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  • That’s actually why TikTok got canned. They didn’t really care about the data collection, it’s because they couldn’t force TikTok to moderate to their liking like Facebook, Google, and Twitter since they were foreign based.

    Which is also why they sold its majority ownership to Larry Ellison (Oracle) who is infamously a hardcore Zionist.

    But seriously, the amount of content that gets deleted and whitewashed online is insurmountable. OSINT becomes a pain in the ass because you literally cannot find the origin of media because the user was either wiped and banned or shared on private channels like WhatsApp or Telegram where you’ll never find the original person who shared it

    Luckily, everyone mass reposts which makes it near impossible to remove the content itself, but then tou have to use alternative methods to develop a timeline, authenticity, context, etc.


  • It would be like the 2007 financial/housing crisis.

    You could get amazingly huge and quality houses, cars, stores, etc for dirt cheap but that’s because a metric ton of people were layed off and had to sell their assets to make ends meet.

    The AI bubble is compounded by the fact that it’s primarily propped up by ~1 trillion USD in private credit, which for all intents and purposes is basically just the same system as CDOs which caused the 2007/8 crash.

    If AI blows, all that debt comes back null, and since all other major investments are based on speculation and multiplied debt obligations, the economy collapses (again).

    Granted, if you’re lucky enough to not fall to the effects of such a crash, components will be dirt cheap and great time to buy.

    But if you’re layed off, you’re looking at potentially a year+ of unemployment, in which case it won’t matter if you can get a 5090 for $300 because you’ll be more concerned with surviving without an income.


  • But to put all of that in context you have to remember the pay, which was also bad.

    Lol the one I worked at had a 30% turnover rate because of this. Ridiculously skilled engineers working for a 8-14 month stint before they secured a much better job at a different company.

    Even their longest working lead, who had joined since the start as a junior, left a couple of months after I joined

    The funniest moment was when HR people ops posted the average expected salary ranges to confluence, which was a full 30% higher than what they announced for yearly raises.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAnd the other is an image of some tanks
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    23 days ago

    I know lol, but it also doesn’t mean anyone who is opposing the meme isn’t one either.

    I’ve seen my fair share of educated/intellectual people deny the circumstances of the Bengali genocide for decades until the Pakistani army went lunatic a couple of years ago and confirmed what was previously considered exaggerated fiction.

    Tbf though, I’m fairly sure Tankman made it out alive without a scratch, but that overlooks the people who actually died in Tiananmen.

    Not that the US is going to fare any better, especially with the empire beginning to crumble.




  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml"cuz, y'know, China bad."
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    25 days ago

    Its like comparing the Federation and the Empire from elite dangerous lol.

    Empire elitists always talking about how bad the Federation is because of the insane capitalist abuse of power, and billions of humans subjected to horrific conditions.

    And then Federation liberals talking about how the Empire literally has legalized slavery and a monarchy that runs on the death of humans.

    Although technically there’s also the stereotypical Asian CEO who has a 15% discount on all ships and modules in his systems, so I guess that’s probably the successor to Ali Express lol.

    That all being said, the post above this is an article trying to explain how China plating 78 billion trees was a bad idea lmao.