And yes, I am brainwashing him against all the corpo crowd.

Sounds more like you’re deprogramming them.

The brainwashing is the Marketing and PR from the big corps that turns people into mindless consumers and even fans.

The overwhelming amounts of Advertising everywhere every day aren’t there because people are naturaly prone to love brands, they’re there to (mainly using techniques from Psychology) shift people’s perception feelings about a brand to make them love the brand, and if you pay attention most of it is designed to influence people via their subconscious pathways (such as familiarization and associating the brand with other things they feel as positive) rather than to convince people with rational arguments via their conscious mind. So it’s the Advertising that’s using the same kind of technique as brainwashing.

If you’re trying to change your kid’s mind via convincing them of something (i.e. rationalizing with them) rather that through psychological trickery (for example, relentless pressure until they comply), then what you’re doing is the very opposite of brainwashing.

Look mate, the average American is a Racist, even the Liberals who think being Prejudiced about those they see as belonging to <identity> with a “positive” spin is being anti-Racist rather than yet another variant of “they’re all the same” thinking, hence the muppeters who pull the strings of these people use “blame foreigners” arguments to deflect away the blame for the problems caused by the American Power Elites (mainly the billionaires and their political minions)

• “Immigrants” are blamed by the openly Fascist Far-Right (Republicans)
• “Foreign interference” from those the American politicians call “adversaries”, such as Russia or China (never Israel) is blamed by the pro-Oligarchy fine-with-Fascism-abroad Hard-Right (Democrats)

So obviously when the Public Opinion in America naturally turned against Data Centers because of the ton of problems they bring with no real gains for the common people to offset it - all this against the actions of the bought and paid for politicians in favor of the handful of fatcats who do benefit from said Data Centers - the politicians’ knee-jerk reaction was to blame foreigners, because blaming foreigners works spectacularly well with most of the American public, both the Far-Right ones and the muppets who think they’re left-of-center whilst in fact being cheerleaders for Oligarchs and pro-Oligarchy policies.

As it always turns out, just like the “problems” caused by immigrants the impact of “foreign interference” is not even in the same universe of fucking things up in America than the shit that the 100% American “elites” and their 100% American bought and paid for political minions do.

Even when those foreign “adversaries” are activelly trying to negativelly impact America, the impact of their actions is like that of a flea on an elephant compared by what the Americans with the most power do. I would even say that given how things are going in the US the best thing that an adversary nation of America can do in America to fuck it up right now is NOTHING AT ALL as Americans seem to be going full throttle at fucking things up themselves.

Tell me you have no contact with the Tech Industry without telling me you have no contact with the Tech Industry.

The Industry isn’t led by Engineers anymore and it hasn’t for almost 2 decades, it’s led by people with salesmanship kind of skills, often with MBAs and/or Finance backgrounds.

The people who think AI is great and should be used in their company are mainly not Engineers. I mean, it’s literally there in the article that they’re people too far removed from the coalface to actually fully understand the way things are done.

Engineers have the almost opposite personality type, being prone to digging into details, analysing problems and wanting maximum clarity on things, all things that help one spot that AI produced results are shallow, inconsistent and excessivelly verbose.

Maybe you’re thinking about the broader rule that highly intelligent people are easier to scam because they think their intelligence protects them from being scammed, but that’s not specific of Engineers (though it also applies to them and definitelly explains all sorts of Tech fanboyism).

Well, yeah, if a surgeon decided that using a chainsaw in surgery was a good idea and the hospital went ahead with it, it’s not up to the chainsaw maker to pay compensation after a patient was eviscerated on the operating table.

AI is stupidly dangerous for any life critical task that requires precision and correctness.

That’s assuming it’s DDR4.

For DDR5 you probably need the extended insurance that also covers Jewellery and Luxury Goods.

I don’t think those stories are any less common in Europe - selfish assholes with dangerous dogs they haven’t properly trained and don’t know how to control are everywhere as far as I can tell.

It’s selfish assholes with dangerous weapons that they aren’t properly trained to handle that aren’t common around here, even in countries with very liberal gun legislation like Switzerland.

Have you seen the price of DIMM modules nowadays?!

Jumping in front of the bullet would’ve hurt less!

I think that depends on whether it’s solid brick or this kind of brick.

Were I live (Portugal) houses tend to be made from the latter kind of brick.

That said, even the latter kind of brick doesn’t provide as good insulation as double walls, either air gapped or (even better) with insulating foam in between, and I’ve only ever seen that used for external walls, mainly in colder (further to the North) countries in Europe.

Yeah, for good termal resistance with brick you need double walls with a gap in the middle (with air is good, with thermal insulating foam is better).

That said, I (in Europe) have never seen double walls used for internal walls.

PS: Actually I just remembered that in some places the kind of brick used is not solid but actually hollow - for example and one of the differences from this to the solid kind is exactly that these have better acoustic and thermal insulation.

Surelly somebody doing this on purpose would’ve avoided hitting a memory module.

DIMM modules cost and arm and a leg nowadays.

What a tragedy!

One of the memory modules was hit.

In today’s market.

Every dog IS a son of a bitch but not every son of a bitch is a dog.

The cat was lying: if one looks at who does all the work and who gets fed on somebody else’s work without having to do anything for it, one can only conclude that the cat is the bourgeois.

Unless we’re talking about strays or farm cats (repectivelly the poor and working class of the species)

There are probably more “Man bites dog” stories in Europe than “Dog discharges gun” stories.

OMG!

I hope it missed the RAM, Graphics Card and SSDs.

PS: Update - judging by the pictures somebody posted, the bullet hit a DIMM module. TRAGEDY!!!

Because of the First Past The Post, even a Parliamentary system in the US with the current Mathematics of how Congress or the Senate representatives are allocated from votes (i.e. single winner per electoral circle) would be still be a two party system which doesn’t represent most people.

Just look at Britain (which has a FPTP Parliamentary System) were the current party in Government has more than 50% of members of Parliament even though they got only 34% of votes and is arresting people as Terrorist Supporters for demonstrating against Britain’s support for the Genocide in Gaza, has enacted quite extreme anti-Demonstration legislation and is passing electronic communications surveillance laws similar to those in Despotic Autocracies.

Absolutelly, Presidential systems where ONE PERSON ONLY supposedly manages the nation according to the will of millions are complete total bullshit because it’s impossible that one person can reflect the preferences of millions, but Parliamentary systems with First Past The Post aren’t much better because de facto they’re generally equivalent to 2 sets of views rather than just 1 - theoretically multiple parliamentarians from the same party would mean multiple view, but my experience living in several such countries is that it’s rare for a member of parliament not to vote the same as the rest of the party in a vote - I would estimate that dissent is in average less than 5%.

Power Duopolies are better than Power Monopolies but not by much and they certainly do not represent the true breadth of political beliefs of a population of millions of people.

In countries with such systems (at least in the ones I lived in) people get trained by the Press to expect everything boils down to “one side versus a the other side”, but if you actually analyse the whole thing and think about even simple choices in groups of people (say, “we’re should we go to next?” when out with friends) and it’s very rare that even for just one thing there are only 2 prefered choices in a group with more than 2 people, so now imagine how many possibilities there are in all combinations of preferences for all the social and political choices in a country of millions.

Representative Democracy by necessity is a heavilly reduced and simplified reflection of the preferences in the society they mean to represent and those variants of it where the representation system is Mathematically Rigged to de facto reduce that representation to just two, is literally the second farthest political system from properly representing a population, with the farthest one being dictatorship.

Personally I don’t count Power Duopolies like that real Democracies: a vote alone doesn’t make something a Democracy, otherwise Russia would be a Democracy. The again I grew up in a country with a lot more open Democracy (though still far from perfect) and lived for almost a decade in one with Proportional Vote.

In the US version the left side candidade would be “Identitaria Fatcatus-Loving”, listed as:

• Got several million dollar plus campaign contributions
• Upper middle-class, never met a single poor person in her life and yet looks down on them
• Says one thing, does something else
• Doesn’t talk about Wealth Inequality, EVER.
• Is <list of identitarian “specificities”>

At least the “third”-world places often have electable left of center candidates, not just Fascist vs Warmongering Hardcore Neoliberal.

Not “Western countries”, rather the “United States”.

If for example Europe was doing this, US Tech companies would have almost no market presence over here.

Militaristic “national security” arguments have very little traction in Europe, which is actually part of the reason why there was such tight coupling with Russia at the start of their invasion of Ukraine that it was a lot harder for Europe to decouple from Russia than the rest and even then Russia still kept running Propaganda Ops and financing political parties in Europe with ease.

The individual people leading those companies will be much better afterwards than when they started this shit, no matter how hard the whole thing blows up.

Who wouldn’t be willing to go through the years of founding and building, say, OpenAI, if after a decade or so you’ll at worst “just” end up a multi-millionaire, and if the Tech actually works or even if you just manage to swindle enough suckers before it all collapse, you’ll end up a billionaire.

If you consider those people as sociopath “what’s in it for me” grifters, the entire thing is totally logic because even the “market cataclysm” scenario still leaves them personally far better off than if they hadn’t done any of this and as for everybody else, well, “fuck them”.