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Owl [he/him]

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Contents: 1 live owl. Do not eat.

  • Yeah, they sure have.

    The root of all of this is that growth stocks are massively overvalued compared to dividend stocks right now. The big tech companies (all growth stocks) have all maxed out how much money they can actually make in their markets, so they need something to do with their excess profit. The normal thing to do would be to start paying out dividends and cutting costs, but then they'd be dividend stocks, and their stock prices would plummet. So instead they need to find ways to reinvest money in their own business. But they're mature businesses that don't actually need all this reinvestment, so they just buy ever more datacenters full of GPUs, because that's expensive and plausibly something that might be useful to them. But something has to actually use all of these GPUs so it doesn't look completely stupid, so we've had the last few tech bubbles.

    But I think it's going to be hard to pivot again, since the hype machine for AI is that they're going to do AGI and build god. I don't know what promise their hype men can come up with that tops that.

  • She looks like a toothpaste mascot and it's the toothpaste flavored Linux distro, I guess

  • Probably like 70%. The actual bubble is data centers full of GPUs, AI is just the current excuse for them. Maybe they come up with some other use for them, AI investment stops because the ROI is better on the other thing, and this sucks for people investing in OpenAI or whatever, but doesn't crash the whole system.

    How bad if it does? The numbers will dwarf the 2008 crash, but the effects on normal people will be similar - nobody's hiring, you can't get a loan, any savings you have won't go as far as they were supposed to, and if you graduate college during the crash you're permanently fucked. This one might last longer. The 2008 crash had the dubiously mitigating factor that home prices crashed and people who happened to be buying then made it out okay. This one won't have anything like that for normal people, just for any startups that need a cheap deal on renting GPUs.

  • Ah, but have you considered that [insert cool and based cause] is idealist and anti-materialist because I, some privileged and incurious fuckhead, have internalized that [opposite of cool and based cause] is the natural order of the world?

  • cavity

    not the tree cavity or cliff cavity from the diagram though

    brush your teeth or I'm coming for you

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  • Longer than Charlie Kirk lasted in his last fight.

  • Yeah yeah I know. But I'm still taking offense at the pedophile.

  • Can you just slap "non-offending" on something and that counts? Perhaps I'll tell a non-offending racist joke.

  • I'm glad somebody is finally making an FTL clone, but the icon design is extremely copying-someone's-homework coded.

  • ABADAB

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  • If you're already dual booting, you should check how your Linux side does at games. Maybe you're already ready to switch.

    There's probably some goofy scheme possible where your Linux copy of Steam downloads the games and your Windows copy plays them, so you don't need to have it exposed to the internet.

    Regardless, probably don't log in to your Windows partition this week. EOL is tomorrow, who knows how many zero days people have been hoarding.

  • Who?

  • From the snippets of interviews I've seen, it seems like his entire personality is insecurity about whether his numbers are going up fast enough. So he'd be very aware of this sort of thing.

  • looks more like you're digivolving if you ask me

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  • The question clearly is including all modern states including capitalist ones. Y'all in the comments need to stop letting your thirst for dunks get in the way of your reading comprehension.

  • Astrology may be a load of bullshit, but at least you can use someone's sign to predict their birth month. MBTI can't even predict your next MBTI result.

  • Nintendo has always gone through waves of litigiousness and backing down. Hell if I know what drives it.