Yeah they were the butt of the joke because they didn’t get it. Like if this leak stuff is real I would love to learn about the actual Q posts on 4chan. It was probably a different person posing as Q every time. Or 1 or 2 people with a long con joke. it was just dumb shit someone was making up online like that episode of South Park where stan becomes the reincarnation of L ron Hubbard.

But the problem was outsiders saw what they thought was a growing movement. and then it started to unironically take root with social media personalities and influxes of new people looking for something to blame for their problems.

The real reasons are complex and hard to define.

Qanon and then maga makes it easy. It’s “them”. Who is them? Doesn’t matter. Deep state, Jews, immigrants, etc. but the point is there is something concrete and simple to point at when people start looking for answers to the problems they have today. This was all brewing when a bunch of other stuff was going on creating a tinder box.

The reality is something closer to a series of unrelated events slowly becoming entertained within the last 30 years.

Unregulated Capitalism was crashing head first into a technology explosion in the 2000s which companies with capital learned to exploit quickly. It’s capitalism, so they are incentivised to do that The Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11 gave rise to an entire culture of “patriotism” based on xenophobia and Protecting Americans and American Values ( the name of French fries was changed briefly to dunk on France for not helping us enough in the middle east). Automation has exploded in the information age making labor cheaper than ever, moving jobs overseas, reducing head counts in domestic factories, etc. and then 2008 happened.

So people with the power listen to people with money (citizens United), and they pushed susceptible working class people into erroding their own freedoms (remember the patriot act) because they were mad at a Boogeyman that doesn’t actually exist for stealing an American dream from them that was never sustainable after the boomer generation. Unregulated Capitalism will always eat itself. Combine that with Trump being blackmailed by Russian oligarchs for years because he has an ego problem and is very good at losing money right when America is trying to recover from 2008 and some hot we get this bullshit today.

And then when the ruling class realized that the masses are too poor to fight back they just dropped all pretenses.

All because of some stupid gorilla named harambe

Saving this.

Yeah that’s a good point.

If gaming grew and the total userbase is the same now, then it’s smaller by percentage.

That must been that PC is just exploding in popularity over the time period in question.

Is this a copy pasta?

I see thank you

Ohhh I see thank you

How do I add your piracy community to my boost app?

I know. Lmao

I know, but the fall off in performance isn’t supposed to be severe

I heard people saying they could run the r1 32B model on moderate gaming hardware albeit slowly

Interested in how it does jellyfin, decent GPU or something else?

I want to just add my list of digital boardgames here lol excellent, real games. no ad farms, no crap.

Pay a couple dollars and download a rules PDF for the boardgame and away you go. Some of these are big games that it would be worth playing on PC or watching videos about first.

I own:

• Star realms
• Mystic vale
• Dominion
• Terraforming Mars
• Wingspan
• 7 wonders duel
• Cartographers
• Ticket to ride
• Catan

Good game but Haven’t played digitally; on wishlist:

• Dune imperium
• Scythe
• Istanbul
• Castles of Burgundy
• 1 deck dungeon
• Roll for the galaxy
• Concordia
• Charterstone
• Stone age
• Railroad ink
• Lords of water deep
• Maricaibo

I agree, but off grid solar requires a lot more panels and personal infrastructure owned by the customer than grid tied solar. and a storage solution for night time and winter and cloudy days.

A typical house isn’t going off grid and maintaining a worry free electric schedule without a minimum of 25,000$ of panels, mounts, inverters, batteries, BMS, cabling, installation, and permits.

To be fair, the cost is still less than the amount of time the system will last so economically is can be viable but who has 25,000$ just sitting around…you have to be able to install it yourself to save enough money to really even think about doing it.

I am on your side, but we should be focusing on storage technology right now because solar is honestly really advanced at this point. Once those technologies can work together all the arguments against solar that make sense disappear.

Because grid level power delivery is about FAR more than just raw wattage numbers. Momentum of spinning turbines is extremely important to the grid. The grid relies on generation equipment maintaing an AC frequency of 60 hz or 50hz or whatever a country decides on. Changing loads throughout the day literally add an amount of drag to the entire grid and it can drag the frequency down. The inverse can also happen. If you have fluctuating wind or cloud cover you can bring the whole grid down if you can’t instantly spin up other methods to pick up the slack.

reliable consistent power delivery is absolutely critical when it comes to running the grid effectively and that is something that solar and wind are bad at

Ideally we will be able to use those technologies to fill grid level storage (batteries, pumped hydro) to supply 100% of our energy needs in the not too distant future but until then we desperately need large, consistent, clean power generation.

You’re ignoring the point of why it’s useful and at this point, necessary, to have an above average understanding of technology to maintain any semblance of privacy in your life…you can do so much harm to yourself without ever knowing it just by having an Alexa or by having a Tesla.

At certain point it’s like what the fuck can we even do with things specifically like the tool this article is talking about but tech illiteracy isn’t excusable if this day and age anymore. The world demands a certain level of knowledge or you can and will be exploited.

Indeed. Hello poorish brother

Waco intensifies

I feel the same way man, I’m so excited about this tech because of the few use cases that we will discover and will change our lives and cause a paradigm shift…but it will be controlled by someone who is ultra rich (a person or corp) so that’s awful. And there is a ton of stuff that is a grift that will die off and gives it a bad name so I temper my excitement of it around most people because it’s unpopular to root for the tech.

He’s the best for unbiased info when new models drop and news drops. Love that channel.

Yeah, someone else commented with their financials and they look really good, so while I certainly agree that they are overvalued because we are in an AI training bubble, I don’t see it popping for a few years, especially given that they are selling the shovels. every big player in the space is set on orders of magnitude of additional compute for the next 2 years or more. It doesn’t matter if the company they sold gpus to fails if they already sold them. Something big that unexpected would have to happen to upset that trajectory right now and I don’t see it because companies are in the exploratory stage of ai tech so no one knows what doesn’t work until they get the computer they need. I could be wrong, but that’s what I see as a watcher of ai news channels on YouTube.

The co founder of open AI just got a billion dollars for his new 3 month old AI start up. They are going to spend that money on talent and compute. X just announced a data center with 100,000 gpus for grok2 and plans to build the largest in the world I think? But that’s Elon, so grains of salt and all that are required there. Nvidia are working with robotics companies to make AI that can train robots virtually to do a task and in the real world a robot will succeed first try. No more Boston dynamics abuse compilation videos. Right now agentic ai workflow is supposed to be the next step, so there will be overseer ai algorithms to develop and train.

All that is to say there is a ton of work that requires compute for the next few years.

{Opinion here} – I feel like a lot of people are seeing grifters and a wobbly gpt4o launch and calling the game too soon. It takes time to deliver the next product when it’s a new invention in its infancy and the training parameters are scaling nearly logarithmically from gen to gen.

I’m sure the structuring of payment for the compute devices isn’t as simple as my purchase of a gaming GPU from microcenter, but Nvidia are still financially sound. I could see a lot of companies suffering from this long term but nvidia will be The player in AI compute, whatever that looks like, so they are going to bounce back and be fine.