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It's a rich peoples game. Those with mere pittance to invest will not end up with much even if they live a very long natural life and do not touch a penny of whatever they could invest until their death bed. Even then they've have to wait until the very end for that pittance. The whole thing is based on having a enough wealth such that small percentage returns equate to a lot in absolute value. A small or even larger than average percentage return from relatively little wealth is still very little.

To change any of this would be to change the underlying issues of unequal distribution of wealth. The stock markets are derivative. If more had wealth then obviously they'd be investing more. It's not the other way around.

Some believe they can cheat code their way to the other side by gambling which is not investing. Seems to have become popular again in recent times after certain cultural phenomenons. That again does not change underlying issues. A few lottery winners and many more silent losers only serves to amplify inequality.

I'm pretty sure Shield happened because the Tegra chips were used in infotainment designs. It wasn't just because of Switch as oft repeated.

He's sleepy from all that hard work.

The internet made a whole lot of things a big deal. Then convinced guys they were the victims. Then filled their heads with extremist ideologies. What a wild past 10-15 years.

It's long past time to move on from archaic inefficient x86 monopoly.

The world wide web was largely left leaning academic types. Then it was made more accessible to everyone. All the backwards ass people flooded in. I'm sure the establishment loves the poorly educated. They did have some tense moments around 2011.

Isn't this generally how the big tech firms generate dark profiles on people? Of the people who don't explicitly exist on their database. Take the intersection of data from family events. The people not in their database of known profiles are also likely family. Do the same for friend events. Take the intersection of those peoples interests. You'll be knowing a lot about someone who never told you anything about themselves.

You can run but you can't hide. Crazy times we live in.

Don't attempt rational discussion with a chud.

Sometimes I use their own tactics against them. Keep pressing them with backwards hypocritical gotchas. Sometimes they get super confused because I've gone of script. "Wait a minute! I'm supposed to be the one doing that." chud hurts itself in confusion. Some times they inadvertently start trying to be rational one.

Most often they just shut up and go away because they know they can't troll you.

That's all they've got is pre-prepped responses. They expect a standard set of responses because most people tend to fit the left leaning world views. They generally understand full well everyone position on things and they don't care. Their objective is to incite people. So fuck with them back or ignore them.

The internet had a social contract. The reason people put effort into brain dumping good posts is because the internet was a global collaborative knowledge base for everybody.

Of course there were always capitalists who sought to privatize and profit from resources. The source materials were generally part of the big giant digital continuum of knowledge. For the parts that weren't there we're anarchists who sought to free that knowledge for anyone who wanted to access it.

AI is bringing about the end of all this as platforms are locking down everything. Old boards and forums had already been shuttering for years as social media was centralizing everything around a few platforms. Now those few platforms are being swallowed up by AI where the collective knowledge of humanity is being put behind paywalls. People no longer want to work directly for the profit of private companies.

Capitalists can only see dollar signs. They care not for the geological epoch scale forces of nature required to form petroleum. All that matters is can it all be sold and how quickly. Nor do they care for environmental damages they cause. In the same way the AI data mining do not care for the digital ecological disaster they are causing.

More over it's a thought terminating cliche when someone says, "

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I've been thinking probably in our lifetime we could see Taiwan lose all of it's wealth once the Americans (and probably Europe too) have got done robbing them blind.

"Hey, help us build those fancy chip factories over in America. Oops it's our technology now. Too bad".

Reddit is inside the walls of enshittification. Reddit kowtows to the techbro narrative. Dissenting voices do appear there as they aren't a full blown censorship. By and large the reddit userbase has historically been in aligned with big tech.

Same shit different era. Always gotta be persecuting somebody.

Also when Silicon Valley copies and steals they get praised as revolutionary innovators.

What are they doing that makes software in the Mac universe that much more memory efficient?

I went from 8GB to 32GB on my laptop. It was second only to going from HDD to SSD. The difference was nowhere near as apparent though. My usage experience went from being able to tell when the kernel was hitting swap space to not having to care at all anymore about the how the kernel is doing with memory management.

You're assuming your own country is impervious to climate change. It's the dirty poors bringing their problems to you, right? How dare they.

They talk as if they're protecting our privacy when it's really a global surveillance net. The spin doctoring is insane.

r/linux has been suspect for a long time.

Years ago I noticed they had the sub set to auto remove posts on as low as a couple of user reports. I don't know if it's still that set up that way. I bailed on that place a long time ago.

People seemed to be intentionally abusing that to shadow moderate the subreddit. They seemed to be primarily targeting posts and comments with anything related to China or Chinese origin authors/topics. Maybe even any topics or authors of east Asia all together? I never pieced together a clearer picture.

It was obvious there was unusual behavior going on with certain types of posts getting [removed]. The one topic they didn't touch was when the Asian American college student was doing a research study about submitting patches to the Linux kernel. The whole sub was having a meltdown over it even though what they did was superfluous changes and they had done so under the approval of the university.

I tried myself to fuck with it a bit getting some posts removed by reporting from a couple of accounts. The mods almost immediately reinstated the posts.

Why does this have to be a two sides thing? Is this underpinned by the culture war bullshit? I can't tell and I can't be assed to deep dive into every spat to untangle all the reading between the lines.

I'm surprised they found that there is no evidence that using these platforms is "rewiring" children’s brains. Wasn't it shown that social media companies base pretty much their entire technical decision making on psychologically conditioning not just children's brains but everyone who uses it? So the evidence now shows that these are benign after all? Zuckerberg and Dorsey and Huffman never had us trapped in infinite scroll fine tuning the knobs to keep us teetering on the brink? There's some discrepancy here.

I don't see what the divide is anyways. Social media is all about things like violence, structural discrimination, sexual abuse, substance abuse. It's odd the book author is saying these are non-issues. Seems like he is taking a rather shallow view.

Also teenagers have been using the broader definition of social media for decades.

There is a fascinating cognitive bias where people seem to think because we live in current times it means that history can't happen to us.

No politics was a rule on many forums. One of the things social media did away with.

I think it's the other way around. We're traumatized as a society and media reflects that. I have long said that we've been stuck in a grimdark period of media. It started when 9/11 broke the modern western mindset. For the past quarter century media has been about trying to cope with that trauma through gritty dystopian settings with amoral shades of gray characterizations.

Completely dismantled was the hubris that the western world was an untouchable safe haven fortress from the worn torn dark savage lands of the world. We had defeated the nazis. We had won the Cold War. Europe was uniting more than ever. America was the sole superpower. We were the protagonists at the end of the story.

The shock and awe of witnessing a western city crumble to smouldering rubble on replayed every television set on every channel for years to come. That was traumatic. That kind of thing was only supposed to happen through a grainy analog camera thousands of miles away reported by a special correspondent on behalf of CNN broadcast through your living room cable TV. Suddenly it was happening in cities too close for comfort anymore. What happened to our happy ending?

In the wake of 9/11 the news media became obsessed with the 24/7 constant panic news cycle. There was a terrorist around every corner lurking behind the bushes ready to savage your family. That raised the bar to a level we've never returned below since.

Fictional media stopped writing happy stories. The western nations went into more wars of bloodlust against vaguely brown people. If they look suspect then carpet bomb them before they get to us first. Round up as many as we can and let our finest young military men and women torture them. Who we really are came to light. We are savages too.

The story telling came to reflect that. Characters weren't the idealistic superheroes anymore. They became flawed protagonists. They don't swoop in and save the day while teaching the primitive villagers a moral lesson and everybody claps. They do the things only villains used to do. They do things that make your stomach turn. Because sometimes that needs to done. That's the cope we've been living with.

The public discourse has never really talked about all this. I mean for all the pride about being self aware and more attuned to mental health there are still some topics too taboo. It's as if proverbially the public conscious has been secretly curled up in the corner of a padded room wearing a strait jacket quietly self soothing rocking back and forth repeatedly whispering, 'it's gonna be okay'. We've not been okay. We just lock that part of us away in a deep dark corner of the collective conscious.

Space sci-fi shows are a barometer for the cultural zeitgeist. We used to have the Roddenberry vision of Star Trek. Sci-fi shows were mostly inspired by that. Then things pivot into the grimdark era. We got shows like Battlestar Galactica. Then the Kelvin timeline Trek movies. Then the prime timeline Trek shows came back all dark and gritty. Nobody writes happy stories anymore. A campy show like Stargate could not be made in this era. Kids these days would cringe to death because all they've known is the adrenaline pumping trauma content.

Of course we cannot have this discussion without mentioning the most important show which is 24. That was basically revenge porn for 9/11. It was so popular because it was an outlet to satiate the desire to maim brown people.

The trauma and cope continues to evolve to this day. Now western society is realizing the rest of the world continued to developed and progress instead of being the primitive tin hut dwelling people that we were so sure we were inherently superior to. This is an absolutely unacceptable state of affairs. So the trauma response seems to be evolving into temper tantrums of some sort.

Not only are have we been coping with the fact that we're not the protagonists of the world. We have also had to reckon more than ever with our own domestic issues not just foreign affairs. And so the moral center of media is currently fixed on shocking traumatic content. It's how we cope. How we tell ourselves it's okay.