Communism is incompatible with private property or classes which is why no matter how many states write “communism” on the tin, what they actually put in it is just fascist enforced state capitalism.
China is not more communist or even socialist than the USA. A strong ruling class loves fascism and hates socialism. They are actively hostile to communism.
China is state capitalism anyway. There isn’t much Communist about them. The “party” is their 1% permanent ruling class.
I’m curious where you are that a business line doesn’t cost more than a residential one because in my area it’s three times as much. I am fortunate enough that I get symmetrical gigabit for $90 a month and although they don’t promise static IP my IP has not changed in a while.
If I wanted to get a real static IP I would have to upgrade to a business line It would cost $280 a month.
By displaying a new power to regulate the internet that they have sworn was impossible in the past: punishing ISPs for customers’ breaking of the law.
Odin’s trying something different this time.
That sounds like a recruitment tactic for the party of impotent rage.
The luddites were a labor movement. They fought for the rights of skilled workers to make a living.
Somehow you have fallen for the myth that machines make art.
They conveniently underlined all the bullshit.
For example:
Highest rate of economic growth (reflecting even more of the wealth being distributed among the Uber wealthy)
Lowest inflation (not counting housing, healthcare, energy or food)
Strongest wage growth (maybe in nominal terms if you ignore the actual increase in the cost of essential goods and services putting people behind where they were pre-pandemic)
Biggest wage gain among lowest paid workers (who still make less than they did before 2019 and somehow overlooking that almost all the gains in the economy since 2019 went to a few specific billionaires)
Lowest unemployment in x years ( they just keep redefining unemployment so that instead of it meaning ‘people who can’t find enough gainful employment to pay essential bills’, we limit it to people that have no job right now but did in the last six months and have made x number of applications while not collecting any income. It’s a damn joke)
They say “accounting for inflation” but then you have to remember their definition of inflation does not count housing, healthcare, energy or food so it’s nonsense anyway.
The wealth gap is wider now than 2018. I don’t even know where this claim that people are better off or the wealth gap is shrinking comes from… oh they got a 6% raise and inflation in sensible terms (not even counting housing and healthcare but including energy and food) is close to 9%.
And the black unemployment rate much like the unemployment rate itself is a cooked number that ignores most of the people that are black and unemployed/underemployed. It just doesn’t give a shit if you can eat, have a place to live or can afford to go to the doctor, it just cares if you have a job right now or if you recently did and are still looking.
I am on my phone so I haven’t had a chance to look up the disability unemployment claim, but as someone that lives with and supports people with disabilities, this might actually be real. Remote work is a real social revolution and it is making lives better.
My point is, as long as articles like this used continue to use cooked books to justify rose tinted viewings they will continue to think Americans are just ungrateful and ignorant of how great things are.
Dishonest stuff like this undermines the credibility of revenue driven media and leads to blurring the lines between a community getting high on hopium and Trump’s firehose of bullshit.
There is a pro-Israel candidate with a blind spot for genocide and a pro-genocide candidate with a soft spot for Hitler.
Both willfully support Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the native people, but only one of them wants to “finish the Palestinians”.
Democrats are a shitty ally but Republicans are an effective enemy.
A friend of mine won the top of the line omen model in a gaming tournament. We went through three of them before we just accepted the thing doesn’t fucking work for shit and demoted it to a Super Gengear 64 Station boy advance and stuffed it under the TV.
I wouldn’t want to be associated with anybody who thinks that what’s going on over there is okay and needs my guns or dollars to enable it.
He needs to sack up and tell Israel to give Netanyahu the boot or we are not giving them any more money.
I won’t really be happy until Netanyahu is sitting in the hague with all of his little genocidal cronies.
Hamas is Israel’s baby. Benjamin Netanyahu made it what it is today intentionally and specifically to undermine the legitimacy of palestine’s right to its own self-determination.
October 7th was an inevitable response to the intentionally murderous apartheid prison state Israel has built to house the native population. The ethnic cleansing didn’t start on October 7th, And it was the government of Israel that allowed it to happen both directly through funding Hamas and indirectly through ignoring all of the warnings leading up to that.
Israel is holding lots of hostages and murdering lots of children. They’ve also murdered lots of The Israeli hostages taken by Hamas when they’re being released.
Israel let October 7th happen, they sacrificed their own civilians in a ghoulish attempt to create a pretext to finish the extermination of the Palestinian people whose land they have taken.
No one’s down playing how bad Hamas is, maybe Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn’t have encouraged funding them all these years.
I’m saying Israel is at least as bad because they have the same exact goal (ethnically cleansing a population they don’t like from a country they think they own) but the only difference is Israel has lots of weapons and gets to do whatever it wants without even having to pay for its own bills or face any kind of international scrutiny.
In a just world, Israel sends the genocidal leadership of their own government to the Hague, ends the illegal settlements, ends the apartheid state, and starts paying reparations to the Palestinians they have been abusing for over 70 years.
Anything short of that and Israel is choosing violence, war, and genocide.
The problem is Israel.
Israel is making a really good case right now for why they might not be mature enough to manage their own state.
Israel is bad. It’s not that complicated. Hamas is also bad.
Hamas is a less effective evil than Israel is. That’s just how it is. No one is suggesting we send weapons to Hamas, we should just stop sending any form of aid at all to Israel unless they immediately stopped the genocide campaign, surrender their murderous leadership to the Hague, and immediately stop the illegal settlements.
That would be a good first step for Israel to show the whole world that it actually isn’t evil, and just was led by an evil person.
How about in exchange for Israel stopping this new Holocaust we continue to agree not to aid, enable, or tolerate anybody who aids Hamas? We can’t do it alone though We need Israel to stop propping up Hamas.
Also let’s just never give them any more money ever again. Obviously if they have free college and universal health care they can pay their own fucking bills.
My father used to make fun of me for saying that I could hear the TV on even if it was muted, or that I could hear the furnace ‘scream’ before it came on.
One year, I got as a gift for Christmas, a handheld recorder and a fancy microphone from my stepfather a university music professor And that recorder could actually record the sound which he was able to show me on the computer.
That was like 25 years ago, I’ve been working with computers ever since, and now I am familiar with many many many devices that make high pitch whines.
It really is so much easier to destroy than it is to build.
And I agree with you, A little bit of vandalism goes a long way to mucking things up.
If you maintain public goods for the good of the public you have a lot less crime. It’s precisely because there is such extreme wealth that is not paying to maintain the public goods that we have the crime.
The people destroying the stuff are doing that because they have been robbed of a place in society and their futures have been foreclosed to them.
Building hostile anti-human infrastructure, housing that costs 60 hours a week to live in, and unaffordable food that the government subsidizes to make MORE expensive are all not so subtle ways to tell these people that society does not value them.
Prices only go up. If a price is allowed to fall then the gravy train stops and the owner class gets really salty.
My bosses tried to ask me if I knew anyone the could hire for a full time position at a hospital. I ask for more details and eventually they relent because they aren’t having any luck on indeed/craigslist/temp recruiter.
It’s a 24 hour on call position for ‘up to’ $55,000 to be the sole IT staff for a 100 bed hospital in upstate NY.
I literally laughed at them, but they seem to insist they are gonna find someone to take the job.
I actually think the job isn’t even legal as described.
It depends on what kind of RAM you’re getting.
You could get Dell R720 with two processors and 128 gigs of RAM for $500 right now on eBay, but it’s going to be several generations old.
I’m not saying that the model is taking up astronomical amounts of space, but it doesn’t have to store movies or even high resolution images. It is also not being expected to know every reference, just the most popular ones.
I have 120tb storage server in the basement. So the footprint of this learning model is not particularly massive by comparison, but It does contain this specific whole joker image. It’s not something that could have been generated without the original to draw from.
In order to build a bigger model they would need not necessarily just more storage but actually a new way of having more and faster RAM connected to lower latency storage. LLMs are the kinds of software that become hard to subdivide to be distributed across purpose-built arrays of hardware.
Adobe basically invented the SaaS model. It’s not really practical to bootleg most Adobe products anymore either so most people break down and just pay the million dollar a year subscription fee so they can keep using it.