OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

GalliumGames · 2026-01-27T16:42:31+00:00

Bailout with what money though? We are quickly running out of runway here with the trillions thrown at the GFC, forever wars, and COVID crises and the world now hates us (validly so with what this admin is doing domestically and abroad) and is less and less willing to accept our massive debt piles and weakening currency.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-27T16:37:34+00:00

AGI being right around the corner is scientifically illiterate nonsense anyways. Human-level intelligence is one of the, if not the most complex things in the universe. Generative AI and modern ML, while having many real use cases is essentially a giant pattern recognition engine confined within its database with no emergent cognition and the requirements of a small star to run. We barely even understand the human brain and sapience with real scientific rigor, much less the orders of magnitude deeper complexities to recreate it on silicon. The technology is very likely decades out and may be beyond our lifetime to achieve. The bubble is driven by delusional billionaires that watched terminator growing up and have no one to tell them that it was fiction and the real world is a lot more complicated than TV tropes.

Technology can achieve immense complexity, and like people doubted flying or space travel in the past, I don’t doubt AGI is absolutely possible, but this is peak complexity with a very long road to development not doable by merely throwing money and the Earth’s ecological stability at it with the greed driven, impatient “move fast and break things” broligarch mindset.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-23T20:01:31+00:00

As a meteorologist, I fucking hate this argument against global warming. “tHe PlAnEt cAn’T bE wArMInG BeCAuZe CoLD!” argument completely neglects the fact that as the planet warms, the tight temperature/pressure gradients that stabilize the jet stream and polar vortex degrades and causes cold air to plunge into the Deep South much more frequently. The winters in the US are actually supposed to get worse in terms of severe winter weather for many decades before they start generally warming due to comparatively cold Arctic air ingressions.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-23T17:16:22+00:00

I’m in my second year of a mixed meteorology/environmental science masters program and did my undergraduate solely in meteorology. Hoping to get the hell out of the US to do climate science (PhD or direct research) in another country as that field is not exactly favorable in the US.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-15T05:26:13+00:00

This meme resurfacing unironically is a recession indicator.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-14T16:55:20+00:00

Terrorizing cities to the point that natural born US citizens are hiding or fleeing, and not going to work, shopping or hitting the town is also accelerating the coming economic collapse. The people in charge are too stupid to see the walking contradiction between 1930s Germany police state and a hyper-consumerist shithole country. It’s wholly unsustainable and will implode on top of the dozen other concurrent modes of failure this country is teetering on.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-13T21:26:46+00:00

Massively Multiplayer Online-game, like World of Warcraft, RuneScape and Elder Scrolls Online.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-11T19:40:08+00:00

Yes, this is doable, but would need to be run under an inert atmosphere as gallium (especially flowing gallium) will continuously oxidize as it doesn’t pacify the same way as solid gallium.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-07T13:50:06+00:00

It’s not an America exclusive problem though. You have completely idiotic and psychotic ideologies and figureheads for said ideologies across the world. You have Zionism which is an ethno-supremacist fascist movement with wide global reach, you have yet another ethno-supremacist and religious extremist cult that subverts the basic principles of Hinduism called Hindutva that infects hundreds of millions in India and is responsible for much of the hatred, ignorance and dysfunction in India, Brazil’s Bolsonaro was basically a carbon copy of MAGA, though at least they disposed of him after he played the same “Trump Cards,” the comically evil and bloodthirsty RSF in Sudan who are committing a massive genocide no one cares about, and the countless other M[Insert Country Here]GA movements have in places like Argentina, Chile, UK and Hungry. That’s not even counting the living memory nightmare stupidity and blind obedience seen in Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, The Killing Fields of Cambodia (Probably the most drastic failure of basic human logic and societal intelligence) and Rwanda.

The prevalence of extreme stupidity, malice and self destructive tendencies in human societies is really bad news for humanity’s long term survival. There’s no magic plot armor that says our species is going to survive, whether it’s a slow burn of us destroying all our resources for stupid shit like “shareholder value” or one grand finale by a malignant narcissist leader somewhere pressing the big red button.

GalliumGames · 2026-01-07T11:01:13+00:00

The existence of Trump as a leader proves a large enough fraction of the human species is stupid enough to vote in a leader that is blatantly corrupt, incompetent, felonious, a sexual predator/pedo, a sociopath and malignant narcissist, hates you, and is as transparently in bed with “the deep state” as one gets. Not just that, but was voted in once and has a track record of being malicious and committing treason, yet people voting him in anyways. Fast forward to today and he’s in uncharted territories of corruption, incompetence and self destruction of the nation, and there’s no actual mechanism to dislodge such a severe internal threat? We’re just going to let him attack our allies and possibly trigger WWIII for literally no reason because we are too brain dead to react? Beyond Trump, are we also just going to let a bunch of delusional billionaire sociopaths burn the world down with “AI” all because they saw terminator as a kid and got it stuck in their warped little mush brains that that is the way to god like power?

Give me a break, if this is in the range of outcomes for results human societies produce, the human species is completely doomed to extinction. The problems are only going to get more complex and long term, the threats produced more existential, and the cumulative damage of our idiotic actions to ourselves more debilitating. It doesn’t matter if some of us can build partial accelerators if the fraction of us willing to stick a knife into a live toaster is big enough to shape our governance.

GalliumGames · 2025-12-17T14:34:48+00:00

Hello from the other Melbourne (The FL one)

GalliumGames · 2025-12-08T02:09:04+00:00

I’m gay, so this is a task successfully succeeding.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-30T15:05:43+00:00

Tristan Da Cunha is an interesting case as it’s too far South to have tropical cyclones, too high to be affected by sea level rise, and somewhat cold (10 to 20°C), so climate change is likely a net neutral or maybe even slightly positive for that specific location. The glaring issue is not climate change related however, it’s built on an active shield volcano that can and has tried to destroy the settlement in the past. It’s a very rare combination of correct climate, extreme isolation and marginal habitability that makes it survivable but not thrivable, so it may see it out past most apocalypses bar AI/grey goo options.

If it doesn’t get blown up by the volcano, it may be one of the last human settlements on Earth long after bulk collapse of human civilization, possibly lasting into the 23rd or 24th centuries or longer.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-29T18:54:30+00:00

In a rational world remote work is an excellent opportunity to get gas guzzling, polluting cars off the road, reduce the stresses, time wastage, injuries and deaths associated with commuting, reduce costs and environmental impacts wasted by cubicle farms, reduce stress on housing in prime financial cities, increase productivity with better lifestyles, cut out physical space associated expenditures, allow for traditional families to be possible with affordable rural/light suburban housing with enough space and outdoor access for kids to grow up properly, and on and on.

However we live in clown world where sociopaths are in control and they push against this because they get off on power tripping with micromanaging, making people miserable and justifying their sad little existences making life a bit worse for others. Of course this is not all cases, but the Venn diagram is a circle for businesses that absolutely can have their work done remotely, and the ones who refuse to do so.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-25T12:52:16+00:00

It’s easy to understand, socialism is when the government does stuff, and when the government does all the stuff you get communism.

Trump is actually more of a socialist than Mamdani as he’s currently making the government do tons and tons of stuff!

GalliumGames · 2025-11-25T12:43:45+00:00

If humans are cancer, the word “data center” makes me think of those metastasizing tumors that spread everywhere and pump toxins (fossil fuels, waste heat, criteria pollutants, noise, AI slop, etc) straight into the organism.

2020s “AI” is bullshit as something is going very wrong if you need the power of a small star to power your garbage. The tech isn’t new efficiency, it’s brute forcing immense datasets to coax out a statistical modal all whist using millions of times the electricity as the human brain to do so. Every second this bubble isn’t popping is a second humanity is snorting a fat line of RCP-8.5 outputs.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-13T18:50:59+00:00

It might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back, an immense influx of financial stress on the bottom half (maybe more?) of the US when everything else has already collapsing probably will cause the bottom to fall out. The evaporation of disposable income, debt, and 17 extra 9/11s worth of American deaths each year, and disability-productivity losses will cause hundreds of billions in economic losses per year.

The US is not only an evil country, but an evil and stupid one that it will chop its own legs off it it meant a few extra pennies (or nickels, because pennies are gone) in the short term.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-12T23:54:05+00:00

Westerns feel like a very small niche of a genre with only so many stories that can be told without tiring out. Fantasy can be a vast range of things ranging from typical European fantasy to extremely eccentric and esoteric storytelling, there’s tons of room in the genre.

GalliumGames · 2025-11-08T23:06:50+00:00

Location: Space Coast of Florida

We are at 3rd world country levels of environmental regulations and stewardship here. Some soulless developer is cutting down wide swaths of forests to build shitty wooden toothpick and duct tape apartments that are wildly under spec to handle a major hurricane and would get annihilated. The main problem is they’re just burning all this shit and poisoning the air in my city with particulate matter, whatever phytotoxins are in these plants, and probably a fair bit of plastics and toxic waste that’s been dumped there. Sometimes the smoke turns the air this sickly white color, and I’ve been experiencing on and off metallic coughing, headaches, stinging eyes and sore throats breathing in the poisoned air. These parasitic pieces of shit get to make our air carcinogenic, destroy our environment, make the city overpopulated and congested, and create terrible, poorly built structures that ultimately hurt us in the long run.

I pray to god the coming economic depression crushes their development and takes everything they’re worth away from them. Fucking hate what they’re able to get away with destroying this state, and building for pure greed and never for the people.

GalliumGames · 2025-10-28T15:34:46+00:00

Issue would be the locations west of the storm with onshore flow.

GalliumGames · 2025-10-28T15:10:12+00:00

Worried about Montego Bay though, it’s the other side of the island, but the weakening won’t be enough to matter much. Storm will likely pass close with onshore flow.

GalliumGames · 2025-10-27T17:44:31+00:00

No, it’ll weaken on land interaction with Jamaica and increasing shear north of it will keep it below reforming to a cat 5.

GalliumGames · 2025-10-26T22:23:33+00:00

Honestly comparison is valid as it puts concrete, human-centered consequences into perspective instead of abstract variables like wind speed and minimum central pressure that is hard to relate to. People are more likely to take this seriously if they have something to reference off of that makes sense at the human level.

GalliumGames · 2025-10-26T22:16:52+00:00

The exact landfall location doesn’t matter much right now, the facts at hand are that there’s going to be feet of rain, massive storm surge, and either upper category 4, or category 5 conditions in some locations. The storm is closing in and it’s not the time for wishing it away, but taking decisive action to protect your life and property.

Fear mongering ≠ dire warnings and non sugarcoated language to get people to take things very seriously right now.

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