Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.

I am really surprised your account wasn’t from ML. This seems very similar to the usual degenerate word salad you hear from the tankies.

Although I will give you points for originality, this is a somewhat new type of word salad.

4,000 ST in Geekbench 6 is a very high score by modern standards.

I initially read the title as “Understanding the impacts of generative AI use on chicken.”

Shipment/POS do not telling you anything about unfulfilled demand or “unrealized supply”.

It’s just how unit were shipped into the channel and sales at retail respectively.

These are the best data points that we have to understand demand dynamic.

Gamers are also a notoriously dramatic demography that often don’t go through on what they say.

That’s why it’s best to focus on absolute unit shipment numbers/POS.

If total units increased compared to the previous generation launch, then people are still buying GPUs.

I believe it’s at least partially tied to Android’s architecture, for example how you need to “optimize apps” on first boot.

When I read “open shell account server” I thought this meant anyone can get access programmatically. This sounded like a disaster.

But turns out, at least with the respect to this NetBSD specific offer, you have to send out an application.

Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC that AI Overviews have been good for the web, and AI Mode will be no different. Google insists these features send users to “a greater diversity of websites” and the traffic is “higher quality” because people spend more time on the links they click.

However, the company hasn’t provided data to back up these claims.

This is how we know they are lying.

It seems like gamers have finally realized that the newest GPUs by NVIDIA and AMD are getting out of reach, as a new survey shows that many of them are skipping upgrades this year.

Data on GPU shipments and/or POS sales showing a decline would be much more reliable than a survey.

Surveys can at times suffer from showing what the respondents want to reply as opposed to what they do.

No shit, he said he was wrong after the full scale invasion began. It would be very strange for him to claim that “the invasion” is not happening after russia invaded.

Before that he was openly parroting russian narratives about how US intel was incorrect and how the invasion wasn’t happening.

https://xcancel.com/Snowden/search?f=tweets&q=ukraine&since=&until=&near=

16 Feb 2022

Many times. Want me to say it again? “Russia should not invade Ukraine.”

The reason I don’t say it more is because it’s a non-statement: everybody agrees with it, even Russians. The only people who think slogans solve the problem are people who don’t understand the conflict.

Lying about russian attitudes. 85% (with adjustments for preference falsification) of russians support the annexation of Crimea; the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.

15 Feb 2022

I want to see an end to the conflict in Ukraine, and frankly, I think all reasonable people share that position. The question nobody seems to want to contend with is whether amplifying official claims made without evidence are reducing hostilities, or are in fact provoking them.

3 Feb 2022

TIME paints here a very different picture of the Ukraine crisis, reporting that it is a drive to censor and criminalize the domestic political opposition—a drive encouraged by the White House—that has brought some to believe war is the only option.

He even uses the russian term “Ukraine crisis” and blames Ukrainians for russian aggression (ironic considering how “open” politics are in russia).

He routinely promotes Glenn Greenwald (who said all Ukrainians are Nazis) and David Sachs, both of whom are openly supportive of russian genocidal imperialism.

I highly doubt you’ll change your opinion on Snowden. Generally speaking, it would be difficult for Snowden fanboys to admit that their hero isn’t the paragon of virtue that they claim he is.

I gave you a specific example. Do a search for his tweets before Feb 24 2022 regarding Ukraine. Note how he was parroting russian official channel claims that the full scale invasion is not happening and ridiculing US security services (that correctly predicted that it is happening). Now do a search for official russian statements on this issue for this period.

You can do the searching yourself or feel free to assume that I am lying in order to discredit your little angel.

Secondly do lookup on who he promotes and what kind of things they say about Ukraine. This includes individuals claiming that everyone in Ukraine are Nazis and that Russia invasion was justified by security concerns. Both messages are openly promoted but the russians.

I stand corrected, there is an example of him criticizing the russian government. Then again, this almost from 10 years ago.

I gave you examples from the last few years.

Snowden messaging is directly aligned with russian security services and their key propaganda narratives.

Look at his messaging before the full scale invasion; until the invasion he was distributing russian propaganda about how “the invasion is not happening” and some world salad about NATO and BATO.

He routinely promotes messaging supportive of russian imprialism and spreads known falsehoods.

Snowden does not critize the russian government. Don’t lie.

Elmo “Pedo Guy” Musk is merging Twitter with Fortnite. So the Twitter bots will now be playing Fortine while spamming Elmo propaganda in chat.

What exactly is not clear to you?

There are sociological methods such as list experiments that allow one to gauge preference falsification impact by comparing list experiment results to more direct polling methods.

List experiments on russian attitudes have been conducted on a wide variety of topics including support for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, support for the annexation of Crimea (pre-fullscale invasion) and support for putin’s regime (across time).

The results are damning for russian society.

This is not a novel methodology and there is research on this approach (in context of russia) going back decades. The quantity of research is large enough to allow for meta-analysis research specifically on this topic (again with damning results for russian society).

There is also qualitative research on this topic albeit it tends to have an element of subjectivity and you generally need to to know russian to understand it. For what it’s worth, there is a recent qualitative research project around “apolitical” russians in the province that dispels the myth of “russian innocence polemics” and shows that even “apolitical” russians in the periphery are largely commited to genocidal imperialism even if they are not that outspoken about it. The funny thing was this project was run by allegedly opposition minded russians (who have a strong incentive to downplay reality).

Care to answer my question now?

I will get to that. Believe it or not, you’re not the first person on this planet to think about this. 😆

But first, please indulge me and explain how some russians being prosecuted for anti-war views is evidence that most (many) russians oppose the imperial conquest of Ukraine?

How are these two things related? It makes no logical sense.

A strong majority is somewhere between 60 to 70 percent. A regular majority is between 50+1 and 60 percent. Usage of the terms in a such a context is widely used by respectable news organizations.

How can you be so sure about your assessment when any Russians who oppose the war are made an example of by the state?

Logically, how is the prosecution of anti-war russians related to the overall support for genocidal imperialism among the russian population?

A tiny “minority within a minority” could be prosecuted, while a strong or overwhelming majority can be committed genocidal imperialists. These two points are not contradictory.

Do you have any solid sources on this or is this speculation/polemics on your part?

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Did you read the article?

Can you explain the arguments without a web search?

Of course not, because you are just reciting online roleplay bullshit.

Give me something that would shows you’re not just a random degenerate lying about things you don’t understand.

This shouldn’t be difficult.

Don’t even bother aggressively googling for random shit. I will of course see through it because … wait for it … I lived in Russia during the 1996 election and I speak russian.