It doesn’t matter who has it, it’s the one ring.

It’s sheer existence is too dangerous to be allowed. But everyone focuses on what they could do with the power and think they’ll be able to keep it.

That’s why there’s such pushback against opposition to datacenters, it’s not just the money from the stocks, everyone pictures themselves as the only ones who gets to abuse the tech once it’s built.

Many people think Mexico is the only country that exists,

No, some people that you know think that “many people” believe that…

It doesn’t make it true

Tldr:

Oxidative stress resulting in difficulty copying shorter stings appears to result in a higher percentage of longer strings than in younger sperm…

Fuck if I know what that means tho. The article and the research never really got into what the problems are.

Yeah, it’s just typical capitalism stuff.

People see talk about legit refurbs and then think a dust wipe refurb isnthe same thing and get ripped off.

However, it is is not coming from someone who does this stuff at a professional level (refurbished in other words), I am not sure if I can trust it.

It’s honestly not even worth trying to use the right terminology these days…

Every seller/manufacturer uses slightly different definitions.

So to clarify, what’s good is:

A product that was sent back to manufacturer and “manufacturer refurbished” meaning that common fail points were inspected and repaired even if a failure would be emmenient but it’s still working

Pretty much anything else, would be bad.

An example of what is bad is:

“Amazon/ebay refurbished” where someone may have wiped the dust off and possibly checked to see if it turned on.

Especially for hard drives, the refurbishing is built into the purchase contract of the new drives. And since the purchaser and manufacturer both understand the refresh is proactive and the old drives still have life in them, it knocks off a percentage on the new drives and that’s where we can find deals.

I think I’ve got a 1TB that’s ~20 years old I got that way. It’s still technically in my main PC, but at this point it’s an unimportant archive drive that just doesn’t get read or wrote very often.

I’ve just literally never had a HDD or SD die tho. I don’t know why people act like they’re disposable parts of a PC still.

Yeah, that’s how politicians get the insider tips, it’s bribes to not go after the person who gave them the tip.

If enough of the right people make enough money, then everything about it becomes legal, or at worse a fine that’s less than the profits made.

Less skynet and more a surveillance state thats gonna put England and even CCP to shame.

They need the hard drives because they’re storing everything about us. Every time we drive by a camera, gps paths of our cell phones constant travel, every bank transaction including small purchases, every social media comment, page we view from WiFi or cellphone, all our connections to everyone else, tags for various groups.

Not even just the people we know we know, they’ll know who’s usually next to us in traffic on commutes and when, who makes our sandwich from the deli we go to every other Tuesday, what cops would be most likely to respond to a call to our house at a certain time…

Like, “skynet” is useful because everyone knows the term.

The real danger is what humans will do with access to that much information on everyone, and what a normal human would do to/for a stranger to protect all their darkest secrets.

Imagine if tech was 20 years ahead right now with trump in office, do you think someone like him would hesitate to start wide scale blackmail?

You think they’re above telling a couple thousand people in highly targeted districts that they had to vote a certain a way or else?

It’s not the AI we need to be scared of, it’s the data.

Wild that people were down voting you. Hard drives can last decades and are replaced from enterprise servers long before they’re close to failing.

Especially with lowered use compared to a server, you won’t see much functional difference between brand new consumer grade and used server grade.

Pretty sure caches and everything are better on used server grade still anyways.

These companies are publicly traded…

The people who run/own the AI companies would have been complete idiots to not invest in the hardware companies they were going to make these purchases from before making those purchases.

But 100 million in Seagate stock, then announce you just signed a contract buying up supply.

Your company may overpay, but you personally just made a shit ton of money. Which is the why you want your company to succeed

As a bonus, the news that you’re overpaying to buy up all the hard drives, doesn’t hurt your company it helps it.

There’s no way to monetize it anyways, the product is the stock price. And this move makes the company seem confident, which raises stock price.

That’s not even getting into the long term problem that even if AI fails, were seeing a huge migration in computing power from individuals to private corporations. That’s a big deal even if AI dies tomorrow. And they have a lot of motivation to never let us get it back.

Just say it.

At least with that there’s no doubt if it’s intentional or not.

When I was right out of college I was interviewing for an internship at a pretty relaxed non-profit a friend worked out, and I was interviewing with her very attractive friend, all of us in our mid to late 20s.

Her boobs were like, fully out. Shirt ubuttoned down past her bra, not something you’d see in an office but maybe at a college party at the end of a night. I did what you did an just tried to ignore it and maintain eye contact

About 15 minutes into it my friend had to come into the office to grab something, took one look at us and said “(interviews name), your tits are out” and then left without saying anything else.

We both died laughing and she got a little embarrassed. But it was that weird grey area if I said something and it was intentional I’d be a huge dick.

No one is intentionally walking around with unzipped pants.

So everyone will appreciate the quick heads up.

No, but if you eat 3-5 bananas before a radiation measuring, you’ll read high exposure.

No, because people are wired to like boobs.

Not just people, mammals in general

If you don’t like boobs, you might starve to death as a baby. So loving boobs is probably one of the most selected for traits for any mammal.

but at the end of the day the dumb masses drove the country off the cliff

You still don’t understand.

But unfortunately repeati g my advice is unlikely to help regardless of if I do it now or a month from now if we run into each other again.

Nothing personal, I just don’t wanna go thru this again later if I know how it’ll end.

Still, I don’t think it needs to be standard procedure to announce every fringe porn community. As stated above, the audience will find it. And it is unnecessary for new people to the Fediverse getting the impression that this is what it is all about.

I mean, to be honest if you’re trying to get that message to users of the porn instance, I never quite understood why you’re saying it here where there’s already a problem with spam about and none of them will even fucking see it…

And why you wouldn’t make this post over there where they’d see it.

But we all have different thresholds before we reach for that block button I guess. I’ll keep being proactive about not seeing stuff I don’t want to.

There’s been a couple different accounts that do it, just block the account the first one time you see it, because they’ll keep doing it till they’re banned then make a new account.

Most likely its just one person who likes putting NSFW places it’s not meant to be, which is why they were/are using porn pics as thumbnails so they show up on /all

I just blocked the entire domain honestly, it’s what you need to do if you really want to prevent it.

It literally took democracy to basically collapse and people to literally die on the streets for some groups to wake up

For you…

It took demographicsyou identify with experiencing those things for you to notice groups waking up.

But different demographics have been thru this for generations, and various groups have been waking up to it for just as long

So congrats for joining us. Just try to remember you’re not the first, and you hopefully won’t be the last. Look around and realize that as you come up with “new” ideas, some people been in this so long they learned it from their grandfather before they learned how to ride a bike.

That’s a good thing for you. You don’t have to start from scratch.

Just open your eyes some more, stay woke, don’t get mad your not a leader and quit.

I’m sorry but there may be smart Americans out there but, and a population, Americans are basically a blob of idiotic sociopaths

You’re missing the point…

Even with the dumbest audience possible, if two people are trying to convince the audience a charismatic liar can win if their opponent is also lying or has no charisma.

But no matter how charismatic or how good of a liar. It’s really fucking hard to beat someone with average charisma who doesn’t need to lie about wanting to help people

Look at Mamdani, I love the guy.

But people act like he’s dripping charisma just because he’s compared to Eric Adams.

He’s not that charismatic, watch his interviews with Mero, he’s a nerd from the Bronx.

It’s just an honest person that wants to help doesn’t need a lot of charisma, cuz they’re not selling lies

The day Mamdani won the primary, the current chair of the DNC came out saying all this too, and saying that’s what we need as a dem.presidential candidate in 2028.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of a trial over whether Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people.

Ironically I think rather than them wearing them for nefarious reasons, they’ve just been encouraged to use them for so long, that they are actually addicted to them as well.

Like, if you were forced to use your employers product at work for 10-12 hrs a day and try to come up with way to monetize it in your off hours, you may start to rely on it eventually.

Our brains are wired to always take the easiest path, that’s actually the reason for technological advancement in the first place.

They probably just don’t even realize they’re wearing them, it’s just a (mostly useless and completely impractical) part of their bodies now.

Pretty sure you had to tie a phone number to an account for years now…

Everyone that interacts with that stuff, Elmo knows.

Imagine getting a phone call from a bot one day going over all the worst shit you’ve done on the internet and saying if you don’t do x/y/z then it’ll release your history to everyone you know.

It’s a large scale Epstein style blackmail ring on average people.

Which doesn’t sound that scary till you realize they know everything about these, where they live, who they work for, who their neighbors are, what picks up kids from the same school.

There’s no indication it’s happening yet, but does anyone think Elmo is above it? Hell, he could be DMing people saying they have to vote Republican or he releases their Twitter history.

Huh?

A big reason trump got so many votes is he lied about draining the swamp and his voters are dumb enough to believe him.

They can be dumb and believe someone who means it when they say it.

Like, you’re making a valid point, then reaching the literal opposite conclusion that logic should take us too

We can’t afford to be that shortsighted, think stuff thru.