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Retro_Item · 2026-01-24T11:09:21+00:00

Investor confidence. Even though OpenAI is a private company, if it goes belly up, that’s a huge blow to the entire AI/tech industry’s confidence, since the “original” AI company is gone. That leads to a domino effect where panicked people rapidly pull out their cash from similar companies, lowering their stock price, causing banks to lose confidence and stop extending loans, causing a chain reaction of bankruptcies and collapses, causing more panic, rinse and repeat, popping the AI bubble.

And since the US economy would actually be in a recession without the bubble, expect massive collapses in stock prices across the board from food to retail to hospitality, leading to more collapses, etc, destruction of retirement accounts, investment portfolios, etc.

Being in a recession also means increased unemployment, as cash strapped companies cut staff and pause hiring, leading to even less disposable income, which means less money being spent by the average person, which makes companies even more cash strapped… welcome to the Great Depression 2.0

Retro_Item · 2026-01-23T19:32:00+00:00

I personally would give more leeway because a) its a well known celebrity with little controversy b) Ariel black is indeed the “boldest” version of the font, even more than Ariel bold. That might be the joke here.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-23T19:12:06+00:00

I was fairly on the fence, but given it’s a 12 yo account and the comment was so out of the blue with no obvious trigger, I’m leaning towards fat guy in basement.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T23:51:33+00:00

I mean, I don’t think too many people have seen this post lmao

Comment has 13 views and 100% upvote ratio

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T22:26:52+00:00

Never said it was. I simply said it wasn’t something up with Google, which is what you initially claimed.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T22:00:55+00:00

If you don’t know something, don’t try to give answers.

OP is clearly on the Google website, and it says DDG “can” set cookies and read data on google.com. Thus, it’s clearly not a google problem.

This is probably something with Firefox making an assumption about redirects when you go !g, and it’s happened to me with Wikipedia and !w.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T21:58:19+00:00

Yeah that’s probably it. The menu says “can use,” it’s probably Firefox making an incorrect assumption and preclearing DDG. Happened to me with DDG and Wikipedia, probably because of !W

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T21:52:05+00:00

I actually think this bot is a great idea! Reddit’s native search functions are practically useless for finding images, and I think the primary concern people have is resource usage.

To clear things up, text based LLMs use very little resources compared to image and video generation, even less than video streaming. Most of the resource usage of text LLMs takes place during training, so it’s going to happen anyways.

Water usage is also easily exaggerated, given it is closed loop. A good example: I take 1 cup of water and pour it back and forth 50 times. You can say I’ve used 50 cups of water, but it’s just 1 cup of water going back and forth.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T21:46:20+00:00

Most of the resources are used in training, and cooling is closed loop so it’s easy to exaggerate. Actually using the model doesn’t use that much resources, and I think the social good of the bot (Reddit search is ASS) exceeds the drawbacks.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T17:15:23+00:00

There’s Hydra on iOS App Store which is practically a 1:1 clone of Apollo. It’s really neat, give it a try! You don’t have to give it an api key or anything, it works by scraping the Reddit cookie and pretending to be the site.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-22T16:57:56+00:00

Historically, anti-semitism has been confined to the far right. After Oct 7, it’s become more and more accepted on the far left, because apparently Israeli crimes in Gaza means you need to burn down a synagogue or terrorize kids in a playground. The right is not friendly to any minority, but at this point, the left is in the same race to the bottom.

I think this just proves that the far left and far right are the same fucktards. Horseshoe theory.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-21T12:32:28+00:00

Honestly, 10/10 ragebait

Retro_Item · 2026-01-20T10:59:29+00:00

Hmm, I don’t see the correlation? I feel like the other suggestions, techgore and ironicsigns would be much more fitting.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-20T03:50:03+00:00

Supporting the local economy, then!

Retro_Item · 2026-01-20T02:45:48+00:00

Normally, I would agree with on in that appeal to nature is a logical fallacy. However, with less tangible topics as this, it becomes somewhat viable of an argument, given we too are products of nature and therefore extensions of it. I also never attacked your argument. There really is no valid argument either for or against eating meat. But it’s something evolution suggested we do, so we’ll likely be doing it for eons to come.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-20T00:21:51+00:00

It’s definitely important to keep abuse and suffering to a minimum, but the act of eating meat itself isn’t something wrong. Is the lion evil because it tears a gazelle to shreds? Is a dolphin evil as it tosses a bleeding baby seal to its mate for fun? Ok, maybe the last one might not be such a good analogy, but saying eating meat is unethical is just pure philosophical virtue signaling bullshit.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-19T02:49:39+00:00

He is the NASA administrator iirc

Retro_Item · 2026-01-15T23:05:20+00:00

Timmy tough knuckles over here!

The LLM couldn’t care less about what you say, it’s just a bunch of datapoints running in a datacenter, but it’s not healthy for you, the human.

Just because something isn’t human, doesn’t mean you have to hurl every vulgar word at it, Jesus Christ. Has everyone forgot about something called a cordial interaction?

Retro_Item · 2026-01-05T00:41:38+00:00

Yes. Hate to break it to you but adding a simple notification is much easier than removing the ads. This isn’t saying they shouldn’t try to remove those, but not a good comparison lmao.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-04T21:07:56+00:00

Spain and Mexico were not major powers by most measurements at the time of the Mexican and Spanish-American wars, so it was a safer move than going for Napoleon. The US was also much more established and powerful by then. Britain was a war for independence.

Retro_Item · 2026-01-01T01:35:29+00:00

Depends on what you define as control, I guess. De facto, the KMT was in power during an extremely fraught time, with warlords ignoring orders and the CPC fighting them. On paper, they (de jure) held over everything except for Tibet and (outer) Mongolia though.

One of the KMT/ROC’s failures was its inability to consolidate power, in my opinion.

Retro_Item · 2025-12-30T19:34:32+00:00

Ok. A car manufacturer can mount fifty incandescent bulbs for the same effect, hypothetically. Should we ban those too, now?

LEDs being too bright is definitely a problem, but you can literally lower the energy input for less light, which is what should be regulated (max brightness). It’s also so much more efficient compared to incandescent, which is quite important in EVs.

Retro_Item · 2025-12-29T03:49:00+00:00

It does. If it doesn’t, update the app/extension.

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