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so far it doesn't seem like the prices have gone up, it was 20 bucks more than what i paid for it in november and those prices were stable for years

i just bought a spare 20TB drive to have as a fallback in case one of my drives in my NAS goes bad and they try to fuck me on the warranty by not sending a replacement drive

i can barely trust it to pull a few csv files together in the format i want without having to fiddle with it until it provides a working script

Oh right I forgot about that bit

san diego being the capital of socal is lol too

next year probably a bit too early but by 2028 i expect it to be cheap again

hollywood is COOKED

something like this used to cost $100,000,000 to make and i just did it for free with one prompt 😎

happy horse year!

good riddance, you sucked so much

all good art has something to say and all good gacha illustrations are basically screaming "draw her getting fucked! I'm not allowed to! you have to do it!!!"

tbh i'm not entirely sure. we know the bush admin completely ignored credible intelligence on the matter

also, the brooks brothers riot was Jan 6th but successful

this was something awful STOLEN VALOR

lina khan needs to come back and crush every big tech company into oblivion with antitrust, crush the wealth and power of the big social media owners

eh, a ton of academic labs would kill for compute like that, and at least it's not crypto mining ASICs so you can actually use it for useful stuff

not enough to make up the entire economy of course but

A very long--too long for alt text--chronological history of the Zero Wing/All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme. Entries near the bottom of the image--though not the end of the timeline--read as follows: November 14, 2000: JRR, one of the SA forum regulars, releases Invasion of the Gabber Robots, the Zero Wing remix. November 28, 2000: A report/poll on the US elections appears on Ars Techinca: All Your Votes Are Belong to Us!! December 16, 2000: Tribal War's thread begins. As this is one of the oldest remaining threads, they are often mistakenly given credit for starting the phenomeon. January 12, 2001: Part 4 of "A Winner Is You," Hubert's game quote-based storyline is posted. It passes completely beneath the pop culture radar. January 14, 2001: Solidsharkey.com puts up a history. It's not as complete as this one, and may have some inaccuracies (WAS the Genesis version of ZW ever a US release? I can only find the info/ROM for a European version), but it is the first attempt at documenting ZW history. Note that I didn't find out about this until 10 minutes ago. February 11, 2001: Eskimo Bob posts Episode 12: AD 2101 February 13, 2001: memepool.com posts about AYBABTU. They link to the Tribal War thread. Approx. February 15, 2001: Bad_CRC of Tribal War releases the now-infamous music video. There are some copyright issues (permission wasn't asked to use JRR's song), but it continues to spread like wildfire. February 16, 2001: Plastic reports the Flash video.

Happy 25 year anniversary to the Flash video for Invasion of the Gabber Robots, better known to the world as All Your Base Are Belong to Us. I know, Newgrounds will claim that they invented this because the Flash video was reposted there quickly, but that is a lie as it started several months prior:

because investors are in fact stupid as hell and malinvestment happens in the economy all the god damn time with no consequences

knowing how much SJC fucks with the urban development of the area around it I think I kinda prefer the model of just building a massive airport in the countryside and putting a high speed link to the city

maybe we need to do kansai's thing with an airport in the bay

people love saying NRT is too far away but hell, I can still get from NRT to ikebukuro quicker than it takes me to get from my apartment to the airport here

that is true, taking it up to Hokkaido was awesome even if it's not complete yet all the way to Sapporo and won't be until the mid 2030s

flying would certainly be cheaper, shinkansen is so expensive

sometimes I forget how lucky we are on the west coast to not really have tolls

we do have toll roads and bridges but those are mostly optional

I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM

Though judging by how the expressway and tolls work in japan I'm sure it's annoying, but that looks to be basically SF to LA which is about 6-7 hours, ez

yeah it's really stupid because the state system is really stupid

honestly a pretty good name

"riamu google dockey" would be a good username

We've finally come full circle. People are longing for less chatter dialogue in their games by referencing ocarina, a game that people consistently complained about Navi being too talkative to the point of it being a meme for 20 odd years.

western culture in general can't shut up for a moment, people love blabbing

pedocon theory is a theory in the same way that gravity is a theory