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This whole analysis is based on the cost of queries, which consume, in fact, a small amount of power.

You (or OOP) also acknowledge that the massive, obscene, megalomaniac power consumption of AI comes from building up the models themselves.

And then you proceed to ignore that the first one is the driver for the second. This is asinine. It’s exactly like saying that the CO2 emissions of fossil fuels is the cost of running the pumps at the station.

Here you go, according to the same logic:

Nasty fellows. Very crabby, will snap at you for looking at them funny.

No the duck will be ready on time for supper.

I can see it hitting the wizard who’s behind right in the noggin, as they wind up a smack.

Still 100% dented skull, just unintended target.

I think this actually has a chance, but only because it affects millionaires. in any case the outcome would be very positive as it would apply elsewhere.

This is a good case to battle the shit out of Tesla in court and set a landmark verdict on the “you buy but don’t own” abuse.

Usually this would however require that courts are capable of reaching proper verdicts, that the government actually cared about the people, that consumer protection agencies had any footing etc. Alas, all of them are infiltrated by the big capital corporations.

You kinda just proved the bro’s point by bitching and moaning about the details and ignoring the substance.

Thoughts and prayers.

Gamecopyworld omg that’s a blast from the past! I loved that site…

Upgrade from serial smoking to parallel smoking.

I fucking chew it

And this is why profits above a certain threshold need to be taxed to oblivion.

Massive profit cannot be the single goal.

That sounds like a fun time to have been part of the tech universe, I presume it was the bounce back from the dotcom boom.

The elusive Chocolate Starfish.

You’re missing half the plot here, yet I’m the summer child. Newsflash: the day and age when people elected the American president is long gone.

The cult is irrelevant, they’re not even cattle - they’re yeast: when they’re fed with oxygen they leaven dough, when they’re starved of air they produce alcohol. It’s the moguls who own their feeds who control their output, not trump. He tried to grab a hold over them, with truth social, newsmax, etc but didn’t get anywhere.

Case in point, the constant Epstein talking points. Why do you think this has come up now? Was there any progress in the investigations? No. Was a smoking gun found anywhere? No.

But do you know what is actually relevant? The “big beautiful bill” - this has the big pocket people very, very concerned. Musk is the higher profile example, and I’m sure many others have been reaching out to Trump “under the table” to change it, but since he’s being headstrong, they’re giving him a taste of what to expect if he doesn’t bow down - get dragged into jail, kicking and screaming, and the very rednecks who right now would gag on his orange shriveled balls would be the first to shove a broom handle up his ass.

With sufficiently bad economic policies, the powers that be will let the pitchforks rise. Our best bet is that we can catch them too in the chaos.

Fighting a raging forest fire with kindling is a viable strategy - if successful, it will lead to the fire starving itself out. Sure it’s risky, but it will put it out for good, while throwing water, even assuming it does anything at all, would still be one stiff breeze away from re-flashing.

But let me be more specific with what I mean: last April, we were very close to one of these breaking points that would have killed the Trump presidency. If you recall, amid the Chinese tariff escalation, the stock market got very panicky and turned to treasury bonds, as it usually does when things get a bit crazy, but this time it didn’t work. It raised alarm bells everywhere, and wise enough people (and I suspect Jerome Powell played no small role in this) forced the White House to do a 180 and stop their bullshit.

I wonder what would have happened if the tariffs went ahead, but I’m 99% sure that Trump wouldn’t be president right now.

will inevitably lead misery and the deaths of thousands of people. People who can’t afford to stay alive die.

You seem to be under the misconception that this is the future, or even that it is reversible.

It is not. The only way the current US political scenario will change, peacefully, is as a consequence of the power struggle between the oligarchs and the would-be dictator.

Then there’s the non-peaceful options, which are the only ones that effectively bring back power to the majority. The issue is that people will gradually adapt to anything, so the only way to prevent the long-term crawl back to the middle ages is for things to get so bad, so quickly, that people actually get up and do something about it.

In any case, let me know if a few years who was right. If either of us live to see it.

Powell getting replaced by a trump bootlicker is probably the best that could happen.

Sure, in the short term it would massively fuck up the economy, but that would bring trump’s downfall all the quicker.

It’s a shame about the TACO tariffs too. If they had all gone into effect as the dorito wanted, the economy would be so fucked up right now that you’d have the whole nation, except for the billionaires, out in the street with pitchforks.

It will come, it’s just taking longer this way.

Explain why it’s not you who is the absolute buffoon here?

Because you’re presented with a photo of a ferries wheel that is installed in apparently uneven terrain. It’s highly questionable just how compacted that dirt actually is, seeing as nobody even bothered flattening it in the first place, so what do you wager are the chances of one of those massive outrigs you claim are under there sinking or slipping, putting a bunch of load on the structure, and causing it to fail violently?

And what if it rains? How is that soil gonna behave when it’s full of water?

Because going by the care these guys took when setting up these horrifying stilts, I feel like I’m looking at an involuntary manslaughter case waiting to happen.

But sure, go on with your “uhyuk, people stoopid” chant, may you convince many others like you to ride deathtraps. I’ll be sure to send thoughts and prayers.

EDIT: here’s manufacturer schematics of what looks to be a similar sized ride. Those outrigs aren’t looking that mighty…

EDIT2: Actually, nevermind. Here’s one of your super secure outrigs:

This shit’s a deathtrap alright.

Exactly. They seem exceedingly effective at what they do - enabling the absurdly rich to become obscenely rich.