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This will be the most consequential result of the Biden administration’s $Multi-Billion dollar foreign policy debacle which resulted in hostilities in Ukraine. It never would have happened if President Trump had not been cheated in the 2020 election.

Elon needs to switch to a lower dosage of whatever psychotropic drug he is taking.

Approximately 91% of Nvidia’s products are sold to businesses, primarily through data center, professional visualization, automotive, and OEM sales. Microsoft and Amazon alone purchase over 40% of Nvidia’s output. A large percentage of Microsoft's and Amazon's business is providing the servers which are the backbone of the internet. The demand for new AI services has caused their need for Nvidia products a great deal.

The remaining 9% go to people running LLMs locally (artificial intelligence apps) and gamers. Gamers outnumber people using home-based AI apps but this balance has been shifting rapidly. So, gamers are now competing with people who are setting up computers with powerful GPUs for running AI models locally for various purposes such as generating and editing video. This along with demand from businesses has not only caused shortages in GPUs but in memory as well. The price of memory has doubled in the last few months.

All I know it is the Russian Federal police.
I got it right, it is the Federal Security Bureau in Russia.

Good job! Sorry that I didn’t look it up.

When you put this all in perspective, what you have is this... For better or for worse, for around a thousand years Russia and Ukraine were tied together, by proximity, culture and language that started from the same roots, and people who are basically indistinguishable from each other by anyone outside of the region. Then for 10 years Soros organizations and Western Intelligence through hook or crook managed to pry the corrupt political leadership out of Russia’s control. This could and should have been a good thing. But largely because of ham handed foreign policy idiocy controlled by incompetent leadership this positive development ended up in a war which has devastated the country. None of this would have happened if the left hadn’t stolen the 2020 election from President Trump.

Glad to see you are still around. What does FSB stand for?

I have noticed a growing lack of interest from our Zeeper battalion recently. This type of thing means that the Ruskies have done what they do best... outlasting the attention span of fat Western couch potatoes. I assume that they sense that propping up a corrupt puppet regime to accomplish the goals of the Biden regime (money laundering taxpayer funds back to Democrat leadership and their family members) is no longer a worthwhile diversion compared to watching Matlock reruns.

Common you lazy clowns get off your butts and start calling people Puty Lovers, etc... again. The rest of us are already missing your entertaining antics and predictions of Russia’s demise.

Give me a break!!! Either he misspoke or the audio was doctored. Anyone who believes this is proof of anything is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

And yet flooding our school systems and universities with radical communist freaks and wackos has been just fine.

Disney has completely lost its way.

My neighbors two doors down moved here from an oil rich Middle Eastern country. She is a lawyer and he has all sorts of very expensive toys. They are definitely more intelligent than many of the other foreigners that live in our community.

Maybe spending a boat load of money on AI is a good idea. Even though I am a hobbyist and have a better idea than many about AI’s capabilities... I really don’t know.

Somehow this reminds me of tutoring students in the computer lab about 40 years ago. On of them was in his 50s working at that time in a lucrative profession as a plumber. He had plenty of work and money, but he was convinced that working as a computer technician was a field of the future and being a plumber was a field of the past.

He had no idea about any computer related subject. This would not have mattered except that he had very low aptitude for this subject. He was apparently able to screw or glue pipes and fixtures together well following a plan given to him by his employers and was well compensated for this but he was afraid this was a dead-end profession.

I have worked with plenty of Saudi people who were pretty bright and probably many can be taught to be good programmers or work with AI. But what innovative ideas have come from Saudi Arabia and do the people who come from there even understand what the potential of AI actually is?

I enjoy working with AI models and have a rudimentary knowledge of how to accomplish some “useful” tasks with them. And the “home lab” that I have set up. But the Saudis are just falling for the hype as everyone tends to.

Here in Washington State there is no need for all of the subterfuge. The employees at DOL locations who are largely DEI hires and don’t feel it is part of their job to keep foreigners from cheating. Anyone who does not speak English is able to have a helper assist them. But people are also allowed to get their CDLs from corrupt private schools and instructors.

The only law that cannot easily be broken here in this process is the law of supply and demand. So many people offer this type of “assistance” that the price paid by illegal immigrants or others who have limited skills or knowledge to get their CDLs is allegedly only about $500. After failing eleven different times, Harjinder Singh whio killed three people while trying to make a U-turn with is tractor trailer on the freeway in Florida paid only $500 to finally get his license through a corrupt school or individual. At this point the details are sketchy, but the sums paid for this type of malfeasance in this area are nowhere near $3000.

Even though the details are obviously known to the authorities in charge in here, they are going to outrageous lengths to protecting those responsible and calling the problem, “administrative errors”. No one has gone to jail or even lost their jobs over this. That is the way the system works here, and why things keep getting worse with every government agency in this blue state hell hole.

The roads around here have become some of the most dangerous in the country, and it is largely because nearly half the people on the road where my wife and I live don’t even speak English and drive in whatever way they are accustomed to where they came from.

Hyperbolic claims are not particularly convincing.

This depends completely on where you live...

“Salaries in Seattle Public Schools increase through a step system based on years of experience and educational credits, with top pay for bachelor's holders reaching $122,271 per year (Step 4). Teachers with master's degrees can advance to a maximum of $139,106 annually (Step 5), and those with PhDs or doctorates up to $142,523 per year (Step 6). The 2025-26 Certificated Non-Supervisory Salary Schedule outlines lanes for education levels (e.g., BA, BA+ credits, MA) and steps for experience, effective July 1, 2025.​”

https://www.seattleschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FINAL-Certificated-Non-Supervisory-2.5-2025-26.pdf

Most teachers in the surrounding area make similar wages. If you would like I can upload their pay scales as well.

Although there were a few doctors and engineers and business-people mixed in, my wife's family were largely teachers. Both her grandmother and her grandfather started out teaching in one room schoolhouses in Wisconsin. After they got married, they moved to a small town in Western Oregon.

Although he was born in the United States and served overseas in the military during the Spanish American War her grandfather was from a German speaking family. He had an accent and a German name. In the run-up to our involvement in WWI the anti-German sentiment was so strong that their house was burned down and the family with small children including my wife's mother were run out of town in the middle of winter. This was despite her grandfather being extremely patriotic and pro American even after this awful episode.

If it wasn't for the help of a non-teacher relative in nearby Washington, they likely would have starved or died from exposure. My wife's grandmother arrived in Seattle 9 months pregnant with children in tow and sank up to her knees in mud and manure trying to cross the street in front of the railroad station.

Her grandfather not only was able to find work teaching in small logging and mining towns in Western Washington, by the time her mother graduated from high school he was the principal. He later became the superintendent of a school district that included a number of schools in the area near where we still live. Her mother went on to become a teacher and vice principal, and her uncles became teachers as well.

Her great aunt Alice had become a successful businesswoman in Seattle after starting out selling home-made waffle ice cream cones on the street. She was the relative who was able to save the family. My wife's aunt who was also named Alice became a successful businesswoman as well.

He had a test...just 10 questions. A recipe required 6 ingredients for 100 breads loaves was one example. If you were only baking 50 breads loaves...how much of each were required. About half of the kids applying...could not answer the 50-percent question.

Arguably, the best way to use AI is to run open-source models locally. This means running models on your own hardware. In this way you can have a hand in training the models and maintain your privacy. This is becoming very popular for many good reasons and is spurring on hobbyists such as myself.

High end computers used to be built and purchased mostly for gaming. The number of computers being used for local AI doubled in the last year and many “gaming computers” are being repurposed. Computers for running AI models need lots of memory, powerful GPUs, and powerful processors requirements that are very familiar to gamers.

So, what are people using local models for... Obviously chat type applications, but the fastest growing segment is likely video and image generation, and restoration, along with editing and also music applications. The things these models are capable of is sometimes astounding and costs a fraction of what using commercial services to do accomplish the same tasks.

The AI gold rush for home users at this point is largely meant to circumvent paying out big bucks to the big companies that have spent $Billions developing AI apps that they have hoped would cause people to flock to them with their wallets open. In this way little guys are working hard to find economical ways to accomplish the same type of work the big guys want to now cash in on.

All of you anti tariffs globalist Nazis are indeed crazy and traitorous.

As constructive criticism. You should have stuck with your first statement and not destroyed any credibility that you might have had with the second. I don't have strong feelings about this one way or the other, but anyone who name calls the way that you do is only demonstrating that the arguments for or against are far over your head.

Many credit card companies offer free “virtual” card numbers if you ask for one or find the option on their website. The one that I use is from a card with a low limit from Citibank. The card number, expiration date and security code are used the same as any other credit card. But you can change it at any time.

Sorry, shoulda inc,uded in last post... where did ypu get lot version of windows?and it is it safe?

I have installed it on over 20 machines for myself and friends. No one has had any complaints. I have purchased most of the licenses from Gamer’s Outlet... there are others who sell it for less money, but I have no experience with them. There is literally always a 10% off coupon if you hunt for it on Google or other search engine.

https://www.gamers-outlet.net/en/buy-windows-10-iot-enterprise-ltsc-cd-key-microsoft-global