it’s not just the retail investors holding the bag. It’s anyone with a retirement fund.

I was thinking retail investors --- whether individually or through an index fund --- covered both. If you have any control over your retirement funds though, you can use that control to get out of the stock market if you want. So it isn't anyone with a retirement fund, just nearly anyone with a retirement fund.

He didn't make it into the s&p 500. NASDAQ bent over and opened wide though.

CEO says a thing journalism!

What is Trump hiding?

Finally, after those investors decide it’s been a good run, they cash out and the bubble truly starts bursting.

This time they wasted so much money that they're trying to foist the bad investments on retail investors with overblown valuations and IPOs before cashing out.

The Office (US) pretty much killed laugh tracks in US sitcoms.

Karl Pilkington was the funniest one out of them in my opinion. Derek went down in flames when he left the show.

I've never gotten a job for which I sent a thank you letter. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think it may come across as desperate.

I think in five years — if the tools manage to stick around — finding coders that can work without AI assistance will be like finding skilled assembler developers.

EDIT: Yep I'm definitely a bot because I typed an em dash. You can be a bot too on Ubuntu by hitting control+shift+u and then typing 2014 (the last year of semi-sanity in US politics).

The narcissistic wound that caused this revenge tour IMO was him losing the 2020 election. He lost and he knows he lost.

Eh, not really, and it isn't really an argument but more of a lighthearted prediction.

I think the big question is whether or not the "frontier" models continue to be available and evolve, because the business model for running them seems very unsound.

I kinda hope the AI bubble busts, and that afterwards some of the efforts turn toward making open source models more performant and powerful.

Almost but not quite. If he would've stayed here and faced the music then it's an unqualified yes, but his fleeing to Russia and hiding out there makes it no cigar to me.

I understand that he still was brave and gave up a lot to expose the information, but I think it may have had more impact, and would've been more heroic had he stayed here.

I could almost see an alternative history where he surrendered and then a whole political movement was born with him as the focal point.

Edit: Downvote all you like but my opinion remains the same.

Nope, just gonna browse away.

It was obvious as hell that he wants Russia to win.

You all are snowflakes but please explain this to me without triggering me

Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that.

One way to prevent being personally identified is to not fly around in your own personal jet and use one of the many other available options that aren't trackable this way.

Why would your refrigerator have a screen?

Why would you buy such a refrigerator?

Duolingo has enshittified so much over the last few years.

Even if I had the ability to become a millionaire tech founder, I don't think I'd want to because every "I want to make learning new languages free and easy for everyone" becomes a "I have to drive 3% more ad revenue this quarter by charting my users' every bowel movement".

I suspect the reality of being a rich tech bro is watching your adult self slowly consume your own childhood dreams, aspirations, and soul.

I hate that I even know who this disgusting asshole is.

Some right libertarians actually believe the bullshit that free markets magically pop up out of the ground like weeds if you just don't regulate anything. This is obviously untrue. You need the right type of regulation to have a free market. Otherwise you end up with cartels and monopolies.

Those that operate the cartels and monopolies know this, but continue to feed the propaganda machine that spouts the opposite.

Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.

I think it's more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there's a baseline level of activity that's enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).