BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]

Our entire economy is being propped up by the AI grift now. 8 of the 10 largest companies by market cap are either spending all of their CapEx on training AI or selling the hardware necessary to do it (the only exceptions are Saudi Aramco and Berkshire Hathaway). This is just an insane funneling of money into one industry that can only result in one of two outcomes- 1. AGI is achieved and whoever wields it will have godlike power or 2. there is a market crash the likes of which we have never seen before. Guess which is more likely.

How do I view a book with the tilted perspective in your screenshot? It’s only showing flat pages for me.

There’s no way a human’s bite is only 30% less than a dog’s. Our jaws have shitty leverage to chomp down hard.

lol, you point out how this is divisive and then proceed to divide Gen Z into late and early cohorts.

It’s a lot harder to reliably identify you based on just a driver’s license and passport photo though. Why make it easier for them by uploading your entire life on a social media platform?

I always see Sinophobes screeching about how they will never buy a Chinese EV under any circumstances because it will spy on them or be remotely controlled by the SEE SEE PEE. And yet there is zero evidence to back these claims whereas a US ally literally implants bombs inside communication devices to commit mass terror.

Yeah, it’s technically illegal to sell blood and plasma but they get around this by paying you for your time instead. Gee, I wonder why this loophole doesn’t work for prostitution.

Intel is the Boeing of semiconductors. Right down to the billions of dollars in government funding.

If capitalism itself has been identified as the root of the problem, what other solution is there except overthrowing it completely? Do you prefer applying temporary bandaids indefinitely?

They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren’t visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.

When I see massive and highly technical projects like this I wonder where they find enough skilled labor to build it. Just look at the immense complexity of this and they have to build miles and miles of it underground. I’m imagining that all of the construction workers have PhDs in physics or some shit. Or am I overestimating the demands here?

250 million years ago to 2019. This salt had a good run.

Then you will probably not be pleased to know that AI tools are increasingly being used in blockchain analysis to trace transactions back to their owners. What a terrible convergence of both of these technologies.

I prefer physical controls too, but you have to understand that touchscreen car interfaces aren’t meant to be used while driving- ie, you’re supposed to set climate presets and use voice controls to replace the constant fiddling with buttons and dials. I hate speaking to gadgets and sure as hell don’t want to talk to my car, but this is where everything is heading.

A testament to just how effectively they can control the population that they went from the big scary boogeyman of the 00’s to barely spoken about in public discourse now.

That’s extremely cheap for any car of that size, let alone an EV. For comparison, the average price of a new car sold in the US is $47k.

All tetrapods share a common ancestor but the land was already teeming with invertebrate life at the time. Take a look at this handy guide to see our lineage. :)

It’s also not a closed, finite system because it relies on the extraction of resources and labor from outside of the imperial core.

Because the Anglosphere was so xenophobic that even the Irish and Italians were too culturally exotic to them and thus demonized their entire belief system.

What’s funny is that ferrets have been domesticated for thousands of years for a similar purpose as cats but they’re still viewed as wild or exotic by many. California and Hawaii still prohibit ownership of ferrets out of fear that they will harm native wildlife populations. Yet cats are completely legal and are much more capable hunters in every situation other than underground burrows. And anyone who has owned or interacted with a pet ferret knows how completely useless they would be surviving in the wild on their own. They have zero self preservation instinct.