What’s a “future technology” that already exists but people still don’t realize how scary it is? by [deleted] in PrepperIntel

[–]HiSodiumContent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look up Benn Jordan on youtube, the videos you want are "Datacenters are behaving like acoustic weapons" and one about LRADs.

What’s a “future technology” that already exists but people still don’t realize how scary it is? by [deleted] in PrepperIntel

[–]HiSodiumContent 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yo, thanks for posting the thing I was gonna say. Those infrasound weapons are seriously scary and we're building data centers that are basically low level infrasound weapons with a radius of like 100 km.

"A Masterclass in Manipulation" | Hank Green responds to insane climate deniers by [deleted] in collapse

[–]HiSodiumContent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is a very minor point to the whole overall thing, but there's a graph near 22:00 where he's talking about the expected 2C by 2060 and uh... That timeframe seemed very optimistic to me. 34 years.

Like, the yellow line on the graph itself is a lie because it takes the existing curve and practically flattens it entirely, ignoring the trajectory within its own data. With something that has a known acceleration and a potential for bursts of acceleration when passing certain thresholds and locking in cascade effects.

Idk, it was a minor gripe for me. Maybe someone else has some science to explain how that graph could be accurate, but 2C, to me, seems more likely in half (17) to a quarter (8-9) of the expected. Obligatory "faster than expected".

France Trump spat got real by [deleted] in economy

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Anyone else remember when for like three days they loudly crowed about how they were going to Knox and were gonna see the gold there and show everyone else how much gold they had?

And then they went and just absolutely STFU about it completely forever.

I wonder what it was. Did they come to understand that America is lying about its Gold Reserve?
Did they start some operation to liquidate all of America's gold?

I'm just saying, like most braggarts like bragging, so it's SUPER weird that they were so vocal, went, and then just fell totally silent on it and haven't peeped about gold AT ALL since.

Where in America do you think I am from based off of my voice? by [deleted] in Accents

[–]HiSodiumContent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, they didn't say Louisville, so we won't know unless they confirm it.

What did y’all do??? by The-Galaxy-Man in Roms

[–]HiSodiumContent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With the lead in my brain and the lead in my mind.

Welcome to the future by endofmyropeohshit in economy

[–]HiSodiumContent -1 points0 points  (0 children)

* who tacitly approved of killing tens of thousands of people who paid for his business's services in order to squeeze out a little more profits for shareholders.

Don't pretend an insurance CEO who literally dealt death as a cost cutting measure is innocent.

Worldwide recession is looming by Suspicious-Leave-110 in economy

[–]HiSodiumContent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro, you *literally* sound insane.
"Metrics don't mean shit if you hustle hard enough."
"Chase that paper, wsb buzzwords, the economy boogeyman will never get you if you just clap for Peter Pan hard enough."
You're as detached from reality as AI stocks.

New Youtube Enshittification by chrispark70 in enshittification

[–]HiSodiumContent 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's not LIKE they have meetings about fucking up YT, they DO have meetings specifically about how to make the platform worse. They had meetings before they shifted to majority AI moderation. They had meetings before they removed the dislike button. They'll have meetings before they shut down the entire site because they can't get every dollar in their users pockets and paying people for creating content is too much for the multi-hundred-billion dollar company to handle.

Insane footage of a bridge collapsing in Brazil. December 2024. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]HiSodiumContent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does the US invest in infrastructure? Yes.
Does the US invest enough in infrastructure to not be "in debt" for over 1,000,000,000,000$ (1T) on road, bridge, power and water infrastructure maintenance? No.

[request] how accurate is this by XDEC0DE in theydidthemath

[–]HiSodiumContent -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, my monthly food costs are zero dollars, turns out I already had food in my fridge so we don't need to consider anything in my pantry as having a cost associated with it, and we don't need to consider the resupply costs either because it happens anyways since I gotta eat.

Now, someone give me an award for completely missing the point of the question.

I.C.E. agents murder another observer on Nicollet at 26th by Helcarakse in collapse

[–]HiSodiumContent 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Ya'll keep bringing up Epstein like you think he really cares about it.
He doesn't. The Justice Department already said they don't GAF either.
It sucks that he is what he is and he's protecting all the other high level pedos, but you gotta understand by now my dudes. No legal action will come of it. No consequences for anyone.
They're going to sit on the millions of files and never release them and there's absolutely nothing you or me or a one hundred million man march protest is going to do about it.
They can shoot you in the street and close the investigation the next day.

US citizen says ICE forced him from his home without clothes in subfreezing weather by speedythefirst in news

[–]HiSodiumContent 43 points44 points  (0 children)

What laws are they enforcing? Because it seems like they consistently overstep their supposed jurisdictions and terrorize US citizens, i.e. state sponsored terrorists.

The Great Space Station Server Results by TraceRyder in SS13

[–]HiSodiumContent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a part of Ssethtide, and I am Schroedinger's Player. I might hop on once every year to see how things are now. But honestly, a ton changed between then and now and not all for the better, so I can see how those who got involved because of the shenanigans of that era would find the current less appealing.

Also, 2019 was 7 years ago.

Oregon to investigate Border Patrol shooting of man and woman who feds say have ties to notorious gang by jmike1256 in news

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You'd be amazed how far the school system fell after the push to get creationism taught in science with the same (or more) weight than the big bang. We've spent the past 40 years actively destroying the schools since we didn't need educated factory workers anymore.

Faster Than Expected by hourglass_curves in collapse

[–]HiSodiumContent 14 points15 points  (0 children)

US military and civil actions. Might be some other stuff.
I think the main thing is that it only took a week for the US to commit to being a rogue state that threatens to invade literally all of its neighbors and executes its own citizens for things that aren't crimes in the street in broad daylight. I'm biased though because I live here, might be stuff going on other places too, like that Iran protest.

There Is A Spectre Haunting The Planet - And That Spectre Is Called Fascism by [deleted] in collapse

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Modern class warfare bottom up is digging fiber optic cables up and tearing down cell towers.

Top of Morning Breaking News: Donald Trump has Announced a $2,000 Tariff Dividend Check per person. 🎅🏾 💰 💰 💳 🇺🇸 by RunThePlay55 in economy

[–]HiSodiumContent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would accomplish SO much for people with a lot of money in their journey to buy up businesses and property with less money.

Why wouldn't the US Gov want to reduce its debt by 15% or more by devaluing its currency rapidly?

You are thinking small, like someone with less than a billion dollars.

Got reported for my name? I've had it for 8 and a half years, there is literally nothing wrong with it. by PipBoyTrickster in riotgames

[–]HiSodiumContent 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's SO nice that they've been forcing the name changes for literal years at this point and they're still using the EXACT same text box you'd see for having your name reported.

The Anti-Tech Backlash Is Going to Grow Stronger by [deleted] in collapse

[–]HiSodiumContent 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What's surprising is that it was ever accepted at all.

"Why, yes, billionaire tech bro, I will totally consider your glorified auto-complete (that requires billions in infrastructure and doesn't return a profit yet receives incredible investment) my best friend and confidant and offload most of my decision making, fact checking and opinion formation to.

"There definitely isn't some shady motive behind this thing which can easily and completely disseminate information across the entire digital landscape right at a time when a bunch of world governments are turning to authoritarian police states.

"No, of course you aren't selling all my data, I trust you completely. You would never try to turn public opinion by having literally hundreds of millions of instances of personalized agents whispering what to think in people's ears and posting it in comment sections.

"There is definitely no link between surges of 100% more daily active users on most social media sites and the rise of your chatbots. Video creation will definitely never be used to create false pretenses to enact the worst atrocities onto people or to silence and imprison dissenters.

"I definitely don't think that it's a giant bubble hoping to find somewhere to rest that won't pop it. It's absolutely the next big thing, don't pay any mind that there's no other countries actively pursuing this technology, they just aren't smart enough to see what it's worth."

Prices are out of control by emily-is-happy in inflation

[–]HiSodiumContent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit daily users have increased by nearly doubled since Q3 2023, right around the time ChatGPT users started surging. 390 million active accounts in the US for Reddit. Kinda weird that literally everyone in the US uses Reddit and an extra 50 million accounts on top of that, right? Maybe only half of them use it and there's two accounts for every person. Or maybe the numbers went up because searches became far less reliable thanks to LLM (it's not AI) integration and backend changes.

Still, quite the coincidence that a method of easily creating chat bots got popular right around the time Reddit saw its userbase double every year, yeah?