So no reason to buy a Pixel at all any more? Midrange performance, poor battery life, middling cameras, AI bloated software, all at flagship prices. Its one saving grace was Graphene support and that’s now gone too.

Just in time to move on to Motorola…

This isn’t seeing into the future. This is just taking a look at the present.

Present #1: AI datacenters cost a fuck ton

Present #2: No customer is willing to pay the costs of AI unless they sell at a loss

So… An extra $0?

He already got out! Should have stayed

Actually the Starlink division itself is profitable.

The unprofitable part is Twitter and xAI which got merged in right before the IPO.

SpaceX was actually on the path to being quite profitable, but then Musk tried to hide his two biggest money sinks inside it.

Probably a clause in the contract that they only get paid after returning from combat

AI startups are all so desperate for memory and GPUs that I wouldn’t be surprised if a few of them were willing to buy shit that, uh, fell off the back of a truck.

Prior to the IPO, I was absolutely interested in SpaceX stock. Regardless of Musk’s antics, they are far and away the most advanced and most successful space launch company in the world.

Where traditional space launch companies like Boeing and ULA are floundering and failing, SpaceX was getting it done, to the point where NASA and the US Military had to move flights originally booked with ULA and hand them to SpaceX because they were the only ones able to get things done on schedule AND is more profitable than any other rocket company thanks to landing and reuse technology.

Then, of course Musk merged Twitter into xAI, merged xAI into SpaceX, then basically called SpaceX an AI company to attract more AI investment hype, and 99% of the stock value is AI hype.

And I have zero interest in SpaceX stock any more.

The funny thing is that even with this massive overspending, AI companies aren’t profitable. They need these companies to spend 10x the amount per token, and 10x the number of tokens. Probably 10x the number of customers too.

Burning energy, draining water, spending massive cash so they can lose money on a product that doesn’t even do its job. How the hell has the bubble not popped yet…

AI is so great, it must have generated a billion dollars in useful, quality, productive output

Yeah, even with my disposable income, I don’t dispose of it indiscriminately. I try to get maximum value out of my fun.

My 1080ti’s retirement has been indefinitely postponed.

Well first AI tech corporations need to do advertising that AIs can keep doing all this.

I think in terms of workers rights, China is rapidly coming up to the West in the 50s. There’s a massive growth in middle class as well as white collar jobs, especially in tech and engineering.

This has put pressure on society as a whole for much higher standards of living, and thus better wages and better rights. They are no longer the cheap ass labor country, that’s being exported to Africa and such.

Although the 996 culture is still insane, but I think that partly comes from the extreme competitive environment in the tech sector. There were similar stories years ago in the video game industry, and that probably hasn’t changed much.

If you take each trilogy as a set, sure.

But Empire and Return were both amazing films that one-upped the original.

And I think Clones was better than Phantom.

The final trilogy was a straight fucking cliff both by itself and in comparison to the other trilogies.

Yeah. I visited the Vatican on vacation and my only thought while inside St Peter’s was “Damn this place is so fucking expensive.”

I’m not even sure how anyone can get any sort of piety happening with that ridiculous amount of wealth on display.

He’s not white though

Oh dear God, the fact that such a statement can be made…

Iran is definitely more reasonable. Not good. But reasonable.

The USA, on the other hand, cannot be reasoned with. They are, by definition, unreasonable.

I honestly might switch to Linux. I know people say that a lot, but gaming has been the only thing keeping me on Windows.

But I’ve also come to realize I just don’t have that much free time to game any more. Most of my computer use is putting YouTube on in the background or web browsing. I still occasionally game, but Linux support keeps improving and even if I only pick Linux supported games… I still won’t have enough time to play them all.