I’ll believe it when I see it

I’ll be blunt: I have absolutely zero faith that Schumer will do anything. He is unfit to serve or lead in any capacity. Fascist enablers are fascists.

As someone who takes a similarly nuanced interest in history, I truly appreciate you calling this out. There’s so much subtlety, no matter where you look, no matter what era is being discussed.

You’re willing to pay $none to have hardware ML support for local training and inference?

Well, I’ll just say that you’re gonna get what you pay for.

Wise is super easy to set up, and they let you do currency exchanges for pretty low percentage fees, but they’re based in the UK iirc. My plan is to use that as a transfer account once I can get accounts in the EU itself and Switzerland (maybe Japan too)

Ok? And?

I’m shifting a lot of my investments to non-US things.

I’m also opening some foreign accounts that are denominated in local currency, and moving some chunks of my savings there.

Translation: “we’re dangerously low on supplies in a bunch of areas and we need to rush some logistics in without Ukraine blowing them up”

I genuinely do hope Zelenskyy completely ignores this unilaterally-declared truce

Holy shit guys, seriously, watch till the end, it’s great

There is no such thing as active checks and balances anymore. That whole system is, as we speak, being actively proven to be completely meaningless.

Orangeboi and the ruling regime have already directly violated orders from the Supreme Court. Why do you think this particular decision is going to give him pause?

In point of fact, I’ve opened a foreign euro-denominated account and have started transferring some cash there, so that I am not starting from absolutely nothing if I have to fuck off from this place permanently. Gonna also look into getting a Swiss and perhaps Japanese account too, if possible.

I mean it IS retaliation though. It’s retaliation for thinking absurd tariffs are a great idea to apply to one’s allies.

And please do note that some particular countries who were until very recently considered geopolitical adversaries by our government (Russia; Belarus) are NOT targeted by any of the tariffs.

This is what happens when you switch teams, and all of your allies are not a fan of you switching teams, and they don’t want to be tied to your currency standard anymore.

lol yeah, the lemmy userbase is NOT an accurate sample of the technical aptitude of the general population 😂

You can get a Coral TPU for 40 bucks or so.

You can get an AMD APU with a NN-inference-optimized tile for under 200.

Training can be done with any relatively modern GPU, with varying efficiency and capacity depending on how much you want to spend.

What price point are you trying to hit?

lol I’ve been calling this ever since it became apparent that, shortly after “liberation day”, most of the holders of US sovereign debt all coordinated to start gradually selling their bonds. THAT is actual 4D geoeconomics chess. We shoot ourselves in the dick with tarrifs, hurt all of our allies, so they respond by putting our balls into a big fiscal vise and are all slowly turning the handle tighter and tighter together. If the imbeciles in charge don’t reverse course at some point in the VERY near future, this is going to lead to the USD being dropped as the global standard. And considering the shit we’re pulling lately, maybe that’s not the worst thing.

MLK’s movement was successful because the alternative was Malcom X

If my grandfather were still alive and tried to tell me literally anything about network maintenance, I’d say “ok sure grandpa, don’t worry about it”, and then do it anyways after he goes to bed, because I know how networking works as a component of having over a decade of devops and homelab experience, and he would never notice.

That’s not mutually exclusive with “we have better diagnostic tools now”. I would know, since I work at an oncology biotech. I help make some of the tools I’m talking about.