They very explicitly didn’t run over anyone with tanks. No one but Adrian Zenz has ever claimed that and you will not find a source that is not Adrian Zenz suggesting that they did.

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The guy that essentially added lasers to Japanese movies and somehow became a multi-billionaire is a fan of stealing other’s work with minimal effort and reusing it without permission?

I’m shocked. Shocked I say.

Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they’ve signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There’s a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.

That’s great and all but the current linux phone offerings are… not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.

Anyone can have sex. Well maybe you’re the exception. But actual sex workers perform, and that is art.

Sex work is real work, even if it’s just the Patreon accounts of Hyperfuta Orgy Overwatch x BG3 artists. You should support it.

CachyOS is what Mint thinks it is, and could be if they didn’t go the debian route. It’s practically as easy as Mint, infinitely more performant, and likely runs whatever you want (though switching to appimage packages instead of deb packages for random internet software does indeed feel worse.)

Because unlike AI, there is actual money to be made in space. Elon has little to do with SpaceX besides the grand mission statement, and SpaceX engineers have said as much that employees mostly just humor him and then do the real engineering.

So yes, they will be going to the moon. Three years ago super heavy couldn’t get out of the atmosphere, now they’ve had several successful launches and catches. 20 years ago reusable rockets were a pipe dream that NASA gave up on because ‘it would be too difficult,’ now there are more Falcon 9 launches than any other rocket in history.

The business is there, the science is there, the engineering is there; and that means lunar resource hunting is in sight. and with that we have stellar construction, and then we have everything we need to start, at the very least, microgravity clean room manufacturing, if not asteroid mining, and if not potential colonization.

NASA is doing the science to take out risks for these things, Capital will capitalize on these things after the public pays for the finer points.

Hence my solution. You can get 2-4 TB drives for around $30 on ebay. Get a flexible RAID controller that can handle multi-parity Raid 50, ideally a second hand raid card. We’re at a total of $230 in at this point, assuming you have a windows 10 desktop lying around.

This is not a high data speed situation. If you have 6 or more drives you can dedicate two to parity and now you will never have data loss despite buying second hand drives. Effective storage capacity will be 16TB, which is more than enough to store 100 full series and a few thousand movies at 1080p or lower, and raid 50 gives a speed boost above what your controller will likely be able to handle, and way above what is needed for even a quite large multi-user media server.

Data storage is still incredibly cheap. You’re just confusing your needs and your wants.

Bro win 10 computers are essentially free thanks to microsoft’s windows 11 requirements and any of them can keep up with transcoding. Add onto that any second hand sata drives and a sata controller than handles multiple parity drives for raid 5 and you’ve got a solution that is under the yearly subscription fee of ad-free netflix and a fun weekend project.

So if you direct your attention to the instance name next to my username, you might see that your racist comments are just unpopular.

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What’s lazy is assuming chinese people have no ability for self determination and holding that racist belief to such an extreme level of nonsensicality that you believe literally the most high tech job in world history, one that is done 99% by machines because humans objectively cannot possibly do the work, one that is overseen by people with a minimum of one PhD, one where there is no non-degree holder in the building, is somehow done by slaves…

Because what, you saw a BBC or RFA or other NED article saying China uses prison labor as a form of rehabilitation one time so now no Chinese person can do something without slaves?

If you were to critically analyze any of your thoughts you’d be embarrassed to how ridiculous your thoughts have become. Replace Chinese for any other nationality and see if what you’re about to say makes sense.

And China as a government, absolutely loves the idea of everyone’s computer usage going thru giant corporations because the Chinese government owns part of every Chinese company and doesn’t need a backdoor since they have a set of keys.

This is your brain on American Government propaganda.

Like, why would they make something that they don’t want and would sell for less profit margin overseas?

To steal market share and relevance from Taiwan, removing the incentive for the US to continue to support its continual war against China.

Why build for a bunch of broke consumers when there’s a blank check for anything related to data centers right now?

Because data centers are temporary. Consumers will outlast AI.

Why would you ever hope China would save us from this?

Because they’re the only government attempting to do anything for the common person. Yes, they’re China first, but their official stance is to encourage global revolution.

This is just racism btw, get help.

Except it’s not what the evidence suggests. We have yet to find physical evidence of consciousness. We have yet to find a way to accurately simulate a neuron in any falsifiable way (seriously look into the detractors and counterarguments to the fly study, it’s amazing that 3d graphics can trick that many people). But even beyond neurons we cannot accurately link brain activity to behavior in anything but a superficial way. We have no insight into how decisions are made or what ultimately drives them.

More importantly, if the world is deterministic, all meaning in life is gone. Completely. And the second it is objectively proven most people will kill themselves. Any intelligent being would kill itself, since that’s the logical next step in the chain of thought and it wouldn’t have a choice.

Meaning the universe is flawed if the point of it is to create life, and if there is no point to the universe and it’s purely deterministic, we are in a worse hell than has ever been imagined in the totality of human expression. Arguably the worst possible hell there could ever be.

Nonexistence would be the infinitely better option.

Except if this is the case, free will does not exist. If the world is purely deterministic, you’ve never made a choice. No one has. We are in the middle of a mathematical computation that has been predicted from the start of the universe.

The majority of Russians still support this war.

You mean in polls conducted in a country where secret police have literally posed as pollsters and arrested people, and where police just openly arrest anyone that speaks out against the regime, there isn’t a large consensus speaking out against the regime?!

My God, they’re all monsters, even the children!

Well it’s good you support vulnerable populations. Say did you hear about this guy pretty much universally called a dictator who forcibly conscripts innocent poor kids and ethnic minorities into his foreign war for power while keeping most of his military at home in order to ensure tight control over the domestic population so they can’t meaningfully rebel and even when they do international media spins it as the enemy country in this dictator’s war having a successful attack even when it’s obvious domestic sabotage that likely has nothing to do with the war except, obviously, the forced conscription and increased domestic military presence?

Man that seems like a target rich environment full of blood thirsty enemies for you to root for the complete and total genocide of and not at all a vulnerable population.