As if genocide wasn’t a formative policy of the United States itself.

"AI" seems to be best put to use performing specific automated tasks. This is something a lot of us have been saying for a while now, but they tried to make what is essentially an industrial tool (as in boutique AI for specific industries), into both slide deck candy for enterprise C-suites, and an expensive consumer plaything. Enterprise customers demand real results for their money, and consumers do not care about the novelty of generative AI enough to recoup the costs of this insane level of infrastructure development. Add what is essentially shaping up to be runaway inflation, and well, yeah. No one cares about this shit.

They came at it like this because they are Silicon Valley and for the better part of 3 decades now, they have operated under the assumption that they are always right, and that if they can survive running on a loss at first, eventually they will acheive market dominance and monopolize their product. I just don't see it happening. I see this more like the early dot com days. A lot of investment, and a lot of failures. But eventually, for better or worse, a few of them figured out how to make it work. This time around however, capitalism itself is failing.

We live in a Paul Verhoeven movie.

Can confirm. Thanks for having us over.

Geez, Nelson Mandela. You’re like, soooo obsessed with South Africa.

Ethics, morals, shame, empathy.

It just feels like these things are just nonexistent sometimes.

I don’t think they even prepared for the “war” part of Trump’s Iran War.

If there is some glimmer of hope, it’s that maybe a few more of my countrymen now realize that the US isn’t as powerful as our leaders like to pretend. The mask is coming off, and while it is a bit nerve-racking pondering what the future may hold, I do hope it starts us down a path of more righteous endeavors. As much bad as we do in the world, I do know the good that people in this country are capable of.

Just gotta get all of these right wing democrats out, and punish the war criminals and their profiteers.

It's going to get to the point where we'll need 3rd party open source OSes for every device in our homes.

"Your toaster is spying on you, use ToastOS instead."