chiliedogg

I had a video of a newsworthy event a while back that went viral, and I made over 5 grand on it over the course of about 2-3 years when YouTube changed its monetization policy to require like 10k subscribers or something before the creator could monetize.

The video didn’t stop getting views. It had a spike in views just a few weeks ago when something similar happened in the same area. But I haven’t made any money from it in like 8 years.

The US bombed a girl’s school in the opening salvos against Iran because their AI fucked up.

Missiles that miss their target still hit something.

The employees and shareholders of the AI companies should be held responsible. Make RICO cases out of it.

The key difference with a Ponzi scheme is that the Ponzi/Madoff investors weren’t in on the schemes. They though they were investors in a legitimate enterprise. They had a central figure as the fraudster, wheras Enron and the AI bullshit are institutional-level fraud requiring multiple companies to be complicit.

The new one is the most elegant, because they don’t have to break the law to make money on the grift. It also makes it the biggest by far because everyone wants in on the action.

This bursting of this bubble with be catastrophic. Maybe tens of trillions (there’s estimated to be about 125 trillion dollars in assets total worldwide).

This has Ponzi elements, but it’s closer to a multi-company Enron in its structure. They’re manufacturing fake revenues through circular investments. Nvidia invests in AI companies and increases their value while AI companies use that investment to buy Nvidia cards increasing its value so, so they invest more in AI, so they buy more cards…

Enron did this by making fake companies to generate fake revenue. Right now the tech sector is all working together on this scheme, so none of the companies are fake, but the revenue is.

You don’t need dazzle paint to get hit by a Tesla.

I live in an area where Tesla and Waymo both operate taxis. Waymo is actually pretty solid. Those cars are some of the best, most-predictable drivers on the road. Tesla cabs are meth-addicted clankers.

Big Box stores want you to buy a product and leave. They want fewer skus that work out of the box. Windows sucks ass, but most of the time you end up with a functional, if shitty, PC.

Also - Microsoft and Apple pay for floorspace at the big box stores. What Linux distro is gonna do that?

It’s the maintenance period on lots of infrastructure.

What it means isnthe private investors are more likely to bid to build power storage infrastructure for governments because it’s less likely they’ll ever have to change out the cells during the contract.

On the flip side, governments would kinda like them to work for 25 years so they’ll go 50 years without having to buy new cells.

I’m waiting to hear how it is. Dan Houser and a lot of the other team members who lead the previous GTA games and RDR gave left Rockstar, so I don’t have the confidence I had going into GTAIV and V and RDR2.

It’s about false advertising. They advertise it as being ad-free, and then say in the TOS that there are, in fact, still ads.

TOS can clarify details of a service and set limitations and boundaries, but they do not justify deceitful advertising.

The end result will likely be a settlement with YouTube adding an asterisk on the ad itself that clarifies that users will still see advertisements inserted by the creators.

This is an issue I’m seeing more and more of. People are demanding that others be perfect at all times. We all fuck up and make mistakes. If we write off everyone we’ve ever disagreed with as irredeemably bad, then we’re telling people there’s no point in growing and changing.

When I was a kid in the early 90s in Texas, I thought homosexuality was immoral. I was wrong and I’ve spent the last 30 years preaching for inclusion and tolerance. And that’s the story for most people my age. In the 90s, a Democratic President banned openly gay people from being in the military.

If we want to change society, we have to invite others to our side with open arms, not condemn them.

I have a degree in GIS and use QGIS almost every day. Of course I know it’s better for many things than Google Earth (though GE is still a better viewer). But even then - it’s only better if you take the time to learn to use it.

I can teach someone to drag a kml into GE in seconds. I can’t teach them QGIS.

I use QGIS for a living. Adding layers and image services is easy for me, but not to someone who doesn’t even know what GIS is. I couldn’t teach someone how to use it in seconds like I can GE, which consists of “Open Google Earth, and click and drag the file into the window”.

And with GE, you don’t have to license the satellite imagery or teach someone how to add web-based tile services to GQIS.

They can also use the draw tool in GE and right-click the drawing and export a file I can open in QGIS or ESRI without them having to know anything about projections or datums.

They’re actually killing the PC version next year, which is actually a problem.

It’s the goto solution for sharing GIS layers for free using a simple platform. Anybody can download Google Earth Pro for free, and we can export KML/KMZ files from ESRI or QGIS that will be viewable over fairly recent satellite imagery without having to pay thousands for software and/or imagery licensing.

"Finish nailer will get it through warranty and then it’s not our problem."

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Have you ever tried scanning a book? It’s a huge PITA.

They just cut the binding off so they can be run through a document feeder.

Bibles. There are so many fucking bibles. When I worked for a church we probably had 20 people a year buy a while new set of new bibles for the church. Like - we already had like 3,000 bibles with a weekly attendance of about 500. We didn’t need new bibles, but people just kept giving them to us.

It’s the most-printed book of all time, and they just don’t stop making them. It’s insane.