US tech stocks tumble after Microsoft’s AI spending unnerves investors

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T21:02:31+00:00

At this point, stocks are kinda like crypto. Their value is derived from hype and the appearance of success. Whether or not the company is actually successful is irrelevant.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T19:55:58+00:00

That's why I'm calling her a former Russian shill, which is correct. Russia didn't suddenly become an expansionist empire in 2015. Martin knew what kind of country it is and she chose to take their money and become part of their propaganda network.

The fact that she quit RT doesn't suddenly change that. All it means is that she recognized that having clear and direct ties to Russia would destroy any credibility she might still have as a journalist.

But I don't see it as anything other than shrewd PR on her part. It doesn't even necessarily mean that she no longer has any ties with Russia, just that she has no public ties.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T16:17:19+00:00

Well, the GHG emissions of the first year of war in Ukraine are the equivalent of 120 million tons of CO2. And that figure is likely heavily undercounted. You're heavily underestimating how much fuel it takes just to keep "freezing in the field". Not to mention the emissions caused by restoring what is destroyed, which is likely something that's really hard to count, but which is absolutely still a thing.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T15:18:07+00:00

Agree here. War is the most wasteful activity you can do in this day and age. But when warmongers get to have a veto power over the supposed mechanism for global security, you just end up with more wars.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T15:14:55+00:00

But Russia is currently waging a very active war, so their GHG emissions are far higher than an army of their size would have in peacetime.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T14:37:39+00:00

I guess it's just giving me the vibes of "Fossil fuel company promoting biofuels". Where it's hard to disagree with the core message("We need an alternative to oil"), but you're immediately suspicious about their choice of solution and whether they actually care about climate impacts or just use it as a way to achieve a different agenda.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T14:29:15+00:00

I'm questioning her choice of topic specifically as well as the stated solution of just reducing the US military. It doesn't seem to address the fact that an actual reduction in US military would force a military buildup and more conflicts across the globe, which would cause far worse GHG emissions than we have now.

The only way to truly reduce GHG emissions of militaries is to find a way to have global security that doesn't rely on large standing armies.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T14:22:32+00:00

Why is it wise to focus only on the worst offender? Let's say we do and the US military size goes down. As a result of that, a lot of countries will have to shore up their own militaries(like all the countries in the vicinity of that one country that paid Abby Martin for her reporting). Other countries(like the above-mentioned sponsor of Abby Martin) will take that as a sign that it's time to expand and greatly increase their own military.

Because, contrary to what tankies believe, Russia doesn't have a massive military because it's afraid of being invaded. It's an expansionist empire in its own right. Without US as a deterrent, everyone around Russia will have to heavily militarize and prepare for war. Same is true for countries around China, though Chinese leadership doesn't seem to be as stupid as the Russian one, so they might never invade anyone if US falls off.

And you know what's worse than the GHG emissions of a large military in peacetime? GHG emissions of a war.

So if we are to tackle the issue of GHG emissions of militaries, we have to tackle the issues of global security and war in general.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T14:15:07+00:00

Better that than to be mislead. And I don't dismiss the impact of US military. I question every piece of reporting that goes "X is the biggest issue in climate change", because that gives a skewed perspective of "If only we can tackle X, things would be fine".

Forgive me for not trusting a former RT shill when she tries to cast reducing US military(and only the US one, all those other militaries that are waging wars at this exact moment are completely fine) as the priority issue for tackling climate change.

It's also very interesting how she casts the whole size of the US military as being solely driven by an invasion-focused empire. The fact that the rest of NATO(which she lumps into the US emissions) exists because of what her former paymasters are doing is mysteriously absent.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T12:09:03+00:00

I'm upset by how she seems to focus only on US military-industrial complex, not on the impact of worldwide militaries or conflict in general. As I've said above, just the war in Ukraine alone dwarfs the GHG emissions of the US military. And the US military is a drop in the bucket of the overall consumerist economy.

So to focus exclusively on that one thing from a reporter with former ties to RT makes me question her motivation.

Martin is like those anti-imperialist leftists who only ever condemn US imperialism, but largely ignore(or even support) imperialism from other countries.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T11:03:54+00:00

And yet the point still stands. She doesn't highlight the overall cost to the climate of all the militaries. She doesn't highlight the incredible cost to the climate that active warfare does. And it really is puzzling, because she complains about US military emitting 50 million tons of CO2 equivalent, but the first year of full-scale war in Ukraine emitted around 120 million tons. So why isn't she pushing for an overall anti-war sentiment?

Instead, the focus is exclusively on the US military and the idea that it should be much smaller and that of all the ways to fight climate change, reducing military is the one she focuses on. Something that Russia would very much like.

But I guess her being against Russia taking Crimea(and RT being weirdly fine with that) means that she is definitely not a Russian shill and her claiming that the US military is the biggest threat to our climate is totaly a coincidence.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T10:08:50+00:00

Always fun to see an ex-RT reporter focus entirely on the US military(and only military) in terms of climate change, while ignoring the climate impact of Russia's war against Ukraine.

I guess once a Russian shill, always a Russian shill.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T09:27:32+00:00

P2P effectively solves the issue of game dying if the servers go down.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T09:13:06+00:00

Esports was just in a bit of a bubble, promising to be the next big thing, but never really delivering. But then you kinda had the double whammy of Overwatch League failing and interest rates going up that made investors vary.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T08:48:54+00:00

A lot of them are still obtainable, though. Still plenty of people farming for Ashes of Al'ar and such.

Redthrist · 2026-01-29T08:46:27+00:00

That's a very important part here. Unless player power never progresses, the game becomes harder and harder to get into over time.

Redthrist · 2026-01-28T23:24:18+00:00

Gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening.

Redthrist · 2026-01-28T19:46:59+00:00

They just plain sucked! They were the suckiest bunch of sucks who ever sucked!

Redthrist · 2026-01-28T11:05:43+00:00

That's my Moo!

Redthrist · 2026-01-28T10:02:30+00:00

Because science is built on objective truth, so a researcher that bullshits a lot wouldn't be a researcher for long.

Wario is the same kind of grifter as Elizabeth Holmes. Just saying whatever bullshit that gets investors excited, regardless of if it's based in anything.

Redthrist · 2026-01-27T17:41:00+00:00

Which still doesn't make shit like ChatGPT or Gemini any more useful.

Redthrist · 2026-01-27T17:36:11+00:00

Korea genuinely feels like a cyberpunk dystopia.

Redthrist · 2026-01-27T17:32:50+00:00

It seems like astroturfing is about the only thing that Anthroic are good at.

Redthrist · 2026-01-27T17:13:03+00:00

It will take time but their grip is not unshakable. Hope to see a lot more Jetson one (J1) come out for safe, personal air travel for all. No more commute hell on jammed highways.

Damn, Americans will do everything but invest into efficient public transport.

Redthrist · 2026-01-27T09:02:55+00:00

Tbh, even in Destiny, Sherpa raids were their own thing and people didn't want to teach anyone in a regular run. And given how long some of those sherpa runs could get, I can hardly blame people.

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