It shouldn't be too hard to find out, we just need to fax someone in a nearby star system requesting a faxback of the details of any big explosions in the last 10,000 years. Then we can calculate how long it'll take for the light to reach us.

Nonono, it's legit, just that someone mixed up the script for an Iron Sky sequel with a real news story.

There was a story in the Evening Standard some years ago about an unearthed Blitz bomb that, as it was unearthed, started ticking. Made in Germany: 70 years later after being buried all that time it still worked.

Actually it's not even that, they cheated. There was a funny paper published recently that used a dog to outperform quantum computers in factorizing.

No, it's legit, I talked to the amazon women who live on the moon and they said they have tons of it, its a byproduct of the cheese mines.

Yup and the more you keep telling yourself that (alongside that the MSM lies), the more you're likely to believe whatever random crap someone on Youtube or TikTok tells you.

It's not just AI, mining is also doing its bit.

It's operating out of Cape Town, they should have called it the Leon Shuster.

And it's good enough for most use. My desktop PC is a Q6600 (look that up if it's from before you learned to read or even before you were born). It sits at 5% CPU 99% of the time. The laptop I'm typing this on has all 12 cores at either 0% or 1% CPU right now. Most people would get by just fine with a phone-CPU laptop.

I guess you get what you deserve if you're using the cloud.

There, FTFY.

It's not a satellite cloud, it's an unevenly distributed Dyson sphere!

So it's doing the same thing as any guy would then?

It could well end up as a net win for China. Instead of sinking billions of dollars into AI slop-generators to boost their company's stock value they're actually doing stuff that matters. See the next story along, about China equalling and possibly beating the US in the space race. But hey, at least the US will have laws built from AI slop, and medical policy made of AI slop, while the masses distract themselves with AI slop videos.

Just wondering, are chatbots the 2020s equivalent of 1980s heavy metal and D&D? Having lived through those I'm wondering if the problem is really that bad or if it's just this decade's trendy moral panic.

Me: Oh, get off my lawn ChatGPT!

ChatGPT: You are aged seventy or above.