s going to riot and boycott if you dare to paywall it. tracking and targetted ads are also evil of course.

Now obviously there are some evils that decide "OK lets skip the research, lets let an AI write the articles, lets ramp up the tracking… and then talk about if we can feasibly use a paywall without losing everyone.

But, even the most ethical company on earth has to make some choices, and there’s a pretty set amount of evils necessary just to break even, and the worse part is, bringing costs down is also a pretty big evil as, most of those costs are what make it worth reading at all.

What if instead they feed into every bubble to try and render powerful computer hardware outside the price range of anyone but millionares. While gradually encouraging a more, data center based control system so that rather than getting PC hardware ourselves… we’ll instead only be able to afford basic cheap thin clients, made to connect to a more powerful virtual machine that is capable of running games or anything that requires any power, but of course we can’t control what’s monitored on it to prevent it from spying on us or refusing to allow us to do tasks that aren’t approved by the company that owns the servers, which will be taking requests from the government.

Course that’s a hypothetical dystopia, I can’t imagine that happening.

I mean, the why are most of your examples not things that hold no sway over you. A powerbill you can’t pay means your electricity is about to cut off, a firing means you can’t show up and get paid, a grade means you can’t get a job etc… It’s not like you can just tear up the papers and live your life as if they never existed without taking some serious hits.

Kind of sad but that’s really the challange of getting the fediverse going. Problem is creative creators just want to get their stuff out to as many people as possible. It’s the same stupid catch 22 problem that we had with windows and gaming and software before proton (IE it’s hard to build up consumer/user bases without the creators, and hard to convince creators to upload for a smaller userbase).

Well I guess it’s true that AI tells us what we want to hear…

Also did Duck Duck Go go stupid AI… I thought that literally was the search engine for people who are sick of googles BS.