You can’t think of anything they could do.
That’s different and it’s incredible naive for you to think the only things that could happen are the things you can think of.
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11·4 days agoSo leave it with the oligarchs who are actively brining trump to make it worse?
What the fuck kind of learned helplessness is this?
Yeah they beat and starve us, but if we stop them from doing it someone might show up and if we let them they’d beat and starve us to!!!
Like, fucking newsflash man:
This is a continual fight, and boomers acting like it wasn’t is why shit is like it is today. No matter what happens this fight never stops
I have similar feelings with people who put more importance on tone policing while fucking fascists are building concentration camps.
But here we are and that’s what you’re doing
So I usually put one last hail mary comment, because you understanding this is more important than how nice you think someone is:
If you think the message would be better received another way, fucking try that
Don’t try and insist that every spreads the message the same way, because that’s a recipe for it not reaching large parts of the population.
But there’s going to be a lot of less than a week old accounts with single digit comments trying to waste people’s time and stop doing what’s effective.
And how do I know which you are?
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.
It’s no better than say, sucking up to someone with a peace award in the hopes they don’t start a war.
Buddy…
If you think the only two options are bing antognistic or “sucking up”…
Well, sounds like you are a recent example of the American education system
It doesn’t matter who has it, it’s the one ring.
It’s sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they’ll be able to keep it.
That’s why there’s such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it’s not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it’s built.
Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.
People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.
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.
Yeah, that’s how politicians get the insider tips, it’s bribes to not go after the person who gave them the tip.
If enough of the right people make enough money, then everything about it becomes legal, or at worse a fine that’s less than the profits made.
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.
Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.
Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.
Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.
These companies are publicly traded…
The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases.
But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply.
Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed
As a bonus, the news that you’re overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn’t hurt your company it helps it.
There’s no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price.
That’s not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That’s a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.
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.
but at the end of the day the dumb masses drove the country off the cliff
You still don’t understand.
But unfortunately repeati g my advice is unlikely to help regardless of if I do it now or a month from now if we run into each other again.
Nothing personal, I just don’t wanna go thru this again later if I know how it’ll end.
It literally took democracy to basically collapse and people to literally die on the streets for some groups to wake up
For you…
It took demographicsyou identify with experiencing those things for you to notice groups waking up.
But different demographics have been thru this for generations, and various groups have been waking up to it for just as long
So congrats for joining us. Just try to remember you’re not the first, and you hopefully won’t be the last. Look around and realize that as you come up with “new” ideas, some people been in this so long they learned it from their grandfather before they learned how to ride a bike.
That’s a good thing for you. You don’t have to start from scratch.
Just open your eyes some more, stay woke, don’t get mad your not a leader and quit.
I’m sorry but there may be smart Americans out there but, and a population, Americans are basically a blob of idiotic sociopaths
You’re missing the point…
Even with the dumbest audience possible, if two people are trying to convince the audience a charismatic liar can win if their opponent is also lying or has no charisma.
But no matter how charismatic or how good of a liar. It’s really fucking hard to beat someone with average charisma who doesn’t need to lie about wanting to help people
Look at Mamdani, I love the guy.
But people act like he’s dripping charisma just because he’s compared to Eric Adams.
He’s not that charismatic, watch his interviews with Mero, he’s a nerd from the Bronx.
It’s just an honest person that wants to help doesn’t need a lot of charisma, cuz they’re not selling lies
The day Mamdani won the primary, the current chair of the DNC came out saying all this too, and saying that’s what we need as a dem.presidential candidate in 2028.
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.
Huh?
A big reason trump got so many votes is he lied about draining the swamp and his voters are dumb enough to believe him.
They can be dumb and believe someone who means it when they say it.
Like, you’re making a valid point, then reaching the literal opposite conclusion that logic should take us too
We can’t afford to be that shortsighted, think stuff thru.
Sure, if you care about miles of wire and not customers, it sounds huge…
But anyone who hears that should be able to quickly figure out why it’s not relevant