Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

Extremely correct, and why I will never stop laughing at Mac users.

Nee-Dough:

Its… basically a squishy cube, presumably made of something resembling silicone.

Tiktok has been going apeshit over it the last few days, people getting into fights at stores to buy these things.

Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean.

Did you mean to say:

“And need to have the best consumer GPU on the market, to run an LLM.”

… likely alluding to an RTX 5090?

So you would be saying that basically it is bullshit, the idea that everyone needs extremely expensive hardware, to run an LLM?

I’m basically just trying to say that the vast majority of users are very, very stupid, compared to a power user or actual dev.

Just think of everyone who bought beanie babies, funko pops, stanley cups, now I guess its ‘Nee-Dough’ or something.

Thats much closer to ‘the average user’ than you or me.

Marketing is unfortunately not about what you personally gaf about, its about mass appeal, what most people gaf about.

Users are fucking stupid, and will throw a fit over the most banal shit, for no explicable reason beyond ‘thing x gives me the ick’.

Tell a relative normie you use Fedora, they’ll mock you as a reddit dork mall ninja neckbeard.

I propose: WHARGRBL

I got Qwen 3.5 running on a Steam Deck.

It ain’t exactly blazing fast, but it does actually work.

(Reasonably fast if you go down to the 2B param model, I can get the 9B param variant working, though this makes Steam Decky very hot and bothered.)

Yeah, you absolutely do not need Nvidia hardware to run an LLM, but we get blasted with their propoganda suggesting otherwise just all the time in the English speaking West.

Because if you don’t need Nvidia, well, then, this whole AI bubble looks a lot more bubbly.

Right, it was supposed to be mobile slop game design, with AAAA graphics.

You still had to sail around and gather resources, its just that this was visually represented in a very goofy and indirect way.

… A stock with a negative price would be extremely funny, but no I’m pretty sure that’s not even technically possible, at least… not without high frequency trading fuckery.

Uh its just like that because of it being a webapp widget, trying to support as many possible different kinds of x,y ranges as possible, would be my guess, lol.

Ok, so, I still have CSPAN on, and almost every single caller in the last ~30 minutes has either alluded to the idea, or directly stated that they think this is probably some kind of false flag, or ‘Hollywood drama’, that this is some kind of manufactured event.

… It is kind of odd that the 3 people talking to the callers are all responding to callers with basically historical / personal anecdotes … its odd that none of them seem to be recognizing this obvious pattern that almost every caller thinks this was staged, and whether or not it was, its still notable that that is the instant reaction of so many people.

I’vr not played it, mostly just amused by AAA shooting itself in the balls, but I may have to actually give it a whirl, seems fun!

Literally most oldschool JRPGs.

Oh, the enemy chose their insanely OP attack, 3 times in a row?

Try again.

Maybe they won’t this time.

I think this is how you end up with the Hungarian Kwisatz-Haderach.

For reference, in case anyone wants to see what we’re talking about more directly:

https://cascadiabioregion.org/nine-regions-of-cascadia

(I picked this one because I am a blatant Seattle Supremacist /s)

So yeah, you’d have to overlay this kind of a map with say, county level political maps for the US, apologies to Canadians, I do not know what the Canadian approximate equivalent of a county is.

But yeah, then look at rivers, origin points, watersheds, dams, other critical infrastructure, etc, to see how this could possibly shake out.

The Greater Idaho idea was originally to essentially carve off as many counties in eastern WA and OR, basically east of the Cascades, and… move them into Idaho:

https://moveoregonsborder.org/the-maps/

I … guess they gave up on trying to take Spokane.

But uh yeah so basically everywhere between the Cascades, down to Medford, down further to Redding… would potentially be a war zone.

Like, I5 south of Portland would be a critical artery and thus a warzone, probably same with I90.

Personally, if this happens, I’m counting it as yet another thing Deus Ex ended up predicting.

There’s a conversation you can have with an ex NSF soldier, who tells you about how his squad got wiped out at ‘Squalnomie’, by other troops with thermoptic camo.

Squalnomie -> Snoqualmie, as in Snoqualmie Pass, I would assume.

Dems currently control only 18 State Legislatures.

Best case scenario… (imo):

Dems gain Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Virgina.

So thats 27.

So… you’d then have to get 5 Rep State Legislatures on board with this.

Which might (?) be possible, there’s still a fair deal of ‘National Divorce’ sentiment on the right generally.

… and then, all hell would break loose.

I mean, basically same?

There was a kind of… cresting wave effect, where it was getting more popular, and some really good stuff was coming out… and then yeah, it became super popular, and the overall quality of any random show just tanked, with the occasional bright spot of course still showing up.

I’m baffled that this is apparently a controversial opinion, this has happened in basically every format of art ever.

Except that therapy actually is expensive, and a whole lot of therapists actually suck at what they’re ostensibly there to do.

Then, try finding a good therapist who actually is neurodivergent, its nearly impossible.

A neurotypical fundamentally isn’t capable of actually fully empathizing with a neurodivergent… their brains are literally wired differently.

You being this dismissive of genuine, deep seated pain… that literally is the problem, people who act like you.

Why would anyone listen to the advice of someone who doesn’t actually give a fuck about their mental health, about their CPTSD, caused by people like you?

The… whole problem is that at the most basic level, people repress and internally stew on their feelings, when broader society does not allow them to express them without mocking them.

Your entire post here is ‘I am better than you and you are pathetic, I sympathize with you though’.

Do you have no self-awareness?

… therapy is a good thing, if you can find it, if you access it, if its done by a person who actually knows what they’re doing and can actually relate to you without the sociopathic ‘emotions off/HR mode enabled’ mask that many therapists use.

We could just have a space where people could just say whats really on their minds, you know, publically.

Or we can have people like you show up when they do that, tell them they suck, and tell them they need to pay money an expert.

No you don’t get it.

Halal, most literally, means basically ‘approved’.

In this context, its essentially ‘Family Friendly’.

Inshallah basically means ‘Godwilling’, genuine, earnest hope that the family is reunited.

I wonder if anything is going on anywhere in the Muslim world where a story about a family being able to reunite would be a resonant and uplifting story.

Again, there’s nothing inherently forbidden about … non Muslims existing, and not particularly following all the rules that apply to Muslims… in the view of the vast majority of Muslims.

Most of the people in this thread are being bigotted by way of presumably ignorance.

And I’m a kafir, a dhimmi, an Atheist, who just likes to learn about different cultures and religions.

Yeah, thats a great example of where you run into the differences between ‘Cascadia’ as a bioregion, defined primarily by watershed networks, snd ‘Cascadia’ as a maybe possible legal/political entity, based on current existing borders.

IIRC, the bioregion Cascadia basically only extends down to bits of Northern California… but the political reality doesn’t match well with this at all.

Perhaps state delegates could all send couriers to Goodsprings for a conference, to hash out the details, lol.

Cascadia vs Greater California vs … New Zion/Deseret?

The immediate problem would be that Idaho, eastern OR and eastern WA are very very seriously trying to do the whole Greater Idaho thing, and are basically chalk full of armed white supremacist theocrat bigots.

So… yeah.

I guess the ‘good’ news is that western WA has JBLM and a lot of Navy bases, and maybe enough of them would align with Cascadia … ?

The bad news is the Holy State of Greater Idaho would probably be able to dash and seize Hanford, and then be able to make dirty nuclear bombs.

But anyway…

Throw in Hawaii and then Cascadia and Japan and SK can form a trading bloc, and theoretically be able to back that up with maybe a little bit of the formerly US Navy?

Total spitballing here.

Alaska sure would be completely fucked.

Airline fuel is pretty expensive these days… for some reason… Didn’t BC/Yukon already basically say ‘fuck you’ to US truckers going between Alaksa and the 48, or I am not remembering that right?

Do you want Cascadia?

Because this is how you get Cascadia.

Literally 0 chance that BC would join a MAGA controlled USA.

… Non-zero chance that it would join WA OR and CA, should an actual dual civil war kick off.