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And neither are close to the ice facility on the west side of the river

Hmmm

The golden age of the Internet and social media of the 2010s is long past. There was a special moment when people across the world could share hobbies and interests instantly. Most of us were on Reddit at one point for similar reasons. Twitter became the world’s open air forum.

Corporate media has created a walled garden out of the social media/Internet era. If it’s not on Facebook, Twitter, Google/YT, or tiktok, 99.99% of people aren’t going to see it. And if it is on those, and it’s any way controversial, it will be censored or shadowbanned.

While there have been many labor struggles to organize, overall, labor organization is floundering (see: media censorship) and is not any closer to presenting itself as a unified force (see: Occupy)

I think 2026 will be an important year because it will be the test of whether the activists from 2020 learned anything from that year’s unrest. Our enemy has no conscience and cannot be reasoned with. The opposition party doesn’t meet even the most barebones definition of the term. In 2020, we watched thousands of well-meaning protestors be brutalized by local, state, and federal forces. Some fought back and burned or occupied police stations, but what is there to show for that now? Tactics will need to be changed. The surveillance state makes action feel impossible. Many, many people will be victimized if they fight back.

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The Democrats won’t save the West, neither will China. Truthfully, we probably won’t either.

The 2020s will be looked back on like the American 1850s: the road to unavoidable conflict

No

I can think of one way to get them to leave

I wanna say “I don’t like it” but I want to recognize the skill and artist’s choice to paint this way, but I find it unsettling. When an art makes you feel, it’s doing art right, I guess

May 1, 1969 - Fred Rogers addresses the US Senate

He’s got my vote

Yep, back in November, I opted out. This made Gmail put 55k advertising/spam emails in my primary/only inbox (it stops categorizing). I spent a week manually unsubscribing from every business I’ve ever bought an item from in my life. But my inbox is at 0 unread and I don’t get much spam anymore. It sucked, but I guess I’m glad I did it.

Taken from NATO magazine

Emphasis mine

CoreWeave’s business model consists of buying up lots of high-end computer chips, and building or leasing data centers to house those chips. It then rents out those assets to AI companies that need computing power but prefer not to take on the huge up-front costs themselves. If this is straightforward enough, CoreWeave’s financial situation is anything but. The company expects to bring in $5 billion in revenue this year while spending roughly $20 billion. To cover that gap, the company has taken on $14 billion in debt, nearly a third of which comes due in the next year. Many of these loans were issued by private-equity firms at high interest rates, and several use complex forms of financial engineering, such as giving the money to newly formed legal entities created for the explicit purpose of borrowing on CoreWeave’s behalf (more on that later). CoreWeave also faces $34 billion in scheduled lease payments that will start kicking in between now and 2028.

So the various sectors of the ai market (chip maker, data centers, ai software companies) are all extremely overleveraged and have taken on immense amounts of debt to build their businesses on the hope that people will become dependent on their product by the time lenders start calling in their debts.

It’s also approaching “too big to fail” status like the auto industry and home loan/banking industry, so when it fails, the American taxpayer will be footing the bill.

I think nvidia (or maybe openai) will have to start paying back something like $100 billion starting this September(?) source? I think I heard it on a podcast

It actually seems like each monitor is shooting the image a few frames apart

Everyone knows there were no South Asians in America before 2008

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_Iraq_War_protests

It also catalyzed the largest antiwar protests worldwide

public opinion has zero influence on foreign policy and pretty much never has

Absolutely

“let your ancestors guide you” but they led him directly to Vance’s couch

high schoolers have one of these for breakfast and another for lunch (source: was teacher)

Edit What fucking ever

I feel so defended right now

Depends on the state; when I was delivering during covid, I made the state mw ($14/hr) plus tips, which was about $5/hr, so the money wasn’t bad for a second job. Working closing shift meant I didn’t actually get a lot of deliveries but washed a lot of dishes

At my Domino’s, delivery drivers were petit bourgeoisie compared to the “insiders” who actually did all the work for less pay. We all made minimum wage, but drivers earned commission and tips and didn’t have to take orders on the phone, didn’t have to do dishes, and didn’t have to help make product. The only thing they did was eat and drive

If you want a real answer: the cost of a pizza is the cost of ingredients plus the cost of labor to build the pizza (and cost of facility etc). The delivery fee is to cover the cost of hiring additional laborers who only deliver pizzas; the delivery fee covers their wages. When I worked at Domino’s, drivers got their standard hourly wage, a percentage of the dollar value they’d delivered during their shift (I was told this was to cover gas/vehicle maintenance), and whatever tips they collected during the shift.

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