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Had a meeting with my financial advisor yesterday, and I expressed concern about how much of my mutual fund is tied up in stocks, particularly tech stocks, because of the AI bubble. He pointed out that one big difference between this bubble and the dot-com bubble of the late '90s is that, back...

Not saying it will or won't come to that, but the idea that a nuclear war would turn the entire planet into a giant Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is pure science fiction. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are thriving cities today, and have been for decades, the only major obstacle being the need to actually...

I wonder if, on some level, part of why this works is that the marks have already written off the idea that there's any future in real. That every niche that exists to be filled already has been, that 90% of the economy already runs on grift in some form, so why not grab your own slice of the...

For the same reason it's not illegal to keep a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater as a pet, or for a person to use pixie dust to air-skitch a passenger jet.

Frankly everyone joining ICE should be executed without trial.

I've been saying for years that the whole PSP line was squandered potential. Sony was ahead of everyone except Apple on developing a smartphone platform, one that would have had the benefit of exclusive access to the PSP's entire back catalog of games (playable via snap-on controls), to say...

The genuinely developed nations (which is to say, EU countries) almost certainly will, although most of them have probably been moving as fast as humanly possible on that front already.

I thought I recognized that logo at the bottom so I looked it up... guys, that's the Babylon Bee. Even the freaking right-wing Onion wannabe is making fun of Trump now. Insane.

Man, why can't our stupid evil government be this feckless?

I don't normally watch this channel, but YouTube occasionally recommends it and this one was too intriguing to pass up. Because this is a question I've been asking myself since 2020. Also, just had to bring up this one-two punch from the commentors:

It's a crowd; cheering for whatever's being said by an official speaker is the norm. They also could have interpreted "hearings", plural, as impeachment hearings for the Democrats in Congress. Hasn't that been a popular topic among Republicans lately?

Naturally, if I were running an AI company, the obvious evil-genius move would be to make an "AI detector" that purposely doesn't work, to further muddy the waters and cement the idea that AI output is indistinguishable from human.

Not like Smash doesn't already mash up different art and character design styles.

The only reason this is happening is that someone successfully convinced him not to make them all feature his portrait.

There's no winning with this. They make them the same price, people complain that digital games should cost less because they're saving all the money on manufacturing and packaging. They make them cheaper, the same people complain that they're disincentivizing buying physical which accelerates...

And in exchange, an infinite loop of CAPTCHAs

When the mount points for external drives are inside directories located on the main hard drive, something has gone very wrong. Same with having a folder called "/etc". Oh, and despite having not changed at all since the '90s, I've seen cases where a program will change where it stores some of...

Is that what they're up to now? I'm still on Windows 10 so all the files in my OneDrive folder are still physically there and accessible when the internet's out. Unless it's files I created on another machine, in which case they don't get downloaded until I either try to open them or actively...

Would these be the same "younger people" who don't even know what a file is, and are more likely to fall for a phishing scam than people three times their age? Or is your idea of the ideal age of a politician going to be permanently locked at "born between roughly 1975 and 1995"? I don't think...

To be fair, most young people don't either. If we went around demanding that only people who are experts in every single field be eligible to serve office, we'd be living in anarchy. Which, incidentally, is exactly what the tech bros want, and the reason they've spent the entire lifespan of the...