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  • Fair enough on the casualties vs. deaths. I agree with your message that it's much more of a meat grinder especially how quickly those losses have added up compared to Vietnam.

  • Not trying to distract from your argument, but where are you getting that 325K number? Even on the low estimates, the current 2022 war has at least 400K and potentially well over a million in Russian losses according to the (~800 reference) Wiki Article. Most things I've seen estimate around 1.1-1.2M realistically in losses.

    Was this just losses for the portion Ukraine just took back? If so, that seems high?

  • It's really chef's kiss from OP. I laughed, I cried, I got a little angry. Well played OP, you bastard!

  • No skin in this game, but am thinking it's not about using an archive link vs. direct link and more questioning DailyBeast as a news source. I could be wrong, though....

  • Oatley. "We can't call it milk"

  • Oakbrook, IL is pretty white and affluent so not sure on that one.

  • Just picture the ancient aliens dude with his hands up saying 'entanglement' and you have your answer

  • Shroedinger's Channel?

  • I (poorly) made this and used it once already today - I feel like it could work here as well:

  • Shout out to Brightworks and Drongo on Youtube for their BAR coverage. It's a great game. I just wish RTS wasn't so toxic.

  • My marketing pitch is “Below average but not so much so that people stare.”

    Had me literally LOL. Thanks for the laughs - we can all use more of those.

  • We call that Linux here and you can start winning today!

  • Microsoft steeply lowered expectations on the AI Sales team, though they have denied this since they got pummelled in their quarterly and there's been a lot of news about how investors are not happy with all the circular AI investments pumping those stocks. When the bubble pops (and all signs point to that), investors will flee. You'll see consolidation, buy-outs, hell maybe even some bullshit bailouts, but ultimately it has to be a sustainable model and that means it will cost developers or they will be pummeled with ads (probably both).

    A Majority of CEOs are saying their AI spend has not paid off. Those are the primary customers, not your average joe. MIT reports 95% generative AI failure rate at companies. Altman still hasn't turned a profit. There are Serious power build-out problems for new AI centers (let alone the chips needed). It's an overheated reactionary market. It's the Dot Com bubble all over again.

    There will be some more spending to make sure a good chunk of CEOs "add value" (FOMO) and then a critical juncture where AI spending contracts sharply when they continue to see no returns, accelerated if the US economy goes tits up. Then the domino's fall.

  • I'm just preparing myself for the crushing down votes here, but you're going to have a hard time with the no more Millionaires angle. A HUGE chunk of the US are millionares, at least on paper with their houses alone. If you weave in retirement, it's going to be many, many more. Plus with inflation this is only going to get more saturated.

    Can we draw the line at say... 100M and tie it to what the median Net Worth going forward? I'm just being realistic on messaging to get the most impact from your statement. There are very very few people at 10M Net Worth, and after 100M, you're into the super greed and not like professionals: Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Plumbers, Electricians, Dentists, Engeineers, & etc. who've actually earned that money and are in their late careers vs. making it off someone else's back. If they got there earning a check or even many small businesses it's probably pretty legit.

    I can't however, see how anyone could get to 100M without 1) Family/Inheritance, 2) Big Business and all that entails, 3) Lottery, and 4) Illegally: Grift, Corruption, Stock Manipulation, illicit drugs, Weapons, etc.

  • We've done the latter since WWII, just not generally in allied countries.

    Edit: ooof - just now seeing the "always has been" emoji. I'm owning it... whatever.

  • 4GB? An embarassment of riches in today's market!

  • I, for one, am triggered.