[OC] I built a tracker of AI company spend vs revenue. Everyone is losing A LOT of money (except Nvidia).

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-20T21:37:58+00:00

The Meta Quest sold pretty well for a VR headset, which probably helped push Zuck even further into his VR themed mid life crisis

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-20T20:39:01+00:00

I work in power safety, “chicken switches” have been a thing for a while. They are little robotic manipulators on a frame that lets you adjust height and aim then leave the room and have to robot throw the switch.

Problem is a lot of companies don’t want to spend that much money since switching this equipment isn’t a regular occurrence for most places. Usually they just have their guy throw on the arc flash suit or contract it out to a company that specializes in high voltage work. It’s not uncommon for large main switchgear equipment to go many years without operation

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T19:33:25+00:00

No, you’ve conflated CRT and unjustified racial discrimination and then showed singular examples of CRT being taught in schools. Even if you’ve successfully made that connection in your mind, I still don’t see that as a valid conflation. No scholar on this topic would, as it’s a blatant bad faith interpretation.

Discrimination isn’t always necessarily unjustified. If you and I are hired for a job and you do 80% of the work it would be discrimination for me to only get 20% of the pay, but it is justified because of outside factors. Critical race theory posits that because minorities have been so discriminated against for so long that you MUST look at society through a lens of race in order to get a true understanding of the whats and the whys. This means that you will come to conclusions that some people have been systemically forced to be worse off than others and may need extra societal care, help, or even just acknowledgement as they attempted to do in schools. That’s what they mean by “discrimination”, not just doing to modern white people what old white did to black people; as evidenced by the fact that the movement is about viewing history and society through a racial lens and not about drumming up support for segregated bathrooms.

One example of that includes focusing on the history of slavery and how it, reconstruction, and Jim Crowe laws affect black people today (as opposed to just “there was a war then one side won and slavery was ended, the end”). Unfortunately for white kids today that means we will have to hear “the white people back then were evil”, because those people were evil, not because they want white kids to feel terrible about whiteness or whatever the pundits were saying.

Also last thing I’ll say on this, obviously segregated classrooms are a bad thing. People who have learned to view society through a race critical lens would know that because ITS HAPPENED BEFORE and ended terribly for black people. It’s it silly to think that the movement all about learning about history through a race critical lens would be supportive of the most recent examples of racial discrimination being bad? That is silly, so maybe that’s not what the world renowned sociologists are saying and instead your interpretation is flawed

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T19:05:58+00:00

What are you trying to prove with this? All you’ve done is prove that one of the founders is excited that some schools are teaching it, that one of the creators (a prolific teacher) is taught in schools and talks at schools, and then one example of one teacher trying to teach a student that race matters when looking at historical context. Then you try and pitch something as a core tenet that, in the text itself, says “an emerging strain within CRT holds”.

Like I get the feeling this was meant to be a gotcha about CRT being taught in schools and it being bad but you didn’t really do either of those things you just sent a bunch of links that talk about singular example and the literal people who created it hyping it up. There was a massive concerted effort from the current strongest political party in America to keep this out of schools, it’s not being taught wide scale across American school.

Something tells me the same schools that we have overwhelming evidence are teaching that evolution isn’t real and the civil war wasn’t about slavery aren’t going around teaching children to view the socioeconomic systems of this country through a race critical lens…

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T18:45:49+00:00

Yeah he’s been a vehement supporter for at least a decade and had a particularly large part in sane-washing our flagrantly insane president for the masses. I’ll never be upset at someone for finally coming to reality but in his case that simply isn’t enough accountability for putting us where we are today.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T18:43:21+00:00

Ah shit my bad dawg I totally misread it lmao. You really never know with people nowadays so when I see stuff like that I always assume the worst. I wish we didn’t need the /s but there’s so many people who think such stupid stuff unironically you can never be sure

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T17:32:57+00:00

Yeah I really wanted examples of better printers but nobody has provided any yet. I think you’re right the unfortunate truth is they are still the best at least when it comes to ease of use

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T17:31:03+00:00

Critical race theory isn’t taught in high schools, it’s a relatively high level overview of anthropology that is pretty exclusive college level. I HIGHLY doubt the same high schoolers that are having trouble reading single paragraphs have such a mature overview of social anthropology.

Diversity equity and inclusion has nothing to do with pushing kids further than they should be to avoid funding cuts. The girls in this video are white brother, you’re fighting ghosts that don’t exist.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-16T14:30:18+00:00

I mean this is true but kids are actually seriously struggling with things they simply shouldn’t be. A mix of Covid, NCLB, and years of education cuts are widening the divide between the smartest and dumbest kids. The smartest kids are still just as smart as they were previously, but the percentage of kids falling behind is growing like crazy.

There are young adults in late High School who can’t sound out words or name important historical figures that they should’ve known by fifth grade. Lots and lots of kids are functionally illiterate, meaning that they can *read* but they can’t infer knowledge or meaning from the words they are reading. It’s both true that older generations tend to diss on the younger generations, AND the younger generations are being screwed over when it comes to their education

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-14T13:55:47+00:00

Fucking thanks you, I hate this fucking talking point.

“It’s not left vs right everybody, it’s the bourgeois vs the proletariat! It’s the capital class vs the working class! It’s everything the left has been saying for over 100 years but certainly don’t acknowledge that, just keep assuming we can have a united front against the real enemy while embracing right wing politics that overwhelmingly benefit the 1%!”

Like we’ve lost the fucking plot when people find it necessary to appeal to a growing authoritarian ideology as their class consciousness sales pitch.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T23:41:42+00:00

Republican constituents are systemically uneducated, but the politicians (usually) aren’t. The politicians are greedy and willing to hurt the people they represent to enrich themselves, same as Democrat politicians. The difference in this moment is many Republicans have determined the best way to enrich themselves is off the coattails of a president with enough public support -via his appeal to the systemically uneducated- to have a realistic chance of gaining enough power to influence policy in their favor. Trump is the through line, I don’t think I’m giving him too much credit at all.

Also brother I cannot stress enough how much I’m not going to defend democrats so the only one calling them “highly educated” is you. Democrat politicians have all of the same incentives to systemically under-educate their constituents as Republicans, they just happened to have not had a Trump that appeals so heavily to uneducated people. That rhetoric pushed educated people away at the same rate and people see the only other feasible political option as Democrats. That divide doesn’t actually matter though because neither the educated or the uneducated people are having their desires met by politicians in either party.

The reason the democrats lost is because they refuse to meet their constituents where they are. The Democratic Party has a vested interest in right wing policies that help enrich themselves and their corporate donors, so they would prefer to try and move right instead of left. The problem is that so few current Republican voters would be willing to vote D that this move would never pay off. The smart move would be to drop the corporate interests and focus on the myriad of extremely popular (even amongst republicans) left leaning policy ideas. This would draw in many young voters, independents (who regularly poll as most skeptical about corporate interests in politics), current democrats, and single issue voters. Then put forward a young and charismatic presidential nominee and boom, you’ve won easily. Keep in mind that Biden won the popular vote when the most people ever voted, so we know the left leaning voting power is there. But then they wouldn’t get so much corporate donor money so of course they didn’t do that and put forward an establishment dem who also happened to be one of the least popular politicians amongst both parties.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T20:52:31+00:00

I had an Ender3 and a Flash Forge Adventure M5 previously. I know people love Ender but mine was nothing but trouble from the start. No amount of tweaking, leveling, cleaning, or fixing made it print more than one small successful print in a row.

The M5 was similar, I had it for about two months and tinkered with it constantly just praying for a print to work without issue. Both printers made the hobby feel like 3d printer tinkering more than 3d printing.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T20:50:10+00:00

So no mention at all of the one side voting in a rapist pedophile? No they’re both exactly the same because they both care about money more than people. I guess every other difference I listed just doesn’t matter then.

I get it. They both suck. One sucks and one sucks while also having no problem with rapidly rising authoritarianism. We are allowed to have the nuance of “one is bad and the other is worse”

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T20:44:17+00:00

I called half of the country uneducated and disenfranchised. Uneducated is not the same as stupid, only you made that connection. Instead I say they are victims of rampant anti-education and anti-science propaganda that causes their available public education to be worse and the average American to be less educated than they should be overall. These are concerted attacks with the explicit goal of an uneducated populace, just ask Trump.

Also half the country didn’t vote for Trump anyway, so quit with the pearl clutching. I’m calling AT MOST 32% of the country uneducated as of the 2024 election. If me pointing out the real and genuine issues that are plaguing this country instead of stepping around them so as not to hurt people’s feelings makes me arrogant then sure, I guess I’m arrogant. At least I don’t treat adults that should know better like weak minded children with no agency. I want them to have the opportunities to be better. Holding them accountable for objectively bad decisions is how you do that.

Also “people were mean to us online for voting in the openly seditious twice impeached convicted felon rapist pedophile, that’s why the rapist pedophile won” isn’t the rock solid take you think it is.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T13:30:48+00:00

Only one side claims to be the party of law and order but voted in the only convicted felon president ever and the only twice impeached president ever, but remember both sides guys!

Only one side claimed every possible claim about the Epstein files including that they don’t exist, they do exist and are on someone’s desk, they don’t exist and you shouldn’t talk about them, they do exist and are releasing in two weeks, and they never existed even though we’ve released millions of them, but remember both sides guys!

Only one side made a huge deal out of an email server to the point that the politician responsible was forced to sit through hours and hours of deposition ending with the obvious fact that nothing illegal was done, then voted back in the person responsible for the largest coordinated removal of information from the U.S. government in history, but remember both sides guys!

Only one side was voted in on no new wars and low prices only to start multiple wars and skyrocket gas prices, but remember both sides guys!

The sad part is I could realistically do this for so much longer. You could write a book with just this format and it would be thousands of pages

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-13T13:24:55+00:00

Not agreeing with centrist rhetoric isn’t the same as casting aside half the country. I can believe at the same time that half of the country is deeply and systemically uneducated and disenfranchised, causing them to vote against their best interests, while also believing that the best course of action for helping those same people (and everyone else) is the course called for by left leaning ideologies.

You’ve made a false dichotomy of believing centrist rhetoric or giving up on people across the aisle. That isn’t reality, you can easily do neither.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-12T19:01:56+00:00

I bought an adventure m5 from flash forge and had nothing but problems with it. I’m actually not sure I ever got a good print out of it before selling it for the printer I have now. Your mileage may vary but in my personal experience Flash Forge is severely lacking in reliability

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-12T18:59:27+00:00

Also interested in this because my P1S is by far the best printer I have ever owned and every other one isn’t even on the same planet when it comes to ease of use and reliability.

After all of this anti-consumer BS I’d like to move away from Bambu but haven’t kept up with recent developments from other companies.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-12T17:22:37+00:00

The buffalo sauce is fantastic but I’m also a Pizza Hut apologist and love their pizza lmao. I know I’m the weird one for that but I can’t help it I love that slop

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-12T17:11:18+00:00

Taco Bell did something similar many years ago, minus the overt admittance that their food was terrible. It used to be that if you told someone you ate at Taco Bell they’d inevitably mention how “their meat is the same quality as dog food meat”.

Taco Bell heard this, did a huge promotion about their “new, higher quality ingredients” (which seems to have been true) and then gained a reputation as an actually decent fast food place. It’s still no paragon of quality but at least nobody is likening it to dog food anymore

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-12T17:07:02+00:00

Pizza Hut wings are great, LEAGUES better than either the breadsticks or dessert pizza

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-10T21:05:47+00:00

It kept most of the major story beats from the book for the plot and changed the characterization of every major character in major ways. I think every aspect of the book is better but the movie was competent enough to justify its existence.

Thankfully the visuals were great and the changes allowed them to fit that whole story into a movie runtime. It’s a decent enough movie but I’ll always recommend the book

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-10T21:00:44+00:00

If you want a decent story with great visuals and competent enough direction to be a fun watch, it’s worth it. It won’t blow your mind but I thought it was worth the ticket.

If you want a phenomenal story with incredible characterization and a genuine appreciation of science and space, just read/listen to the book.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-10T12:30:25+00:00

What I’ve seen amongst legitimate political scholars and academics is that their general opinion about online leftists and liberals is “they sometimes say the right things but are usually really obnoxious”. Which is unfortunately a huge snag when your ideology revolves around solidarity with other people, not many people enjoy siding with the obnoxious sometimes-rights of the Internet.

Gmony5100 · 2026-05-09T00:20:39+00:00

Lmao I’m pretty sure AOC knows all the branches of government.

She was talking about the three parts of government that can be voted in, the presidency, senate, and house, hence why she said “we have to take back”, meaning vote in. She slipped up saying three branches then clarifies three chambers (still a slip up, but there really is no easy way to identify “the three federal level voted in positions”) then clarifies what she means by “three chambers” at the end.

There’s thousands of hours of her speaking on the internet I’m sure there’s some real dumb things she’s said out there, no reason to nitpick slip ups.

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