I can forgive AI destroying the planet but I draw the line at super expensive RAM
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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I mean, one is the end of life as first-worlders know it, the other is a minor inconvenience in large to people that don't matter.
Like, bruh, just buy a second house somewhere with better weather
BUT MY TREATS I WILL DIE WITHOUT MY TREATS
So true queen, literally me frfr
Ram used the be one of the few cheap pc parts. This is maddening.
I love that this author puts "AI" in quotes every single time lmao it tells me exactly what they think of the technology
"Israel"-type rhetorical flourish. 
Yeah it's great
I'm definitely not perfect about this but I do make a similar effort to always say "LLM" when that's what I'm talking about.
OK, if this is true and
Assuming that this information is accurate—and to be clear, we can’t independently confirm it
it might not be... but, if it is, this feels like the proper preamble. Beginning of the end. This AI stuff has been maddening. I can only imagine how it felt to be aware and skeptical of sub-prime mortgages in like 2004. That at least was tied to real tangible shelter that people actually used! But this has been so clearly a bubble, my dumb ass could recognize it years ago.
I know it's gonna be bad. Worse, the pain and suffering will be near exclusively felt by people who had nothing to do with it and are already the most powerless and precarious. But fuck if it could just pop already so we can get on with it!
They'll keep trying to ram "AI" into everything and make daily necessities impossible without it, like they did with smartphones. And they'll probably be successful because it's too useful as a surveillance tool and way to suppress wages/make work more precarious. It doesn't matter if "AI" can actually do a job, they just need to be able to threaten everyone into submission.
I HATE AI I HATE AI I HATE AI
Capitalism entering the uroborous phase.
i bet newegg is really regretting giving me that free 32 gig kit now
I'm so happy I spent the extra $50 to get 64GB in 2023. Now it would be like $300 extra.
yesterday: millenials are holding onto their devices too long and it's killing the economy
today: why would you want a new device when you can have chatbots
never before have people been building shit just to build shit. all to prop up a completely hilarious market valuation for Nvidia and whothefuckeverelse. they are glad to build infrastructure for something they dont even know how to profit from. im sure the aging power grid can totally handle it.
Not just power that need to be worried about, but also water.
I saw a local story out of Gilbert AZ about water rate hikes: https://www.abc15.com/news/region-southeast-valley/gilbert/gilbert-residents-share-concerns-at-third-listening-session-over-water-rate-hikes
Guess what is being built in Gilbert and all over the Phoenix valley: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/arizona-still-at-the-top-data-centers/75-d300f9d1-4e4d-4327-8d71-7c3450528077
We'll run out of water before the grid breaks 
They’ll undoubtedly try to blame it on immigrants or foreign powers. I’ll sometimes hear that farmers in the western US use so much water because of soybeans meant for China.
The left needs to get their message across in an effective way.
the fact that anybody lives in arizona and nevada, besides indigenous people, is absurd.
My Costco is selling prebuilt computers, how much money could you make buying it and reselling the RAM and Video Card I wonder.
Every company is super quick to mark things up now, I wouldn't be surprised if costco has already marked them up.
That deal with OpenAI was announced and ram prices in stores doubled in a week. That's despite no chips even close to being delivered. They're just taking the opportunity to make extra profit off this news.