Sarcasm wasn't designed for these people. They're simple people that will never allow themselves to be educated. Sarcasm is not for them, it's for the people around them.

You will never be able to stop the simple minded racist with your educational movie. He only consumes media that appeals to him. "Go woke go broke!" as they say. If you want to get through to him you need to appeal to his smarter friends and family. You can bring them together with sarcasm more than any other tool, because two people of opposing views can relate to the same media.

It's almost like it should run on an iPad out of the box.

Can't buy a decent modern Intel gpu to run AI on because of nividias "donation"

I stand corrected. For some reason I had written off this generation but it does look capable.

The Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual has 48GB of VRAM; and the B70 goes up to 32GB.

What is the support like for them? Can they be seriously considered as alternatives to Nvidia or AMD cards? I have been looking into buying a GPU, specifically the Radeon R9700 AI Pro but noticed the Intel cards too and was not sure what you make of them.

But Crescent Island is expected to appear soon

Your computer may not feel faster than a 20 year old PC, but CPUs have gotten way, way faster.

Compare the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D to the AMD A12-9800, you go from 4 cores to 8, and you double the power consumption. But it's not twice as fast. It's 10 times faster. Depending on the exact metric, it could be as little as twice as fast or as much as 1000 times faster, depending on the exact operations.

On top of that memory throughput between DDR4 and DDR6 is about 2.5 times faster as well.

Oh and this isn't 20 years apart, this is 7 years apart. 20 years will see almost an exponentially larger gap even still.

I kind of hoped my point would come across more clearly. Obviously my current computer is faster than one from 20 years ago. But, it doesn't really react more quickly. It just does more: higher resolution video, advanced graphics, etc. The moment we add capability we rush to use it all up. This is not _always_ bad when it comes to computing, but I wouldn't mind if people in general had more restraint.

I suppose that's true superficially, but how many of us utilize 100 percent of our CPU and GPU power.

AI datacenters, absolutely. People? Nah we probably use 10 percent for 90 percent of the time.

But when I need to compile MAME, oh boy is it nice having a fast CPU.

Right -- in the details this is heavily task dependent. If we're talking about word processing, then computing has mostly gotten worse in the past 20 years.

If we're talking about video game graphics it's a bit of a mixed bag.

If we're talking about local LLM models then you need all the power you can get.

Etc, etc.

That is OP's point. The underlying technology has gotten faster but the computer you use feels the same as 20 years ago because the software that utilizes it does a lot more too.

The amount of review spam is so high that for a good portion of products the reviews are useless.

They also keep making it more annoying to even get to and read the reviews. It feels like it gets more hidden at the bottom of the page every few months. What a shame! Imagine how useful it could be.

One reason they force lots of scrolling is to put friction between you and the more-trustworthy Sort By Recent and Critical Only buttons.

Of course the reasons weren't unreasonable, that's what made them great excuses for specifically blocking ublock origin.

Of course the reasons weren't specific to ublock origin, that's what made them great excuses for specifically blocking ublock origin.

It's not hardly an exploit when the taxpayer is the one benefiting

This amounts to a subsidy of Chinese manufacturing over local manufacturing.

I can’t see how a market distortion is a net benefit to the importing country.

It seems self-destructive.

It's self destructive that I can get cheap crap that has no chance of being made locally with free shipping?

No, it's self destructive that the government takes my money to pay for your cheap crap, creating a game where everyone individually benefits from buying cheap crap but everyone else suffers from it, creating a race to the bottom.

If everyone bought from Temu then the net benefit would be zero relative to just including it in the price right?

In practice the value flows from people who don't buy cheap crap from China to people who do.

It’s a classic negative externality. Not every taxpayer partakes in this pathological consumerism.

Imagine how dysfunctional society would be if we each individually got back precisely the value to capital we put in.

Subsidizing giant Chinese webshops over local vendors and supporting unsustainable consumption of single-use plastic garbage is not exactly the sort of public service that governments are supposed to provide.

And that's exactly how we use USPS to subsidize amazon. Or did for a long time, anyway.

To be clear, this is the smart thing to do—package delivery SHOULD be subsidized. Amazon should pay into this disproportionately through taxes, though.

On the other hand, subsidies do cause actors to make otherwise unsustainable decisions. In this case, excessive consumerism.

One might even refer to it as a "public service".

use firefox and ublock origin. Use dns with ad blocking. You shouldn't see ads on mobile.

I'm in a hospital right now. I think that's part of the problem, used to my home wifi with dns block lists. I'll try to see if I can find ublock origin on mobile.

Also, Brave Mobile, by default, seems to block most ads.

A mistake like this wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have flock cameras everywher.

Yes, building a highly reactive automated system upon flawed foundations is bad.

Make sure you get all your domains out before the charge back is filed.

Yes, you are burning your bridges with a chargeback which is why you should threaten it to support first and only after they say no do you transfer all your domains, wait a few days, then file the chargeback. You somewhere between 60-90 days to issue a chargeback so OP has plenty of time.

Yeah, I already transferred everything else to Cloudflare in advance of this so that part should be taken care of.

I'd say don't wait, just do the chargeback, if you threaten all they will do is try to stall you out of the chargeback window.