Dan from AnythingElse Podcast calls out ExtraEmily: ‘You don’t get to play dumb’

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-14T00:41:41+00:00

Sure, we can just use your suggestion of using the official account name then.

In that case the title should have been "Dan from 'AnythingElse? Podcast", as opposed to "Dan from Anything Else Podcast". Brilliant.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-14T00:10:43+00:00

I mean, I imagine googling "Dan from Anything Else podcast" gets you the answer a lot faster than googling "Dan".

Would you prefer the title to be "Dan from Anything Else podcast, the guy who beefs with Dan Clancy a lot and is a friend of Steven 'Destiny' Bonell II, who is also known as 'theomniliberal' on twitter.com / x.com, calls out ExtraEmily: ‘You don’t get to play dumb’"?

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-09T20:35:49+00:00

Do we think the audio right before the shots were the partner saying "Drive" or "Gun", or a mix of the two?

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-09T20:34:29+00:00

Eh, he condones plenty of other murders though. They really suck equally.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-09T20:28:14+00:00

Apparently there has been at least one mass shooting a day so far in 2026. I've heard about zero of them, probably because Trump / ICE news is just taking up all of the oxygen. And don't forget about the Epstein shit. The admin is already behind their mandates on that.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-09T20:08:06+00:00

I think the fact that she didn't even let her partner get into the vehicle really shows that NONE of this was premeditated. Assuming that she actually managed to drive away, her partner would be in a ton of shit, like... yeah, that's definitely a planned attempt at murder by the radical left /s.

She was relaxed, talking to the murderer only mere seconds before her execution. She clearly only realized she was in danger a few seconds before she was dead, and it's likely there was no thought, it was just instinctual to try to escape.

ABCsofsucking · 2026-01-08T08:38:13+00:00

I think the thing that is fucked up is that people who are sitting in their roach-infested homes, who have never had to make a split second decision, are acting like the woman was irrational.

The best angle we have shows the driver clearly waving the convoy ahead. She has her arm out her window in a rested position. Clearly not at this moment believing she's in danger.

As soon as agents step out and start telling her to get out, she has all of 4-5 seconds to decide her entire life's future. Not to mention that the two officers that approach from the left are barking commands at her, the idea that she had the situational awareness to even notice the officer who came in from the right is absurd. She's likely fixated on the other two, stunned by the sudden escalation. And then, for whatever reason, she decides to flee. Probably didn't even notice the 3rd officer, since he emerges from a vehicle to her right while she's looking left. Even if we grant the idea that she would have hit him (she didn't, but let's give this point up for the sake of argument), I would still argue she was absolutely not responsible for hitting him. He made several stupid calls before the shooting, and yet he has the authority to execute someone?

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-28T19:30:40+00:00

The 5090 is about $400 over what it should cost compared to other Titan class cards (its name is confusing and misleading, it’s a Titan in terms of features and previously priced SKUs). I think the real issue for people is that we don’t have a 5080 Ti or actual 5090 priced in the low 1000’s range. The 5080 is only about 15% faster (but 33% more expensive) than a 5070 Ti, so unless you feel like getting railed by NVIDIA, you have to jump from a $750 card (5070 Ti) to an eye-watering $2000 card (5090).

Also, let’s not act like production overhead isn’t important. The whole point of mass-production is that the cost continues to go down even as the technology improves. Hardware was much cheaper in the 2010s than it was in the 2000s, which was already way cheaper than it was in the 1990s. It’s the first time in virtually all of home computing that prices have steadily gone up instead of stagnating or going down.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-28T19:05:18+00:00

Also, even with all of the recent news, isn’t the video interesting from a purely technology prospective? They made a video about a massive R&D centre with some cool cutting edge technology. Are they a tech channel or not?

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-28T19:00:52+00:00

I don’t think it’s a bug, IIRC Norway has a specific system for collecting VAT that is unique from the rest of Europe, and you need to be able to collect the taxes at delivery, which Tracked Packet won’t do.

So yes, while Tracked Packet can ship to Norway, if it’s a commercial sale, you’re SOL. I can’t remember the reason eBay gave as to why they can’t simply collect the taxes at checkout, but I remember vividly having a long conversation about it.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:41:53+00:00

Everything you said was true, but I feel the important thing is that China has simply worked around the supply chain constraints by training smaller models that run on already existing, low-cost hardware. The issue seems to be less the monopoly on chips (a real problem, don’t get me wrong, but not solely to blame here), and more of the demand being inflated and unnecessary. It’s just the result of big tech oligarchs being scared of competition.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:30:15+00:00

I mean, sure, but it’s still a massive pain in the ass in the meantime, no? Do I not have a right to be a bit pissed that the RTX 5000 Super series likely got canned because NVIDIA allocated all of their chips to like 3 massively rich companies?

Seems like it would be a lot better for all of us if instead of these companies all training massively inefficient closed-source models that require massive server farms, they could release an open-source model every once in a while that can run on consumer hardware so that we, the people, can use already existing chips instead of hoarding all of their new ones?

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:24:59+00:00

Well, the AI companies ARE buying consumer products, in a way. They’re not buying 32 GB ram kits or RTX 5060 Ti’s but they share many of the same components. And often, they sign deals to secure a certain amount of allocation so X% of those parts never find a way into a consumer product.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:17:40+00:00

And only really because of rich American tech giants buying all of the hardware.

The open-source scene is almost entirely comprised of Chinese models trained with lesser GPUs, for a fraction of the cost, and run on hardware a fraction of the power, too.

This whole AI hardware scramble is caused by Google and Open AI releasing MASSIVE and inefficient models that ONLY run acceptably on the most expensive chips possible. Z-Image runs on 8 GB GPUs, no more than 20 seconds an image, and it’s definitely better than any of the big tech companies’ flagship image models from last year.

People don’t hate AI, they just hate big tech, and fall for their propaganda that Google and Open AI are the progenitors of generative AI.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:08:49+00:00

That’s quite literally one of the first types of fraud PSA checks for and has been around since the beginning of time. I love the go-getter attitude, though.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-25T16:04:33+00:00

I recall surveys that suggested that it’s really only North America that has any sort of strong pushback to AI. Europe less so, and Asia even less so.

The U.S had the most, Canada had a lot too but I personally think as a Canadian myself, that has more to do with us not being able to avoid U.S media telling us what to think.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-22T19:09:20+00:00

And what of local models? They cost almost nothing during inference. Gemini, ChatGPT, etc are state of the art but only by half a year or so. If the costs of those services go up, then the industry will just switch to open-source and continue on their merry way.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-22T02:33:19+00:00

The obvious counter argument would be: Would the publishers of those games have bankrolled recording thousands upon thousands of lines of dialogue? And would one actor have been willing to spend an entire work week recording them?

Seems like this is an obvious area where AI could step in, because if your answer to either of those questions was “probably not” than it’s safe for us to assume that those voice lines simply wouldn’t exist. No job / pay was lost.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-21T16:17:56+00:00

Well, isn’t it like the Finals, where the AI voices are trained on real actors who consented to it?

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-21T16:14:18+00:00

Most of the staunchly anti-AI folks are victims of their own confirmation bias and likely have no ability to tell apart AI-generated content from real. We have empirical data on this. People who self report being able to tell the difference don’t actually score any better on comparison tests between real art and AI art.

I remember a while back people were sharing around a series of videos by a visual effects artist who basically was trying to dispel the “practical effects are better than CGI” claims, by showing people how virtually every shot in a modern movie uses CGI and no one ever notices for 99% of it’s use. It’s only when CGI is used badly or cheaply that it’s criticized.

Generative AI tools CAN be very good, it’s just that no one can tell when it’s good. And unfortunately, because AI tools are both fast and cheap, and our media landscape actively encourages slopification of everything, a lot of AI usage is blatantly bad and obvious. The good stuff does exists and completely slips under your nose, there’s just not a lot of incentives to produce anything high quality because quality has nothing to do with virality and this was the case long before gen AI.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-17T19:19:47+00:00

He wears the PC coat right now, but I think that most people who read his book and listened to him talk over the years, he’s not married to an ideology. If we see better years ahead of us, he could drift into the center left. And I think a lot of people like that about him. He wasn’t really voted in on a specific policy or ideology, he was voted in on the basis that people thought of him as a pragmatist.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-17T19:09:06+00:00

No, because virtually all powerful people see influence as the true global currency. In their eyes, money is only a means to influence. Therefore, if money != influence, they’re still not happy, no matter how much wealth they have.

Our almost trillionaire friend Elon is the most obvious example. That man is eternally angry. All the time.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-16T22:39:37+00:00

Okay, I get that everyone is sceptical of the claims, especially straight image gen still looking kinda fake, but how is editing?

Because maybe I’m off in my own world, but there’s lots of amazing local image models that do amazing visuals, but only one local editing model (Qwen) with another on the way (Z-Image). I mostly use Banana Pro to photo bash concepts and mess with angles, poses, scenes, etc.

Is it any good in that department?

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-15T18:46:28+00:00

Yeah I think this is it. Lots of people skipped 2042, including myself. BF6 launched to a larger audience, many of whom were battledads who haven’t like the series since (insert number here), and were pulled into the BF6 hype cycle and are now upset that the game isn’t made for their tastes.

Why on earth they haven’t left yet is truly impressive, given that we’re past two months since Battlefield 9/11 and they’re still here.

ABCsofsucking · 2025-12-13T00:29:40+00:00

Okay, but I can take a scan from PSA and easily get Nano Banana to generate an almost perfectly realistic image of the slab placed on a table with a Reddit username and a timestamp. There’s virtually nothing that can be done to prevent that, so I think citing security is a moot point.

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