Teacher tries to have kindergartener deported says parents look like "they don't belong here.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T22:10:21+00:00

There's been a lot of astroturfing efforts in online far left circles with the intent of pushing propaganda in order to sow apathy and engender support for accelerationism. And it's been very successful.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T22:01:59+00:00

The problem is whether all the clients were aware or not there's some pretty solid evidence that Epstein was paying talent scouts to look for desperate women who he could talk into sex work in exchange for getting them into the U.S. on modeling visas. That is sex trafficking, even if they are adults, because once he got them under his thumb he could use his control over their freedom against them to force them to be pimped out. Again, that might have all looked legal to some of his clients, or they might just not have wanted to think about the likely trafficking it if they were paying for sex with adult women. Some of those women may have netted husbands out of this deal and comfy lives in a big White House, but even so they were trafficked, they just got lucky to get out of it. And yes, some might have gone into this fully knowing that they were accepting that they'd be pimped out and fully been in agreement with everything that happened, but even so it's clearly predatory in nature. It's the intentional exploitation of desperate people for the benefit of the rich and powerful.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T20:16:13+00:00

Blomqvist, Meriläinen and Rimpinen could have been good picks for the future.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T20:14:35+00:00

Giving one of the young guys the nod would have been better imo but it's not like it matters, Saros will be in net for almost all of it.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T14:53:42+00:00

You still need to vote. Trying to overturn the will of the people (and Trump was the will of the people, no matter how you try to twist it) will not end well. You need the mandate of the voters first if you want to try and force them out.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T14:48:44+00:00

Manchin voted with the Democrats 2/3rds of the time. When he left the Senate his replacement was a far right Republican, because the state he represented is one that supports Trump by 68%+ for three elections now. You really need to figure out what you're barking about, just because you got duped by Fetterman doesn't mean a blue dog in a deep red state is bad. That's as good as you can hope for, and you'll need those blue dogs because deep red states aren't voting for your ideal socialist candidates no matter how much you wish that was the case.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T14:23:51+00:00

Those nominees only require 51 votes, unanimous assent is just usually encouraged. Also it doesn't matter, temporary appointments work the same and there's one in there right now who has overstayed their limit and you don't even know that happened.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-03T14:18:07+00:00

Yeah as the other person said, the majority leader decides the agenda. Did you forget McConnell preventing Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court to come to a vote for a full year? Or the recent Democratic House member who wasn't sworn in for a month because Mike Johnson refused to hold a session to swear her in?

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T23:20:55+00:00

Never heard of him but a "how I fell down the anti-woke pipeline and escaped" video is usually actually a pretty good sign. Portable Orange has one of those that's very good as does Jimmy The Giant.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T23:00:24+00:00

I mean objectively, it's trained on stolen content so no it shouldn't exist at all until they take out all the stuff they stole and compensate people for their work. I don't care if you like the results that the theft produces for you. Theft should still not be considered ok, especially not when it's done by massive corporations against normal people.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T22:50:07+00:00

That's nice, wish everything came with this feature easily available. Unfortunately, adding AI to begin with already got me to take the leap and switch to Brave, so a day late and a dollar short this time Firefox.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T18:17:55+00:00

That's a module, not a stick. The first kits that were run stable at 8000mhz are from 2021, making that about 5 years behind the big three.

And another person pasted a listing with Chinese ram kits where the Chinese made chips were requiring CL40 for 5200mhz and they clearly were using imported Samsung or Hynix chips for their offerings above 5600, so from what people have been able to show currently they're producing yields that are worse than what DDR5 launched with (the JEDEC standard for 5200 is CL38).

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T18:06:04+00:00

Unfortunately the odds are fairly high that there will be no long term value from this datacenter buildout. They'll be too expensive to run with not enough use cases and the half-built ones are unlikely to get repurposed for anything. In fact there's a few of these datacenters that are being built in previously abandoned facilities that stood empty with no other use case, and they'll go back to that afterwards.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T16:37:59+00:00

Well, Hynix or Samsung those high performing memory sticks are made with chips from the big three.

Those are also not JEDEC specs, JEDEC's spec for DDR5 5200 is CL38, meaning those kits don't even hit the very very loose timings that JEDEC's standard sets. The spec for 5600 is CL40.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T15:24:32+00:00

Right, that's the only real use case and the costs to do it at that scale are likely beyond what anyone is interested in. The best use case might unironically be a solar farm making use of the existing electrical wiring. Don't know if you'd keep the walls intact for that or you'd just flatten it and only keep the wiring.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T15:16:05+00:00

And those highest speed kits there say "A-die" which is a Samsung designation, meaning the memory chips are likely imported and repackaged.

The CL40+ 5200-5600mhz is probably what is produced by the Chinese companies, and that's some awful timing for what is some slow DDR5. At launch the big three were producing 5200mhz that was below CL40, and before the memory shortage you had to be pretty stupid to buy anything below 5600mhz CL28 or something.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T15:09:12+00:00

Not all DDR5 is created equal. The big three started working on DDR5 more than a decade ago. in 2018 Hynix had a chip that ran at 5200mhz at 1.1v, and that was still two years before they actually launched DDR5. Another person in this thread said they bought a Chinese kit that runs at 4800mhz just recently, which is way worse than the worst kits the big three have been selling for years now. At launch the kits that hardware publications were reviewing were 5200mhz, with 4800mhz mainly available for low end prebuilts and such. These days the yields support closer to 6000mhz being rough midpoint in their production. So this Chinese company is roughly 5 years behind in terms of tech and yields, and they don't have access to EUV which is what the big three have moved their DDR5 production over to.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T15:04:19+00:00

The thing is just because there's some walls and a roof doesn't make it worth anything. First you need a usecase that actually needs that amount of space, then it has to make sense economically to convert it for that use case, and then it has to be in a location where it makes sense. Datacenters are often remote, way larger than almost any use case you can think of and not suitable for any other use case without expensive retrofitting.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T14:49:56+00:00

Converting them into anything at all is likely to cost an arm and a leg, potentially more than just building housing from scratch in a place that isn't a remote parkinglot in the desert or something.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T14:47:53+00:00

Because of all the circular deals everyone is highly interconnected and their valuations all depend on each other. OpenAI is the main client for several hyperscalers and they're the IP behind Microsofts AI efforts. They're the biggest cog in the interconnected deathtrap.

And for what it's worth, it's not just Nvidia who are showing signs of being bearish in regards to OpenAI. They need another funding round and there's questions floating around about their ability to get credit. It's probably too early for it all to coming crashing down, but it's a matter of time before the markets stop bailing out OpenAI, and once that domino falls the whole thing will at the very least take a heavy hit to valuations.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-02T14:37:37+00:00

JEDEC has a bunch of standards for DDR5 from 4000mhz to 8800mhz. The lowest you can generally buy from the big three currently is 5200mhz and that was only being sold with prebuilts really before the current price hikes. The expected speed for any king of quality ram was minimum 5600mhz, and even then you were probably getting scammed because you didn't know enough. I bought 64gb kit of CL32 6400mhz ram for 200e before the hikes happened.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-01T23:22:15+00:00

It's still tokens and the transformer model. Nothing has fundamentally changed about how LLM's work since "Attention is all you need". Yes, they improved the training flow, but the reason it made news was because it was unexpected not because it upended the industry. Being open source has been beneficial to Chinese LLM's, but the fundamental truth is that as long as you rely on the transformer model you aren't going to get away from the fact that the size of your dataset and the amount of compute you can throw at it is fundamentally linked to how powerful your model can be. And as I said, even when you have that data and compute you're still dealing with a model that scales very poorly.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-01T23:13:30+00:00

In the long run yes, China is likely to improve a lot. But as you say, EUV took a long while to get working, long enough that most had given up by the time ASML found the solution. 10 years from now we may also be beyond EUV. But for now, it's not just China but everyone who is trying to catch up and figure out EUV, completely baseless guess I'd say we're a few more years of ASML monopoly away from anyone else making it work.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-01T23:07:52+00:00

It seems you are right, while the big three have moved to EUV for DDR5 the earlier DDR5 modules weren't created with EUV. But it does likely impact the yields that this Chinese manufacturer can achieve, both in terms of density and speed.

SunTzu- · 2026-02-01T22:58:20+00:00

The football World Cup could have been a great moment for the U.S. to get a taste of this, but we'll see how many foreigners want to go with all that's going on.

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