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  • unmagical@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.worldHow Are You Guys Handling This?
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    6 days ago

    Check Craigslist, FB Marketplace, Letgo–just general classifieds. Can generally find decent deals on 1 to 2 generation old PCs, especially if you’re near a US Military installation or college.

    Edit: just checked Boulder’s CL–10700k, 3080, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and 850w PSU and a 27in, 1440p, IPS Monitor for $1000


    • Threatens the environment
    • Threatens jobs
    • Artificially props up a failed economy
    • Steals
    • Lies
    • Used to replace thought rather than supplement it
    • Controlled by very few and impossible to ensure it is bias free

    What happens when the oligarchs insert machine instructions to promote a particular candidate or product? How do we know that hasn’t already happened?

    AI companies will destroy our land, water, air, and electrical grid, cause massive job losses and then just tell the people they willingly made to suffer to just “find a job.”


    Maybe in a country with competent social safety nets and regulations these are less of a concern.