Mark

For sure, massively under-delivered. But i see that as a lucky break more than a failure. Theyre behind on the wrong answers and plagiarism machine.

Agreed. Awesome Star wars game. Feels more star wars than anything ive seen in a long time.

Also they excluded investment in power generation…the craziest aspect of the data center madness. Also even with those old figures rueters said it contributed about 0.3% to “growth”. Did they mean to the total? Because that’s the issue. The growth was small. About equal to the AI spending.

Ok. Well it looks like i can see where the discrepancies might be coming from. I mean in that reuters article its citing 2024 growth. But the article is specifically talking about how huge the increases will be in 2025. 2025 is almost over…

They said almost 100 percent. Are we gonna split hairs here or is the point valid?

Serious question, and i dont mean this to be an asshole, just genuinely curious. Did you use AI to pull up your figures on ai gdp contribution?

It looks like your statistics are antiquated.

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Harvard economist's dire warning: Without data centers, US GDP grew only 0.1% in H1 2025 US GDP growth 2025: Harvard economist Jason Furman warns that almost all of America’s economic growth in the first half of 2025 came from data centers and information processing technology, with major...

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Bullshit. AI is an out of control industry that’s run by insane people with no guardrails. 100 percent of US GDP growth right now is ONLY AI infrastructure investment. There’s nothing else that investors are spending money on. It’s not a tool. It’s a money making scheme. And it’s doing massive harm.

Is that justification for condition-free permission of everything they do? Imagine if the their unpaid taxes and insane doomed investment money theyre using to cook the earth went to social programs like it’s supposed to. The AI giants are not working toward helping the disabled.

I’m sure some good advancements will eventually come from some of the AI work being done. But as of right now all the big companies investing in it are thoroughly evil and are just smashing and grabbing what they can get away with until the shit really hits the fan from the harm theyre doing.

Don’t mean to be picking on you specifically but that’s a pretty absurd justification and is basically the same one AI always uses. “Someday this stuff might help disabled people!…while they horrifically exploit and rob everyone now.” And teaming up with google? bsky.app/profile/madd...

Apple is pretty good only on about 2 things these days: privacy and not jerking off to empty AI promises and forcing it on everyone. That put’s them way ahead most modern companies in my book.

Im happy that there’s some half assed voice prompt thing on my phone i can not use instead of monstrous AI forcing me to use it for everything, while they invest billions in data centers cooking the planet and boiling our water while it harvests our every action and plagiarizes all our work.

Im not a huge apple fan, but boggles my mind that people are still saying they fumbled AI. Apple’s best quality is they don’t have AI shoehorned into everything. Yet. They’re probably about to start now though.

Sup dawg.

I always comment on the deals for this controller because it’s insane how cheap they sell a controller this good for. Get it.

This is a good controller. In the past it was hard for me to justify the price only because 8bitdo started making other models that were nearly as good for insanely cheap. This price makes it a no brainer for a 2.4ghz controller with motion control. Works great with the emulators i use.

I know a guy who went moon landing conspiracy nutter and it didnt take him to long to start confidently asserting that space isnt real. So yeah the moon not being the moon is probably more mainstream than youd expect. They believe we’re under some kind of stupid dome and the moon was added recently

Hell yeah. How cool that DannyTRS makes friggin Predator movies now.

If i’m on the phone with someone and it comes up that they don’t know how to get the white sword i’d just hang up and block their number.

Mark’s probably already written about 400 “may the forth” jokes. He needs to have them stored and scheduled for deployment.

Been waiting for something good and cheap like this for a long time. I’ll definitely pick one up.

I played this game on my PS5 recently and it’s good. Fun star wars game.

It’s that cowardliness and greed from the entire business world that’s giving him more and more consent and power and immunity from the rule of law. Theyre gonna be a lot more scared soon and so is everyone else.

This is a very good movie.

Getting triggered that i dont see a nintendo 64. But i see 64 merch so i guess i’ll be ok.

That game looks pretty rad. Definitely gonna get it.