Victim of Communism

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The planet has gone through numerous climate shifts, mass migrations, and extinction level events.

    It’s not what’s fucked. We’re fucked. The planet will keep spinning.

    Even then, humanity is incredibly robust as a species. We’ll have human descendants running around on the planet for a million more years. This pain we’re setting up will be directly inflicted on the next two or three generations, as the global population evolves in the face of sever resource constraints.

    We’re looking at a highly acute crisis, geologically speaking.






  • You and I are the victims

    We’re way downstream. The “victims” are all the SaaS and smaller market cap firms that need business compute for accounting and commerce.

    Case in point, I got a request for a new server delayed three months because we blew through our Q1 budget for new hardware faster than expected.

    That’s not really hurting me, personally. But it means our server teams need to do more with less even as the business expands.


  • If you were a chip manufacturer and actually believed that there was a big future in AI, you’d be using those investment dollars to build some more chip fabs.

    Major new semiconductor fabrication plant projects are expanding across the United States, led by a $16.8 billion SpaceX and Tesla “Terafab” project in Grimes County, Texas, massive expansions by TSMC in Arizona, and Samsung’s ongoing fab development in Taylor, Texas.

    Computer hardware depreciates in value very quickly. You don’t buy hardware today so you can install that hardware in a datacenter that won’t be online for another year.

    Hardly unusual for speculators to buy up a hot commodity the day of release and then resell it into an inflated secondary market a few days or weeks later.









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    Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…

    Greg Abbott pioneered the strategy of just ignoring your actual opponent and scream “The communists are coming to take your guns!” at rallies hosted by your billionaire friends. To date, it’s kinda-sorta worked. Republicans have a stranglehold on the state senate due to gerrymandered districts. All the statewide offices are reliably Republican, year in and year out. And the Republican base loves to see a candidate throwing out red meat far more than a candidate who treats liberal opponents as serious contenders for office.

    As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.

    Anyone who thinks Democrats have a statewide office in a bright-red state in the bag because the Republican is ignoring them, is delusional.

    You’ll know Paxton is in trouble when he starts crying about the liberal media not giving him enough attention and demanding a dozen debates a week with Talarico straight through election day.



  • I hate to watch the internet die for 2 decades now.

    That’s not what “dying” looks like. That’s “mutating”, in the horror movie sense.

    Why do people watch these turds? Who cares what some “influencer” does? It’s all fake anyway.

    I mean, YMMV. Lots of people don’t watch them. Lots of people just kinda flip through what’s on their feed and land on whatever catches their eyes. Lots of people get this stuff jammed down their throats through different flavors of marketing, engagement, and native-ized slop.

    And this is where people “get information”? How about Wikipedia?

    Wikipedia isn’t where people naturally go for fashion tips and entertainment promos.

    I really think a lot of this boils down to “I’ve completely forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager”. Young people trying to act like old people. Old people trying to act like young people. A lot of it boiling down to hormones, boredem, and Freemium ad-slop being the entertainment they can afford.