Me to my lab.

• Be company
• Need RAM
• RAM no exist
• Order RAM, guarantee payment on delivery. Capital set aside. This order is a contract. It’s not Amazon. 5, 6, 7 digit deals being made.
• RAM gets made. Capacity, materials, labor set aside to make RAM, not random guy (sad). Capacity/capital assigned to my RAM not available for sad guy.
• RAM exist, delivered. Exchange occurs. I got RAM, they got money. Sad guy still no RAM.
• I put RAM in systems that don’t exist yet that were ordered by AI company for a data center that doesn’t exist yet. Sad guy still no RAM.
• Sad guy never had a chance to get the RAM. Assumes he has a right to RAM, memes on Reddit so that guy can download it and post it on Lemmy. Still no RAM, though.
• Another guy pretends to not understand this and takes peanut butter analogy literally even though it is obviously oversimplified. Probably sad about no RAM.
• Guy realizes that all of modern commerce is based on promises of payment for things that don’t exist yet that become inputs for things that don’t exist yet. Guy realizes that optimization of this system is the primary concern of modern manufacturing engineering and is the basis of just-in-time manufacturing and LEAN manufacturing in general.

If the peanut butter isn’t there, you won’t buy it. But everyone in the peanut butter supply chain is behaving as though it will be on the shelf when you need it.

The peanut butter you buy a month from now hasn’t been manufactured yet but the grocery store already has their order in. The grocery store is borrowing money to pay wages for shifts that haven’t been worked yet. The peanut butter manufacturer is placing orders to peanut farms for peanuts that haven’t been harvested yet. The shipping truck manufacturer is putting in orders for tires, wheels, locking mechanisms, and trailers that don’t exist yet, so on and so forth for almost everything in the supply chain.

No great injustice, just business as usual.

Besides the last one, you’re literally describing the way business works.

the reason pbj sammich cost so much is because people are buying pb & j on their credit card to put on bread they haven’t bought yet to make pbj sammiches that don’t exist yet, etc that’s just how shit works.

If it wasn’t in the beginning, it was after Folding Ideas/Dan Olson released “Line Goes Up”.

Jeez. I know that’s a mind fuck.

Maybe. LLMs are free(ish), meanwhile a single trip to the ER can leave a person destitute. Maybe that’s not so bad (it is) if the ER visit is for something actually urgent, but somewhere between 27% and 40% of ER visits are non-urgent and most are treatable by a PCP. But… ERs have to treat you while, in the US, a primary care physician can look you right in the eyes and turn you away because you have no money.

People don’t want to admit that AI does some good because the companies that own these LLMs are as corrupt as any other and the implications of the corruption of this tech are horrifying. But for health care, including mental health, LLMs are an unexpected godsend.

Uscher-Pines, L., Pines, J., Kellermann, A., Gillen, E., & Mehrotra, A. (2013). Emergency Department Visits for Nonurgent Conditions: Systematic Literature Review. American Journal of Managed Care. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4156292/

Raven, M. C., et al. (2024). Emergency Department Visits That Could Be Managed at Other Care Sites. JAMA Network Open. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2813806

If she’s nominated, it’s a fix. Classic authoritarian playbook: maintain the illusion of democracy by propping up an opponent that you aren’t likely to lose to. Then, stuff the ballot boxes anyway.

2010s, OMG they were everywhere. It was just a thing. Veganism became super trendy and people hopped on the bandwagon. Now that it’s not cool anymore, most of them have hopped onto another bandwagon or have aged out of chasing trends altogether. But they’re always out there. Right now, I hear a lot about K-Pop, Formula 1, and… third places. That last one catches me off guard because I have a related degree and when I was in school the concept was relatively obscure, so it catches me off guard, but in a good way (I work in a museum which charges for entry).

Anyway, eventually enough pretentious attention-seekers hop on the bandwagon and annoy enough people that they become the subject of ridicule. They move to the next thing, and the OGs get to be the butt of the joke for a generation. It blows.

Dear smart glasses wearers,

You’re colossal pieces of shit. And dumb as a bag of socks, morons who are paying companies for the privilege of spying on strangers without their consent. You’re helping to enable a world where privacy literally doesn’t exist and every public moment of every person’s life, whether they want to participate or not, is being mined and monetized by billionaires.

You are lower than pond scum. You’re the shit under the back of the toilet bowl that has never been cleaned. You are actually stupid. Like, actually braindead. You are paying actual money to be exploited. At least Facebook and Instagram are free. Seriously, what kind of dumbass would pay to have Mark Zuckerberg sit on their face all day? Fucking idiots. 🤣

Elaborate, plz.

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Why did homie get banned?

It’s a doomsday cult.

Seems to exist all over Lemmy. I’m new around here, migrated from Reddit just a week ago, but this kind of post would get downvoted into nothingness over there. Not for the message, obviously, but for the self-righteous indignation, the name calling, for just being one big spoiled brat temper tantrum. So far, it’s the only thing I miss.

Congrats on friends👍🏻

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? Man it must have changed a lot since I did it in the '00s.

Typical lemmy user looking for a femdom to spank his nutsack.

Horseshit. Conservatives have been raising their children for a generation to believe dying for Trump’s America is a worthy cause.

Raw Story is just like any other rag. They play to their demographics. There is no massive anti-MAGA outcry on X or any of the socials.

Don’t let this bullshit lure you into a false sense of security. Conservatives are as committed as ever. The majority of them think the post-911 wars were justified, and that they were heroes for fighting in them. They also believe the Jews are the chosen people. They’re ready to send their kids to die in Iran. They’re nationalists and zionists. It’s their entire worldview. It’s in their bones.

Don’t become complacent.

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