Varyk

"Enlightened" people on the left calling for sympathy for Trump supporters are wrong and working against compassionate national policy.

I's charitable to forgive, but babyhands supporters voted for a rapist who stated his clear intent to harm people with greater focus after harming people for years.

Actions have consequences and every cowardly, selfish maga idiot being harmed by their own choice is getting what they deserve.

The tragedy is the countless other people being killed and devastated because of cowardly maga voters.

Over 5 years for me too, and i actually called them up to ask if they were a scam the first month because it was so easy to sign up and cheap for unlimited data.

They said "no" and i said "okay".

Nope! Visible is owned by Verizon but fortunately offers different services and functions separately.

Human customer service, remote setup, actual unlimited plans, 20 bucks a month, no contracts.

Visible is functionally different and a better customer experience than verizon and other providers in every way, they just get to use verizon networks.

Visible with unlimited data and hotspots: more versatile, cheaper and less time-consuming than dealing with either of those fuckers.

You mean the independent source I provided several messages ago you're trying hard not to acknowledge?

You've got to learn personal and community responsibility sooner or later. You can make wild claims, but since they've already been disproved, you're going to have to provide evidence eventually.

This is kind of what I'm wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.

This is why you should provide a source, your numbers and associated assumptions are incorrect:

Chatgpt has estimated revenue of 1.3 billion, not 13 billion, neither of which are remotely significant as revenue streams relative to cost.

That's the thrust of my opening paragraph, and then you appear to have taken up my drop in the bucket analogy, so i guess we're on the same page now.

Yes; the included source and explanatory paragraph above in the same comment you are referencing.

Would you care to provide any evidence for your speculation that people are willing to pay enough for AI to sustain its costs?

Nope, you'll certainly need a source to back that speculation up.

Half a billion people are "using" AI and the total llm market cap is a few billion. On average, users may be willing to pay up to 50 cents a month for inaccurate word association.

Not even a drop in the buckets companies need to fill up with everything they're spending just on advertising, not to mention infrastructure, utility and upgrade costs.

People are statistically not willing to sustainably pay for llms, even if we assumed the rosy predictions of 20x LLM market caps in a decade.

Devil's advocate: Increased AI cash flow could occur if people don't realize their ai "search results" are paid advertisements, and considering longstanding obliviousness to directed advertising and the recent abolishment of US consumer rights...it could happen.

Chatgpt is constantly losing money, public surface-level interest won't matter much when the capital runs out and they're still accruing significant debt without any revenue.

Awesome, you got it!

I've also added the state programs information to my original comment, so I'm glad you brought it up.

I was kind of blown away when i first found about this and got into a long talk with a ranger who explained it all to me, so I certainly understand your skepticism.

Up until that point, I literally knew nobody who cut down their own Christmas trees, and now a few of my friends also get their own trees every year.

6 foot trees have fairly thin trunks, so all you need is any trail saw, I've even used a hatchet, and you'll harvest the tree in a manner of minutes.

Nope, but I understand your assumptions.

The US has conifers everywhere, and the link above is for a single collective of federally managed public lands, but does not include every other state-run and private organization that sells Christmas tree permits across the US.

If you can't find yourself in any of the states above, it's likely you live in a state with state-run Christmas tree programs. Texas, Oklahoma, any state not in the half of the US listed above will have other state resources for Christmas tree permits and many private tree farms, which are maybe 10 dollars more but offer the same service:

Buy a permit, drive there, choose a tree, chop it down, take it home.