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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • It already was for basically the entire industrial revolution, when our place on the earth turned parasitic and unsustainable; in the 20th Century it shifted to “the richest 10% consume 90% of the resources, and can only do so for a few hundred years”. In the 21st Century consumption went exponential to “every finite resource will be depleted by the end of the century”.

    The investment into data centers is what was needed to fight climate change decades ago. They didn’t want to do that because it wasn’t as profitable as destroying our future.



  • The biggest mistake was forcing the reliance onto consumers, which only impacts the people who give a shit and allows narcissists to externalize their costs onto everyone else, rather than taxing product packaging based on it’s lack of sustainability and cost of disposal.

    The whole concept of modern recycling was literally created by oil companies to peddle the plastics that created an additional revenue stream from their waste/byproducts; the OG masters of externalising their costs onto others.










  • Because businesses are not in the business of providing valuable products and services that improve our lives; they are in the business of extracting value and maximizing profits by any means necessary.

    When you see businesses like Microsoft signing contracts with Israel to help the IDF efficiently genocide Palestinians, do you genuinely believe they wouldn’t do the same to you the moment it becomes their most lucrative option?? Do you believe they would draw some arbitrary line in the sand between genocides, and magically reject profiting off your murder, imprisonment, or enslavement?



  • I think this is just another side of the temporarily embarrassed-millionaire, anti-worker, techno-fascist-narcissist, pseudo-libertarian, culture-war propaganda that capitalism has been waging since the 1970’s.

    All indoctrinated chudds show the exact same distain for all workers, in all scenarios… unless it personally affects them… at which point it’s the worst thing in the world. Half of them are so brainwashed they continue bootlicking the oligarchs that fire them; that are directly destroying their lives, families, and communities.



  • I wasn’t implying that LLM’s have damaged the science or statistics of forecasting. I was implying that they could have degraded the software at any point in the chain from data collection device firmware, to ingestion pipelines, to the app on your device; perhaps even impacting the meteorologists ability to perform quality work themselves.

    Except maybe in the US due to the DOGE debacle - but even then, why fuck with it?

    Changing ANY data source will always have some degree of impact on ALL statistical modeling that utilises it. Global meteorologists have depended on data captured from NASA/NOAA satellites in some capacity since the 1970’s, by virtue of Americas lead in the space race and soft power in offering this data freely to everyone since the 1970’s.

    DOGE/Fascist crimes specifically targeted government scientific institutions and their ability to operate.

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-08/australian-weather-forecast-under-threat-from-us-cuts/105611736


  • Yeah I was gonna add the weather part could be entirely explained by climate change and fascisms war on science, but forgot.

    I’d never heard of the 5G impact, so thanks for that. I consider it unlikely unless there were a significant change in 5G spectrum usage during the last year. 5G has covered most Australian major cities since 2021, and 5g coverage is essentially non-existent outside of populated areas (90% or more of Australia).

    Weather forecasting is actually one area where AI should far exceed what humans could ever possibly achieve without it. It is impossible for humans to process and adapt to the changing patterns across hundreds or thousands of variables interacting with each other in real time.


  • It’s obvious if you actually use software beyond the average literacy of a talking chimp. I use hundreds of apps across iphone, mac, and linux os’s. Literally none of them have noticeably increased in quality, stability, or feature-set beyond their average between 1-5 years ago.

    Mac and iphone appear to have more bugs and shittier quality control than at any other point in the last decade.

    Quality software is getting harder and harder to find thanks to all the slop-abandonware being promoted by slop-content and slop-SEO on slop-enshittified search engines.

    I notice far more idiocracy-grade errors in digital content, cx, business processes, product listings, etc than ever before.

    Weather forecasts have gone to dogshit in the last 2 years. Even same-day forecasts can shift on a dime unpredictably. It’s at the point where I check 3 apps. Until this year, I never had a time where I woke up to 0% chance of rain and sunny, then looked outside to see rain. Not a sun shower. A rainy day hour-long downpour.

    Auto-generated subtitles are great for content that was never going to receive human attention, but they’re clearly being used to replace humans. At least once a week I notice a major contextual error that completely alters the perception of the line/scene, and there’s no way to submit corrections.

    Art, culture, and knowledge are being actively corrupted, bastardized, and destroyed.

    The future simultaneously sucks while being dumb as all fuck. Complete clown show run by the idiot criminals, rapists, pedophiles, scammers, and thieves.