True, mortgage does not increase over time. As long as I stay put it is somewhat limited but over enough time that will be a significant factor.

True true, I try to invest most of the difference, hopefully that will be worth something too when I need it.

My rent is around 1800 euro, if I’d buy this apartment, my mortgage would be around 3000. That’s for more than half a mil. After 30 years I’d have paid off more than a mil.

The company I rent from just got their financing much earlier, and in very big quantities. (Eg it has 100s to 1000s apartments and houses.)

Every year I make more money, every year the place I live is more difficult to buy.

That would be nice but as the “proud owner of medical issues” it’s much more often: “You have this, we don’t know why you have it, this is how we can manage it”.

You still want your doctor to be knowledgeable of course, but you also want them to use the best tools at their disposal. Most of them probably couldn’t tell you how an mri machine works exactly either.

You don’t always have to know how it works to rely on it. Most people could not tell you how a computer works but they are able to do better work.

We can verify that it’s better in some tasks than people. E.g give doctors and the AI 1000 MRI scans of potential cancer patients and it can determine it more accurate than doctors. So there they already are a help.

It’s already used in advancing different fields, for example reading texts of ancient burned scrolls without opening the scroll since that would break them.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/05/ai-helps-researchers-read-ancient-scroll-burned-to-a-crisp-in-vesuvius-eruption

But also medicine creation etc.

And with learning, yeah like books, they help you to learn faster but are not a requirement. Same here I can learn much faster now. But I will verify what it tells me.

— But I’m not sure if all of that outweighs the shit. 💩 The genie is already out of the bottle, no putting it back.

I think AI so far is detrimental to society.

• It made it too easy to flood the world with bullshit.

• Also it will make tracking peoples behaviors much easier while keeping plausible deniability on levels that past horrible regimes could only dream about.

• It will be used to make replacing workers more easy.

• It is being used to deny more healthcare (eg Luigie’s case)

Pro’s

• Can be used for good (eg in the medical field) by finding issues sooner and making better cures

• Using AI to actually learn though is a great tool.

• Other scientific advancements

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All in all I think it with social media is one of the biggest reasons the US is in the state it is.

The training corpus of these large models seem to be “the internet YOLO”. Where it’s fine for them to download every book and paper under the sun, but if a normal person does it.

Believe it or not:

The Google Graveyard will be littered with the bodies of people now. Fuck them, move to something better for the world.

It looks that way because Costco’s stock per unit is around 10x of that of Walmart.* Costco did grow more in five years. 220% vs 150% of Walmart.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COST/

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/WMT/

*There are many mode units of Walmart stock so the company is worth more in total. But you’d be better of buying COST five years ago. For the soul and wallet 😄)

Those companies always gravel, in China Taiwan is probably called “China’s island resort 🏝️”

Yeah early Netflix was great, now it’s too fragmented. Like a Tidal or Spotify would be useless if they would be fragmented on the same level.

I saw a link on Lemmy to a “GoG” clone on which you can download all games for free.

Like of all the places not to pirate I would assume the company that enforces no DRM, direct downloads that you can save indefinitely and that makes older games work on newer hardware, would be on the top of that list.

Since those are such common complaints on why to pirate.

Next to that they have deals often where the prices are already really low.

Competing with free is near inpossible.

Ah yes, we can sell the poor men’s car that needs it to go to work and survive, but if you are better off, we can’t touch it.

Sending the audio to an LLM in the sky. But I assume it would be local?

Back in the day I remember people building cd/dvd changers with Lego to rip and burn at scale.

https://redfrontdoor.org/cd-changer.html

Well yeah, you’ve got to create a new generation of republicans.

Ah yes after Trump is like I’d buy it. If the people want to be independent that is up to them of course.

Yet many “leaders” exist, managing poorly but getting paid more.

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