I'm sorry that I draw the line at genocide.

Most french housing doesn't have AC to begin with. My very recent apartment has none, the one I'll be moving to (which is currently being built) won't either. It's only built under the notion that energy is a winter issue, and designed to keep the heat in.

The start of the heat wave was uneventful for me, but I now restrict my day in a tiny square in front of the portable AC (so much for saving energy by not designing the building with AC in mind...)

The cold tap water is lukewarm 😭

Not only is AC rare, but new apartments aren't always equipped, and some countries literally forbid AC installations (Switzerland) in the name of energy savings (which means people then buy those terrible mobile units, which are way less efficient)

The US paid for this for decades. Yes, it will forever be the US's (and UK's) mess, and when it get better I have serious doubts they'll be the one deserving praise.

well, we’re at the stage of violent revolution and there’s no point faffing about further

I do believe we are at the stage where this is the only means of change. We're not doing it because most people are still delusional (or generously, "hopeful") that we are not, or don't even think about changing things at all by desperation / capitulation / ignorance.

Only consumergrade hardware is overpriced

Well no, the memory price increase is specifically here to price gouge AI datacenters. If you're running a non-AI datacenter, and if you're targeting consumers, like with remote desktop gaming, you have AI-like costs (literally, since servers GPUs are gaming GPUs), but without the enterprise customers. Oh and you also need the best bandwidth possible, because a few added MS might make the "remote" use unbearable, which is an added cost datacenters don't have to deal with on the same terms.

A distinction without a difference. There is no need for collusion when you're moving in the same social circles, meeting the same people, having your campaign funded by the same social class with the same needs and objectives.

And yes, Trump was a mold breaker there, but only as a facade, the reality is not that Trump is "rejecting" neoliberalism, it is that neoliberalism is breaking apart, by its own incoherence, in the US as everywhere else.

Well yes, megacorps have unlimited budget for AI datacenters, that's my point; consumer facing offerings don't, such as cloud gaming, and they're competing for the same price-gouged resource ("competing" is too generous tbh, consumer facing companies are getting curb stomped)

In match in what sense? Because google has become nigh useless to me. I'm relying hard on LLMs to provide links because google never gives me any relevant response anymore -- and I'm not even talking about sponsored content here, which makes things worse in some cases

Isn't the Commission a famously corrupt org? Nearly all popular measures from the EU came from the Parliament, iirc

Cloud? With what hardware? Everything is overpriced because of AI, no one is spared

The commission is famously bad for this, but the EU also has the Parliament which is much less of a problem

That's hilarious 😆 now if someone corrects you, you can pass the curse

Google is still the first thing that I check, it's just not as consistent as it used to be in delivering any meaningful results

Because search engines have been dogshit for the past 2 years (give or take~); AI need to be steered hard but as long as you're asking for sources (and don't just read what they're saying) you can get an answer out of them.

I only find what I'm searching for on Google if I already know the exact keywords for what I'm specifically looking for (...and even then...); if I don't know the exact terms of what I'm looking for (like @[email protected] with his bike brake issue) then google is useless nowadays, which wasn't always true. So now my process is to google first, ask an AI second, and I end up using AIs way more than I would like.

I use AIs exactly as you're describing, but I ask for sources, which they're "ok" for.

They're bad at it too but in a way that make them useful to then extract the keywords google would expect (i.e, the response doesn't necessarily make sense, but at least I have some resources to form a question google can answer), while google doesn't seem to be able to give me proper results when I search by using words other than the exact matching keywords

I don't see how editorial content regulations impact a DJ's catalogue?

This video was 12 years ago but I've noticed that newer trucks had the new ""beep"" instead of the one you're thinking about https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8