Th4tGuyII

The AI bubble bursting might take us into yet another “once in a generation” recession, but at least we’d finally be able to actually buy computer parts again!

I mean the orange turd’s war with Iran already skyrocketed the cost of living crisis in the west, so we might as well get a recession to pair with it like a nice Chianti.

Honestly been great for me. Had such a quiet work day courtesy of Microsoft. They should kill their email servers more often haha

US President Donald Trump has called the Nvidia chief ‘an honorable guy’, while congressional leaders call for investigations into national security risks

Honestly, never mind the scandal, I’d investigate Jenson just on this basis. Almost everyone that Trump has ever called “honorable” has had a skeleton hiding in their closet.

Yeah, cause Elon’s definitely not trying to put himself in the spotlight by saying he’ll do something he’ll worm his way out of later.

Jenson should totally rest assured Elon will definitely commit to hiring him.

It would’ve made sense if the Meters were made modular with a removable antenna/mobile data modules - rather than having to replace loads of perfectly functioning smart meters because the energy companies wanted to save a few bob 20 years ago.

Bit late to the party, but I would try the r/ROMS GitHub site. I believe their Internet Archive links are still good.

Otherwise, Minerva as long as you’re set up for Torrents.

R.I.P. Myrient

5 minutes is paltry. Devs should be required to submit an uncut recording of the first 30 minutes of gameplay from launching via Steam before they can release a game or push an update.

I don’t think that’s an unreasonable demand, cause if a game can’t launch or survive 30 minutes of normal gameplay, it shouldn’t be on the store for people to waste their time and/or money on.

Yeah, let’s not count our chickens just yet on world events. Though I’d love to hope you’re right.

Honestly. Agreed.

While in office Trump is essentially immune to consequences - there’s very little point in trying to go after him again.

But his administration and DOJ have been doing some very blatantly corrupt things for a while now, and their only safeguard was the Republican Congress refusing to do anything about it.

Now that the entire Congress is in Democrat hands, they’re vulnerable - so going after them and essentially neutering Trump’s tirade against democracy for the rest of his administration certainly seems the best path forward.

Though we’ve got the next two years to find out what’s gonna go down.

Yeah, you don’t get to Scrooge McDuck levels of money by being friendly. He absolutely would’ve sold out Epstein then made his own island, because the money bin doesn’t fill itself.

Honestly… Yeah. Outside of insider trading, there’s no real way to know what the future holds, so every stock and every bond is just a gamble with varying levels of risk (or Crypto if you like getting rug-pulled over and over)

Life in of itself is way more about being lucky than most people at the top would like you to think about

Why is AI development continuing?

There is demand, but that demand only exists because consumers aren’t being exposed to the actual price of AI. It’s all being subsidised by investor hype.

Not one of the frontier AI companies have made a profit as of today, not a single one..

The only ones making profit are those exploiting the subsidised pricing for business (or to pull huge scams) and the guys selling the shovels components for data-centres, like Nvidea - who are desperate to keep the investor money flowing, to the point that they themselves are pouring some profits into their own AI company customers in the unofficially dubbed great AI Investor circle-jerk.

… And though this Bloomberg report was from January 2026, if you look hard enough you’ll notice this circular financing hasn’t stopped, in-fact Nvidea even acknowledged this circular fimancing themselves not even two months ago.

If the only way this keeps going is propping up the industry with investor money and circular financing, then when one of those eventually give and the public are exposed to the true price of AI - what happens then?

A bit into conspiracy territory now, but it’s what has me suspecting that a lot of the news we hear about AI going rogue and what-not isn’t as accidental as it seems. Any publicity is good publicity and keeps AI on the forefront of investors minds.

Make it a legal requirement for any indefinite revokable license product on sale to be sold as “indefinitely licensing”. Any term implying irevokable ownership (I.e. buying, purchasing) would be illegal to use.

It would wisen a lot of people up very quickly to what’s essentially a long-play con being pulled on them constantly, especially as some games companies *cough* Sony *cough* are looking to force digital-only ecosystems.

… And if being forced to use that term makes the companies doing this squeemish, well they could always just stop selling revokable licenses.

That’s nearly always been the way to make money.

Look up most of the mega rich people now, even the “self-made” ones and you’ll find 99/100 of them came from money.

The other way is luck. Be in the right place at the right time with the right skills to take opportunity’s hand… and pull the ladder up behind you so nobody else can follow.

Yeah. Why do I get a feeling that the fixee bug was the saving conversations part and not the non-consensual eavesdropping.

Easiest way to not have your glasses recording everything you do is weirdly enough not to have glasses that record everything you do. Weird suggestion I know, but 100% foolproof

Those viewpoints are not mutually exclusive…

You can point out the need for better AI regulations to hold companies liable for when their AIs “go rogue” AND want better laws for going after people who misuse AI tools for harmful/malicious purposes.

Man it’s wild that even W Bush had more decency than Trump, and he was terrible

Oops, you’re right, got my words mixed up haha

Yeah, it’s wild that the bulk result of all the droplets in a system individually refracting the White light is essentially a uniform macroscopic refraction as though it had gone through some kind of super droplet.
Physics does some cool stuff sometimes!

Edit: Refraction not defraction

Well that’s easy. Those who would have been rendered powerless, and those who could won’t cause they’re in on it.