I gotta be real with you. This comment very much sounds like the delusional super stonk member who think eventually the big system they believe is colluding to fuck them trips up on a technicality and makes them uber rich.

Basically, you’re just imagining a reality that wont exist for so many reasons.

The biggest reason is that the AI GPUs do not use DIMMs largely, and even server dimms (ecc rdimms) won’t fit in your PC.

More than that, by the time anything does happen, technology will have moved on.

If you’re about to say “but I don’t have to”, Id ask you why you arent on a 10 year old computer right now.

The fact people are blaming the tech rather than the tech bros is a big part of why this keeps happening.

Its the decision of real people that make this situation suck.

Its always been a shitty meme aimed at being cruel to new users.

Somehow though people continue to spread the lie that the linux community is nice and welcoming.

Really its a community of professionals, professional elitists, or people who are otherwise so fringe that they demand their os be fringe as well.

What part about mentioning 3 specific projects as examples of where Europe is not doing enough makes you think that I am not aware of their efforts?

I am specifically saying those efforts are not enough nor are they soon enough.

Just to be clear, your point and argument, are that I am correct, but I am wrong because exactly as I mentioned, Europe could have done better if they bolstered their defences and prepared?

It feels like you’ve just taken my comment as an attack on Europe, but have no real criticisms of my points.

My statement would be less true, not more true in 2023, because the point is, the longer they go without having done so, the more dire the situation becomes.

Given that Europe has had 4 years to start cranking up its military power and has failed to do so meaningfully, and the US looks like a vassal state of Russia at the moment, I feel this may become an inevitability if Europeans don’t stop bickering about where exactly gets to make what, and starts actually making things, like with the 2 modern fighter projects (as Europe cannot make its own 5th yet alone 6th gen fighters), or the joint European (France and Germany mainly) tank project.

He never stopped doing bad things, he just started rehabing his image

Why would he give a shit what people think about him? Others rich people don’t because when you’ve got enough money you can insulate yourself entirely from what the world thinks.

This is the most ridiculous line of reasoning.

Firstly, many rich people care. Many care about their “legacy”. They want their names on big donations, and on school campuses.

Secondly, many rich people spend inordinate amounts on PR advisement firms, demonstrating that there are significant dollar values put into caring about this. We’re talking about PR for the person, not even for a business.

Nor do the people judging him so harshly.

They judge from what is known. You judge from giving him the benefit of the doubt between the cracks.

The fuck? Why would he donate money and save countless lives just to benefit from it via some claimed business link?

This is such a bizarre misrepresentation of what my comment is clearly saying.

I am clearly pointing out that he is still doing evil and you are being blinded by some fancy curated numbers.

I don’t even know how you got to that conclusion.

I doubt you actually believe this, at least if we are understanding the words as written.

Just based on the website we are talking on, I am going to assume we have a few shared moral similarities, at least at a glance.

We think murder, rape, discrimination based on inalienable traits, domestic abuse, religious fanaticism, theft outside of exceptions are wrong.

If we start going down even that quickly thought up list, and just look at surveys from groups throughout the world, we start chunking massive percentages of people off of our “good” list very quickly.

These are nowhere near exact numbers because the point isn’t about any specific one of these, but about disqualifying behaviours and points of view.

Most people don’t murder, but many support it. Let’s just say we are only thinking about people who will murder at some point in their lives, and guesstimate that at 1% off the list.

99% good

Most people don’t rape… or do they? How many third world or religiously fanatic nations treat rape as standard, within marriages, on people of lower status, etc.

Even in western nations, the numbers of people who are sexually assaulted by people they know are more like 1 in [single digit number], and then further surveys always reveal that there is probably significant under-reporting going on, with many people unable to believe they were raped, told to be silent, and who ultimately rationalize away the event.

Now you go to countries with religious fanaticism, and many if not most condone rape in some fashion, especially spousal rape.

I would estimate, that the amount of people who rape, extremely roughly guesstimating, is around 1/10th the population, if not higher.

Some will overlap with the murderers of course, but this is just a thought experiment, and I already think this guess is on the low side, so lets move on.

89% good

Discrimination is where we start chunking hard. Even if you try to be charitable here, surveys show that even within western countries many are ok with and regularly discriminate against people for their inalienable traits. You go to poorer countries or countries with less stable situations and this gets even worse.

Lets just guesstimate that of the non overlaps, this takes 3/10 off the list, giving quite a bit of leeway to people with less blatant instances.

59% good

I could keep going but I hope you see the point I am making here and why I think that if just about anyone here sat down and truly pieced together what the average person was like, with whatever their personal list of disqualifiers from being a good person were, they would quickly come to the conclusion, that most people are not good, and could easily come to the conclusion that many were horrible, depending on what horrible meant in that context. Horrible doesn’t have to be saved for only hitler just because its not used for someone who steals a candy bar.

So many people have a very binary view of others, and Lemmy’s the same, as the downvoting shows.

What a ridiculous argument you’ve made here. The voting system is literally binary. No one can vote 7/10 on messaging, 4/10 on points.

Does this offset his earlier negative behaviour? I honestly think it might do.

This is exactly why hes done it. You don’t know what hes actually responsible for. You don’t see the pharmaceutical investments hes made, farmland he owns, or his bad takes (like recently suggesting that we should abandon the climate because he’s dipping his toes into the AI space).

You see some flashy figures and figure, well that must be a good guy!

Some “nuance” that is.

Are you like… just not reading the parts where I explain how these are massively different situations?

2 things can be bubbles while being massively different in the forces at play.

No. The housing crash really started to go off when regular people could not pay their bills. These arent regular folks here. These are mega corporations.

This bubble is largely self dependent with all invested parties incentivised to prop it up. Completely different type of situation.

The thing is, the “people” propping it up, are massive tech companies with collectively trillions of dollars to burn on this thing that is making their stock prices soar.

They have no incentive as the primary investors doing the circular buying to stop. The big problem here is the stock market provides awful incentives to everyone.