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Yeah but for what

It’s actually pretty funny a lot of times, I didn’t realize it’s supposed to be part black comedy going into it. Definitely an entertaining movie

Interesting, I didn’t even know there was a book. The article you linked mentions the film writers said the book was meant to be ambiguous and they wanted that same angle for the movie. I found it hard to not think Bateman was completely detached from reality by the time he gets to the ATM, though I thought it was at least somewhat believable to that point iirc.

The movie (and book I guess) seems to be told from the perspective of Bateman (he narrates and is in almost every scene) so I thought it seemed up in the air if anything was real or just his imagination. I took from it that he himself definitely cannot tell what is fantasy and reality and you were along for the ride with his perception. His murders and their aftermath were pretty outlandish ie dragging the body bag with a huge blood trail past the doorkeeper, the collection of bodies that all mysteriously vanished overnight, the overdramatic helicopter spotlights into his windows during the meltdown phone call, etc. I think the only realistic murder really was the hobo where he could just leave the guy there. And if some were fake idk why any of them would be real.

I have the image of Bateman being just permanently aloof and fitting the ‘dweeb’ description his lawyer gave while nothing happened but him staring off into the distance daydreaming/hallucinating all of his batshit fantasies or maybe scribbling ferociously into his calendar.

The wild thing to me about anyone idolizing the character in American Psycho is that it’s all but outright stated outright that the guy lives in wonderland and hallucinated all of his wild power fantasies except maybe being rich. He’s outright called a dweeb by his lawyer at the end once he has a complete mental breakdown. It’s like someone idolizing Nicholas Cage’s character in Vampire’s Kiss.

For sure, thus why I said it’s a pipe dream. We can dream though, maybe we will figure out some kind of solution one day.

I maybe could have worded my comment better, people definitely should not actually assume they are talking to real people all the time (I don’t). But there should ideally be a place for people-focused conversation and forums were originally designed for that purpose.

I think when posting on a forum/message board it’s assumed you’re talking to other people, so AI should always announce itself as such. That’s probably a pipe dream though.

If anyone wants to specifically get an AI perspective they can go to an AI directly. They might add useful context to people’s forum conversations, but there should be a prioritization of actual human experiences there.

About time! Been using an addon for this, I wonder how the features stack up.

Highly recommend using groups for people who open too many tabs, I categorize them and they function well as temp bookmarks. Also recommend using another addon called autotabdiscard so you don’t nuke your RAM.

Using a VPN will prevent your ISP from selling your IP logs to data brokers. It also obfuscates your IP to websites you visit to make their fingerprinting less precise. All your ISP can see is that you’re connecting to/from a VPN server through an encrypted tunnel and maybe some metadata like amount of data transferred.

Hard to compare value to free stuff like encrypted DNS and an ad blocker but a VPN definitely has protections you wouldn’t get otherwise.

Wow that’s pretty great savings, a lot of what I saw basically said to expect to pay over a normal listing. Seems like a pretty good deal considering the amount of customization I assume you get, you just need somewhere to live while it’s building.

Do you have any resources for what you used to plan your build? Or did you mostly hire professionals to figure it out?

I wonder at what point Powell decides he should raise rates. Trump has already been publicly stating he wants them lowered faster and how he also wants to fire Powell but it’s not clear if he will be (legally) able to.

Last I saw there was a court case making it’s way up the courts to overturn a legal precedent regarding the executives power to oust members of independent boards so it’s technically possible he will be able to legally oust Powell and install a lackey if the supreme court decides to throw out existing precedent. I think you’re right and both global markets and the dollar will reel if that happens. The fed is supposed to be independent and that obviously is not the case if Trump can fire anyone who doesn’t do whatever he asks.

The supreme court seemed to grow a spine on the Kilmar case so maybe they’ll continue to have one when this case makes its way up.

Building something myself is something I’ve thought a bit about. Most things I read try to talk me out of it but when there’s no decent home inventory there’s no decent home inventory. There are also advantages of being able to customize stuff.

Do you have an expectation of how much it will cost relative to existing homes in the area you’re building in? Of course one of the things you’re supposed to plan for is cost overruns lol but I’m still curious how expensive you expect it to end up being.

I’ve always wondered if they do this to encourage people to buy lots of socks at once and change over the whole wardrobe. Like the companies are just trying to fleece the whales of sock buying or something.

Sounds maybe unlikely idk. It just drives me insane that no company keeps the same design for more than like a year and I have no explanation why they do it.

Fair enough, and even if they did I think op in this comment chain was talking about monopoly level advertising so I guess my comment wasn’t really warranted either way.

I’m surprised to read they don’t at least hoard user data. Very un-big-tech-like of them.

They most certainly do

https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/15/apple-ad-business-could-reach-6b-by-2025-with-41b-from-search-ads

I don’t think it’s in his interest to do any of that. He does not control the machinery that influences public opinion and he doesn’t have money like the richest people in the world have money.

You’re not completely wrong, but I think he still needs at least most of them. They help inform him of strategy via data harvesting and the means of selling it to his supporters, trump does not have the ability to do that all on his own.

The tariffs destroyed the US dollar and legitimized China cutting the world off from rare earth metals. It also did a reverse pump and dump so Trump and friends could insider trade the whole thing.

The tariffs absolutely accomplished something. Just nothing in the interests of anyone but those who want the US weakened or are happy to get paid to help do that.

Why would you ever accept this anti consumer bullshit for a slightly better screen? It might not even take a year before the current cutting edge not “the best” anymore with how fast tech cycles. I would absolutely go out of my way to get a device I can deprive of an Internet connection and still use.

Nvidia is huge on producing AI and is certainly data-hungry. Without actually knowing, I would bet it’s about as bad as anything else. Since all your data is passing directly through their servers it’s trivial for them to do whatever they want with it.

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