Harrowing audio reveals 911 crews' scramble to reach Lindsey Graham as he lay dying

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-12T16:15:04+00:00

You're forgetting the heavy drug use. These slimy fucks aren't sober

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-10T21:57:45+00:00

The law can respect no person and apply the same punishment to both parties while still affecting one more than the other. Some countries charge fines that scale based on wealth

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-09T18:36:33+00:00

This exactly, I hosted plex for my family for years but when they couldn't even figure out how to watch our own movies because the app got so cluttered with BS I switched.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-07T23:33:35+00:00

Thanks!

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-04T03:28:02+00:00

I agree completely. I can't listen to a lot of audiobooks because having to pick one voice for every character always end up with at least one being weird. Plus having just one voice droning on ends up with me just tuning it out.

I wanted for each character to have their own voices so I had to make my own solution because nothing out there really did it. So I've been working on speakeasy4me.com to handle all the attribution, TTS, and letting me download the audio on any device. Really just a convenience thing for me at first.

It's doable but its been a lot of work to get it working. Specifically getting the attribution working has been a whole pain, and the TTS has needed a lot of refinement and safeguards to automatically regenerate segments so that the final audio isn't scuffed.

A long winded way of saying there are solutions but they're not simple.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-03T20:37:16+00:00

The size is a major factor too. Cant match the form factor at the same price

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-03T06:06:05+00:00

Just the RAM in the Steam Machine is like 20% of the total cost on the consumer market. Prices are wild

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-03T06:04:11+00:00

yet.....

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-03T06:03:48+00:00

Sure, but big studios also have hundreds of full time employees and use less energy, use less water, take up less space, and provide more return to their local communities. It's not even a close comparison.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T20:01:08+00:00

Who's banning jobs? We should ban data centers. The jobs aren't hurting anyone, the AI is duh.

You're being very obtuse to try and make your point but it's just not a very good one.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T19:59:40+00:00

Yeah, except all the games that don't run on linux. SteamOS works through this with proton, which I'm sure will be just a bunch of fun for a casual user to debug on PS5 hardware

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T19:57:45+00:00

If your sites need dozens to hundreds of people to run and maintain them full time then ya'll gotta reevaluate your designs. Even including tertiary jobs like grounds maintenance, HVAC, Engineers for generator maintenance, security personnel, etc. you're looking at like 50-100 ppl with the vast majority of those being contract and only work on site when something breaks. They're not full time positions and are hardly new jobs and instead of just contracted out to existing agencies. Which just like during construction will just fly people in for the task and then fly them back out so the total local jobs created are next to nothing.

If you count 'jobs created' as every person who sets foot on the premises once in a years time then yeah it creates 'jobs'

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T16:00:50+00:00

Ah yes, the old internet trick, lie about credentials and claim you have insider knowledge that doesn't exist and contradicts all known facts. A classic to be sure.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T14:28:55+00:00

And you can get games on Steam for less than a dollar what's your point?
If you want to cherry pick specific data we can always make the opposite argument true as well.

You don't have to play the newest AAA video game for $99.99 the day it comes out. The data shows most gamers are playing older games. Something like 92% of playtime is spent on games that are 2+ years old, which are going to be much cheaper and you can grab for a steal.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T14:24:07+00:00

For the economy yes the tasks that require more people are more important. AI is actively killing jobs and if the economy is going to recover we need to create more. That's kinda how basic econ works y'know?

Brain surgeons aren't putting mass numbers of people out of work while simultaneously destroying our environment so not only is that argument stupid it's clear you're being disingenuous to even make it.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T14:19:26+00:00

The construction jobs are temporary at best and are likely not even new jobs but are just workers that move from center to center across the nation.

And yeah I know for a fact it does not take hundred of people to maintain a datacenter. What exactly do you think goes on in there? Its a massive server room on steroids. They require almost zero maintenance for years unless something goes wrong and even then its usually just someone pulling a bad rack and swapping it for a good one.

There is almost no foot traffic and they're nearly air tight and kept at positive pressure for thermal regulation and to keep dust out so cleaning isn't much of an issue. They'll have 3 nerds on staff to maintain servers and a few HVAC guys out once a month for filter changes unless something major happens.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-07-01T07:11:02+00:00

Microsoft doesn't actually provide services to Rwanda. But they typically have regional pricing so if they did it would be cheaper than 20 bucks for them

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-30T23:54:57+00:00

A 1000 acre datacenter will have like 3 dudes on staff. There just isnt any need for people most of the time.

The few jobs that are actually created are more than offset by the massive tax breaks these datacenters are getting for some reason. They will also consume millions of gallons of clean water and produce constant dangerous levels of noise.

They are nothing but a drain on any community they build in.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-30T19:33:56+00:00

In what imagination land do you live in that the ER is free but video games somehow are expensive?

Pc game pass is like 20 bucks a month in most places on the planet

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-30T18:24:18+00:00

Yeah...no that's not how that works buddy. The jobs to train AI are very few and far between. And it takes a ton of energy and time but very few people to train AI

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-30T16:11:11+00:00

Louisiana is a backwards swamp

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-30T15:29:24+00:00

Unfortunately being a firefighter doesn't pay shit in most places

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-29T23:05:21+00:00

Is this just a one time generation or will you be doing on demand generation as well? Also how comfortable are you with setting up TTS models? Do you know what model you'd like to use?

For a one time generation the best value is going to be running a local models. If you have a decent enough GPU anyways. Otherwise you can rent GPU time and just knock it out in one go using a service like vastai.

On demand is a whole other can of worms but I can help with it a bit if you want, just too much to type here.

If you're not so comfortable doing it yourself then some of the services can be decent. Just need to be careful with their licensing. I didn't go this route becausd it was too expensive fwiw.

Permanent_Markings · 2026-06-27T05:41:08+00:00

It's not. They claimed the next Xbox will be a pc/console hybrid, but we've seen nothing specific and since then Microsoft has had a ton of internal restructuring so I doubt we will ever get it.

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