Humans keep innovating new ways to do the same fucking bigotry
07.10.2025 19:38 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0@tznkai.bsky.social
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Humans keep innovating new ways to do the same fucking bigotry
07.10.2025 19:38 β π 27 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I looked up Reality Labs again they have lit so much money on fire
07.10.2025 19:35 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Correct, this is *why* the government has enormous leverage when it comes to Medicare. It is a monosomy and thus can tell pharmaceutical companies to take a hike when they try to massively upcharge.
You had better believe that Blue Cross wishes it could do that.
"future proofing"
07.10.2025 19:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Honestly being able to run local voice to text and translation services on that would be kinda great
07.10.2025 18:51 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Honestly the ideal is everything goes just a little bad and we all get cheaper gaming cards
07.10.2025 18:34 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The media class is not responsible for posters using the term "stuffed into a locker" except insofar as the media class are also posters.
07.10.2025 17:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As of June Reality labs had lost $8,739M so if you adjust for expenses being Q4 weighted they're well on track to lose even more money
07.10.2025 17:26 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Family of Apps Reality Labs Total Year Ended December 31, Year Ended December 31, Year Ended December 31, 2024 2023 % change 2024 2023 % change 2024 2023 % change (in millions, except percentages) Revenue $ 162,355 $ 133,006 22% $ 2,146 $ 1,896 13% $ 164,501 $ 134,902 22% Costs and expenses 75,246 70,135 7% 19,875 18,016 10% 95,121 88,151 8% Income (loss) from operations $ 87,109 $ 62,871 39% $ (17,729) $ (16,120) (10)% $ 69,380 $ 46,751 48% Operating margin 54 % 47 % (826) % (850) % 42 % 35 %
Lol, lmao even. IT's so much fucking money but they make so much more from Facebook and friends
07.10.2025 17:22 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1But muh efficient allocation of capital
07.10.2025 17:18 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Okay, but hear me out, companies could issue dividends, as a bit
07.10.2025 17:16 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Just think about the universe where they didn't burn it all on Reality Labs!
07.10.2025 17:13 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's A Lot
07.10.2025 17:12 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It honestly makes the math a lot simpler
07.10.2025 17:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I have a whole thread about this
07.10.2025 16:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Of course the underlying economic crisis conditions were created by Trump setting global trade on fire, specifically all of the US parts of it.
07.10.2025 16:50 β π 25 π 1 π¬ 2 π 1The actual GPUs and buildings will be fine, the whiplash to the economy when all of the engineers making GPUs and all the tradespeople making buildings suddenly get laid off due to canceled projects? That could be real ugly, but like, the normal economic crisis kind of ugly.
07.10.2025 16:49 β π 43 π 5 π¬ 5 π 2Yep, I basically agree with it
07.10.2025 16:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think this is correct, but also the AI bubble collapsing will have larger scale ramifications because the AI bubble may be covering up weakness elsewhere across the economy.
07.10.2025 16:46 β π 72 π 16 π¬ 5 π 1I think it's important that people not get too discouraged, especially considering the average number of years in higher education on here.
07.10.2025 16:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Strictly speaking, the rates are set in an adversarial process *by someone else* which is really the key to making this work. It doesn't have to be easy it just has to be someone else's problem.
07.10.2025 16:38 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I mean, we do it all the time with like, auto insurance fire insurance and title insurance and a bunch of other stuff, health insurance is mostly different by degree, but it feels like difference in kind
07.10.2025 16:38 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Supreme Court justices may not all be good at reasoning but they're all amazing at looking like they're good at reasoning
07.10.2025 16:33 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Found Sarah Kliff's burner
07.10.2025 16:35 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Didn't NVDIA just cut a deal to essentially trade GPUs to Open AI for equity?
07.10.2025 16:35 β π 39 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Let me suggest the average arrogance of professional writers and social media addicts is, uhhhhhh abnormal. Let's go with abnormal.
07.10.2025 16:32 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So how do I know if I'm better off? That's the neat part, you don't
07.10.2025 16:30 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm going to dissent here, to the vast majority of ordinary people, a Supreme Court Justice, even the hack ones, are extraordinarily persuasive writers speaking from their area of expertise. it takes cultivated arrogance, deserved or otherwise, to take on someone far better credentialed than you.
07.10.2025 16:28 β π 35 π 3 π¬ 7 π 0White-adjacency is a real thing worth analyzing, and the relative position of Asian-Americans is not the same as it is for minorities. There are real complexities.
And there are people who say "fuck that" and just use it as a bludgeon.
Pardon the cliche but I've seen it on the right and the left.
Trying to remember exactly how explicit someone said I wasn't a real minority because I was Asian and therefore white and as I think about it I'm pretty sure I'm mixing up two separate incidents.
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