lefaucet

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[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 35 points 4 months ago

Most rapists havent been convicted of rape

Most rapists also havent bragged to Howard Stern on his show about walking into beauty pageant dressing rooms unannounced to peep on young girls.

Most rapists havent been recorded bragging to Billy Bush about grabbing women by the pussy without their consent.

Most rapists arent on video dancing and chatting up Jeffery Epstein at their own club, pointing out a woman and saying "she's hot" and later at that same party grabbing a woman and patting her on the butt.

Most rapists havent been convicted of defrauding people in order to steal their money to pay a pornstar to not talk about the extramarital affair he had.

Most rapists werent president when Jeffery Epstein died in prision despite being on suicide watch and under 24 hour surveillance. The tapes mysteriously dissapearring and guards not saying anything.

But Trump has done all that (except being convicted of rape, of course.)

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

I second this.

I have a nextcloud instance on pi4 for personal use and love it.

It's not good for live transcoding of video, but works great for calendars, file sharing, photo sharing and music streaming.

I have a 500 gig SSD for most stuff and a 6TB HDD for backups and archiving.

I use docker compose to map a folder called archive in my instance to the HDD.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

Mind blown. I want to add to the conversation, but I dunno what to say. This is some out-there science that needs pursuing!

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just installed! It took me a minute to log in. Turns out I needed to look into my nextcloud music app's settings to get the server url and to generate an api key to use (for totally good security reasons)

Friggin awesome app! Very snappy and well featured!

Im in love :)

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago

I may have some names and details wrong here, but Elon is not the brains of AI.

He did start Open AI to find some people with the brains.

Andrej Karpathy was the mastermind of Tesla's FSD. He left the company after it was clear his developments would get FSD solved with enough data and compute. He's no longer at Tesla, but it is primarity his work that everything is based on.

Jim Keller was lead developer of the FSD inferrence chip I think. He also helps develop chips for Apple and Intel. He is not at Tesla.

Emil Talpes is lead architect of Dojo chip

Ganesh Venkataramanan is lead architect of Dojo supercomputer system

What we can credit Elon with is telling folks to make a robo taxi back in 2015 and paying people to do it, but thats about it. Keep in mind he became the richest man in the world for doing this. He doesnt need more compensation at the expense of Tesla and its shareholders.

If Elon died today Tesla would be just fine. I'd argue even better.. A lot of folks I talk to think Teslas are cool cars, but hate Elon's toxic personality and fear his attacks on free speech. They don't want to support such a maniacal weirdo.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

New acronym just dropped.

NIMQE - Not in my quarterly earnings! Pronounced Nimquee

Example usage: The CEO, upon receiving word of a new bill that would drastically help reduce carbon emissions but also create a temporary negative pressure on their multinational's earnings per share, pulled a suitcase full of cash from their file cabinet and walked out the door, calling up the governor to arrage a round of golf where they would declare NIMQE.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

I've though about this a lot. I suspect evolution tilts a little towards psycopathy when wealthy.

Hard to say if theres a mechanism for that encoded in DNA, but if there is, Im betting it would get naturally selected for.

If an individual is in a position of power, then being a self-entitled asshole rapist will reduce competition and increase the spread of genes... Especially if the individual is a male

Assuming this has a negative effect of society, cultural evolution would hopefully respond with counters to this... Which I think is what we see time and again all over the world.

Society gets living situations relatively reliable. Assholes rise making things worse, society either crumbles into weakness or rejects new situation and removes assholes, encodes new ethics into societal norms and works towards gettingliiving situations reliable, repeat.

When more people are fed abd housed, theres more resources to devote towards economic and war engines, so I think this makes asshole removal naturally selected for on a cultural level.

This loop seems to be getting more frequent and I'd love if we could skip the parts where folks are miserable and dying.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 months ago

Fear becoming? You mean ARE becoming

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Dont forget record cold! The cold air thats supposed to be at the poles gets pushed into regions that should be warm. So our crops with both be frozen and baked before they can be harvested thanks to climate change

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ive been an investor in the company since before they were making any profit and have been listening to their quarterly shareholder calls for a very long time.

I have more money invested in Tesla than any other stock. This is because I strongly believe in their mission statement and am very happy with the engineering. I even credit Elon with their agile engineering approach and first principals strategizing... And he became literally the richest person in the world because of it. He doesnt need 3.5 years of all company profits. He's shown he wont do anything good with that money. Thats multiple gigafactories he wants to pocket for himself in exchange for checks notes being a dick and scaring people away from Tesla.

Tesla is becoming associated with rich, antisemitic smartypants poser doucheladdles instead of "Transitioning Earth to a sustainable energy infrastructure" as is the mission statement and he is why.

Here was where I got the figures for my comment. They are very much in line with the dozens of earnings reports I've tuned in to over the years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-income

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I cant wait for the shareholders to say no.

He plundered the stock to buy twitter and is back asking for even more... What a dickhead

56 billion from a company that made $15 billion last year (a big record). He wants 3.73 times the entire ducking company's net on their highest year ever's income.

...just did the math. Tesla has netted 27.1 billion since 2011.

He wants a little more than DOUBLE the total cumulative earnings of the whole company;.

I hope he gets the boot. The company will be better off without him.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

He plundered the stock to buy twitter and is back asking for even more... What a dickhead

56 billion from a company that made a record $15 billion last year?

...just did the math. Tesla has netted 27.1 billion since 2011.

He wants a little more than DOUBLE the total cumulative earnings of thr company; or 3.73 times their highest year ever's net income.

I hope he gets the boot. The company will be better off without him.

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