So what?

What if Canada joined CSTO and signed some pact with China. Does that give the US justification to invade and annex them? Because it violates some handshake from 36 years ago?

If Russia doesn’t like all this NATO expansion, they can drag someone controversial into an alliance or do some other controversial thing. Have at it. A war is not a rational response, unless you’re a tankie.

Not going to get into logistical analysis (I am behind on that). Nor will I dispute the hypocrisy of focusing only on a “white war.” That’s fair.

But I’m fervent that the justification for Russia’s action is total baloney. I can, and absolutely will, write it off.

To put it another way: even if Mexico was provably 100% Nazi, and they worshipped China and drug cartels and whatever boogeyman we have like gods, I would still be ashamed if my country, the US, invaded them as Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s beyond preposterous to think they pose a military threat to the US, or that it’s our job to purify them, much less to breathlessly excuse such an invasion as (say) Russia’s fault.

That’s what I mean by “Tankies.”

The worst is when these people are called out, and the response is “it’s just a joke, bruh.” But only if they get called out.

Cowards.

Good.

Meanwhile, I’m eagerly waiting for the local Tankie to, once again, explain how so much death is justified by the dire threat Ukraine poses to a 17 million square kilometer country with 5,459 nuclear warheads. And, apparently, to their own people. I’m sure NATO is still making them do it, yep.

Not in terms of energy use, ~110 Megawatt hours. Even if you multiply that for production costs, test training runs and such, its less energy than an airline flight, or the yearly power consumption of a few homes. And it only needed to be done once.

It’s not a trivial financial cost though, no.

Staring down big American cars in full contact races is literally the Mini’s pedigree.

POV: https://youtu.be/QAo1ylm304g

It has no fear here. It knows what to do.

I lived in Manatee County for a bit, and never heard of this place.

It seems cool though.

Check the battery health.

If it was thrashed (like in Uber driving or cold weather or something), and it needs replacing, the car could be basically totaled. Or so I hear with Teslas.

No politician should be simped for.

Unfortunately, simping has proven to be very effective :(

Cyberpunk is way better now. Especially modded. Check out https://www.nexusmods.com/games/cyberpunk2077/collections/lv4wpp

The AC games are not, lol.

Yeah, KCD II is a marvel of a game, if you’re into “so medieval it hurts.” It is so medieval it hurts.

The modding scenes in many games are quite good these days, actually.

Same with germanium.

And boron.

…I was gonna say I wouldn’t want a giant cube of boron. But actually, I kinda do?

What games do you play?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yes. Tune all of that nonsense out… But don’t fret if you own a tiny bit, either.

I kind of like Warren Buffet’s ramblings on it:

Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

You could take all the gold that’s ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that’s worth at current gold prices, you could buy all – not some – all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take?

Statistically, men are.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/21/maga-young-conservatives-culture

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/25/trump-harris-youth-gender-gap-doubles

I can’t find the article, but it’s even more extreme in a new survey. Men are going MAGA, massively disproportionately.

Not gonna lie, I’m a little ashamed of my sex.

…and not really much else that has any kind of revenue potential.

I stopped reading there.

Yeah, Nvidia is up to some shady, circular cash flow, literally criminal financing. They’re all in on AI Bro.

But this blogger is totally ignorant of what they’ve been up to the past decade. They’re still a graphics company. They have huge gaming and workstation markets; hell, almost a monopoly in them.

And they’ve been pushing virtual spaces for a long time. Stuff like industrial robotics, synthetic data generation before AI got popular, simulation, all sorts of things. If every single LLM disappeared tomorrow, and their financing scheme implodes, Nvidia would be just fine, and carry on as usual.

And while I’m ranting, they’re wrong about CUDA too. It’s a monopoly for the research space, but absolutely not for production inference/training. If you want proof, see one example of many: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04519

As well as the massive NPU-trained MoEs on huggingface now.

“AI” is already moving off of Nvidia, but the cutting edge of whatever is en vogue next will still be on Nvidia. I don’t know if that’s bullish or bearish, and I don’t really care.

Do they have to be wireless?

I’d highly recommend the any of the big Phillips Fidelio headphones. They’re ridiculously comfy, they’re sturdy, and they sound incredible.

Other than that, I’m a huge fan of planetary magnetic drivers, like Hifiman’s often discounted older units.

And if you need USB output, you can get a good dongle on the cheap, like any of the Fiio KA series.

EDIT: Just saw the community. Not sure about EU companies, specifically, though many many make wired headphones.

Already done. See:

Open training: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/olmo-3

Decentralized training: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4.3-36B

Decentralized inference: https://aihorde.net/

They aren’t the only example of each, either.

The issue, as with many decentralized projects, is that they’re isolated from each other, and too few know about them.

There’s something to be said for its scripting accessibility, too. Hence the many fabulous VSCode extensions.

https://www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/

https://www.digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join-Forces-with-the-MPAA-to-Sue-Kodi-Box-Maker.html

Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.

And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.

Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.

That’s particularly interesting.

MH is notorious for being unoptimized, right? Maybe DXVK and the sane linux scheduling is working wonders there.

I use DXVK in Windows, on rare occasions, and the gains can be pretty dramatic in (for instance) janky DX9 games.