It's not today I can do their job trust me it can't. It does in many cases moderately increase productivity and there are a few cases where somebody who is basically an idiot can do something that they couldn't do before.

You are letting your sleeves show though when you go on about the covid pandemic that happened quite a while ago and has absolutely nothing to do with this. Just a friendly reminder that when the baby boomers die in the next few years because those rapacious motherfuckers took all the money and they're taking 70% of it with them to the grave spending it on the healthcare system they ruined if they don't blow it on RVs and cheap booze that our entire economy is not going to have enough consumers to sustain it.

Now if you're one of those baby boomers who's going to be rotting in hell sure go right ahead. You got yours fuck everybody else.

Remember that I got mine fuck you is the baby boomer slogan. That and make America great again.

But if you don't just drop dead then there isn't going to be enough taxpayer dollars to fund the massive militarized police system that's been keeping all those desperate people from showing up at your door. Let alone the social programs that have given them just enough food so they think they might have something to lose.

And you're going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

But like I said if you're pretty old and most of us are you will probably drop dead before the consequences of your actions actually directly affect you. Maybe. Kind of depends on your age and genetics. I guess you're going to find out.

You can literally look up the statistics on degrees being awarded. Virtually no worthless degrees or being rewarded. Unless what you mean is that when somebody goes and studies a serious discipline and they can't get a job because we've created the economy with the same trickle down economics we've been cratering the economy with since Ronald Reagan then I mean yeah I guess but that's not really the fault of the student, there is plenty of work for them to be doing that would be useful to you and everyone else, that's the fault of the voter who after 50 fucking years still can't realize that it never trickles down.

Getting back to how much you like being lied to, again there is a propaganda Network feeding you that line and you are willfully sloping it up like a pig at a trough. Why? Literally a few minutes on Google and you can find the government backed statistics that tell you degrees awarded by Major and you can see that there is a very tiny handful of people getting degrees that do not have an immediate productive economic purpose. Everything else is people doing work and a bunch of teachers. And you need teachers for your fucking crotch fruit.

Again I ask why do you actively seek out people to lie to you and obvious ways? I would legitimately like an answer and a explanation for why you find that so engaging and entertaining.

If you actually use the site it has tons of technical problems. Also they completely eliminated all the manual moderation.

Twitter has a major problem. So the US Republican party are basically nazis. I don't say that as some dumb edgy insult I mean it. They are active fascists with a heavy emphasis on racism. This is not up for debate it's just a brute fact. We all know what the southern strategy is and we all know that the Republican party routinely engages in voter suppression.

Now the US Republican party would like to give you some plausible deniability so that when you are angry at the Democrats for not fixing the problems caused by the Republicans you will continue the vote for the Republicans and they can cause more problems for you. This is the cycle of American politics that we have been trapped in since Richard Nixon.

So Republicans use dog whistles. That is to say they blurt out incredibly racist and fascist things but they say it in a way that is not obvious to people who don't follow politics.

The problem is automatic moderation tools that exist to ban Nazis going on about the Jews and calling for extermination and whatnot will quickly draw the connections between the dog whistles that is sitting US senator or member of the House says and what the open neo-nazis are saying. You can't fold those algorithms they're too well written.

This meant that the algorithms kept banning major Republican politicians for being Nazis and we can't have that because those people have a lot of money and power.

But the advertisers don't want the out in the open Nazis because they are bad for business. Those guys turn off consumers and you don't want your brand associated with them. Look up the YouTube adpocalypse to see what happens when the advertisers find out that they're brands are sitting next to guys like Nick Fuentes.

So Twitter needed an army of moderators to keep the obvious Nazis off while keeping the less obvious Nazis on.

Musk fired those so now Twitter is Nazi City. This makes it basically impossible to engage with Twitter in any useful manner which means they can't do data acquisition and they can't throw advertisements in the people's eyeballs because all of that depends on massive amounts of engagement.

That means Twitter is basically useless to any advertiser except for scam artists and sure enough Twitter is full of scams and nothing else. The scam artists cannot pay very much so Twitter is constantly bleeding cash. That's fine though because it's mostly being used as a propaganda tool to keep people from questioning why a man with no technical skills who has repeatedly failed to meet promises and whose cars have killed several people because of faulty Lane assist features being sold as self-driving gets to be a trillionaire.

Nerds meanwhile see musk is one of their own when he's nothing of the sort. Yeah he's kind of weird and creepy like a lot of us are but in our case that's through no fault of our own and mostly an accident of birth musk worked to get that creepy and weird.

All this means that yeah the website doesn't constantly experience full crashes but it breaks all the time and is basically unusable for anything except of message board you do a single post too that nobody replies to except box and Nazis.

Previously there was a shitload of really good journalism being done on Twitter Believe it or not. And naturally all of that is dead. Not to mention all the other useful features that were taken away.

So no you can't just fire your whole staff. Any other company that wasn't just being propped up so that it could be used for propaganda by right wing extremist fascists would have immediately collapsed after cutting that staff.

Remember Twitter did not pay off all the debt it took on for the buyout. It transferred that debt to other companies that Elon Musk owns and then a complicated series of stock maneuvers took that that and put it into your 401K retirement plan.

Absolutely. 100%.

But if you stop lying about surveillance being the reason and look at the fact they have socialized medicine, easy access to support for counseling and depression, near zero access to weapons, along with a strong culture of learning and education you quickly realize that many other things are at play.

I'm actually a little surprised this isn't bigger news. It's debatable whether they have full nuclear weapons capability but they absolutely have an ICBM that can hit us now. Under Trump they built the ICBM and then detonated a nuke at least according to our intelligence agency and this is the same one that has been telling everyone that Iran is not pursuing a nuke.

Basically if you just praise Donald Trump and give him some fancy gifts he'll let you do basically anything but if you stand up to him he'll send the US military to kill you. As always hiding behind somebody bigger and stronger than him because he's always been a weedy little weakling or a fat little weakling.

I will never understand what the people with Trump derangement syndrome seeing him

Is your Google broken?

https://www.gadgetreview.com/chinese-memory-flood-could-finally-drop-dram-and-ssd-prices

You can find tons of other articles just by searching for the phrase Chinese ram production surge.

There are tons of other companies everywhere in the world except America that could pretty rapidly build ram manufacturing capacity. India could do it. Same with Vietnam. And of course Taiwan.

It would require a very large capital investment that would require loans from Banks and no Bank in its right mind would loan that money out knowing that they would never get it back.

It's probably AI slop. Even before the more sophisticated llms need sites were writing stories like this using bots. They need to have a certain amount of words to keep you scrolling past the advertisements. And now they can go into an AI chatbot and just ask it to write something with x amount of words about y.

Good job predicting that, you prophet.

You must be American, you think 100 years is a long time

Tim Cook thought AR (augmented reality) was the future, that's why he started putting in the beefy hardware. Turned out the future was in chatbots.

Now Tim is not in charge anymore, the things he liked at Apple are like old leaves flowing away in soft autumn wind.

Says you. I plan on living forever and so far I have been highly successful.

Okay not highly successful but technically I'm not Dead yet. Technically.

They already are. China is ramping up ram production. You won't be able to buy any of it because the big three will make sure that there are 10,000% tariffs on Chinese ram or that it's just plain blocked entirely. Some of it will probably make its way into apples computers albeit through illegal supply chain shenanigans. None of it will be designed to protect national security or the consumer it'll be about maintaining the big three triopoly.

And we will somehow keep voting for the same imbeciles who do this to us every year either because they're really good at pushing our buttons or because we somehow fall for the overwhelming amount of propaganda.

I don't necessarily blame somebody for falling for the propaganda you can't just decide to be smarter. Hell I wish I could just turn up my IQ points at times but I can't. Some people can't see past propaganda anymore than I can understand particle physics.

But the people who indulge in moral panics like transpanic or satanic panic or the freak outs over comics or if you want to go really far back penny dreadfuls. Those people can fuck right off.

If this persists China will simply build more fabs, and more quickly than anyone else. So what if it's old-ish tech, at least they will have it.

So I understand that you can only read at about a fourth grade level because well, you're a bot trained on Americans talking on the internet and all.

But Jesus Christ could we please improve the quality of the bots around here? They are starting to get embarrassing. I frankly expect better technical skills from the sort of person who runs a bot on a dying web forum.

That was a failure, but the first failure was not recognizing it wasn't ready for a research project either. When they realized it was going to have to be heavy and bulky, they should have stopped and either iterated the design again, or smarter IMO, waited for tech to improve (or push it) and then done another design. OTOH Apple can afford to lose the money...