MonkeMischief

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 8 hours ago

They're totally sleeping on

"We're gonna build up Walz, and make Trump/ICE pay for it!"

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

I think we were all hoping that some loveable genius was quietly subverting their surveillance state and getting a view of the outside world via Team Fortress 2, but, yeah, if it's not North Korea's fattest man, it's probably a high ranking military crony.

. . .Hey just musing here but that sounds like a kinda hilariously easy doxx. You don't think they'd keep state secrets on that same machine? . . . Surely. . .? Noooo. . . 🤔

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ohhhh I think I might have misread your original comment. Were you saying 2/3rds didn't vote for this , but aren't meaningfully opposing it?

(In which case me getting updoots on that one for being wrong is a tad confusing but lol internet I guess?)

I would partially disagree in that case though. There's a lot being done but it's definitely more quiet than all the damage they're doing, and the opposition has to move carefully.

There are certainly a lot of weenie politicians that are sticking with the age old strategy of "I'm not like those guys" while tacitly supporting the corruption at the same time, and they need to be fired and replaced as swiftly and ruthlessly as possible with fighters.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

I never noticed but it feels like that's "Cool Retro Term (CRT)" running that amber interface in the background there.

I'd be willing to guess it, anyway. :D

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

...as a women?

As a men 🙏

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

My over-generalized understanding is that it's more like 1/3rd, but because of exploited political geography their votes were "more special" than the rest of ours, so suddenly we arrived at:

"The whole country wanted this!"

(Historians' note: No they didn't.)

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 1 day ago

In a world that made sense, U.S forces would also say they're ready to join with Denmark in defending Greenland.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

So true.

It's scary, it's like all the major developed civilizations are saying

"Look we're all spying on each other because we're definitely planning on fighting so you best either get out of our way or shut up about it."

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Any commanding officers who would comply and issue such orders should suffer whatever archaic military field punishments exist for outright treason.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It looks so dumb playing coy when the whole world knows what's up.

It's really bizarre and stupid, and yet it might be one of the best tools for peace in the long run.

Both sides can pretend to ante up, can pretend to posture, can pretend to threaten, under the guise of heated talks and "training exercises"...and then can still have the chance to back down without losing face before any live-fire happens because nobody actually declared what was happening, was happening.

At least I hope this is kinda the case. Either way, it's infinitely more stupid than simply not picking fights with random territories. But what would I know?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

And we'll do just about anything before we give in to exercise!

 

GoG is freely releasing a bunch of games that would likely be targeted for removal by these moral panic lobbyists, for 48 hours, as a protest. Honestly not interested in the majority but hey I can get behind the sentiment!

Link is here:

https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by MonkeMischief@lemmy.today to c/memes@lemmy.world
 
 

Found this on iFunny lol.

 

Basically title. I'm a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren't we all.)

I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc...

All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I'll instead be paying +60% more on like everything.

I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so?

I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance.

Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just...keeps getting worse.

I am getting paid for my digital art, it's not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying.

Thanks in advance. <3

EDIT: Thanks a ton for all the helpful replies! I'm glad I'm not being overly paranoid.

Some of you have asked for system specs so here they are for the curious:

System Specs:

  • OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
  • Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX
  • CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
  • Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?)

I want to be clear: I don't mean to sound too panicked and I'm more than happy to be content with what I have and see my blessings for what they are.

However, as I'm trying to break into being a 3D Blender artist and gamedev professionally, I'm trying to strategize whether standards will significantly increase and leave me behind in the next 5 years or so. (Game industry, not trying to do Hollywood VFX models on my home rig or anything lol)

I don't game so much these days unfortunately. And if I do, like 5% of my library is particularly demanding. 😂

 

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

  • LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
  • Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
  • We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
  • Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .

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