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Captainant

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  1. Lmfao this is giving MNhorn vibes in the twitter thread as elon was doing his dumb shit there - yeah everything is going great. Ignoring courts and asserting they have no checks on co-equal branches of government attacking peoples and targeting them for retribution for their peaceful and free speech unilaterally restricting legislatively mandated funds, snatching the power of the purse from congress are just a few that come to mind. I'm happy to provide specific links if you disagree with anything
  2. idk if you'd die from THC addiction, but you can 100% OD on taco bell 4th meals
  3. A thing I try to keep in mind is that the <5% rates were themselves an abberation. Mortgages in the 80s and 90s were routinely 9 or 10% interest, it's just that principal amounts were a fraction of what they are now. Regular people can't afford properties if rates and principal amounts are so sky-high. Just the property value inflation has been absurd lately. I'm a beneficiary of it to be sure - my previous home appreciated in value nearly 25% in just five years!! But likewise, my new nextdoor neighbor paid 1/3 of what I did for a bigger house about 15 years ago. It's completely unsustainable for prices to skyrocket like that. If you're on the train already, it's not so bad since your last property helps propel you to your next step up - but otherwise you're completely left behind and getting further behind by the day. Also, I closed my 30yr fixed at 6.825% /humblebrag
  4. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
  5. What political outcome do you think was at the heart of facemask ordinances for public shared spaces? Please be specific. For an airborne virus like COVID, masks are extremely effective at blocking the droplets that carried the COVID virus. I'm sorry masks are ineffective for Raider Rash, so I can understand your frustration
  6. It would be kind of funny if Uber had their strategy turned against them. They built their market share on pricing competitors out and then raising prices again once they killed their competition
  7. You poor baby victim! It's the height of performative victimhood to act like public health measures are some immense burden. I mean, it works in the other direction with you and your peers. You've told this story so many times of how bad wearing a fucking face mask was, you now believe it.
  8. Trump has violated another court order and deported a dozen people to Africa with zero due process. https://apnews.com/article/deportation-immigration-south-sudan-department-of-homeland-security-300e8c704402e2cb3c920d251b7fa876 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling after an emergency hearing, after attorneys for immigrants said the Trump administration appears to have begun deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan — despite a court order restricting removals to other countries. Murphy said the government must “maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country, to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful.” While Murphy left the details to the government’s discretion, he said he expects the migrants “will be treated humanely.” Attorneys for the migrants told the judge that immigration authorities may have sent up to a dozen people from several countries to Africa, which they argue violates a court order saying people must get a “meaningful opportunity” to argue that sending them to a country outside their homeland would threaten their safety.
  9. it's almost like shareholders have been extracting wealth from consumers for a LOOOOONG time and many core businesses are still sound without exploitative profit margins or something
  10. This is a great article that even talks about edge-hosted LLM models like what you might run on your cell phone, laptop, or desktop PC. Llama3.1 8B (8 billion parameters) only pulled 114 joules to generate a response - for comparison that's 1/10th of a second of your microwave running. Llama3.1 405B (405 billion parameters) pulled 6706 joules to generate a response - about 8 seconds of a microwave running. Image generating models use about 1/3rd energy as much as text models, and video generating models use about twice as much energy as text models. The devil in those details though, is that you often will make many queries to come to your conclusion. The article has a great breakdown of how much juice you'd use to brainstorm some marketing ideas, generate videos and images, and it comes out to around 3 and a half hours of running your microwave. Every time google search results generate a summary of your search, it's a bite of energy. Scaled across billions of queries per hour. And it's something that everyone hates! I do think there's value in locally hosted models doing work acceleration for you, but cloud providers spinning up huge datacenters to power features that nobody wants is pretty dogshit. Not to mention, those DC's are mostly powered by natgas and belching a shitton of carbon emissions for no meaningful value.
  11. "Well it's not against the law, so that means it's perfectly fine to do" - oil barons, probably
  12. They're crazy MAGA at THD. They even run an employee superPAC for conservative issues
  13. In Rebels they fill in more blanks - Saw doesn't play well with others and sees enemies everywhere. The Yavin rebels have been sending spies into his camp - Mon said as much - so it helps contextualize his accusations of "A SPY??"
  14. They just released a huge free update to Rogue Trader with a new Arbites origin story for your player character
  15. my buddy thinks it's a pressure play on Altman, since grok is also now hosted on azure via its LLM marketplace - the only place you can get your own personal "grok"
  16. Keepin' the sunshine a-pumpin' https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/us-treasury-yields-moodys-downgrades-us-credit-rating.html 30 year T-bills hitting over 5%
  17. a buddy of mine at azure just sent me this with "WTF??". Why is Microsoft platforming musk at their developer conference? None of their developers are happy to see him or want his advice in building technology
  18. Its amazing how much milage they've gotten out of a decade old quip. Props to you for keepin it goin'
  19. Bummer. Sucks that I sent traffic her way. When I read the snippet of the story and found the local news link I didn't think to check to see who the editorial author was, since the underlying facts of the situation were confirmed by actual local reporting. Either way, you really Hate to see our forecasting and alerting ability be degraded so quickly and thoroughly. It leaves one in a state of Incredulity.
  20. DOGE cuts have caused the tornado early warning system to fail in Kentucky, I'm sure we'll get our turn in the barrel https://www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-warnings-delayed-because https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/deadly-tornado-outbreak-ohio-valley-kentucky-missouri-indiana 18 confirmed dead with a higher body count feared as they clean up
  21. There's been lignin wood nails for some time now, I wonder if this is a "what if we made a whole board outta this stuff" kind of deal. The nails are a similar thing where they're impregnated with resin and trade secrets and physically become part of the wood once set. I recall reading things like "higher strength than traditional steel nails" and the like
  22. HAY isn't this kind of thing SOCIALISM(!!!!)? I thought it was unamerican and COMMUNIST to say a company should take a smaller profit? At least that's what happens every time it's suggested on this board
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