I don’t know why so many people on Lemmy seem to think that when capitalism dies a fully formed socialist utopia will magically spring up in its place. The way we’re headed when capitalism dies the people with all the guns will be in charge, and that’s mostly the same people who already are. The end of the American republic probably won’t be the end of the American empire.

If you think, then you must already exist. I don’t understand how people get confused by that.

I find adults going around trying to shame people for doing completely harmless things fucking gross.

Okay, but I’m definitely certain that the majority of gamers running Windows 11 in secure boot mode with TPM 2.0 are running Zen 3 or 4. How many times can they cut their user-base in half before the people who are left leave because it’s a dead game?

I would guess Zen 1 through Zen 4 is currently the majority of gaming PCs. It’s certainly a massive percentage. I don’t think game companies can realistically just blacklist all of them.

No, you don’t understand, it’s all just part of a 5D chess gambit. If they crash the economy hard enough, then it will be cheap to manufacture things in the US! Plus there won’t be any filthy foreigners coming to take the jobs, since the wages will all be worthless, so that’ll fix immigration as well! As an added bonus, the garbage, worthless wages will also make it so it’s cheaper to run understaffed call centers from the US as well, so you’ll never have to worry about hearing someone with an Indian accent after you’ve been on hold for 6 hours. Isn’t it great?

It is. I mean, it’s also true, but it is pretty cringe.

Oh come on. Seriously? They’re going to lose “freedom”, and democracy, and the economy is going to go to shit, and the world is going to be less stable, and also they’re not the ones who are going to end up homeless and destitute and worrying about the government killing them. It’s not that fucking complicated.

The problem have isn’t that they don’t have all the same goals as me. The problem I have is that they’re idiots who are going to lose everything they care about because they refuse to accept reality and they’ll be mostly fine while the rest of us suffer for their failure.

SSNs are literally just handed out to hospitals and social security offices in batches and given out in sequential order. They were specifically and intentionally designed to be a terrible system of ID numbers because people actually used to care about their privacy. There are countless people who’ve gone their whole lives using the wrong social security number and gotten their benefits just fine, because unlike everyone else in this dumpster fire of a country the social security office has never been stupid enough to rely on just a single number.

Mozilla is kind of a mess, but part of that is it’s actually a whole bunch of different companies all named Mozilla something or other. It’s really easy to go down a rabbit hole of angry videos and articles that make it sound even worse than it actually is, but yeah, there’s some nonsense going on. It’s especially sad how little the main foundation seems to care about Firefox anymore.

MZLA Technologies, the company that runs Thunderbird, has kind of worked around the shenanigans of the main Mozilla Foundation by directly collecting donations from users that are specifically earmarked for work on Thunderbird. They’re doing good work with a fairly safe funding model, so I don’t worry about Thunderbird at all, personally.

This, but unironically. When I had a small apartment I just had a big monitor with everything hooked up to it in the main room, and it was great. Now I spend all my time at my desk because I hate the stupid TV.

So, I’m just kind of curious how this would even work. Lots of people in the US already have Deepseek. If they already have it that’s not importing it, is it? What if someone makes a copy of Deepseek from a server that’s in the US? Is that importing it? Are we just trying to block future AIs? How is it even supposed to be beneficial to the US for the people working on AI here to have no access to Chinese models, when China can still freely use ours? Won’t that just give them an advantage in developing AI?

Honestly, the more I think about this, the dumber it gets, and it was already pretty stupid on a surface level. It’ll probably pass though. I don’t think anybody in Washington DC is even interested in thinking about the consequences of anything they’re doing. It’s all pure pageantry.

Every AI model has been incestuously training off every other AI model for years. OpenAI has done it just as much as everyone else. They’re just throwing a tantrum about it now because they’re butthurt that a Chinese company beat them on the cheap, and they’re trying to save face.

It needs to be revealed. I’m not super into this kinda stuff, but from what I understand it’s pretty easy to do if you’re running it locally. You’re never supposed to see this in an app or anything, but one of the big things about Deepseek is that it’s easier to run on a normal desktop computer.

Look, China isn’t the devil or anything, they do lots of things better then the US. They want their “little sphere” to be Earth though. They have been making moves to compete with US influence all over the world for years now, and they’re not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.

Honestly, the more I look into China, the more I realize the worst thing about it is that they’re very much like the US, no matter how much both sides would deny it. The US needs to be taken down a peg or two, but replacing it with a different empire isn’t the way to go. We need a world without superpowers, not to try and find the “good” one. They’ll always go bad once they get to the top. That’s just how massive power structures work.

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It’s important to remember that politicians are still people, too. Some of them might just not have realized what would happen, some of them might just be corrupt, some of them might have known this was a bad idea but played along anyway to try and get support for things they thought were more important. There isn’t actually a single motivator for all of the Democratic Party. That’s just not how people work.

I’m sorry, but lemmy.world was the worst possible decision for a place to relocate to. I wouldn’t follow you there even if I could. If you really have to go with a big, liberal instance that will let you moderate however you want at least you should have gone with lemm.ee. They’re not making lemmy monolithic, not as much of a troll magnet, and far more competent at what they do.

What!? Next thing you know you’ll be telling me that imperialist nations are all bad and we shouldn’t be cheerleading the second biggest one just to spite the biggest.