Victim of Communism
It took only a few hours after Trump warned Taiwan not to try declaring independence…
It’s been standing US policy going back to the Nixon Administration not to recognize Taiwanese independence.
You can’t lay this shitbird at Trump’s feet. Go blame Eisenhower for his choice of VP.
It’s a Shepherd’s Tone headline. Taken at face value, I have to assume 110% of the county is illiterate and scores are expected to get twice as bad by the end of the year.
Here’s a jpg of a graph with no citations and a poorly defined X-axis. Please go be Doomers in the comments now. Don’t forget to point at a generational cohort and blame them for everything
I haven’t seen anyone doing a better job. Lots of hype around the new things, though.
Amazon’s service model, for example, is to twiddle the knobs to just under the point where the majority ragequit
I mean, I get Amazon Prime via their shopping service whether I want it or not. And half of their “library” such that it exists is just links out to other paid premium services. Nevermind their Netflix-esque habit of cancelling or delaying popular shows while churning out lots of AI slop to fill in the gaps.
There’s no strong incentive to drop Prime Shipping (because it’s dirt cheap and I still do plenty of retail shopping on Amazon). But I find myself going to their TV / Movies selection less and less frequently. Occasionally just pirate the Amazon show I already have access to out of convenience.
Can’t say the same of Netflix, though. Cancelled that shit a few years ago. Barely anything left worth pirating from it anymore.
Let me know when they find a way to get ads into the torrented copies of their shows.
And India.
Building 5x the number of fossil fuel plants as nuclear plants.
If you believe nuclear is preventing climate change, you need to square these figures
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has reportedly chosen a data analysis system from France
Okay, so they’re still doing mass surveillance on their citizenry. They’re just doing it with the Le Woke DeGuallist firm rather than the Based Trad Amerifascists
Excuse me, nobody outside of China is building new reactors
Why build a nuclear power plant with your data center if you could just get power from the grid and drive up everyone else’s price too
The national grid has raw physical limits that many data centers already exceed.
Silicon Valley’s AI Boom Hits a Wall: Data Centers Are Built but Can’t Turn On
Power shortages and high costs are stalling new data centers, leaving the Bay Area behind faster-growing markets like Atlanta and Northern Virginia.
What do Atlanta and Virginia have access to that Silicon Valley lacks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Plant
The joke of the Grok AI is how it’s generating power in one of the least cost efficient manners possible.
Musk is just burning a ton of short term capital to avoid lobbying Mississippi (fucking Mississippi, the most easy state to bend over a rail with lobbyists in the country) for a hard-line to the existing grid and some upgrades to capacity funded on the public dime.
That’s what you get to do as a trillionaire. Make stupid business decisions and then dump the turd onto your investors when they want to invest in your lucrative network of federal Pentagon contracts.
Article pitches this as either/or when it’s very obviously going to be more of one producing more of the other.
I do get tired of the “nuclear energy is better than climate change!” as though our voracious demand for cheap energy will neatly cap itself the moment we get X new nuclear facilities online.
But I also get tired of hearing people insist that nuclear energy is on the horizon, when nobody is building new plants. This is a vaporware technology. It isn’t in the production pipeline and there’s no reason to believe posting your Nuke-Love online will change that
The world would be a better place if everyone in the US treated these bigots and freaks as heavy handedly as Chinese citizens do
Amazing what a country can do when its continued existence depend on residents doing it.
The EU disagrees with you after a thorough investigation.
Police investigating themselves inevitably find the people they are policing were in the wrong.
China has been giving its EV manufacturers massive state subsidies for a long time now
Chinese manufacturers benefit from the state investment in infrastructure and the at-cost production of utilities through SOEs. They produce professionals out of universities funded with state tax dollars who do not carry enormous personal debts. They have a large high speed transportation network that reduces delivery delays and mobilizes much of the idle workforce.
In any other country, we’d acknowledge this as capital investments in the economy at-large. In China, we pretend that this is some kind of unfair business advantage.
Honestly, she isn’t wrong.
AI Slop is a sub-optimal replacement that requires enormous amounts of materials and second-order human labor to produce. Like so many other industrial innovations, it’s a waste-production machine that has the added benefit of occasionally producing consumables.
We get to run the AI Slop machine at a profit because the market for slop is heavily monopolized and the consumer base is cash rich and alienated from its laboring peers. But a downturn in the domestic economy, a sudden shortfall in cheap raw materials, a major shift in popular consumption habits, or a higher quality alternative at a lower price point all put AI slop at risk of losing profitability.
It’s a far more fragile industry than any Slop Advocate wants to admit. And it needs an enormous structural investment to function.
the Industrial Revolution was a step forward
A step forward into what, though? Mass overproduction resulting in economy-wide enshitification and a crisis of excess waste all carried enormous tail costs.
Are you really better off today buying furniture from IKEA that won’t last ten years, rather than inheriting antiques from your parents that have endured for the last century? Are you better of driving a car built in a big machine-factory than riding a trolley that was designed custom for the city lines? Are you better of eating individually plastic-wrapped slices of fake cheese than carving a chunk off the giant wheel in your pantry?
Idk, man. Views differ on that one.
AI Spokesmodel: “We built a big machine that steals your work product to plagiarize it, then sucks you into an assembly-level job that pays under-subsistence wages to tidy up all the crap it injects”
Journeymen Professionals: “This sucks! Smash the looms!”
AI Spokesmodel: “Don’t worry, though. Some of you can still become cops!”
Austrian Art School Dropouts: “We’re listening”.
The last industrial revolution turned farmers into factory drones.
Nonsense. It turned farmers into corpses and migrants into factory drones and more migrants into more farmers.
There’s plenty to blame him for. Iran is a great example. Trump pulled a trigger that no other president was willing to touch, going on 47 years.
But the policy he’s stating wrt Taiwan is the exact same policy we’ve been operating under since before he was born.
“The adults in the room” crowd has been shitting the bed since Reagan. I cannot imagine a bigger tell that your foreign policy is shit than “My policies are mature and yours are for babies”.
Particularly when the policies would accelerate yet another armed conflict.