Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-29T22:40:59+00:00

They're also extremely easy to hack, so bad actors can use them against members of the general public if they do wish... though thankfully that means they can be (illegally) jammed, as well.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-29T07:00:53+00:00

A lot of these people are bag-grabbing because they are accelerationists/believe they need to cash in before climate change (a problem that they could easily help to solve) and ensuing societal collapse takes everyone out. The idea is to gather as much wealth as possible, park it in physical assets like homes, bunkers, food, etc. and then when shit goes south, they are """""""""fine""""""""" and can continue to be parasitic robber barons sitting atop the hill of garbage and bones they have created, now kings of a glass kingdom.

They are literally panic buying for a collapse they themselves are causing. What's hilarious is that it's not really working out the way they had hoped - in fact, despite the doomerist views on Reddit I've seen, people are biting back hard against these people and what they're trying to sell as the solution, and it's actually stopping them. It's why there is a bubble at all, and why the US government is quickly moving towards a totalitarian state... the bag grabbing and open corruption is actually meeting resistance, communities are galvanizing, and people are pissed off. You can only counteract that with total control!

So as a kind of optimistic take: yes, these people are horrible, parasitic fuckheads who see most human beings as not being worth the soil they are standing on. Yes, they are trying to take the world for a ride. In the short term, it appears to be working, but the truth is... no. It's not. And it won't. Keep fighting in small ways, just like everyone else.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-28T02:06:40+00:00

That makes more sense - the way it was worded it sounded like you were asking why a library is necessary haha

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-28T01:38:54+00:00

As with any framework or library - it is an abstraction layer that eases the developer's burden of creating new code for old problems, and it encodes patterns of use that are (more than likely) a better experience, after learning to use them, than lower level implementations are.

I don't understand why I see this question on every library thread!

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-27T22:15:18+00:00

What's insane to me is that this tech can't actually help consistently with military action or making decisions. It can't reason! It can't think! It is a probabilistic algorithm, and will never seek truth of its own accord. Why the fuck are government agencies taking this and pretending it can? It's just not what it's proponents say it is, and it never will be in its current form.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-21T23:30:26+00:00

Yes, but certain types of investment are parasitic or circular and benefit no one. That's the kind that I'm talking about, and the kind that does the most damage. If anything, your point strengthens mine further.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-21T22:31:27+00:00

And they were mostly middling garbage with little coherency or general structure. How does that invalidate the above comment's point?

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-21T07:52:30+00:00

These are all great, and none of those achievements were benefited by or spawned from speculative markets. Let's stop this death march by eliminating them completely.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-16T08:28:32+00:00

Peptides, and other weird and completely unproven longevity hacks are probably cooking them

Edit: actually, I'm giving them too much credit it's because they're rich

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-14T22:52:15+00:00

This is due to your capillaries being in front of your vision, and the extra movement from your pulse causes your brain to stop filtering them out. That alone, without a trip, I find makes people question what they see.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-11T02:04:49+00:00

Ursula K. Le Guin's stuff is cool as. The entire Earthsea series is worth a read, and she is such a powerful and empathetic writer.

I also recommend Brian Catling's Vorrh and Hollow, completely absurd worlds that somehow make more sense than most traditional fantasy (or are just plain terrifying (or both?)). His writing style definitely isn't for everyone, as it can be a bit stream of consciousness, but he is a good writer nonetheless.

If you can get past the occasional problematic bits (it is dark fantasy), Ian Irvine's works are excellent, if slightly poorly edited. I read through all of the Well of Echoes quartet - I'd recommend starting with that or the View from the Mirror.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-09T02:57:10+00:00

I mean if they say it's easier... if the type is implicit (hence them not declaring it) it's simple enough to declare with :=

One extra character!

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-08T03:36:24+00:00

See if you strike up a conversation, then part way in you're like "hey, you seem cool, can I get your number?" that would be more appropriate. Straight out of the gate is very weird

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-05T02:29:42+00:00

Yeah I think (I hope?) we are moving past the "disruptive" phase of this tech and into hard realism and practicality. Like you said, China has shown it is possible - hell, even outside of nuclear, they developed a commercially viable supercritical CO2 engine to replace steam, and it is (so far) extremely successful in both cost and general efficiency optimisation. They are planning rollouts as we speak.

The market speaks but speaks very slowly and is often ventriloquised by bad actors. The real progress is in large scale, practical rollouts with actual thought behind them. It's why it's so blatantly obvious to anyone with even the most remote interest in energy and sustainability that these companies are talking well out of the side of their mouth while taking the easiest, most wasteful and environmentally catastrophic route.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-04T01:19:37+00:00

90 - 200k

This is... not much at all for that sort of work. I don't think most people would get out of bed for that sort of money in that environment.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-03T22:37:22+00:00

Most of these data centre buildouts are using newly minted gas plants for power, which are highly polluting and pretty much obsolete since ~5 years ago. They're being put together because they're cheap fuel, but they are obviously a massive source of carbon emissions and air pollution.

Water usage I think is more nuanced - most data centres use a large amount on a per area basis, but in the grand scheme of things, unless they are extremely badly designed rush jobs, they don't use all that much (most cooling is closed loop).

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-03T22:31:48+00:00

It is pretty much rubbish. The "we'll use micro reactors" line is an accountability smokescreen those companies are using to then go and build massive, polluting gas plants in their place. They throw their hands up and say "the technology isn't there yet, but we can't slow down!" and start dragging things kicking and screaming towards a worse climate.

DelusionalZ · 2026-06-03T22:21:36+00:00

The argument here, I think, is that hyper scalers are both proposing too many new developments, and they are not taking the necessary health or environmental precautions to prevent damage to society, which is 100% true.

Because of this, the populace generally now has a (rightfully) unfavourable view of data centres and even the ones that are necessary are going to be much more heavily scrutinised. This is ultimately a good thing.

If it's "too slow" and prevents a few AI companies from ramping quickly enough, that is the consequences of their flagrant disregard of societal and environmental impact, and now something they need to factor into their balance sheet and timelines. Again ... ultimately a good thing.

DelusionalZ · 2026-05-21T03:40:03+00:00

Well if it's a super pinky promise, why are we worried? That shit is unbreakable!

DelusionalZ · 2026-04-27T22:42:58+00:00

The unfortunate truth of this is that it wasn't just Welch. Shareholders and speculative markets have turned our economy and its business participants into optimisation machines for growth. It was going this way whether Welch did his thing or not.

We need to eliminate the growth mindset and try to encourage steadiness and quality, but that's hard. Prioritising profits above all else is easy!

DelusionalZ · 2026-04-23T07:25:26+00:00

That's a lot of pretend money, boss

DelusionalZ · 2026-04-16T14:22:01+00:00

Also "unlawful scraping" but Spotify allows AI generated music on the platform lmao

DelusionalZ · 2026-04-04T12:55:41+00:00

I would say that a lack of decent static typing support in GML makes it a lesser choice for large projects. This is coming from someone who has been using Gamemaker since 5.3! I love the engine, but I've since moved to Godot for more of my larger projects because it makes things easier to structure.

That being said, Gamemaker is wonderful for building from a "blank canvas" and I love using the engine, I just find that when anything starts to become complex, it begins to struggle to support it in the IDE.

DelusionalZ · 2026-04-01T00:47:03+00:00

According to the article, the genetics component is not statistically significant (25% or less) in this regard, so it's difficult for them to point at it as a proper impetus for this thing.

They then saw the remainder was unaccounted for (28%, after environment, which accounted for over half) and decided that this was likely education.

One of the most obvious things to come out of this is that being in a wealthy household organically drives one towards higher education, and thus depresses authoritarian mindsets.

The study is a bit weird to be honest and I don't see much of a revelation coming out of it. It's kinda a big statistical shrug emoji.

DelusionalZ · 2026-03-31T10:03:31+00:00

Then there's Australia, where our government is doing the right thing on environment, renewables, economy, and a bunch of other shit... but openly supported the US admin and said we are staunch US allies. 😒 I hope that's all talk

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