Hopefully that will be used as a great example on how capitalism doesn’t work.

Thumbs are in the wrong way is they wanted to depict a person in front of a washing basin.

This is definitely on purpose.

There is no culture war, there is only class war and they are winning.

Let fucking slay theses treasure hoarding dragons!

And guess who is gonna pay those settlements? Yes, the tax payers.

Pointing out that someone is gay is either a way of wishing them into gayness for your benefit, or trying to insult them with something they don’t control.

For example I would not say OP is retarded as an insult.

I think we should be better than this, even when shitposting.

When a bunch of billionaires, psychopaths and otherwise deranged people can backtrack 20 years of societal advances, we have to seriously rethink the system that allowed it.

In Europe they introduced a “Right to repair” law, that force manufacturers ensure spare parts for at least 10 years and provide repair service at a reasonable price.

That’s a great measure that should incentivice companies to make products more repairabld!

Granted some appliances are harder to replace and due to that are expected to last longer.

No the case for smaller ones that are full of plastic parts that are imposible to source replacements for.

I think 3D printing will help a lot with that.

That would be ideal, but is not the reality right now, and several things would have to change in order to get there.

As a person that repairs everything I own as a hobby (I would love it to be my job but sadly it pays much less), I can tell confidently the following:

The reason why repairing things nowadays tend to cost equal or more is due to manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.

Soldered parts instead of connectors, glued chassis, glass parts that are imposible to remove without breaking, spare parts that are hard to find, or outright impossible due to being proprietary, and a long list of etc…

Furthermore, manufacturers factor in unit turnover for subsidising unit prices.

Ex. They’d rather charge you 300 for a TV that will last 4 years than 500 than one that will last 10.

Why? Simple math and “Maximising shareholder value”.

300/4 = 75 500/10 = 50

You dont know it but everything you own is a subscription service provided by the manufacturing companies.

This is aggravated by a never ending chain of improvements, new models, new trends that keep you in the loop of consumption.

Why would I try to repair my 3 years old phone when I can buy this new shiny one?

They are getting richer by the minute while the rest of us is digging an early grave for ourselves, by polluting the world and consuming non renewable materials at a insane speed.

Not everything is bad though.

In Europe they introduced a “Right to repair” law, that force manufacturers ensure spare parts for at least 10 years and provide repair service at a reasonable price.

That’s a great measure that should incentivice companies to make products more repairabld!

“Antifa Safehouse”

I guess empathy and solidarity are very dangerous weapons to the fascist…

Mike Jhonson lecturing the pope about the Bible was peak comedy, if it wasn’t for him trying (and possibly succeeding) on convincing Magats…

Yet he is going around the world.lecturing about the Antichrist.

Takes one to know one innit?

Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

Here is the video link

Yes, but don’t underestimate the power of centralisation.

6 months ago you could set up a server for running a decent local llm for under 800.

By increasing the demands and pushing the price of hardware up, they are efectibly gate keeping access to llms.

I think the plan is that we will need to rely on this companies for compute power and llms services, and then they can do all sorts of nefarious things.

Is this correct? I was under the impresion that the most expensive part of an llm is the training, and once that’s done the cost of running a prompt is negligible.

I get your point that this last part doesn’t scale well, but the far larger cost of training must get very diluted if they distribute it across a large user base.

Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!

Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree These motherfuckers would scorch our planet for profit but this… feels different.

Is not a secret a lot of the most influential Billionaires are transhumanists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc).

But hey, it might as well be a grift to get on board other unsuspecting rich fucks…

Either way, we should put these power hoarding dragons to sleep, soon!

My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

That’s my best case.

Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.

Not sure about that.

Nuclear energy is safer than ever.

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

Clinging to oil is like refusing to replace your horse with a car.