Everything posted by Captainant
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The Supremes
Which was part of the Republican effort of trans extermination
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
ABC NewsJudge orders 3 families returned to US after finding agen...A judge has ordered the administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that immigration agents used "deception and coercion" to remove them.A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that federal immigration agents used "lies, deception, and coercion" to remove them. The families, according to U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, were originally separated at the southern border during the first Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" policy. They were supposed to be protected under a 2023 settlement that granted them temporary legal status and a path to reunification, but they were deported last summer. In the eight-page ruling, Judge Sabraw found that the government's removal of the families rendered the protections of the settlement "illusory." "The manner in which each of these removals was affected, in addition to being unlawful, involved lies, deception, and coercion," Sabraw wrote. In previous filings, the government has argued that the court lacks jurisdiction to order the return of the families while simultaneously arguing that certain families --including one that was removed despite having valid parole -- had actually departed the United States "voluntarily." According to the judge, one mother who was separated from her 5-year-old daughter in 2018 was told by immigration officials last year that her legal status "did not matter." Officers instructed her to bring her minor children and their passports to a routine check-in. The mother was told that if she did not "self-deport," her children would be placed in foster care or put up for adoption, according to the ruling. The family, including a 6-year-old U.S. citizen child, was eventually detained in a motel for three days before being flown to Honduras.
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These Jubilee 1 vs 20 social discussion videos
That's been their MO (on surly) for more than a decade now. Whataboutism and #bothsides are two sides on the same coin, and proud carriers of the classic soviet propaganda technique
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Building a gaming PC
5070ti with 16gb of vram is gonna play everything at 1440p max and 4k with dlss no problem
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Trump’s America
Ah the good ol "they're hurting the wrong people"
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
And now you know what it takes to be an Olympian
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Building a gaming PC
Well 18TBs is what's in my family archival NAS that holds our docs and media and photos etc etc. It is a shitload and not everyone is buying that volume. But EVERY tier of storage has doubled, not just the high end. Home builders and enthusiasts are paying >2x what they were just a year ago for nearly every component that uses electricity. It's not intended as an insult to say you're acting like an out of touch rich guy, it's just an observation. Comparing current prices to 80s storage pricing is also ridiculous in terms of cost per capacity, tech tends to be that way when you compare across decades. Gigahertz of CPU clocks with billions of instructions per clock is unfathomable too compared to decades ago, but that's just table stakes these days.
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Building a gaming PC
Shrugging off a 2x unit price increase is certainly an opinion lol. All my life tech prices have gone down as hardware and software improve, I think it's notable and not a "who cares" kind of thing. The prices aren't doubling because they're twice as expensive to make - COGS has certainly gone up - firms are simply extracting the greatest margins possible from debt driven enterprise customers. Gotta say, you've been having quite a few more "out of touch rich guy" posts lately
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Building a gaming PC
Sheeeeeiiiitttt the 18TB Exos X18 HDDs I bought two years ago are more than double now. For spinning rust! The 16GB sticks of DDR5 I got for $45 each (on sale) last year are $300 each now. It's fuckin looney tunes how badly the genAI debt spending bubble has furked consumer markets
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
As Texas taxpayers, we are literally paying a subsidy to keep bitcoin miners around and on the Texas power grid.
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
The other thing to keep in mind, if mining rewards are halved then that necessarily means that transaction fees will need to go up for miners to continue mining, and for the network to remain viable.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Other side of that coin: perhaps stonks have been overvalued and inflated from rampant AI speculation?
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Epstein and Maxwell
Genuinely, I would have guessed that roblox would be more Epsteins cup of tea
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
You sound like an executive class type evangelizing on LinkedIn
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Historically speaking, the price is right around the last plateau where it had settled before the presidential grift got involved with crypto Following lines on chart, the next natural floor is around 20-30k USD/BTC. Who knows though, economics and energy costs are SIGNIFICATLY different than before. The competition is genAI workloads and datacenters, which are pushing a higher premium on power than miners can tolerate. Just to make things EXTRA fun
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
You are not wrong, but I don't think the fix is to burn 1000x more energy than those entities to accomplish something with 1000x more latency in confirming transactions. Bitcoin is definitionally a currency. It's in the whitepaper. Proof of work in itself isn't a bad thing, but the work should be for something useful. "Contribute compute cycles and get a token to spend in return" is a great idea for the information age. But proof of work is just guessing a number to fit an arbitrary hash function output, and doing that at the rate of quadrillions of times per second for ten minutes. At least that's what it is for BTC. But what if that proof of work was going towards folding proteins for cancer or drug research? Or going towards crunching vast astrological datasets to get ever more value out of our investments in space travel? That's the opportunity cost of all the energy that's being wasted by BTC. At it's core, BTC is just a means to financialize entropy. And it incentivizes by its core protocol and intent with proof of work the escalating use of energy to prove its work.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Except there is a literal cartel of memory producers that are the sole suppliers. And as mentioned previously, they've literally been convicted by a jury for price fixing in the past. Their current profit margins are greater than what they were when they got popped for price fixing. All signs point to this being "the new normal" because there IS no other competitor, and speculative asset buying driven by debt and and evangelistic belief in LLMs is going to continue to drive this unhinged demand. As noted, there are firms like Microsoft with MILLIONS of GPUs that each cost >$10,000 just sitting in warehouses. They don't have enough power or datacenter capacity to run these things, but it's still fucking up the economy writ large.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Job losses? We don't care about no stinkin job losses! America is GREAT AGAIN baby!
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Trump’s America
Not talking about that specific instance, but have you been approached with respect to non-violent and opinion-based speech? Things like having a bad opinion of the regime resulting in feds asking for userdata? It sounds tinfoil-y but they're using fuckin gmail info to harass people at this point Or I guess a better question is: are they all actual subpoenas signed by actual judges, or merely administrative subpoenas?
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
re: memory prices. They're up NINETY FUCKIN PERCENT Q4'25->Q1'26 https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/Memory-Prices-Surge-Up-to-90-From-Q4-2025 SSD storage and RAM are through the roof, all being driven by the speculative circle jerk of genAI. There's hundreds of billions worth of inventory sitting in warehouses solely to deny competition access, because they don't have capacity to host the chips. This is gonna end very very ugly for us all
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General Gaming Thoughts That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
I have some csgo skins that skyrocketed in value from some changes they made a few months ago.... I'm tempted to sell some skins and try to fund a steam machine that way but I'm worried the price has doubled from what they were planning to launch at. On a related note, I may be buying a Mac mini m4 soon to do home server stuff that I was thinking I could do with the steam machine