And if you confess suicidal ideation in the US, the authorities rush in to “help” you by taking away your agency and giving you even more crippling debt.

I wince whenever people trip over their keyboards to post those “helpful” 800 hotline numbers. Most of them have good intentions, but the end result is never about really helping the person. It’s about liability coverage and enabling the system to extract maximum value.

“Hi there! It looks like you’re trying to summon Jeebus!” --Fundy Clippy

The meme I keep seeing in regards to nVidia and the LLMs Ouroboros structure is: Company A pays Company B $100 to dig a hole. Company B pays Company A $100 to fill it back up. Both report $100 of “revenue”.

Talkie Toaster is here. “Howdy-doodly-do, how’s it going?”

I made the mistake of pronouncing the “s” in “debris” once, and a pedantic acquaintance pretended to not know the word over and over as I repeated it, until I finally realized the mistake. If he’d simply corrected me, I would have laughed at myself and appreciated him. But he had to be a smug prick about it, and now I permanently resent him.

Sorry for the mini trauma dump. Just agreeing with your sentiment.

Good. There’s too many of us.

You’re welcome. There are a few exclusive books that only show up an Amazon but so far 99% of what I have been shopping for has been available on Kobo.

I use Calibre with a couple of plugins. KoboUtilities and Obok DeDRM. It is easy.

I’m all for people doing this if they can.

Meanwhile, I love my Kobo e-reader and I only purchase e-books from Kobo (since Amazon eliminated “side loading”).

Good observation. I think part of it is, that’s just how these business douchebags talk about everything.

Meanwhile I see kids doing this all the time while mom or dad looks at their phone behind the wheel. I do live in a redneck area*, though.

*the USA.

But…why? I can see cloud connectivity for some things… but a bed? The entire point is data harvesting from suckers. Internet of Shit product.

Hard to check in with somebody stabbing you with a kitchen knife but are you OK Jason buddy?

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Using robots for dreary drudge work could be a good thing with something like UBI to go along with it. But instead of fully automated luxury gay space communism, they will implement “Gilded Age 2.0: The Worser Dystopia”, instead.

Well, some of us have niche kinks, like dumping poo from a fighter jet. You won’t find that any ol’ porn hub site.

This is definitely a trap. It’s happening at the same time as the anti-porn crusade.

Dave explains the “long tail” of recovery:

https://youtu.be/KFvhpt8FN18

Same with us. Had to reboot/restart a number of things, and resynch clocks.

There are some downstream / knock on effects going on which can be explained…but I can’t help but wonder if today’s story is bigger than just AWS. AWS saying it was an outage of a “few hours” for DynamoDB and DNS…and that doesn’t line up all that great with what people are reporting in the wild . I’m not trying to start a conspiracy theory, just wondering what the post mortems will tell us, if anything. Obviously the suits want to keep embarrassing fuckups downplayed as much as possible.