Fades

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[–] Fades 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel like it has to be a wink of some sort

[–] Fades 3 points 1 week ago

Just in time for nothing to happen when trumps picks defang the FTC (who has already been defanged plenty in the past)

[–] Fades 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How exactly is the rest of AI a different conversation???? Were talking about the power requirements of running AI at scale and somehow you think it’s not only correct but implied that this convo should just be about colloquial parts AI and anything else is a totally different topic in regards to power consumption?

totally deserving of the hate it gets

Yeah so breakthroughs in chemistry and other sciences for example, deserving of hate eh?

Nothing good comes from AI… when all you know about AI is colloquial lmao

[–] Fades 3 points 1 week ago

How is that a lemmy problem? Reddit and such have the exact same issues

[–] Fades 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes there is a shortage, a shortage of workers who are unable to say no without being threatened with deportation and compensated with far lower non-competitive wages.

The industry is flooded with American workers though

[–] Fades 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Bit of both, Mysk didn’t even complete his college degree. Being born into money does not, by default, correlate to intelligence

[–] Fades 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Are people not downloading huge torrents anymore?? How is downloading some large thing overnight a rare occurrence of bygone eras????

My only guess is that kids these days don’t know about pirating and instead stream everything or download apps?

[–] Fades 2 points 2 weeks ago

As a vegetarian who can be too tired to do much of anything after work, thank god.

[–] Fades 1 points 2 weeks ago

c u t e a l e r t

[–] Fades 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I’ll give you three guesses

ICAN was established with a $100,000 grant from the Selz Foundation. Its budget ballooned to $1.4 million in 2017, with one million coming from the Selz Foundation, making ICAN the most well-funded anti-vaccination group in the United States that year.[16] In 2019, the Selz had stopped their funding, but ICAN received $2.46 million funneled through the donor-directed charitable trust investment firm T. Rowe Price, out of total revenue of $3.46 million.[17][18] ICAN reported making $5.5 million in revenue in 2020, a 60% increase from the previous year.[18] The group received a significant part of its funding in the early days of the pandemic from the charitable foundations from investment firm that anonymize donations: $235,000 from Fidelity Investments' foundation (2021-22), $600,000 from The Vanguard Group's foundation (2020 to 2022), $400,000 from Schwab Charitable (2020 to 2022), $135,000 from the Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust (2020 and 2021). It also received $15,000 from Donors Trust (2021).[19]In 2022, ICAN received a total of $13.4 million in funding.[20]

In 2019, ICAN paid a salary of $232,000 to Del Bigtree as its CEO, $162,000 to its Executive Producer Jenn Sherry Parry, $138,000 to its Chief Administrative Officer Catharine Layton, and 111,000 to Patrick Layton as Creative Director.[1][21] An article in Rolling Stone states that Layton stumbled upon the anti-vaccine movement on social media after her two sons were diagnosed with autism.[3]: 1  By 2022, Bigtree's compensation had increased to $284,000.[20]

Despite spreading misinformation about vaccines, the group received a federal loan of $165,600 through the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020.[22][23] It also holds Facebook fundraisers, this contributing $23,000 to its bottom line in 2021.[18] Like other anti-vaccination groups, ICAN directs their Instagram followers to a fundraising tool.[

[–] Fades 1 points 2 weeks ago

So if that’s true then why did nobody buy Callisto protocol then? If it’s not about deadspace but instead about EA being greedy, then why did one of the original deadspace devs go and make their own legally distinct version of deadspace with a big budget and a brand new studio — just to see it fall on its face and fail?

Maybe the market isn’t interested at the moment as they’ve already turned their nose up at DS remakes from EA as well as spiritual successors from the original DS devs??

Oh, but EA can’t market add-on content? As if DLC story and new modes doesn’t exist?? You seriously think EA is incapable of developing DLC and charging money for it???

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