Lake Amer-AI-ca

I haven't been around these parts for quite some time. I don't figure I am going to suddenly make up for 8 years of nothing posted, but much has come to pass and I figure I need to void my soul of some of it. 

I understand the good ole U.S.A. has elected a raving lunatic... AGAIN. And this time he's so pissed off he renamed a lake whose name predates the U.S. and Canada, but I guess he's mad at Ford so tax cars and rename a lake. My two cents on the counter-tariff stance Canada keeps taking: don't, instead charge an excise tax on every product he's throwing tariffs on. Don't charge us more, charge them more, and for all those things Trump does not need from Canada like, energy, pull the plug on it outright. how quickly will tariffs be dropped when New York lives in constant brown-outs. 

Now on to the AI Data Center math conundrum. Here's the math I don't get. AI has been buying up computer memory, storage, graphics cards, and other computer hardware driving prices of these components to double and even triple in a short time-frame. These prices not only make AI more expensive to operate, but they also make buying a computer, which, one might buy to ask AI to generate more cat videos, out of financial reach, especially for all the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who need AI to think for them. So if people cannot afford the computers or smartphones they'd use to access AI, then who is left to subscribe whatever monthly fee is required to earn back the borrowed trillions of dollars that bought all the hardware in the first place? And within the next 5-years? Remember this technology is top of the line now, but after 5 years it will be out-dated and out-classed by the hardware available then... Then they'll need trillions  more to replace what's in the data-centers now. 

So there is a problem even before I mention that nobody wants a data center anywhere nears them for the resource suckage, and constant hum. They don't even really bring jobs to the area once the place is built. So much of the software management can be done via remote that the people stuck working on site are a few technicians and specialists.  Count how many people you see in the background, how many cars in the parking lot? It's mostly rows and rows of server racks with nobody visible anywhere, because the only thing required is to replace a failed component once it is all up and running

-DIrtyKID©

Ghost of the past from a history that never really was

If you ever needed proof that Goldman Sachs is the enemy of anything good look no further. Not that it wasn't already fairly obvious, but then I'm not sure enough people are looking in the first place with things like this masquerading as news. I suppose it could be argued that an act of heroism to some is an act of terrorism others, except that 9/11 had no heroes since the narrative was a work of fiction propagated by the real killers, whom we've long ceased hunting or never started hunting to begin with. 

I find it rather jarring to read stories about "the civil war in Syria" going on about the Russians, Iranians, Israelis, and Americans which somehow fail to mention the Syrians... Maybe it's because the last time I looked up the term for civil war it had less to do with other countries bombing one country, and more to do with civilians trying to overthrow their government, but that could just a part of the shared dream forgotten by the majority like so many other histories which are no longer what they once were. 

Of course, nothing is allowed to be what it was because it's all out of bounds due to some symbolic abuses from the past that, despite transforming into the Phoenix of overcoming such abuses are still somehow abusive. I think... Are we not supposed to remember what it was, or what it became? Regardless of the answer, that which we don't remember, we tend to repeat which I find the most offensive of all. The struggle is real and an explosive prom dress Twitter post is only the outcome of a much larger problem which seems to go largely undiagnosed. We have become so distracted in our pursuit of outrage that we don't know what we're really angry about I the first place. 

I've been having the kind of day where just about everyone I've had random interactions with have been pissing me I off. I mean truly random one-off people whose names I don't know, whom, were today a movie, would be credited as 'guy at bus stop' or 'woman walking dog' or 'waiter number 2'. I must be radiating a giant kick-me sign or something.

-dirtykid©

The dreaded A-Word

Admittedly I have been out of the game for a while. I've not been writing, I've not been reading, I've not be watching. Sure there have been things that have caught my eye here and there, but nothing t that's inspired me to write.

Then along comes this bizarre headline from major news outlets, and i mean, pretty much all of them, refuting claims that David Hogg is a crisis actor... Curious as I am by nature, I search. And I search. And I search some more... I can't find any such claim anywhere, only references to a YouTube video that had been deleted under the site's anti-bullying policy. 

Odd.

I know a lot of rude and obscene names to call people, and I've used many of them, sometimes, right to people's faces if I feel they've earned it, but I've never had the gall to call someone the A-word... I'm not referring to the common asshole here, I call a lot of people that almost daily. That word rolls of the tongue easier than douchebag. 

No. I'm talking about the word actor. I've only called one person that: this guy I met that was in a bunch of commercials for a local cable provider... But he called himself that first so I thought it was okay. Had I known it was so derogatory at the time I'd have used a less offensive term, like whore. So, I humbly apologize to that guy I met some twelve years ago and whose name I've long since forgotten, I didn't realize at that time, the stigma and PTSD inducing language I was insulting you with.

I mean, it's made worldwide headlines that some bully made a video calling some guy we've never heard of before last week, an actor. The horror! The agony! The trauma. And with fourteen pages of search results of claims that it's simply not true, this must be the new n-word that features so prominently in rap music.

-dirtykid©