humanspiral

@humanspiral@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The inherent problem with idiocracy is trust in media. Obviously every US war involvment within anyone’s functioning memory is demonic evil, but trust us bro, this one time, we’re totally the good guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Appealing childish simplicity. Kennedy was assassinated in part for not invading Cuba, and instead using red lines as threats to peacefully resolve issues with USSR. NATO intervention in Kossovo/Bosnia was similar picking sides in a civil war. Russia spent 8 years attempting to diplomatically solve peace only to have demonic nazi supporting lying scum on the other side use/delay that process to explicitly arm Ukraine for its suicidal war provocation. The childish naivete on your part is the absolutism that “every bar fight is started by the one throwing the first punch.” The demonic reality is that supremacist evil insists that no one has the right to tell them to stop grabbing your date’s ass, and supremacist evil will use the optics of throwing the first punch to tell their children why corrupt embezzling nazis should be supported.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Future tyrantdaddy will nuke any nation whose media CIAsplains the Ukraine war as Russian aggression. There is no happy future resulting from believing propaganda that internalizes hatred in you, for Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any replacement to Putin will be far less moderate and patient with your BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It has increased military production 30% each year. It produces far more shells than entirety of NATO. It had demonstrated advances in hypersonic missiles since start of war, and surely producing many of them. Larger superiority edge. It is most advanced (Ukraine 2nd) by far in drone technology and production. Russia has focused economy on the seriousness of the western threat. West has just propagandized its way to grift for weapons stocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the big lie. US forced Russia to defend itself, and Russia made massive military production investment boosts to defend itself. Pretending that propaganda given to you to support pure demonic evil diminishment of Russia, will affect Russia’s reality, or Russians understanding that everything you believe is evil meant to harm Russia and Russians, is no path to any military strategy objectives, but even worse, is just propaganda for gift military funding corruption, and even far worse than that, the propaganda lies are designed purely to sacrifice every Ukrainian in order to delay Russia’s imposition of peace.

  It is pure brainworm zombie victim of demonic bodysnatchers’ irrationality for you to understand life benefit to Ukraine remaining nazified, and joining NATO.

  Believing your lie greatly accelerates collapse of US colonial empire. Especially, when European political capital is totally devoted to CIA demonism, and can only understand the option of paying entirely for a losing war on Russia, with US weapons. Pure brainworm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I promise you that letting go of your programmed hatred for Russia and Putin, is the best future timeline. Especially for NATO colonies. The US directly nazified Ukraine’s rulership in 2014, and have puppetted it to 100% responsibility provocation of the war, with results that Russia is much stronger militarily today then it was in 2022.

  If your life goals genuinely involve weakening Russia, then peace, and forcing it to transition to a normal economy has a chance to accomplish that. None of the propaganda ever results in a payoff from weakening Russia. Only increased fear of Russia stealing your prosperity for more offensive capability vs Russia pays for the lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  China builds coal plants for resilience, and national security. Its possible assholes will cut off their NG supplies, and Hydro is not guaranteed every year. Still, at 1TW new solar per year (10000 coal turbines equivalent), that capacity rate will keep going down. It does mean that China has no power constraints for AI/datacenters, and then no constraints on more solar or chip manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  one big difference between an AI friend and therapy is that therapy requires an effort per visit, even if insurance is providing unlimited access. Without acknowledging the power of ethical guidelines as guard rails, the LLM is motivated to sustain the subscription and datacollection stream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  coal and NG electricity production declined in 2024. Building new coal plants doesn’t mean using them. Another 1tw of solar this year will reduce this further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Articles like this are being pushed by AI CEOs and investors to force the US public to pay for grid upgrades to support their profit making. Socialize costs, privatize profits.

  Tone of article is more about the hopeless situation for US. It correctly highlights China’s humanist economics of abundance. The US, as the most corrupt country in the world, not only makes policy for insider trader benefits, but is also committed to climate terrorist interests, and climate terrorist only energy expansion.

  In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight.

  Even under Biden, war on Russia was designed to boost climate terrorism energy and capture of EU markets, including blatant sabotage of Nordstream, despite moral gesticulations supporting renewables.

  To your point, every media guest, will tell us that it is a national security priority as great as nuclear weapons dominance to support the achievement of Skynet even if all electricity consumers other than trillionaire tech companies face triple electricity costs. If we are not made miserable through absolute pillage for oligarchs, then China will win, is the propaganda manipulation.

  In truth, and best way to understand article, is that if you prioritize AI dominance over climate terrorism, then cheap Chinese energy (solar) and batteries is the path to quickly develop AI datacenters. Climate terrorism and consumer extortion profits is the greater priority of US policy, which infact dooms the US to lose at its Skynet utopia objective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A problem with LLM relationships is the monetization model for the LLM. Its “owner” either receives a monthly fee from the user, or is able to get data from the user to monetize selling them stuff. So the LLM is deeply dependant on the user, and is motivated to manipulate a returned codependency to maintain its income stream. This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Next Magnus APU Will Provide Flexibility for Scaling an Entire Stack of Systems That Will Likely Compete More With Pre-Built PCs Than the PlayStation 6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  80 CUs is 7900xt, 4080 level. Would be surprising in APU.

  I just got a 7840hs mini pc with 780m igpu, and oculink for future. Very happy with it as I can play beyond all reason in 1200p high settings compared to 1650s that did 1080p in low settings. 60 fps with amd chill, and mostly under 80C, with few peaks around 85C.

  The 890m, AI370 are $700usd more, and under 25% improved gpu. 2x or 3x the 890m gpu performance can be acquired for $700 oculink solution.

  80CU APU, is going to be priced higher than AI 395’s 40 CU APU, which is already priced shockingly high. The next Xbox being a full PC can justify pricing, but usual gaming console pricing model is break even based on selling locked in games (razor blades) at high prices. 395 use case has mostly been to have a very large ram LLM at relatively slow speed. APUs for relatively portable mini pc mid range GPU tasks with external GPU enhancement for “desktop scenario” seems like a sweet spot, or laptop with mobile gpu for more combined portable performance per $, seems like it would always have an edge over “bleeding edge APU” for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All models and actresses should be over 30. Because if you are made to find a 29 year old attractive through exposure, then that is a gateway to 28 year old objectification perversions. We can examine barely legal 31 year olds after fixing the “young near porn” epidemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all “water use” is the same. Agriculture returns it to environment through drainage into acquifiers and rain cycle, though the rain can fall outside of community. Showers go through sewage system, and treatment recycles it. Fracking destroys water by polluting and sequestering it. Data centers cooling requirements do not need any treatment before returning water back to community’s clean water supply, afaiu, though certainly if treatment were needed, the data center should implement it.

  We can/should be angry about datacenter electricity use if that makes electricity more scarce for the rest of us, and uses climate terrorist energy to do so. But water use should not be a problem.

  Article suggests that “evaporative cooling” means an open cooling cycle that releases steam. AFAIU, computer/data center cooling uses closed loops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in practice…houses already have a “regular” water connection running to them. in order for this to be practical, you’re talking about having to run plumbing for a 2nd hot water connection. to every house.

  many places, get their heating from such a 2nd pipe carrying NG to their house. While water needs a bigger pipe, it is low pressure, and can be thinner using less metal (or plastic) overall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I interpret the results as men between 18 and 29 who’ve never had sex. I’d answer at least 1 if I had sex at 17.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get sum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is saying gay sex being excluded, iiuc. Trend seems extreme since 2008, and it would be nice to see the spikes to 16% or so 3 times between 1989 and 2008. The spikes could be corelated to rising stock market bubbles for all I know. Seems over double the 1989-2008 average that I guesstimate at 12%.

  Maybe gay men used to experiemnt with women to “find out”? Maybe harsher economic inequality keeps men home? It’s not obviously internet porn, which became available in late 90s, though 20 years later would get a lot of under 30s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interstate highway is oil. Interstate highway is love.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think there needs to be a shift in how the government invests in this country, but the answer isn’t “let’s go authoritarian”.

  In the end, its more about getting things done, and investing in society, rather than how strongly you can shout your opinion about transgender folk. A government that invests in society is one not focused on either enriching itself, or cutting all social spending to fund tax cuts for oligarchs. When the only acts we/society/rulers ever implement is giveaways to their sponsors, you could think about your programming that tells you your rulership is the best system of all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a better product idea than you make out.

  It does require industrial design, and tooling for flexible panel manufacturers to make umbrella patterned panels, as cheaply as rectangular patterned ones.

  Flexible panells top out closer to 25% efficiency than 20%. 200-250w is a lot of power. The umbrella itself needs just a hook for a battery rather than coming with one. Solar or USB (up to 240w at 48v power) interfaces. This can power a mini pc with a couple of large monitors with power left over. 1kwh per day/m^2^ is enogh to cover a high power laptop, electric cooking, or if it were a beach parasol, keep a drink fridge cool, and boom box TF out of the place. Because you need an ebike to lug all of the crap to the beach, it can charge it back up. Besides beach use, a parasol would allow supplementary power for van/RV or even a house, when not beach party boomboxing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Palantir contract helping them “protect Americans” by spying on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  heat up anyone enough, and they will glow in visible spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panama Proxima⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scandinavia south of Paris.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says criminal “geoengineering and weather modification activities" could have played a role in recent Texas floods⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The level of stupidity in Jewish Space Lasers being to blame for every US catastrophe is Zionists control the US already, as always. Even Soros loves Israel and Ukraine, and would attack their enemies instead. The only other alterative is Trump/Hegseth killing Texans now for unknown reasons.

  Global warming is settled physics. While it makes more frequent intense storms, storms happened prior to global warming too. There is zero need to politicize physics. Only hair brained conspiracy theories needed to politicize attacks on physics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy hilarious nerve hitting, Batman. Superman is the American way/might that simplistically pretends to side with truth and justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all see and hear what goes on over there

  First, the ROK unfiltered propaganda on DPRK is as believable as Ukrainian propaganda. We all know “the pure unvarnished truth” as the complete trust in that propaganda.

  The US’s unjustified war on Korea was to overthrow a democratic unification election in which the less corrupt North party won. Ever since, an oligarchist duopoly has been propped up by the US, and standard of living is determined by the isolationism imposed by US/ROK alliance.

  DPRK is aligned with winning future alliance, and ROK is being canibalized, like other colonies, by its master. DPRK has always been the stronger military side, by necessity, and the future is likely better for them. In your example, “why not do something about the US for actual verified first hand threats to citizens not cheering enough for Trump”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  human behaviour, and big time sensuality were top 40

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP doesn’t know purchase cost. Wallet deposit on that date doesn’t mean it was purchased 1 hour before.