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Cake day: December 23rd, 2025

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  • AI is bad for all industries. It just regurgitates jumbled up words and phrases. At best it’s a liability which produces sub-human level of work with no regard for morality or consequences, and at worst it will send your company into bankruptcy and ruin your reputation for as long as you live.

    There are three valid use cases for AI with few drawbacks:

    1. Misinforming a large number of people on social media

    2. Flooding online places with slop in order to prevent people from seeing real information, such as covering up political or financial scandals

    3. Making funny AI Cover Songs by Quagmire, Peridot, and/or Squidward

    For everything else, you will lose more than you gain.










  • Cobalt is easy to obtain outside of China but the issue is the Samarium. It can be obtained from Acid Cracking a mineral called Monazite which was once historically mined in South Carolina until a massive reserve was discovered in india, and it actually has a higher yield per weight than the Chinese Bastnäsite which can also be found in a couple of places in Africa.

    The problem is even if the USA could source from other places than China in theory, the actual infrastructure to do so is not currently in place, and furthermore the Trump admin’s capability in securing a deal for the future is practically nonexistent.

    Sometimes economists don’t/can’t factor in changes in production starting from near 0. Kind of like, any economist before the space program would have said a moon landing was 100% economically unfeasible.





  • If you think that’s a wild take then you will be surprised to find a user replied to my comment before you certifying that they 100% actually believe that. It’s called a “Tankie”, supporters of autocratic regimes in Russia and China, and by extension their military allies Indonesia, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. They have a huge presence on the fediverse because the developers of the Lemmy platform are Tankies themselves, which is why many users migrated to Piefed instances.