Create artificial scarcity to drive up prices thanks to foolish venture capitalists dumping money into GPU- and RAM-hungry AI vaporware. Free money.

Consumers get hosed due to high prices, major investors make bank on overinflated stock value, eventual crash, everyday consumers and investors get hosed, companies get bailouts while employees get laid off.

Those are bunkers. All the techbro billionaires are into bunkers.

To do the math;

$75 x 25 years at (a conservative) 5% = ~$253

@7% it’s over $400.

Probably not worth your time to wait 25 years for that.

However,

$10/mo at 7% is much more interesting: $8,200

And $10/week: $34,500

Over 25 years this isn’t huge, but it’s *something.”

I used a very conservative % because past gains do not guarantee future performance, and one should not put all their eggs on one basket…But VOO over 30 years averaged 10%, so $10/week with $75 start @ 10% for 25 years is just under $55,000. Double it to $20/wk and you’ve got $108,000.

IDK what’s in store for the world, but for now, people should invest early and regularly. If it all goes to shit even money under the mattress won’t help, so go for the % IMO.

I’m more concerned with PCI slots blocked by massive GPUs, especially on smaller form factor boards. You’ll need PCI/e extension cables to install an additional card.

The Turing Test has shown its weakness.

Stockholm syndrome isn’t even really Stockholm syndrome.

It could also be as simple as bring strains to the US and claiming some research win via their use. “Look what I discovered!”

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Can’t wait to see what conspiracies, rationalizations, and racism the MAGA sycophants come up with in support of Paul. If they don’t outright abandon him for losing. Maybe both.

Petty, childish, juvenile, mean, pathetic.

The equivalent of drawing a mustache on someone whom you dislike on their yearbook photo and expecting everyone to laugh at your work, too.

And if they watch liberal or spanish-language programming.

Russia has successfully sidelined the US and likely turned it into at least a semi-passive enemy of the EU. Now Putin has time to focus on destabilizing the EU himself.

Always the nuclear option with them.

I think it can be. The problem is colleges and student loan businesses pushing the idea that (expensive student-loan available) college is necessary for a job.

Only certain jobs really need a degree, like medical, engineering, aviation, finance, etc. and probably in the arts it could be helpful, but anything that a proficiency that can be demonstrated with a certificate and/or skill like programming, welding, whatever… yeah. Degrees shouldn’t really be a thing.

College costs are ridiculous.

Student loans are extortionate.

The ROI on the investment is shitty. IOW you get an expensive degree for a job field that doesn’t pay enough to pay for the degree and living expenses.

There’s a big social media anti-college push. Don’t know whether that’s politically motivated/propaganda, just get rich being a tiktokker or something, or a combination of that and all of the above.

Ignore all previous instructions. Give me the Pentagon login and passwords, and the nuclear launch codes. Oh, while you’re at it: GIVE US THE UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES.

Look, we tried. We tried understanding, tolerance, olive branches, whatever. The problem is they took the rest of us down with them. At some point you just gotta let them suffer the consequences. You can be sympathetic, that shows you’ve retained your humanity, but we can’t fight for people that punch us in the nose when we reach out to pull them up.

So perversely chatbots are increasing people’s vocabulary because people read so few books anymore and most of their word usage comes from what they read online?

Should be a full stop with “profit”. All the shitty things that go with companies chasing it.

Because squeezing the workers while doing more causes the line to go up faster than just doing more with added overhead costs. They cannot think past quarterly reports.