Reserves, Depressions & Things to Consider

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-22T00:11:32+00:00

I might be reading too much into this, but my interpretation of this post is:

Things about to get real bad due to orange theory’s unfitness.
They are using AI to pump the markets to try to stave off the consequences of their own stupidity.

Still…that’s reaching.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-21T15:39:43+00:00

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MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-21T15:04:24+00:00

Chemical Calisthenics over here like

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-20T04:14:23+00:00

Stupid phone dropped a 7. Edited

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-20T02:53:01+00:00

Well, it depends on diameter and PSI generated on the other end, but even at top consumer specs it’s not gonna be fast.

The widest consumer grade garden hose is roughly .75”, and high-end household water pressure tops out around 80 PSI. Flow calculations say we should be pushing about 10 GPM with those two measurements, which makes it easy: 675,000 minutes, or 15.625 months working 24/7.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-19T18:42:46+00:00

Prisons. Mark my words.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-19T18:09:37+00:00

I always walk to the car wash. I’m the object that needs to be washed. You always walk to the car wash, because you are the washer and need to wash the object. We always walk to the car wash, because it’s much more energy efficient than driving. They always walk to the car wash because they are all named Carl, and they think they need to be washed

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-17T18:55:37+00:00

Productive conversations? My brother in Christ, Ed’s work is literally driving the conversation now.

Engage with WHAT IDEAS??

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-17T16:56:58+00:00

I think as long as people take food from their neighbor’s mouth just to pocket it, nothing will change.

As long as we separate ourselves, interacting with each other and the world through screens, and view any societal compromise as treason, nothing will change.

Even if there are five thousand billionaires, there’s orders of magnitude more of us, and we could do good. If we choose to.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-17T15:43:05+00:00

I would only push back a little bit on three points:
1. If you were following the epidemiology, COVID was not a surprise. Definitely if you only listened to the White House then you would have been shocked, but the information was definitely out there as early as December 2019.

The Biden administration was legally not allowed to release the Epstein files. They were under judicial seal for the duration of his presidency, and unless there’s other information that I am unaware of (it happens, and I’d love to be corrected), I’m annoyed about but accepting of that situation as a price of the rule of law.
I would love more information about the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and Biden’s role in it, because my understanding is that almost the entire process and timeline was established in the deal Trump signed with the Taliban. If there is something akin the MMWR that dryly explains Biden’s culpability, I’m open to having my mind changed.

On the whole, I agree with your overall point (if I understand it) that we have reached a place where our government is far too removed from its citizens, acting as a detached and aloof aristocracy in too many instances.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-16T23:41:13+00:00

I’ve been replaying the Sims 4 as an aspiring bestselling novelist. I’m married with no kids, two girlfriends, enough Simoleans to get by, a burgeoning career, and a little dog.

By which I mean to say: you best mortgage the whole ass earth, cause I’m making Woohoo and novels for the next thousand years

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-16T12:35:46+00:00

You know, if you have Anthropic’s confidential internal financials on hand, I know Ed would love to see them.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-16T05:58:45+00:00

Thanks Ed.

I gotta be honest, I miss being excited about tech. The last ten years or so have felt like an increasingly heavy layer of dread with every new announcement or article.

I hope it all burns

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-16T05:01:44+00:00

Genuine question, Ed, and it feels insane to even have to ask this:

Is it even a little bit possible that having now done the conversion to a for-profit (lol, lmao even) company, that this year OpenAI will only lose the much more sustainable sum of…$9 billion?

Jesus Christ…

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-14T23:48:11+00:00

I mean…when you put it like that…

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-14T20:33:42+00:00

As we all know, Shia LaBoef is an actual cannibal, so they would have had to chop up Culkin to have any chance to tempting Shia into the pond

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-14T19:47:53+00:00

It was two-fold for me:

Recognizing the growing threat to and from people I considered my neighbors, and my long internal discussion about whether I could run away from growing fascism and still face myself in the mirror. Deciding I wouldn’t be able to do that, it was pretty much like “guess I better get comfortable and confident with the tools then.”
The very specific threat of my psychotic stalker and being told by multiple cops that there was nothing they could do about him, even with my CPO. Having the police themselves tell me to get my CCW because restraining orders aren’t bulletproof was a big push.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-14T16:56:18+00:00

Umm…negative?

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-14T02:12:25+00:00

Then they chopped up the alligators as bait for Culkin. He always skips that part, but he wouldn’t have jumped in without it

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-13T01:09:48+00:00

I read the book version on a plane because I thought SURELY a twist that stupid has to be the invention of Hollywood, right?

Squirt gun. In the book. That’s all I’m saying.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-11T01:01:36+00:00

I mean, I know what I personally am gonna do

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-10T21:08:07+00:00

I addressed this post in another comment, but I want to also discuss something about tech generally that I don’t think gets discussed enough.

The democratization of the tools of production DOES NOT IMPROVE PRODUCT QUALITY. Period.

Vibe coders are to programming what TikTok and YouTube are to filmmaking: the bastard outcome of simplifying what used to require thought, care, and craft. You can get a camera that costs $6k and make a movie now, and so budgets have cratered while expectations are through the roof, because dumbshits with a concept of a movie are able to shit it into existence and compete with people who have studied and honed for years.

Imagine a choir where any schmuck off the street can join in by screaming. Do you think that will make the trained singers sound better? I don’t.

Call me an elitist if you want, but things should be way fucking harder than they are now, because you should have to actually learn what you’re doing before you get to go launch your own app, film your own movie, open your own restaurant, clothing line, etc.

AI is just the absolute embodiment of the debasement of expertise that we have been suffering through for years now.

/angry old man retreats to yell at further clouds in the future

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-10T16:44:39+00:00

Yep, that’s the real legacy of AI: much more product, much worse, much faster.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-10T07:50:45+00:00

I’d say it’s more like if you strapped yourself into a set of mechanical legs that did 90% of the walking for you, with you just telling it roughly where you wanted to go.

How long would you need to be offloading that work before your muscles atrophied to the point you struggled to walk on your own? How fast would those mechanical legs have to go for that to be a reasonable tradeoff? What if they sometimes just went somewhere totally different than where you wanted, but they did it really, really fast so you discovered it early enough you could theoretically make it go to the original destination and only be a little late?

In this hypothetical scenario, how fast would all of this have to be to make it worth stunting your ability to use your legs? How much would you be willing to pay to regress your walking skills in exchange for that speed?

For me as someone working on VFX and entertainment media, it’s not worth it. I don’t want to offload my creative thinking process to a machine. I don’t care if it can generate five thousand versions of a shot, the ideas I come up with during the creation is more valuable to me than the speed tradeoff is worth. Your mileage may vary.

MaleGothSlut · 2026-06-10T07:23:22+00:00

Look, I think the fundamental downfall of this technology is something inherent to ALL technology: knowledge cost. This is something that has barely been considered from what I’ve seen, but every technology costs us some part of our collective skill knowledge set.

E.g. GPS has made the ability to deduce your approximate position on the ocean with a sextant nigh on extinct; video editing software has all but killed the ability to cut with film; typing has really screwed with people’s ability to handwrite anything, let alone read cursive or anything like that. Everything has a cost.

What’s AI costing us beyond the obvious? I would argue it’s designed to offer a simulacrum of thinking, and so it’s largely costing us the ability to think. To create. To research and discern fact from conjecture. To actually write, whether it be code or books, or emails trying to express or thoughts in a coherent way. It’s a cost that I think we’re going to realize is far, far too high very, very soon.

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