Post #550497

2026-03-06 09:48 UTC

»The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to be put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.« (received by mail)

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@marijn@chilemasto.casa 2026-03-06 11:09

@slowbiex@beige.party observe, the efficiency of capitalism.

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@polmalvinas@rebel.ar 2026-03-06 11:22

@slowbiex@beige.party that seems to be the most *accurate* description of an economic bubble, I have ever seen

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@electricfusionQ@muenchen.social 2026-03-06 11:28

@slowbiex@beige.party

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@reallylazybear@mastodon.social 2026-03-06 12:46

@slowbiex@beige.party I even read that Microslop ceo can't even use that ai hardware they got cos they don't have enough power lmao. Meanwhile the average person has to think about what they need and want to buy in this fucked up economy And they cry cos people call them Microslop and their AI crap slop. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ceo-says-the-company-doesnt-have-enough-electricity-to-install-all-the-ai-gpus-in-its-inventory-you-may-actually-have-a-bunch-of-chips-sitting-in-inventory-that-i-cant-plug-in #microslop #windows11 #microsoft #windows10 #windows8 #windows7 #windows98 #windowsvista #windows95 #windowsxp #copilot

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@davidbcohen@twit.social 2026-03-06 13:56

@slowbiex@beige.party @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Which is why we can’t have nice things anymore.

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