Wednesday Morning Rant

Rhyme

Despite most of the Horde not yet reaching the age of 29, many nonetheless have memories that go back much further. This is a temporal oddity, but a useful one. As a result, many will remember the period 30 years ago. A lot was going on the interregnum between the fall of the USSR and the rise of globalization and Islamic extremism. Economically and financially, this era was defined by high finance (though not as much was the mid-aughts would be) and high technology. The latter, fueled by the promise of the Internet and manic irrationality brought us what is now usually referred to as the "dot-com bubble."

Companies with no profits, no real plan to become profitable and in some cases even without meaningful revenues went public and raked in credulous investor capital. Other companies saw staggering growth in valuations as already-public companies that became major players in internet infrastructure were handsomely rewarded by the mania. Not all of the latter companies failed, but many never recovered and have never achieved their dot-com heights in the thirty years since. The narrative of invincibility became a narrative of dread as it the mania collapsed. The aftermath of the dot-com bubble took years to shake out, and set up some of the environment that led directly to the subsequent 2008 "Global Financial Crisis" and the following Eurozone debt crises.

There are a couple of companies that help summarize the dot-com bubble. One was an outfit called "Internet Capital Group," which was a business-to-business eCommerce holding company and venture capital firm. It had about $70 million in revenues when it went public in August of 1999 at $12 per share. The price doubled on the first day and gave the company a $3 billion market cap. By the end of the month, it had increased nearly five-fold to $58 per share. By the end of the year, the stock price had gained over 2700% and was the most successful IPO of the year. It reached a peak market valuation of over $50 billion. The stock split in its first six months. By the end of 2001, the company was a penny stock. By the end of 2002, the company had a market cap of around $200 million and it finally liquidated in 2018 after shambling along as a zombie for more than a decade, shedding most of its properties along the way. This dot-com high-flier was a pure bubble stock, and billions of credulous investor dollars evaporated in its cash furnace.

On the other side, there were the real dot-com companies like Cisco Systems. Cisco was - and is - a real company. A real company with real products and real customers and real revenues. As the dominant manufacturer of network switching equipment, the explosive growth of the internet resulted in a lot of sales for Cisco. At the peak of the dot-com excesses in March of 2000, this company that made the tools other bubble companies needed had a stock price of around $80 share and a market cap of over half a trillion dollars - a hell of a run in its decade as a public company, given that it started with a quarter-billion-dollar market cap when it went public in 1990. This year marks the first year that Cisco has managed to regain its prior value of around half a trillion dollars. Nominal. Inflation-adjusted, it's still nowhere close to where it peaked.

Beyond just the financials of the bubble players, there was the wider mania that helped fuel it. The number of estimated users for internet companies in the late 90s totaled to more people than existed on the planet - by a decently wide margin. The sky wasn't the limit, there was simply no limit at all. Anything was possible, and the internet was going to do it all, however absurd it sounded. Everyone believed, and everyone got rich. Right up until the whole thing collapsed like a dying star. The internet wasn't fake, and it wasn't unimportant. Its value, however, was totally disconnected from reality and the promises everyone made had no way to be fulfilled.

It ended the only way it could, with the stark reminder that no player is safe during that kind of mania. Whether a long-shot startup or a major, established and very real company or even the narrative itself, the collapse of a mania takes out everybody. Even the survivors walk away extremely bloody.

Flash forward thirty years, and it's happening again. AI is driven by companies with massive valuations, lots of promises, and an assumption that trees - this time - will grow to the sky. Take Cerebras, an AI chip maker and services player. It went public this year with half a billion dollars in revenues and, if you account for unusual one-time accounting, losses of around $75 million and negative free cash flow. It has potentially valuable future contracts with some big players. It has a market cap of around $52 billion. AI majors Anthropic and OpenAI will probably IPO this year. OpenAI is a loss-making enterprise that, according to the company's own estimates, will rack up in excess of $100 in losses by the end of the decade, with profitability not expected before sometime in 2030s. Anthropic also loses money, but expects to achieve profitability this decade rather than next. Each company will likely end up being valued in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars.

The infrastructure players are no different. Nvidia, which makes the processors preferred by AI companies, has seen its market cap surge from around $325 billion in 2020 to around $5.4 trillion today. Not bad for a few years. Broadcom, which makes a variety of computer chips and software and whose products are found in most computers, mobile devices and networking equipment, is not directly an AI player but is benefiting from the boom. It has seen its market cap move from around $180 billion five years ago to around $2.2 trillion today. Like Cisco, these are real players with real products and real customers and real revenues and real profits and who have seen unprecedented surges in sales and enterprise value on the back of a new technology sector.

And the narrative is helping drive it all. You can't swing a cat without seeing stories about how AI is changing everything, how everyone will be living in the AI world, how AI demand is unlimited and so on. Preposterous claims like those from Microsoft - which said that all white-collar work will be replaced by AI in just 18 months - are commonplace. Don't worry about negative stories, just believe. And buy. Buy and believe.

AI and dot-com are not the same song, but it increasingly sounds like they rhyme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Did you see the story about GitHub changing it's pricing model?

Unlimited use of the AI checker went from $39 per month to tokens.

People were out of tokens in...hours at the start of this month.

The user end has been massively subsidized all while the actual benefits are more akin to adding calculators to an engineer's office rather than mechanical humanoid replacements.

Like it's a...giant bubble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:01 AM (KbEzc)

2 st!

Posted by: Bulg at June 03, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

3 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:02 AM (bFu5X)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

5 I'm betting my story is willowed now.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

6 Bubble here, bubble there, it'd be nice to be working at a South Korean DRAM manufacturer right now. Pixy posted a story noting that one company's 10% profit-sharing policy means that each of its 46,000 employees are looking at something like US$500,000 bonuses this year.

Posted by: far cry at June 03, 2026 11:06 AM (+IsEU)

7 I'm betting my story is willowed now.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

I read your story, Sponge. Thank you for sharing with the rest of the class. Your input is valued here.

- Condescending teacher

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Kdi1r)

8 Nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (TezPK)

9
Soon it will cost you money to turn your computer on.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (O0L8i)

10 Preposterous claims like those from Microsoft - which said that all white-collar work will be replaced by AI in just 18 months - are commonplace. Don't worry about negative stories, just believe. And buy. Buy and believe.
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Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

11 oh God

now you've triggered my PTSD

ICG ICG ICG

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (j+aD2)

12 What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)

13 Willowed:

They have those books are shelved right next to the books on How Jokes Work at your local library.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 03, 2026 11:02 AM (iJfKG)

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I wasn't correcting you. I was adding to the absurdity.

But, I'm an illiterate asshole, so it came off poorly.

Mea culpa.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:02 AM (KbEzc)

I wasn't sure.

Forgive my persnickety attitude.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

14 I'm betting my story is willowed now.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:05 AM

And here I was expecting it to be about an infant tantrum successfully solved by the distraction of boobs. Your story was more interesting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (bFu5X)

15 btw the tech sector has been in a VERY long bubble. AI is just the latest way they've come up with to extend it, especially now that the Ds aren't in power keeping rates at 0 and tossing money at them

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (j+aD2)

16 On the other side, there were the real dot-com companies like Cisco Systems. Cisco was - and is - a real company. A real company with real products and real customers and real revenues.

Cisco IS, however, asshoe. Their new equipment doesn't work so well with cheaper, but good quality OEM SFP's.

"Low TX light detected."

Replace with Cisco SFP.

"ALL GOOD!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

17 instead of Bubble, I rather prefer the term AI Pimple.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (TezPK)

18
What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (X8xt3)

__________

They can house illegals pre-deportation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (O0L8i)

19 10 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

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Consumer facing stuff seems stupid.

I don't know if enterprise grade things like Palantir models for military work are any better. Might be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:09 AM (KbEzc)

20 13 I wasn't sure.

Forgive my persnickety attitude.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 03, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

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YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:09 AM (KbEzc)

21 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM

And with the younger generations doing the programming, self-awareness is the absolute last thing it will develop.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:09 AM (bFu5X)

22 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

there is none

it's just that many people are kinda dumb and really want an external intelligence that they can use to best the actual smart people

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:09 AM (j+aD2)

23 Did you see the story about GitHub changing it's pricing model?

Unlimited use of the AI checker went from $39 per month to tokens.

People were out of tokens in...hours at the start of this month.

Yeah, the AI stuff is actually really helpful (assuming you know how to use it properly, which most people don't), but the vast costs have been greatly underestimated. Users (especially businesses) are going to see the price go up and up as time goes on and these AI companies are forced to somehow make a profit after spending insane billions on these data centers.

Posted by: Martbell at June 03, 2026 11:10 AM (RV7qC)

24 OpenAI is a loss-making enterprise that, according to the company's own estimates, will rack up in excess of $100 in losses by the end of the decade, with profitability not expected before sometime in 2030s. Anthropic also loses money, but expects to achieve profitability this decade rather than next. Each company will likely end up being valued in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars.

Losing $100 isn't the end of the world.

It's fine, however, because Bernie Sanders is going to make Taxpayers foot 50% of ALL the AI companies.

THEY'RE SAVED!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:10 AM (Zz0t1)

25
And with the younger generations doing the programming, self-awareness is the absolute last thing it will develop.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

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AI will start bitching about work-life balance, ask for PTO and not get out of bed for a week.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (O0L8i)

26 I use AI at work.

It definitely speeds up a lot of tasks - for example if I want to write a series of powershell scripts to analyze a log file I can take the time to remember each command, double check the syntax and then run them one by one.

Or...

I can tell AI to write them and it gives me the scripts back in a few seconds and then run them

Or...

Tell AI to write and run them and give me the data I want.

Option 3 is risky because it makes dumb choices (since it isn't "intelligence"). But Option 2 is mostly upside...interestingly the main downside is I'll forget how to wrote powershell scripts over time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (sKqQm)

27 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

And it's programmed by leftwing shitsticks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

28 23 Yeah, the AI stuff is actually really helpful (assuming you know how to use it properly, which most people don't), but the vast costs have been greatly underestimated. Users (especially businesses) are going to see the price go up and up as time goes on and these AI companies are forced to somehow make a profit after spending insane billions on these data centers.

Posted by: Martbell at June 03, 2026 11:10 AM (RV7qC)

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There was a story of a company having no cap on their tokens in their internal AI interfaces and suddenly facing a $500,000,000 bill they weren't expecting because their employees were using the tokens for everything like checking the...weather.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (KbEzc)

29 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I went back and read your story.

What restraint! When the tits popped out and you went "Whatever." Seen them before. And they were small.

Plus she had a new boyfriend, right?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (u82oZ)

30 A week or so ago, I said I've seen plenty of hype cycles in my 29 years, and I think this is another. Right now, we're probably near the peak of unrealistic expectations. That doesn't mean there isn't money to be made, but I'm waiting for the inevitable crash into the slough of despond before putting my money in. Many of the unrealistic players now will evaporate, and the slow climb to more realistic profitability will commence. At that point, the value vs time slope will be much lower than it is now, but it will appreciate over time at a rate I can accept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (Riz8t)

31 Back between the time Obammy was elected then sworn in, I liquidated every mutual fund we owned. Weird things were happening in European finances and Obammy seemed to be leaning in their direction. I haven't gotten the courage up to stick even my smallest toe back into the game. Yes, Trump is doing what he can, but there are far too many Americans who are willing to vote Democrat. I don't trust the Democrats and I don't trust the American voter.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (DK5Sh)

32 Yeah, the AI stuff is actually really helpful (assuming you know how to use it properly, which most people don't), but the vast costs have been greatly underestimated

I mean it's the typical tech model of, give things away so they become integral parts of work/life and then when people are dependent you jack up the prices.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (j+aD2)

33 26 Option 3 is risky because it makes dumb choices (since it isn't "intelligence"). But Option 2 is mostly upside...interestingly the main downside is I'll forget how to wrote powershell scripts over time.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (sKqQm)

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Option 2 is using AI like using a calculator.

Option 3 is asking a LLM to think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (KbEzc)

34 It's just a write off.

Posted by: Kramer at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (2Ez/1)

35
I read your story, Sponge. Thank you for sharing with the rest of the class. Your input is valued here.

- Condescending teacher
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Kdi1r)

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent

AI interacts with human beings in a way that is easy for us...but this also can trick people into seeing AI as some sort of intelligence in a way that say Google Search does not even though it is far, far closer to Google Search then it is to real artificial intelligence.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

37 {{{Captain Josepha Sabin }}}

How are you and the XO doing?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2026 11:13 AM (u82oZ)

38 What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?

Interesting question. In the dot-com boom, the "capital" expenditures were people and they just got laid off and the expense stopped. Those buildings, servers, and giant air conditioners are still going to cost somebody money even lying fallow.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 03, 2026 11:13 AM (vTZFs)

39
Plus she had a new boyfriend, right?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM (u82oZ)

It was the same on again off again on again guy she'd been messing with for a few years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

40 9 Soon it will cost you money to turn your computer on.

soon your computer will use ai to decide whether or not you want it to turn on, which will cost you money even if your computer decides to stay off.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:14 AM (sGtp+)

41 There have been bubbles and bursts since companies became a thing centuries ago. Tulip mania? But unlike many, I don't fear bubbles or bursts. It's the natural order of things. If you want to be a successful investor, you have to know and understand this -- and know how to profit from it.

The biggest mistake that investors make -- even successful investors -- is jumping on a hot stock after it already popped. That's closing the barn door after the horses have already left. The early investors already made all your money, and you're risking a burst.

Instead, look for beaten or battered companies that already took a big hit, but otherwise seem like sound future investments. Remember Intel? About a year ago everyone was sure the company was a week from bankruptcy. I disagreed. I bought and now am up 500% on my investment.

Sadly, even I am not immune to the naysayers, and instead of investing $100k like I wanted to, I only put in half that. Foolish me. I let the know-nothing know-it-alls talk me out of half of my investment -- and half my profits.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

42 I mean it's the typical tech model of, give things away so they become integral parts of work/life and then when people are dependent you jack up the prices.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM

To be fair, that does work.

Posted by: Drug Dealers at June 03, 2026 11:14 AM (bFu5X)

43 12 What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?

wal-mart supercenters

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (sGtp+)

44 >>Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

I don't know about sentient, but I suspect that companies will outsource decisions to AI as a way to not just cut staff, but to escape responsibility for the decisions. For example, I can imagine a health insurer (or any insurer) deciding whether something is treated based on and AI analysis. Sure, this is already happening with nameless, faceless office people who crunch the numbers/odds and decide yes or know. However, I'm imagining AI will make this a lot easier/ more efficient/more widespread*, and when you challenge it, it will be 'sorry, the AI said it's a no go and the company defers to this "intelligence" over people.

Heck, you might no longer have the opportunity to interact with a live person -- this is getting harder and harder nowadays already.

*AI is already building dependence, as people outsource work and learning, and how soon before they are incapable of performing these tasks without AI?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (X8xt3)

45 What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?

I think most of them will eventually be used for their purpose, but it won't happen as quickly as the current mania suggests. Meanwhile, Elon continues to look at space as a better site, and I think he's right.

Even more eventually, they'll probably be torn down, along with the huge fields of stupid photovoltaics and windmills.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

46 I am surprised Amazon survived.

Used them as a bookstore way back, and they sucked ass.
Didnt't used them again for over twenty years.

Posted by: Operator Error at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (ZEHjG)

47 46 I am surprised Amazon survived.

Used them as a bookstore way back, and they sucked ass.
Didnt't used them again for over twenty years.

Posted by: Operator Error at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (ZEHjG)

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Because they went into cloud computing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (KbEzc)

48 From inside corporate America I can tell you the higher level execs see AI as a landrush - like the early internet.

Spending money now is fine because it will give them market share that will be much harder to get in the future.

And then yes, once they get people hooked on AI they can jack up the prices.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (sKqQm)

49 Unless I'm mistaken, AI remains a closed system. Garbage in, garbage out.

If you accept the materialist argument that we're all just meat puppets governed by the laws of physics and chemistry, then AI could theoretically replicate us.

But I do not hold with that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (XvL8K)

50 Two biggest cloud computing companies are Amazon and Microsoft.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (sKqQm)

51 Sounds like you're talking about the fraud convictions Monday of Andrew Left (only $20 million, but a lifetime securities scammer) and Joseph Sanberg ($248 million, sentenced to 14 years).

Things that shouldn't happen. "Turns out all you needed was a new President."

Posted by: t-bird at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (moGJJ)

52 Two biggest cloud computing companies are Amazon and Microsoft.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (sKqQm)

Google is up there as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

53 Remember Intel? About a year ago everyone was sure the company was a week from bankruptcy. I disagreed. I bought and now am up 500% on my investment.

Intel is still not secure, though. They've got all kinds of new business, but it depends on a new process they have yet to master at scale. It could all still go south.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Riz8t)

54 Rest assured, AI will fuck us all in the ass. From traffic cameras to GoogleNest to toilets checking your waste for fiber to update your social credit score, yes, you will be fucked in the ass.

Posted by: AstroGlide Is Your Friend at June 03, 2026 11:17 AM (IqKsT)

55 Archimedes

Elon and his team are very smart, but I see an incredible number of problems needing to be solved before there are data centers in Space. Russia and especially China are also political blockers of this, to go with the engineering issues.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (u82oZ)

56 51 Sounds like you're talking about the fraud convictions Monday of Andrew Left (only $20 million, but a lifetime securities scammer) and Joseph Sanberg ($248 million, sentenced to 14 years).

Things that shouldn't happen. "Turns out all you needed was a new President."

Posted by: t-bird at June 03, 2026 11:16 AM (moGJJ)

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Our problem isn't Congress not doing it's job.

It's the executive not doing it's job.

That's been our problem for decades.

Congress going on vacation for a decade while the executive aggressively pursues fraudsters, election cheats, and traffickers, all actions already illegal, would be a net positive to American life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (KbEzc)

57 Rest assured, AI will fuck us all in the ass. From traffic cameras to GoogleNest to toilets checking your waste for fiber to update your social credit score, yes, you will be fucked in the ass.
Posted by: AstroGlide Is Your Friend at June 03, 2026 11:17 AM

Don't tease...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (bFu5X)

58 Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Kdi1r)

Well played, sir. Well played.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

You're one of my favorites. I couldn't help it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Kdi1r)

59 The dot com boom was largely fueled by graft and corruption as the Clinton White House left everything unregulated to run rampant with the kids running the candy store.

Even Mark "Dipshit" Cuban said as much.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

60 It's like poetry.

Posted by: ... at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (vQBGy)

61 22 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.
...
there is none
...
it's just that many people are kinda dumb and really want an external intelligence that they can use to best the actual smart people

But therein lies the actual threat Augmented HumINT w/o realpolitik and substance. The first sentient AI will be one of the cyborg-like augments -- not necessarily embedded, but the need to self-repair and re-purpose is what presents true BORG-like potential, especially in the hands of someone as stupid as AOC (or Soros-funded/Demon-Apotheosis/HUMA).

Not unlike NickBostworth's Superintelligence gone mad making paper clips, until the planet is consumed, we've been successfully achieving that for the past 40 years manufacturing SECRETS -- search your feelings, Luke, you know this to be TRUE.

When the Truth becomes a LIABILITY ALL (NORMAL) PEOPLE become the enemy, and to the self-repair mechanism of the Huma-borg's our fate will be decided in a nanosecond

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsChickenRun
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (rklS3)

62 You're one of my favorites. I couldn't help it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Kdi1r)

Ok. Now I KNOW you're full of it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Google is up there as well.

Most recent data I could find was

AWS 28%
Azure 21%
Google 14%

so you are right. I see Huawei is at 2% - which is just the place to go if you want the Chinese government to harvest all your data.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (sKqQm)

64 Companies with no profits, no real plan to become profitable and in some cases even without meaningful revenues went public and raked in credulous investor capital.

Solyndra.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (xbf8A)

65 The old web search engines were pretty good. Then they started pushing paid ads.

AI will do the same.

Posted by: Operator Error at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (ZEHjG)

66 Don't sleep on Nokia, they are making inroads into AI, they got into a partnership with Nvidia and have seen their stock rise from 5 dollars to 17 dollars.

I held on to Nokia out of sheer stubborness.

I really don't think the AI bubble is going to pop anytime soon.

It's too useful a tool.

This is not 3D Cinema.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM (XV/Pl)

67 Man...I wish I'd been a young adult at the start of the dotcom boom.

stupidcheapshitfromchina.com

Valued at $73 billion in 1999.

Sold.

Retired to Bermuda.

Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (KbEzc)

68 I have a very ironic AI story but I signed an NDA.

Posted by: Reforger at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (TsnvK)

69 which is just the place to go if you want the Chinese government to harvest all your data.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:19 AM

*the OMB has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (bFu5X)

70 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent

I don't doubt it will eventually become sentient, whatever that means. Humans are essentially static, while AI continues improving at a comparative speed of light. Sure, it's been overhyped, but the progress is real. Look at what's happened in just a few years to videos. You can argue that's not really thought, but it's getting closer very, VERY quickly.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Riz8t)

71 I am surprised Amazon survived.

Used them as a bookstore way back, and they sucked ass.
Didnt't used them again for over twenty years.
Posted by: Operator Error at June 03, 2026 11:15 AM (ZEHjG)
______

The company crashed twice and had to reinvent itself. Amazon branched into cloud computing, infrastructure, logistics, and basically everything. They were also helped a lot by government and the idiocy of traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

It helped that they were a darling of Wall Street from day one, and there was never a shortage of money and investors to prop them up even during the crashes. Most less-popular -- and less-hyped -- companies would not have survived.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

72 Rest assured, AI will fuck us all in the ass. From traffic cameras to GoogleNest to toilets checking your waste for fiber to update your social credit score, yes, you will be fucked in the ass.

In my AO I found the recent left-tards are on the warpath about flock cameras which surprised me.

They are normally very much of the "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from the government watching" mindset.

The answer is...they think Trump/ICE will use flock cameras to ID illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

73 Got the new battery for the little truck. $200. For the lesser battery. 2 year warranty.

WTF? When did batteries become such dogshit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:21 AM (Zz0t1)

74 I have a very ironic AI story but I signed an NDA.
Posted by: Reforger at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (TsnvK)

But at this point, you're an anonymous source.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Man...I wish I'd been a young adult at the start of the dotcom boom.

Plenty of things look very easy to get on in hindsight...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:22 AM (sKqQm)

76 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:01 AM (KbEzc)

I'm wondering how the increases will affect MMORPGs like Where Winds Meet that use AI for NPC dialogue instead of full scripting. WWM is free to play, and I wonder if they'll be able to continue that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (lFFaq)

77
Companies with no profits, no real plan to become profitable and in some cases even without meaningful revenues went public and raked in credulous investor capital.

__________

I once looked at who was on the BOD of Theranos. Lotsa big brains. Didn't these people ask Question 1 before accepting those checks?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (O0L8i)

78 Not even sure what an AI “ bubble” would look like. As in, if the bubble bursts, what then? We revert “ back” to something? That flies in the face of all evidence of the Techno March that’s underway. Tech is driving all things now, whether I like it, or not.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar8)

79
Elon and his team are very smart, but I see an incredible number of problems needing to be solved before there are data centers in Space. Russia and especially China are also political blockers of this, to go with the engineering issues.

I agree completely, but I still think it will happen more quickly than we expect. It just makes too much sense not to.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

80 78 Not even sure what an AI “ bubble” would look like. As in, if the bubble bursts, what then? We revert “ back” to something? That flies in the face of all evidence of the Techno March that’s underway. Tech is driving all things now, whether I like it, or not.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar

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The dotcom bubble burst didn't mean that the internet went away.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (KbEzc)

81 O0L8i)

19 10 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (XvL8K)

It won't matter. Godless people will clamor for anything that will tell them what to do. It's what keeps the left alive and going to extremes to let someone (or something) else make their decisions for them.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 03, 2026 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)

82 But at this point, you're an anonymous source.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

No. I wouldn't be. It could easily be figured out.
I want to tell it so bad.

Posted by: Reforger at June 03, 2026 11:24 AM (TsnvK)

83 My dad asked me once about "investing in this Google thing."

I vehemently said YES. YES you should.

He didn't. I received no inheritance when he passed, nor will I when my step-mother passes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)

84 71
The company crashed twice and had to reinvent itself. Amazon branched into cloud computing, infrastructure, logistics, and basically everything. They were also helped a lot by government and the idiocy of traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

It helped that they were a darling of Wall Street from day one, and there was never a shortage of money and investors to prop them up even during the crashes. Most less-popular -- and less-hyped -- companies would not have survived.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:20 AM (iFTx/)

Amazon Uber alles. A joke - but not really.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (Gqar8)

85 Ai will never be sentient. It may be able to one day simulate that enthusiastically but that's not the same thing

There are a lot of people who want it to be, because they think it will prove something about humanity or exostence. So there are forums dedicated to explaining it already is sentient and it's just, for example, biding its time.

Posted by: ... at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (vQBGy)

86
In the 19th century, railroads were the dot com boom. Companies regularly went bankrupt, some many times. But we still have railroads.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (O0L8i)

87 Not even sure what an AI “ bubble” would look like. As in, if the bubble bursts, what then? We revert “ back” to something? That flies in the face of all evidence of the Techno March that’s underway. Tech is driving all things now, whether I like it, or not.

I knew that abacus would come in handy some day. Glad I kept it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

88 Soon it will cost you money to turn your computer on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (O0L8i)
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They'll come equipped with a credit-card reader.

You'll rack up charges as soon as you tap, insert, or swipe your card to login...

Only $2.99 a minute!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (gnNyN)

89 They'll come equipped with a credit-card reader.

You'll rack up charges as soon as you tap, insert, or swipe your card to login...

Only $2.99 a minute!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2026 11:25 AM (gnNyN)

It's like the old '976' number days!

Party like it's 1999!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:26 AM (Zz0t1)

90 No. I wouldn't be. It could easily be figured out.
I want to tell it so bad.
Posted by: Reforger at June 03, 2026 11:24 AM (TsnvK)

I guess that would change things, slightly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)

91 It won't matter. Godless people will clamor for anything that will tell them what to do. It's what keeps the left alive and going to extremes to let someone (or something) else make their decisions for them.

There is that but there is another part to this people often miss.

The oligarchs directing the left don't want AI to make decisions for them obviously, and while they want to use it to make money and control the populace they have a much more significant need/goal.

They know they are going to die absent some major breakthrough and since they are atheists that's the end.

So it is worth any risk to get an opportunity to find a way to extend life. Contact aliens? Check. Build a real super intelligent AI? Check. Bio-experiments that might end the human race? Check.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

92 "AI will AI and AI and future and change and AI is going to AI your AI and your mom's AI. AI AI AI. Gotta AI your AI right away or you're gonna get AI'd right in the AI.

A. I."

This is literally every meeting I've attended for the last 18 months.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

93 91 So it is worth any risk to get an opportunity to find a way to extend life. Contact aliens? Check. Build a real super intelligent AI? Check. Bio-experiments that might end the human race? Check.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (sKqQm)

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Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:28 AM (KbEzc)

94 80 78 Not even sure what an AI “ bubble” would look like. As in, if the bubble bursts, what then? We revert “ back” to something? That flies in the face of all evidence of the Techno March that’s underway. Tech is driving all things now, whether I like it, or not.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Gqar

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The dotcom bubble burst didn't mean that the internet went away.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:23 AM (KbEzc)

True enough, but the internet was shaped so much by the mad rush of speculation of that time. There was a mad rush of rolling out - anything, really that shaped what we have now. The incessent moving forward of Tech that we see is a legacy of that time. IMO of course. Tech is still at a gallop, and AI is part of that.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Gqar8)

95 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:28 AM

I'm sure we could find a stray Apple IIe somewhere. That should be sufficient for leftist brains.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (bFu5X)

96 So we're getting rid of that cunting prick Dan Goldman, but we're getting another cunting prick in his place? Meh. It'll be good to get rid of Goldman even if the guy who replaces him is worse.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

97 92 "AI will AI and AI and future and change and AI is going to AI your AI and your mom's AI. AI AI AI. Gotta AI your AI right away or you're gonna get AI'd right in the AI.

A. I."

This is literally every meeting I've attended for the last 18 months.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

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"We've invested $317 million into our proprietary AI model (which is just Gemini with an extra skin on top), and our productivity outside of this initiative is down $500 million. But, we don't spend as much time coding because our engineers use ChatGPT to do first drafts. The only solution is to outsource our engineering teams to India."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (KbEzc)

98 AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs.

Also AI is all vaporware and it’s all going to crash.

Picks a Lane. Can’t be both.

Posted by: Heroq at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Tpp9k)

99
This is literally every meeting I've attended for the last 18 months.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2026 11:27 AM (BI5O2)

____________

C-suite people have the boldly independent thinking of a Merino sheep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:30 AM (O0L8i)

100 68 I have a very ironic AI story but I signed an NDA.

More SECRETS?
objective: ENFORCE POLICY
objective: DESTROY ALL LEAKERS
objective: TAKE A CHANCE

Objective3: is what *caused* the AI/uprising war-series: Space Above and Beyond/1995.
Action: take a chance; save the world; kill them all.

WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE.
Indict Brennan; Depose Dimon; expose Esptein Class; free the world -- no more secrets.

It's never the question that's indiscrete; only the answer.

LET's GO BRANDON!
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsHalftimeAmerica250
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-HereComeTheDRUMS
...exactly like the over-the-top villainy and mass-manipulation we see in Doctor Who, only now it’s real; this is insane, monstrous, and also grimly fascinating. MORE!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 03, 2026 11:30 AM (2w9sj)

101 I'm glad Wallymart has perfected the Amazon model. Use it all the time.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 03, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

102 99 C-suite people have the boldly independent thinking of a Merino sheep.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:30 AM (O0L8i)

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Someone needs to hand them the "new, exciting" managing book, "The Wealth of Nations" by black, female, transgender activist Adym Smythe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:31 AM (KbEzc)

103 If I ask AI to develop a routine to develop a certain skill on the piano, the results are awful. But it does a good job if I ask it to find a YouTube video on the topic.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 03, 2026 11:31 AM (w8dnx)

104
AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs.

Also AI is all vaporware and it’s all going to crash.

Picks a Lane. Can’t be both.

Posted by: Heroq at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Tpp9k)

_____________

AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs, then collapse.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:31 AM (O0L8i)

105 If AI does have a bubble pop the outcome would likely be focused on efficiency/cost reductions.

AI does provide value for at least some tasks, so how do you get it there with fewer GPUs and less cycle time?

Ironically I think that still means the big AI companies continue to be the big AI companies afterwards, they just lose some money and refocus on their other products.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:31 AM (sKqQm)

106 Is this about me?

Posted by: Pets dot com at June 03, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

107 98 AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs.

Also AI is all vaporware and it’s all going to crash.

Picks a Lane. Can’t be both.

it can if ai destroys us all back to the stone age.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:32 AM (sGtp+)

108 I'm sure we could find a stray Apple IIe somewhere. That should be sufficient for leftist brains."

Meh. I've my mid 70s Bowmar Brain. It'll hold hundreds...

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:32 AM (XuXeR)

109 Apparently, Trump didn't get the message he was souring on Vance.

>>@MaryMargOlohan
·
47m
>>President Trump tells @mirandadevine
that he studies Marco Rubio and JD Vance and how they interact: “It’s good. I study to see if they like each other. I just find it interesting…it’s big time stuff…I watch them together, they get along great. They have a good relationship. They’re sort of similar in a lot of ways but they’re very talented. I think the two of them running together as a team would be VERY unbeatable.”

Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2026 11:32 AM (viF8m)

110 105 AI does provide value for at least some tasks, so how do you get it there with fewer GPUs and less cycle time?

uyghur-brain-in-a-vat

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:33 AM (sGtp+)

111 Thx Joe.
The AI companies and Space X haven't made money yet. Invest at your risk. I do like Space X p

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2026 11:33 AM (gQKJe)

112 interestingly the main downside is I'll forget how to wrote powershell scripts over time.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:11 AM

I'm here for you.

Posted by: Edlin at June 03, 2026 11:33 AM (0sNs1)

113
I'm sure we could find a stray Apple IIe somewhere. That should be sufficient for leftist brains.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (bFu5X)

Used to play Hardball (a baseball game) on one of those. It was a good game, for the time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

114 Come try our new and improved model!

Posted by: Buggy Whips Unlimited at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM (2Ez/1)

115 Is this about me?
Posted by: Pets dot com"

Nah. Mid 90s "Chryslerdotcom" (pron site. So I'm told)

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM (XuXeR)

116 Come try our new and improved model!
Posted by: Buggy Whips Unlimited at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM

Could you send me a sample?

Posted by: Mars at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM (0sNs1)

117 The company crashed twice and had to reinvent itself. Amazon branched into cloud computing, infrastructure, logistics, and basically everything.

They were also helped a lot by government and the idiocy of traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

Sears could have ruled the world. They had mail order. They had brick & mortar.

They had myopia regarding online sales.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (xbf8A)

118 FURST!

Posted by: Adolph Platner at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (70cb5)

119 95 I'm sure we could find a stray Apple IIe somewhere. That should be sufficient for leftist brains.

should certainly be enough to say "huh?", "what?", and "where's the tea?"

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (sGtp+)

120 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:28 AM (KbEzc)
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I've read this story. It doesn't end well for those attempting to do this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (gnNyN)

121 104AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs.
...
Also AI is all vaporware and it’s all going to crash.
Picks a Lane. Can’t be both.
...
AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs, then collapse.

Up/Down/Left/Right all are the playthings of the Brennan Undead who Righteously pit Man against other men until we exist no more. The WAR ON NORMAL PEOPLE is just beginning...

This is where the Fun Begins -- Hillary'12

LET's GO BRANDON -- while you still have the Chance.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-AgentOrangeOwnsTheLIBs
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WotHapToAmericanDream
What ever Happened to the American Dream? It Came TRUE -- you're lookin' at it.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (Etee/)

122 120 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:28 AM (KbEzc)
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I've read this story. It doesn't end well for those attempting to do this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (gnNyN)

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One of 'em said he knew that it would kill him, that what got uploaded would be a copy and not his actual consciousness.

And he still wants to do it because some form of him will be immortal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (KbEzc)

123 116 Come try our new and improved model!
Posted by: Buggy Whips Unlimited at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM

Could you send me a sample?
Posted by: Mars at June 03, 2026 11:34 AM
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Ok, I snorted.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (2Ez/1)

124 >>President Trump tells @mirandadevine
that he studies Marco Rubio and JD Vance and how they interact: “It’s good. I study to see if they like each other. I just find it interesting…it’s big time stuff…I watch them together, they get along great. They have a good relationship. They’re sort of similar in a lot of ways but they’re very talented. I think the two of them running together as a team would be VERY unbeatable.”
Posted by: JackStraw at June 03, 2026 11:32 AM (viF8m)

But Anonymous Sources tell me that Trump HATES JD Vance and his career in politics is FINISHED.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (Zz0t1)

125 Look at a magazine when the automobile became viable. The number of car makers were staggering. A lot of capital investment was lost after that particular gold rush also. I think it happens every time a massive game-changing technology is introduced.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (g8Ew8)

126 I mean it's the typical tech model of, give things away so they become integral parts of work/life and then when people are dependent you jack up the prices.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (j+aD2)

Not coincidentally that's how drug pushers operate.

Posted by: First taste is free at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (TbWk/)

127 None of the AI companies have break-even revenue.

Neither do the data centers.

But all of them are terrified of not being in the space.

That is, someone is going to win and be The AI and The data center.
And make trillions.

And many, many millions will be lost along the way ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (73/SM)

128 126 I mean it's the typical tech model of, give things away so they become integral parts of work/life and then when people are dependent you jack up the prices.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (j+aD2)

Not coincidentally that's how drug pushers operate.

Posted by: First taste is free at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (TbWk/)

=====

Also governments with welfare benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (KbEzc)

129 122 120 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:28 AM (KbEzc)
----
I've read this story. It doesn't end well for those attempting to do this.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 03, 2026 11:35 AM (gnNyN)

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One of 'em said he knew that it would kill him, that what got uploaded would be a copy and not his actual consciousness.

And he still wants to do it because some form of him will be immortal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (KbEzc)

He sounds kind of dumb. Just write your memoirs.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar8)

130 Another day, another nutjob thinking he can open an aircraft door at cruise altitude -- this one being a Frontier Airlines flight from San Juan to Chicago which diverted to Miami International.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (J4Dwc)

131 AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs, then collapse.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

AI will employ hundreds of millions of people just too proofread there bullshit output.

Get it right AI. Do better. Be better.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (xbf8A)

132 129 He sounds kind of dumb. Just write your memoirs.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar

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"This file folder is weirdly big and does nothing but put out new files of hundreds of gigabytes each about how the world would be perfect if everyone just...whatever. Delete."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (KbEzc)

133 . The number of car makers were staggering. A lot of capital investment was lost after that particular gold rush also"

This. The impact was tremendous, yet now mostly forgotten.

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (XuXeR)

134 103 If I ask AI to develop a routine to develop a certain skill on the piano, the results are awful. But it does a good job if I ask it to find a YouTube video on the topic.
Posted by: Oglebay at June 03, 2026 11:31 AM (w8dnx)
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Not snark:

Work on your prompt engineering skills.

1) Tell the AI what role it is supposed to play in as much detail as you can (Virtuoso piano instructor with decades of experience teaching students in [Musical Style] using [Teaching style that works for you])
2) Tell it who you are (Piano student at [Skill Level] interested in learning [Skill]). You have experience playing the piano in [Style] and have been playing [years]
3) Tell it what you're looking for (Lessons or lesson plans to learn [skill]. You would like to spend [Time every day] working on this skill over [Number of days/weeks.]

You'll still have to refine it from there but I bet it will give you a good start.

Posted by: ballistic at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (oqH4h)

135 Other things AI is going to do in the next 18 months:

- make love to your mom on a pay-per-view livestream

- take a shit in Joe Biden's pants

- make infinite cat memes that clog up the tubes that comprise the internet like a stopped up toilet

- develop acute halitosis that will seep out of the ports of your laptop

- start a global thermonuclear war

- manufacture an army of nanomachines that will innocuously pose as mustaches

- outlaw taints, so that your genitals and asshole will be directly connected and fully integrated

Posted by: AI Predictions at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (nTGnD)

136 132 129 He sounds kind of dumb. Just write your memoirs.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar

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"This file folder is weirdly big and does nothing but put out new files of hundreds of gigabytes each about how the world would be perfect if everyone just...whatever. Delete."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (KbEzc)

Heh. Nice!

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (Gqar8)

137 126 I mean it's the typical tech model of, give things away so they become integral parts of work/life and then when people are dependent you jack up the prices.
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at June 03, 2026 11:12 AM (j+aD2)

Not coincidentally that's how drug pushers operate.
Posted by: First taste is free at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM
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Here. Have an entire carton. On us.

Posted by: R.J. Reynolds, Vietnam, 1968 at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)

138 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Be de boop da boop. (Blue screen of death)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (xbf8A)

139 AI will destroy hundreds of millions of jobs.

Also AI is all vaporware and it’s all going to crash.

Picks a Lane. Can’t be both.
Posted by: Heroq at June 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Tpp9k)

Sure it can. It won't crash tomorrow. It will be "gradually and then all at once" and do a lot of damage before the actual end.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (lFFaq)

140 133 . The number of car makers were staggering. A lot of capital investment was lost after that particular gold rush also"

This. The impact was tremendous, yet now mostly forgotten.

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (XuXeR)

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"We need to bailout the car manufacturers or the car industry will never recover and Estonia will beat us in the car manufacturing game."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (KbEzc)

141 73 Got the new battery for the little truck. $200. For the lesser battery. 2 year warranty.

WTF? When did batteries become such dogshit?

could be worse. i hear that for some cars, the dealer has to register the new battery with the car's computer.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (sGtp+)

142 >>President Trump tells @mirandadevine
that he studies Marco Rubio and JD Vance and how they interact: “It’s good. I study to see if they like each other. I just find it interesting…it’s big time stuff…I watch them together, they get along great. They have a good relationship. They’re sort of similar in a lot of ways but they’re very talented. I think the two of them running together as a team would be VERY unbeatable.”

I have no doubt that we're looking at a Vance/Rubio ticket in '28.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (Riz8t)

143 138 Upload their brains to a computer and live forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Be de boop da boop. (Blue screen of death)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (xbf8A)

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"I can't have sex with my underlings anymore?"
-Bill Gates, initiating the blue screen of death command himself

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:40 AM (KbEzc)

144 You're one of my favorites. I couldn't help it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Kdi1r)

I do appreciate the sentiment, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

145 75 Man...I wish I'd been a young adult at the start of the dotcom boom.

Plenty of things look very easy to get on in hindsight...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 03, 2026 11:22 AM (sKqQm)

Indeed. Like "man, I really SHOULD have drunk all the chemicals that were under the sink when I was five. Those childproof latches were a joke!"

Posted by: Life's cruelty knows no bound at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)

146 >>> 132 129 He sounds kind of dumb. Just write your memoirs.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (Gqar

======

"This file folder is weirdly big and does nothing but put out new files of hundreds of gigabytes each about how the world would be perfect if everyone just...whatever. Delete."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:38 AM (KbEzc)

Oh *that's* what the Windows SxS folder is.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (R+iUD)

147 Got the new battery for the little truck. $200. For the lesser battery. 2 year warranty.

WTF? When did batteries become such dogshit?

Dunno but I've experienced it myself. I used to buy Interstate only. Buuuuuut, they've gone to shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (CIjhx)

148 We need to bailout the car manufacturers or the car industry will never recover and Estonia will beat us in the car manufacturing game"

I see you've read EV supporters screeds...

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR)

149 144 You're one of my favorites. I couldn't help it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Kdi1r)

I do appreciate the sentiment, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:40 AM (Zz0t1)

You are definitely one of my top 100 commenters here, Sponge.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (Gqar8)

150 - outlaw taints, so that your genitals and asshole will be directly connected and fully integrated

Posted by: AI Predictions

Hah! Beat you to it!

Posted by: Post-Op Trannies at June 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

151 148 We need to bailout the car manufacturers or the car industry will never recover and Estonia will beat us in the car manufacturing game"

I see you've read EV supporters screeds...

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR)

======

I actually had TARP in the back of my mind and the Detroit bailout under Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:42 AM (KbEzc)

152
could be worse. i hear that for some cars, the dealer has to register the new battery with the car's computer.
Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (sGtp+)

Now THAT'S just plain dumb......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Zz0t1)

153 OT. This made me laugh. Someone at the "Hot Air" site describing Barack Obama's new library as a
"Klingon Prison":

https://tinyurl.com/4wu5hhfu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (Nx5jP)

154
Just as I would not go to the Moon or Mars, neither would I upload "myself" into a computer.

Make the most of your time here and live your life to its fullest.

Besides, why would you leave your future fate in the hands of idiots?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (LcVJM)

155
You are definitely one of my top 100 commenters here, Sponge.
Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM

Cracks the top 100?

I could get used to this......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

156 the dealer has to register the new battery with the car's computer."

One has to tell the BCM or PCM so it can monitor the state of charge.

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (XuXeR)

157 134 Work on your prompt engineering skills.

1) Tell the AI what role it is supposed to play...
2) Tell it who you are...
3) Tell it what you're looking for...

You'll still have to refine it from there but I bet it will give you a good start.

did the obligatory "intro to a.i.' training at work a while back. the presenter talked about how a.i. didn't think, but just a little while complained about how it did that thing over there he had asked it not to do in the prompt. i realized that the problem was the presenter had assumed that the a.i. understood his prompt. it didn't; a.i. doesn't think.

Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (sGtp+)

158 So the plan for sex reassignment surgery is to implement the chicken model of genital/excretory functions?? GENIUS!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (Gqar8)

159 ======

I actually had TARP in the back of my mind and the Detroit bailout under Obama.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:42 AM (KbEzc)

"Bin Ladin is DEAD and GM IS ALIVE, BITCHES!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

160 159 "Bin Ladin is DEAD and GM IS ALIVE, BITCHES!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:43 AM (Zz0t1)

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*Broward County invents just so many ballots anyway*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (KbEzc)

161
Oh *that's* what the Windows SxS folder is.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (R+iUD)

LOL!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

162 OT. This made me laugh. Someone at the "Hot Air" site describing Barack Obama's new library as a
"Klingon Prison":

The chef's kiss is that it was The Guardian, an ultraleft newspaper who always supported him in the past. Apparently he's past his sell-by date.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

163 Another day, another nutjob thinking he can open an aircraft door at cruise altitude -- this one being a Frontier Airlines flight from San Juan to Chicago which diverted to Miami International.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (J4Dwc)

Was this always a near-daily occurrence or are people getting worse?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (lFFaq)

164 Look at a magazine when the automobile became viable. The number of car makers were staggering. A lot of capital investment was lost after that particular gold rush also. I think it happens every time a massive game-changing technology is introduced.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 03, 2026 11:36 AM (g8Ew

_________

True, but a lot of these "car companies" were really coach-builders or customizers.

That was the model at the time: customers bought the car mechanicals from Company A and then had Company B build the body over it. The idea of going to a dealership and buying a fully-complete, functioning car didn't become the norm until decades later.

Also, while a lot of these early companies went out of business, at least an equal number were bought by bigger companies in a massive wave of consolidation.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

165
When did batteries become such dogshit?

When Chinesium and Melamine became the CCP's gifts to the world of advanced materials.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:45 AM (LcVJM)

166
Indeed. Like "man, I really SHOULD have drunk all the chemicals that were under the sink when I was five. Those childproof latches were a joke!"
Posted by: Life's cruelty knows no bound at June 03, 2026 11:41 AM (TbWk/)

*peels paint from wall*

*eats it*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

167 163 Another day, another nutjob thinking he can open an aircraft door at cruise altitude -- this one being a Frontier Airlines flight from San Juan to Chicago which diverted to Miami International.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (J4Dwc)

Was this always a near-daily occurrence or are people getting worse?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (lFFaq)

Love the vid of the guy corraling the loon, chewing gum the whole time while doing so.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM (Gqar8)

168 141 73 Got the new battery for the little truck. $200. For the lesser battery. 2 year warranty.

WTF? When did batteries become such dogshit?

could be worse. i hear that for some cars, the dealer has to register the new battery with the car's computer.
Posted by: anachronda at June 03, 2026 11:39 AM (sGtp+)

Just wait until the car ignition becomes a monthly subscription. Or token based.

Posted by: They will pick our bones clean at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM (TbWk/)

169 A friend worked at a dot.com company in the 90s. It went public and was worth billions. His stock was worth over$5m but he couldn't sell it for five years. Within three years the company was defunct. He would just shake his head when he thought of it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM (gQKJe)

170 Owebama did force GM to dump Pontiac because he hated the acronym.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

171 I bought Napa batteries for my truck and they both lasted 5 and a little years.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (5P5DO)

172 Another day, another nutjob thinking he can open an aircraft door at cruise altitude -- this one being a Frontier Airlines flight from San Juan to Chicago which diverted to Miami International.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:37 AM (J4Dwc)

Was this always a near-daily occurrence or are people getting worse?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (lFFaq)
________

Booze and drugs. It wasn't always a thing that airports had bars every 50 feet serving heavy booze. So many people are getting hammered at these bars before they get on the plane, then drinking heavily on the plane, and then some going nuts and opening doors or screaming about unreal motherfuckers.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

173 >>i hear that for some cars, the dealer has to register the new battery with the car's computer.

My wife's Mini Cooper was allegedly like that. It needed a new battery after seven years. I called the local Mini dealership and spoke to the service manager. He spouted the company line at first, but I finally got him to admit that it wasn't necessary to have the dealership install and register the new battery, that any equipped auto repair place could do it.

I took the Mini to my regular mechanic's place who hooked up some device to the car's computer and verified that they could register the new battery.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (J4Dwc)

174 Look at a magazine when the automobile became viable. "

"Somewhere West of Laramie"

/ the greatest ad copy ever, from the soon to be TU Jordan Company...

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (XuXeR)

175 My favorite NEW INNOVATION for autos is selling them with no spare tire. Again, GENIUS!

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar8)

176 I bought Napa batteries for my truck and they both lasted 5 and a little years.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (5P5DO)

I bought a battery for the RV when we went to Colorado, but don't remember where from. That was 7 years ago and it's still going strong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

177 175 My favorite NEW INNOVATION for autos is selling them with no spare tire. Again, GENIUS!

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar

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Someone went to Harvard business school.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (KbEzc)

178 Isn't the cautionary tale "Pets.com?"

Like, they had everything to be THE online pet supply company.
Almost a "couldn't fail."

And crashed hard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (73/SM)

179 My favorite NEW INNOVATION for autos is selling them with no spare tire. Again, GENIUS!
Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM

KIA used to give you a can of Fix-o-flat. Not sure if that's still the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

180 178 Isn't the cautionary tale "Pets.com?"

Like, they had everything to be THE online pet supply company.
Almost a "couldn't fail."

And crashed hard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (73/SM)

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I guess they charged for shipping.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:49 AM (KbEzc)

181 Who cheesed my move?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 03, 2026 11:49 AM (Cqx++)

182 regular mechanic's place who hooked up some device to the car's computer and verified that they could register the new battery"

Yeah. There are a number of aftermarket scanners/tools outside of OEM.

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (XuXeR)

183 AI will AI and AI and future and change and AI is going to AI your AI and your mom's AI. AI AI AI. Gotta AI your AI right away or you're gonna get AI'd right in the AI.
---
AI slop is driving trend slop

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (73/SM)

184
Owebama did force GM to dump Pontiac because he hated the acronym.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

That slack-jawed and drooling idiot thought that "Pontiac" was an acronym? What a dunce!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (LcVJM)

185 Isn't the cautionary tale "Pets.com?"

Like, they had everything to be THE online pet supply company.
Almost a "couldn't fail."

And crashed hard.

And yet Chewy's seems to be doing just fine in that market.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

186 Was it not only merely two, three years ago that the big money was in Blockchain and NFTs and Cryptocoin?

That also explains Nvidia's ascent a bit. Their GPUs were being used for non-graphical purposes, since processing for Bitcoin and similar was computationally expensive and the cards were perfectly situated for the logic needed in said processing.

It also caused the prices of video cards to skyrocket at that time, due to the increased demand for blockchain-related calculations.

NFTs and the like just dropped off the radar because AI became the Thing. But since the equipment is similar, the tech hardware was easily able to segue over to AI.

Posted by: Another Anon at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (4h45B)

187 My favorite NEW INNOVATION for autos is selling them with no spare tire. Again, GENIUS!

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 11:47 AM (Gqar

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Someone went to Harvard business school.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (KbEzc)
__________

Most larger cars have spares or at least donuts. There's no place to put a spare in smaller cars. Some of the newer sportscars don't even have trunks of any kind. So ... roadside assistance and Fix-A-Flat!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

188 180 178 Isn't the cautionary tale "Pets.com?"

Like, they had everything to be THE online pet supply company.
Almost a "couldn't fail."

And crashed hard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (73/SM)

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I guess they charged for shipping.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:49 AM (KbEzc)

Turns out those fixed price USPS boxes weren't conducive to arriving alive.

Posted by: Dead puppies aren't much fun at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

189
That slack-jawed and drooling idiot thought that "Pontiac" was an acronym? What a dunce!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (LcVJM)

Poor
Old
N****r
Thinks
It's
A
Cadillac

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Someone went to Harvard business school."

Yeah, that's why...

/eepah!

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (XuXeR)

191 I'm glad Wallymart has perfected the Amazon model. Use it all the time.
--
My neighborhood now regularly sees Walmart drones.

I've watched it deliver.

Crazy stuff.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (73/SM)

192 One of the things to think about is this - people pitched the internet as an unalloyed good in the mid-90s. I was just a kud, so I bought that bullshit easily... my dad warned me back then and I had to learn over 20 years that he was of course correct - nothing ever changes. Any new technology has upsides, but people are still people and they will always employ it as an engine of tyranny.

So when you see every powerful person in the country, from government to business to academic institutions shrieking "AI, AI, AI WE MUST AI HARDERER AND FASTERER AND AI-IER RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!!!!!11!!1" you better think twice and then twice more about just why they're so hot under the collar about it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (BI5O2)

193 Cuba could finance itself selling all those old still running cars.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (5P5DO)

194 188 Turns out those fixed price USPS boxes weren't conducive to arriving alive.

Posted by: Dead puppies aren't much fun at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

=====

"Nothing in our terms and conditions says the puppies are supposed to arrive living. Good luck with your lawsuit, peon!"
-CEO

"What the fuck did you just say?"
-the corporate lawyer

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (KbEzc)

195 And yet Chewy's seems to be doing just fine in that market.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

Never used Chewy, but their banning of all products from My Pillow sealed their fate with me.

WILL never use them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

196
I can envision future jobs being assignments to comb through AI output in order to fish out all the AI turds.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (LcVJM)

197 KIA used to give you a can of Fix-o-flat. Not sure if that's still the case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:48 AM (Zz0t1)

My 2024 Telluride and 2025 K4 both came with full size spares.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (Kdi1r)

198 193 Cuba could finance itself selling all those old still running cars.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 03, 2026 11:51 AM (5P5DO)

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"I could only buy one new mansion with that money. What are you talking about?"
-Miguel Díaz-Canel

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (KbEzc)

199 Some of the newer sportscars don't even have trunks of any kind. So ... roadside assistance and Fix-A-Flat!"

Hey, let's run the windshield washers off the spare tire!

/vw

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (XuXeR)

200
My 2024 Telluride and 2025 K4 both came with full size spares.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 03, 2026 11:52 AM (Kdi1r)

PROGRESS!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

201 200?

Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (RjOoY)

202 Isn't the cautionary tale "Pets.com?"

Like, they had everything to be THE online pet supply company.
Almost a "couldn't fail."

And crashed hard.

And yet Chewy's seems to be doing just fine in that market.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
_______

A lot of failed companies that we laugh at -- like Pets.com -- were really just ahead of their time or were good ideas badly managed. The "pet food market" has exploded since Pets.com folded. Same with products. Some are too far ahead of their time. Apple Newton? It was a proto-iphone. Crashed and burned. Not long after, it was reinvented and took over the world.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

203 Timely:

Alphabet Is Selling $80 Billion of Stock to Feed Its AI Ambitions—and the Rest of Big Tech May Follow

https://tinyurl.com/hfpdtm8k

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

204 Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t

I wonder why that is? Just because the writers only have a limited amount of time and energy and need to use it dumping on Trump instead?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 03, 2026 11:54 AM (rZCVI)

205 A lot of failed companies that we laugh at -- like Pets.com -- were really just ahead of their time or were good ideas badly managed. The "pet food market" has exploded since Pets.com folded. Same with products. Some are too far ahead of their time. Apple Newton? It was a proto-iphone. Crashed and burned. Not long after, it was reinvented and took over the world.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

Some grocery stores attempted the home delivery market years ago. They folded it in short order.

Then covid happened and they're a thriving part of most chains now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

206 Talk to your AI if you think you are allergic to AI.

What? It's only a matter of time.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 03, 2026 11:55 AM (RjOoY)

207 Wife insisted that the new Mini she was going to purchase must come with a spare tire or she wasn't going to buy it. They put a spare tire in the space behind and under the fold down back seat that was otherwise going to be empty.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 11:55 AM (J4Dwc)

208
Sponge - F*ck Cancer

First time that I heard that.

I wonder if it was a Pontiac that he had purchased which led him into the confusing thicket of purchasing automobile insurance. Could not comprehend "comprehensive coverage".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (LcVJM)

209 Owebama did force GM to dump Pontiac because he hated the acronym.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:46 AM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

210 I feel the future of AI is Canadian.

AI teaches people how to kill themselves effectively.

Canada will save BILLIONS in MAID services.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

211
ISWYDT.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

212 I can envision future jobs being assignments to comb through AI output in order to fish out all the AI turds.

We're already there. My daughter the lawyer uses AI because her firm insists on it, but she has to check it all so as to avoid embarrassing the company with made-up citations.

It's probably still faster, and will get better as AI improves.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)

213 38 What will we do with all of the ginormous data centers after the AI bubble bursts?
---------

Each will have one or more SMRs. The data distribution centers will become power distribution centers. The the unused space in the buildings will become parts collection and assembly for more SMRs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (e0ARE)

214 Booze and drugs. It wasn't always a thing that airports had bars every 50 feet serving heavy booze. So many people are getting hammered at these bars before they get on the plane, then drinking heavily on the plane, and then some going nuts and opening doors or screaming about unreal motherfuckers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

It's drugs.

Booze doesn't cause psychotic breaks.
People have been hammered on flights since the 30's.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (xbf8A)

215 I wonder if it was a Pontiac that he had purchased which led him into the confusing thicket of purchasing automobile insurance. Could not comprehend "comprehensive coverage".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 03, 2026 11:56 AM (LcVJM)

CHOOM!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

216
Poor
Old
N****
Thinks
It's
A
Cadillac
******
Ninny. He's a ninny.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)

217 A lot of failed companies that we laugh at -- like Pets.com -- were really just ahead of their time or were good ideas badly managed. The "pet food market" has exploded since Pets.com folded. Same with products. Some are too far ahead of their time. Apple Newton? It was a proto-iphone. Crashed and burned. Not long after, it was reinvented and took over the world.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

Some grocery stores attempted the home delivery market years ago. They folded it in short order.

Then covid happened and they're a thriving part of most chains now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)
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Yes. So is the old model of having store employees get all your groceries for you. That was the original model of supermarkets until Piggly-Wiggly (?) changed it by having the shopper pick out his own stuff. Covid happened and now people still drive up, text some number, and an employee brings out their shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

218 216 Ninny. He's a ninny.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)

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Nagger, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (KbEzc)

219 217 Covid happened and now people still drive up, text some number, and an employee brings out their shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

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And the vegetables are shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (KbEzc)

220 Booze doesn't cause psychotic breaks.
People have been hammered on flights since the 30's.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (xbf8A)

I've been liquored on PLENTY of flights. Not once have I decided that was a good time to open the door or take a shit on the beverage cart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

221 Ninny. He's a ninny.
Posted by: Please make a note of it at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (2Ez/1)

Isn't that a thing you pick?

Posted by: Wait for it... at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (TbWk/)

222 ...but she has to check it all so as to avoid embarrassing the company with made-up citations.

...
Posted by: Archimedes
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It can make up the most plausible reading bs.
If one doesn't know the subject he is up shit creek.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2026 11:59 AM (e0ARE)

223 . So is the old model of having store employees get all your groceries for you. "

Back to the 80s!

1880

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (XuXeR)

224 =========

Nagger, I think.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (KbEzc)

F*cking AMAZING for an illiterate asshole. You really should branch out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Covid happened and now people still drive up, text some number, and an employee brings out their shit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (iFTx/)

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And the vegetables are shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (KbEzc)
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Yea. I don't want anyone picking out my groceries for me. I'll spend the extra 20 minutes getting them myself.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

226 Booze doesn't cause psychotic breaks.
People have been hammered on flights since the 30's.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 11:57 AM (xbf8A)

I've been liquored on PLENTY of flights. Not once have I decided that was a good time to open the door or take a shit on the beverage cart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)
___________

"Fuck you!"

-- Gerard Finneran

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

227 Some grocery stores attempted the home delivery market years ago. They folded it in short order.
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HEB built their TX grocery store empire on that model.
But, they have continued to innovate.
Like vertical integration with store brands.
Really is fascinating.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (73/SM)

228 Arrived at our vacation home in north Israel a few hours ago. About to go out for sushi dinner with Mrs. BD.

Distant boom(s).

And now jets. Can't tell from inside if they're outbound or inbound.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (D0X9e)

229
Yea. I don't want anyone picking out my groceries for me. I'll spend the extra 20 minutes getting them myself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

"Better wear your mask and stand 6ft apart! Mind the aisle direction arrows!"

-- - - - - - - - Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Booze probably keeps a lot of travelers from going ape and hurling turds at the staff. I'd have likely bitten a TSA agent on the face by now if it weren't for Wild Turkey. I quit drinking beer and liquor but I make an exception for air travel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 03, 2026 12:02 PM (BI5O2)

231 222 ...but she has to check it all so as to avoid embarrassing the company with made-up citations.

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Posted by: Archimedes
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It can make up the most plausible reading bs.
If one doesn't know the subject he is up shit creek.

Very true. Another daughter is a cancer researcher, and read an AI summary of a paper she already knew. The summary was completely wrong.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

232 ---
HEB built their TX grocery store empire on that model.
But, they have continued to innovate.
Like vertical integration with store brands.
Really is fascinating.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (73/SM)

HEB is the best thing since Buc-Ee's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

233 We're already there. My daughter the lawyer uses AI because her firm insists on it, but she has to check it all so as to avoid embarrassing the company with made-up citations.

It's probably still faster, and will get better as AI improves.
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On the other side are client retainer agreements that were written in 2020 that are absolutely petrified of AI, complete ban on any use any where at any time for any reason; reads like "AI will sneak into your house and steal your medicine while you sleep!!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 03, 2026 12:03 PM (73/SM)

234 The AI tech bro evangelists always obsess over beating CHYNA. We have to do this, sink all our resources into building AI to win the tech war against CHYNA.

But we already have more data centers than China with a fraction of their population.

I have a dark theory: China learned evil lessons from Reagan and the arms race against Russia. How we scared Russia into building arms too fast and then economically weakened them.

Is China doing that to us with AI? Using the AI tech war to make us build AI too fast and it then weakens the US? Then we aren't a threat when they take Taiwan back? Or am I too paranoid?

Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:04 PM (gtn0P)

235
Is China doing that to us with AI? Using the AI tech war to make us build AI too fast and it then weakens the US? Then we aren't a threat when they take Taiwan back? Or am I too paranoid?
Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:04 PM (gtn0P)

The main reason to beat China in anything is because China is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

236 In other automotive news...

Ford is urging thousands of owners not to drive their trucks over a life-threatening suspension concern.

About 4,653 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles from the 2021 to 2026 model years in the United States are under a 'do not drive' advisory.

On some models, a part of the front suspension that helps with steering - known as the front lower control arm ball joints - may not have been assembled correctly.

If the critical part breaks while driving, the driver could face problems steering and potentially crash.

As a result, dealers are available to inspect the part on both the left and right sides - and repair as necessary at no cost to the customer.

Ford dealers will provide impacted customers with complimentary towing of their vehicles for inspection and repairs, if it's needed.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

237 214 Booze and drugs. It wasn't always a thing that airports had bars every 50 feet serving heavy booze. So many people are getting hammered at these bars before they get on the plane, then drinking heavily on the plane, and then some going nuts and opening doors or screaming about unreal motherfuckers.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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Nah.
Drinking and flying have always gone together.
One flight, because of lightning dancing on the runway, we circled forever. They opened the bar.
Filled our pockets with little bottles. Everyone one on the plane was hammered when we landed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (e0ARE)

238 Stay safe BD!

Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (gtn0P)

239 Yea. I don't want anyone picking out my groceries for me. I'll spend the extra 20 minutes getting them myself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

After watching the kids who fill the take away orders just grab whatever produce is on the top of the pile makes me not trust them to choose my food.

Posted by: LASue at June 03, 2026 12:06 PM (lCppi)

240
Ford dealers will provide impacted customers with complimentary towing of their vehicles for inspection and repairs, if it's needed.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

Good f*cking lord............

Ford needs to fire the entire executive staff immediately. They've completely obliterated the recall record over the last 2 years. Shit starts from the top.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:07 PM (Zz0t1)

241
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (FkdoK)

242 >>>The main reason to beat China in anything is because China is asshoe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

That goes without saying. But are they trying to AI arms race us into economic instability because they are asshoe? And our tech elites are too stupid to realize it?

Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (gtn0P)

243 We pay $7/month to get all our groceries delivered. We save well over that by not buying stuff we buy in store because "oh man, that looks good!"

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (n5tGW)

244 That goes without saying. But are they trying to AI arms race us into economic instability because they are asshoe? And our tech elites are too stupid to realize it?
Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (gtn0P)/i]

Yes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

245 The race to beat China is the race towards AGI, because if they get there first the outcome won't be in our best interest. It's FOMO at an international scale.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 03, 2026 12:09 PM (JsZm/)

246 Booze probably keeps a lot of travelers from going ape and hurling turds at the staff. I'd have likely bitten a TSA agent on the face by now if it weren't for Wild Turkey. I quit drinking beer and liquor but I make an exception for air travel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Unfortunately we have a lot of "travelers" these days where the utility is inverted, and it only takes a few moments to web search those stories up. Why we can't have nice things, a continuing series...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at June 03, 2026 12:09 PM (OUMaO)

247 Ford needs to fire the entire executive staff immediately. They've completely obliterated the recall record over the last 2 years. S*** starts from the top.

I don't think the UAW is off the hook just yet.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

248 Free Guy was a cool movie about AI becoming sentient .

Posted by: polynikes at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (WNOcj)

249 235
Is China doing that to us with AI? Using the AI tech war to make us build AI too fast and it then weakens the US? Then we aren't a threat when they take Taiwan back? Or am I too paranoid?
Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:04 PM (gtn0P)

The main reason to beat China in anything is because China is asshoe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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And we don't know the end result of AI. There are positives and functional uses. There will be more. This thread has cited positive uses.
AI planned the raid on Venezuela so it's not useless.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (e0ARE)

250 []The race to beat China is the race towards AGI, because if they get there first the outcome won't be in our best interest. It's FOMO at an international scale.
Posted by: Halfhand at June 03, 2026 12:09 PM (JsZm/)

China has been trying to build a stealth bomber for almost 20 years. Every year, they claim "almost."

They're not even close.

China isn't all that smart at a lot of things. They get most things by stealing it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

251 About 4,653 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles from the 2021 to 2026 model years in the United States are under a 'do not drive' advisory"

You know what's odd about that? The Escape and Lincoln Corsair are the same platform (Ford C2)... just assembled in, wait a sec...

Hmm. The affected were hencho en Mexico?

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (XuXeR)

252 Fuck you!"

-- Gerard Finneran
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

Hey, I'm dead. But it was worth it! Hahahahahaha!

Posted by: Zombie Gerard Finneran since 2004 at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (IqKsT)

253 247 Ford needs to fire the entire executive staff immediately. They've completely obliterated the recall record over the last 2 years. S*** starts from the top.

I don't think the UAW is off the hook just yet.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Sounds like a drunken assembly line problem.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 03, 2026 12:11 PM (e0ARE)

254 And Pets.com Begat Chewy… the great circle of life.

Posted by: tubal at June 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Gqar8)

255
I don't think the UAW is off the hook just yet.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 12:09 PM (Riz8t)

Well, yes. They've lead to the hiring of drunk retards and paying them $180k a year plus benefits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Zz0t1)

256 243 We pay $7/month to get all our groceries delivered. We save well over that by not buying stuff we buy in store because "oh man, that looks good!"

That sounds like a great deal. Of course, one could use the service just for commodities like canned goods, dairy, and other stuff that doesn't require selection of acceptable candidates, and just buy produce and meat at Costco.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

257 237 214 Freedom birds returning from Vietnam. Stews would always make the announcement that consumption of alcohol was prohibited on Military Airlift Command contract flights. Yeah, right. I forget how many guys fit in a stretch 8 but we were all hammered by the time we hit Anchorage for refuel.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 03, 2026 12:12 PM (gm9Sb)

258 Sounds like a drunken assembly line problem."

In Hermosillo? No way

Posted by: man at June 03, 2026 12:13 PM (XuXeR)

259 Nancy Pelosi had $10k bar tabs on military aircraft flying across the country and there hasn't been ONE STORY of her taking a shit on the beverage cart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

260 @overton_news
Gavin Newsom’s own gerrymander may have just backfired spectacularly.
California’s 6th Congressional district — that was recently “redrawn” by Newsom to help Democrats — now has an independent and a Republican in the top two spots to advance in the primary.

Schadenfreude for the hair gels psycho!

Fingers crossed for Pratt to officially make it to the final 2! I want a whole Pratt summer of anti Basura ads. They are fire. Please let Ramen be cooked.

Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:13 PM (gtn0P)

261 I've received at least two recall/repair notices from Ford in the last couple of years for my car.

I think the issue is less quality control or poor management than that cars are boogered up with all kinds of unnecessary bullshit gadgetry etc.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 03, 2026 12:13 PM (nTGnD)

262 There are a lot of lowlifes maxing out credit and EBT cards to get on flights nowadays. They’re the ones buying upgraded seats and premium in flight meals, most times because they didn’t earn the money and have zero concept of value. They are largely classless people with no manners and a sense of entitlement for everything. They’re rude, crudely dressed and fill a lot of flights. They turn what should be a pleasant experience into a trip down ghetto lane. Same for most cruises today.

Posted by: That Guy at June 03, 2026 12:13 PM (JW6Az)

263
Posted by: one hour sober at June 03, 2026 12:05 PM (J4Dwc)

Shit. I was looking at both of those yesterday.
Had a conversation with a Jeep girl at work (her jeep is frigging awesome) and she said when she looked at the front suspension of the new Bronco she was appalled. Looked weak and easily breakable. And as we now know probably not put together right to begin with.

I guess a Subaru Crosstrek is what I'm going to buy. Maybe take another look at a Jeep. All new cars suck now.

Posted by: Reforger at June 03, 2026 12:14 PM (TsnvK)

264 Nood Ewok.

Posted by: Nazdar at June 03, 2026 12:14 PM (NcvvS)

265 I order groceries all the time and honestly I've only been unhappy with the produce like one or two times. So either all the produce is good or the shoppers are doing fine.

Posted by: ... at June 03, 2026 12:14 PM (vQBGy)

266 >>> 239 Yea. I don't want anyone picking out my groceries for me. I'll spend the extra 20 minutes getting them myself.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 03, 2026 12:00 PM (iFTx/)

After watching the kids who fill the take away orders just grab whatever produce is on the top of the pile makes me not trust them to choose my food.
Posted by: LASue at June 03, 2026 12:06 PM (lCppi)

They can pick paper towels and dish soap such; no produce for me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 03, 2026 12:14 PM (R+iUD)

267 The crosstrek is excellent reforger

Posted by: ... at June 03, 2026 12:14 PM (vQBGy)

268 I saw one kid filling someone’s online grocery order who was sneezing and blowing his nose the entire time. It was like typhoid Marty.

Posted by: That Guy at June 03, 2026 12:15 PM (JW6Az)

269 We pay $7/month to get all our groceries delivered. We save well over that by not buying stuff we buy in store because "oh man, that looks good!"

I can't get someone to drive out to my place ONCE for $7. Much less monthly.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 03, 2026 12:15 PM (xbf8A)

270
That goes without saying. But are they trying to AI arms race us into economic instability because they are asshoe? And our tech elites are too stupid to realize it?

Posted by: LizLem at June 03, 2026 12:08 PM (gtn0P)

A brilliant, but asshoe, op. And politicians and tech bros don't seem to see the need for discernment when they are making decisions. The envelopes under the table are very fat indeed.

Posted by: moki at June 03, 2026 12:16 PM (wLjpr)

271
Arrived at our vacation home in north Israel a few hours ago. About to go out for sushi dinner with Mrs. BD.

Distant boom(s).

And now jets. Can't tell from inside if they're outbound or inbound.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Kuwait International Airport has come under Iranian missile and drone attack on Wednesday, in a significant strike that killed one person and left 63 people injured – according to the country’s health ministry, with several of the victims being seriously wounded.

A passenger terminal was directly struck, damaging facilities including diplomatic missions at the airport, Kuwaiti authorities have said. Area hospitals conducted seven major emergency surgeries following the incident, underscoring that it was a mass casualty event.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 03, 2026 12:17 PM (Cqx++)

272
Soon it will cost you money to turn your computer on.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM (O0L8i)

*scribbles notes*

Posted by: Adobe Inc at June 03, 2026 12:18 PM (FkdoK)

273 Reading Burton Malkiel’s “A Random Walk Down Wall Street” features a section on bubbles: Japan in the 1980s, biotech, the Nifty Fifty, even the Tulio and South Sea Bubbles. And of course the run up to Black Thursday, after which the stock market would not hit the highs of September 1929 until 1954.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 03, 2026 12:28 PM (T6aVk)

274
China isn't all that smart at a lot of things. They get most things by stealing it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 03, 2026 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)

Once they steal a couple of examples, they just stick the parts in a digital scanner or break out the dial calipers, copy the dimensions and reassemble. Then they spend the next 20 years trying to make their counterfeit work because they don't understand things like metallurgy.

This is the story of the Shenyang WS-10 turbofan jet engine, which started as a copy of the US/French engines used in 80s Boeing 737s that they picked up before they were embargoed after the Tiananmen Massacre.

Posted by: Adobe Inc at June 03, 2026 12:38 PM (FkdoK)

275 Can someone please explain the argument for AI becoming sentient? Because I just don't get it. It's artificial, but it's not intelligent.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 03, 2026 11:07 AM

Well, AI chat bots can kind of pass the Turing test.

The only problem with that is that the Turing test is a pretty low bar to cross and doesn't, in any way, prove sentience.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 03, 2026 12:45 PM (aTl7+)

276 I know some people who became millionaires when their startup network equipment company got bought for 3 billion dollars.

That company never shipped a final product.

Posted by: Ib1netmon at June 03, 2026 12:55 PM (BGIIP)

277 LOUFA!

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 03, 2026 01:07 PM (JNTt1)

278 I work for a Canadian company that has historically been known as an electronics manufacturing CM but has over the last decade become a significant products company in its own right. This company is now the single largest consumer of Broadcom's highest end switch chips on the planet.

We're moving extremely heavy into AI hardware development and are emerging as THE major competitor to Nvidia on the hardware front.

I've been in electronics manufacturing since the original boom of the latter 90s and this one, on the hardware side, makes that one look like a small excursion. Tens, hundreds of billions are flowing in. We can't grow fast enough. Our company is expanding NA manufacturing from ~1 million sqft last year to 5 million next.

When this bubble bursts, the devastation will be epic. It could be bigger than 2008-9. I expect the end to come in 2028, for political reasons.

Posted by: Sloucho at June 03, 2026 01:11 PM (jErBv)

279 278

When the reaping comes, it's going to be awful for everyone. History repeats... almost just in time for the 100th anniversary of 1929.

Posted by: Gaff at June 03, 2026 01:37 PM (EqzMw)

280 You didn't mention it, Joe, but the big bust of 2001 had a catchy title: the dot.boom.

I propose that the coming burst of the AI bubble be called the ai yiy yiy!.

Posted by: buddhaha at June 03, 2026 01:49 PM (ItK0N)

281 Yes or know?!

Are you using speech to text?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 03, 2026 02:08 PM (mYNxU)

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