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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Based on my lived experience I don’t think it’s as much as the brand as it is the horsepower available to you, I have owned a Kia Stinger briefly, that’s a fucking Kia, even though Albert Biermann former head of BMW’s M division helped create it, but it had a V6 engine and 370hp stock, if you put your foot down it roared and kept pulling even above 160km/h.

    The thing was I bought it as a weekend fun car, but shortly after I had to change work and needed to commute to work and let me tell you, it’s hard to drive a car like that calmly. There was even a psychological effect that “I can’t let this Ford Craprerra overtake me”

    And yeah, with that amount of power at your feet, everyone else is in the way and blocking you.

    Plus those fast cars are an entirely different feel on the road, my regular A to B car, I can’t go much above 160, because you start to feel it, my parents Euro Econobox Skoda fabia, it feels dangerous when going 120 on the highway, in the Stinger I went 200 kph on the highway and felt nothing, the only thing made me feel dangerous was how fast I was gaining on other cars and that they might unexpectedly pull in front of me





  • I will try to have a balanced take here:

    The positives:

    • there are some uses for this “AI”
    • like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
    • it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
    • it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

    The negatives

    • the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
    • the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
    • shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
    • AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
    • other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.

    Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already




  • It’s a double edged sword in that for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries, there is nowhere to lower their standards to.

    On the other hand I have watched quite a bit of financial audit videos by caleb hammer, and have seen plenty of statistics that shows that simply put lots of people especially Americans are caught up in consumerism and live beyond their means for either status, or because that’s where they get their gratification from.

    The solution is to accept that no matter what you buy you will be only happy for a fleeting moment, better to embrace minimalism and fuck consumerism, it’s also better for the planet, not just your wallet.