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> a GPU which costs as much as a car must read its entire VRAM just to output a word sounds incredibly wasteful

Kind of how I feel about Bitcoin at this point. The coins take so incredibly long to mine if you aren't in a pool that it could cost hundreds of dollars in electricity to own a fraction of the coin months later.

> Incessant nit picking, negativity and doubt casting is my issue.

That has unfortunately been very common internet culture since 2020. It was there before the pandemic, but post-pandemic internet never recovered its full whimsy and veered headfirst into a depressive state. Probably says something about everyone's general mood.

If I was struck by an autonomous vehicle while riding in the bike lane I would sue and sue like I was taking aim at a corporation rather than an individual driver. I -or my partner, assuming I died- would retire very early on that money.

Read into it. Large amounts of dark matter fall into the one of several theories presented by the professionals as what could be causing the phenomenon.

I forget the timeline of events but the school bombing was within a very short timeframe of the announcement - a short enough timeframe that no rip and replace could have happened yet.

Personal theory: Possibly the Great Attractor has something to do with a very large collection of dark matter - potentially dark matter galaxies. Hard to say though until we figure out how to see that section of space.

It was also indefensible. A few years back she campaigned on prosecuting pedophiles and, well, as AG she refused to do that. She went as far as protecting them.

That's still more interesting than what some sociopath rich person without a real clue says.

A new hurdle the VR market will be facing is that Meta bought and burned the Oculus brand, one of the most well-known VR brands in the market. Will be curious to see how the market performs if Meta completely abandons Oculus headset production.

My partner and I joke that seitan filled sandwiches are protein bread sandwiches lol. Def like the taste of seitan though!

I haven’t done a comparison of Beyond vs seitan for their nutritional value, but as someone who used to eat a lot more seitan I gleefully moved over to Beyond/Impossible. Seitan is packed full of gluten, which is much harder to digest. Seitan makes me uncomfortably bloated whereas Beyond/Impossible do not. And no, I don’t have a gluten “intolerance” or Celiac.

Even without looking it up to know for sure it was pretty obvious and could be inferred by anyone playing the game. Especially the scanning, which was painfully obvious to be a data collection method.

> I could write a book about.

You should - Perhaps it can gain notoriety and start waking people up to their bad habits. I've witnessed so much terrible parenting both in public from strangers and from people I know. It's unfortunate how easy it is for anyone to have a kid, qualified or not.

My household just bought The Brick to start taking control of our phones and online usage. We've been very online for 15+ years but are hoping to break the addiction cycle by simply blocking our devices from access. The timing feels right, mostly because sites like Instagram and Reddit are too braindead and spam+ad heavy these days. The executives and shareholders' desire for profits have already killed two of my biggest online pastimes.

Not like the current admin and AI companies are helping with that at all. Also, anyone in that department has brought great harm to the entire country and their employment should be public knowledge.

>If you don't use social media, the value proposition of a smart phone is incredibly low.

Sorry but what are you using your device for? There are many, many tools I use my smartphone for and I currently don't have Insta, reddit, Facebook, typical social media, etc on my device. Dismissing a pocket sized computer with far reaching access to the internet as a low value proposition is misguided. If all you use your device for is social media, call and text that's really too bad and a complete misunderstanding of what those devices are capable of.

> It's never popular when I post this

That's because you're coming off holier than thou and condescending. Anyone who understands gadgets will say phones are highly trackable and will have told anyone that well over 10+ years ago. It's a trade off of value. Corporations/gov can track me while I have my phone, but turn by turn directions, maps and a camera while wandering around are useful. We could legislate that traceability away in the US to an extent, but that would require our gov be working and right now it is not.

> (hard to believe even Meta would do this intentionally)

Are you referring to the same company that runs Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram? Meta has, for well over a decade, been caught multiple times -as recently as 2 years ago caught for the third time I know of- burrowing into areas of phones that their apps weren't directly given access to. Android phones have been highly susceptible to this kind of snooping.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/meta-halts-phone-and-...

No offense meant, but unfortunately tone cannot be given well via text: What did you think was happening there? The concerns you have expressed seem like they were clearly happening for all users, no matter what, from the beginning.

Personally, I removed ChatGPT from my phone for Claude last week. This reenforces my choice.

This seems like something the current SCOTUS would shut down very quickly, but I could be wrong.

Multiple sources cite different totals but it does seem like there are multiple 1+ mil servers.

https://www.deepcord.com/leaderboard/top-members/all/all-siz...

> Do they? Personally I've never willingly joined one of those massive servers

Large community servers are plentiful. I'm in a few that are definitely several hundred if not a few thousand users. It's pretty common to have a public server for cities too.

Colorado

Recently moved to an area that has some very small local shopping centers every .4 mile or so and it's been amazing. I can walk to a local bodega, a hardware store, some coffee shops, restaurants and a local pharmacy within 15-20 minutes. Not sure how I ever lived without the options.

> The new intellectual dark ages.

There was a report this week that the current admin was destroying medical research, so yes there does seem to be a new intellectual dark age incoming.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-admin-is-destro...

If the rumors are true, the Iranian gov systematically cut off all escape and communication for the 30k people it just ruthlessly murdered. While I agree meddling in other countries’ happenings should be little to none, that’s a lot of people slaughtered and no one even tried to stop it. Whataboutism won’t bring those people back either.

Yeah a lot of the features people jailbroke for are generally available these days.

and she’s an immigrant.

AI for the sake of AI. Feels like a lot of the internet right now