justsomeguy

It's the 24h news cycle. Most news sources are battling for your attention/clicks every day and if they keep digging into a story that people already know, they'll get less clicks. It has to be new or it just gets scrolled past. This isn't unique to america. It's everywhere. Even here on lemmy.

Steve Bannon has recognized this and weaponized it for Trump with his 'flood the zone' approach. Keep blasting new headlines and nothing will really stick.

His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can't reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.

Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?

That's what AI currently feels like.

I don't see many users upgrading the memory on a laptop like this either but would criticize soldered RAM based on the aspect of repairability. T14s are often used in business which means hundreds of machines handled by IT departments. Boards will die and technicians will throw them out including the RAM. Now granted most companies don't bother with hardware repairs anyway but somewhere down the chain someone will have these machines on their workbench and the easier it is to fix them up the better.

Yeah they do though. His bet before the 2008 crash was similar. It's where the market is pointing. Publicly available data suggests there's a big ass bubble. The timing is essentially a bet. Last time it almost wiped him out because he was a bit early. We'll see how it goes this time.

There's many cities like this. I remember reading about Mexico City being on a similar path. Ground water keeps sinking rapidly so they keep digging until some day they won't be able to and it's all fucked.

Then apply thermal paste generously

He's trying to connect going out and meeting people with the beer but the beer isn't the part that helps your mental health here. It's the socializing.

People are currently socializing less because social media is a (very crappy) substitute that is effortlessly accessible. I call it the fentanyl of social interaction. It's cheap and easy to access but the result is worse on all levels.

Take this conversation as an example. I reply to your comment and we're having a social interaction that might satisfy the need for human connection to a certain (very small) degree but nothing else will come of it. We most likely won't ever interact with eachother again. If instead we'd go out and discuss things with people in person we might actually make friends. Form lasting connections. Now I'm fine with my social life at the moment but if I wasn't I'd have a hard time changing it because people my age just don't go out much these days. Making friends got a lot harder than it used to be.

They don't. It's part flood the zone, part pandering to certain voters. Look what we do for you! A blue state wouldn't fight for your health like this!

Nothing will come of it but it's a positive distraction from the extraction of wealth that is currently happening.

All crappy IoT devices ever made. They aren't used in bot nets all the time because hackers like the challenge of hacking them so much. Security simply isn't a priority.

Yes, but all you need to do is stop the fan from spinning by holding it in place. This will be better for cleaning anyway.

Damn...he's good.

Since we know he doesn't mess with science/empirical data...how did he get that information?