Yup, i'm gonna make my last goodbye post on Gab today. I refuse to use the internet without VPN and also to give Tuba any money.
I've been mostly just posting memes there for the past year or so. In the biggest meme group there with nominally almost 200k users i've rarely seen any post getting more than 500 views in total. And i've been getting the same or better engagement numbers here on NCD.
I don't think all of Gab even has more than 100k active users in total now. And the VPN purge will diminish that number even more.
It was nice while it lasted i guess.
Let's see if this VPN restriction will last or if the protests will force Torba to yield.
Either way, the free internet and social media are coming to an end.
Until then, NCD will be my only social media home now. HEIL @matty :nicechan_salute:
Yeah the graphics and art direction of MH:Wilds are as unimpressive as its performance is atrocious. Doesn't look good, doesn't run good. What the hell were they thinking?
Don't doubt it is. How about you make a sitewide poll on how much users here would be willing to pledge monthly for AI? And another one for which features they would use it for most?
Well, at least for me, unless you can make it work very cost effective like by utilizing a high performance, low resource open source model like Deep Seek, it'll probably not be worth it.
If the current, rather limited userbase of NCD can barely muster enough donations reliably to pay for keeping the site running as is, i doubt the disposable income is there to finance a costly AI feature.
Unless you find a way to use it commercially in a way that makes it self sustaining without being reliant on commuinity financing. I mean, there are quite a few creatives here who could profit from a good generative AI, provided its performance is actually decent enough for the job. Which probably won't be easy.
Besides that, i personally prefer to keep AI as far out of my life as possible. That shit isn't gonna end well for humanity if allowed to proliferate much further methinks.
I think he'll actually pull through with this. At least considerably reduce US military presence in Europe and have its NATO members shoulder more financial responsibility for their own defense. Which they won't be able to do, thus weakening and exposing Europe to Russia, which now sees the EU/NATO as an existantial threat and strategic enemy it'll have to deal with decisively eventually. European nations will have to choose between keeping up their social and retirement systems or expanding their militaries to fill the vacuum left by the US withdrawal. Which will lead to mass impoverishment, economic distress and widespread societal destabilization of the EU, while still being unable to create an effective defensive military infrastructure.
Which will lead to WW3 by Russia invading a weak and ailing Europe with its modernized army before the end of this decade, as long as it still has the necessary demographics for it.
Frees up more money and military potential to give to Israel or fight Iran with. I guarantee you that most of the money savings Trump is trying to do by cutting all that government waste and shutting down the Democrat gravy train via DOGE, happens mostly only to redirect more of that money towards the Greater Israel project. American citizens may get some minor tax reductions out of it so they're more motivated to fight for Israel.
Literally every single thing Trump does must be scrutinized under the premise of how it benefits Israel or world jewry first and foremost.
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