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For everyone rage baiting for Clicks about the God of War spin off in the underworld, just skip the spin off game. Kratos is getting another game and if you hate the story that much, then skip that too, the remakes of the OG games are coming. Vote with your wallets.
Cory Barlog confirms more Kratos stories are coming
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During his interview with the God of War Laufey director he pointed out that Kratosโ story isnโt over
โthere's always going to be Kratos gamesโ - Cory Barlog
Rumors mention a Kratos game in the works in an Egypt mythology as the next mainline game
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Itโs all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and theyโll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.
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THE AI SCAM IS COLLAPSING AND THEY'RE PANICKING ๐ฅ
๐คฌ๐ฅ๏ธ Jimmy Dore and Garland Nixon break down how the AI math isn't mathin'.
Data centers are bankrupting their own customers. Here's why:
Cloud AI = Corporate AI. Rent your brain back at 1000x markup. Tokens add up fast โ faster than employee salaries. Scale up? The bill eats you alive.
Local AI = Independent AI. A $250 Nvidia card in your closet runs offline storage and private apps cheaper and better. No subscriptions. No surveillance. No scam.
But that doesn't make oligarchs trillions, does it?
Surprise โ it's another wealth transfer. Trillions to a handful of companies who can't deliver what they sold us.
THE LIE:
For two years: "AI will slash payroll! Replace workers! Unleash productivity!"
Wall Street ate it up. Stocks pumped. Workers got canned. Execs cashed out.
THE REALITY:
Every. Query. Costs. Money.
Code reviews. "Helpful" suggestions. Background agents.
Multiply across thousands of employees making millions of requests.
The bill looks less like software and more like a ransom note.
THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW:
Cloud = handing your clients, secrets, and liabilities to a server farm that data-mines and resells everything.
Why would any business want that?
Because they rigged the game. Locked the infrastructure. Same five companies own every exit.
THE DATA CENTERS AREN'T FOR "BETTER AI."
They're for SURVEILLANCE.
Every prompt logged. Every conversation analyzed. You โ legible, trackable, replaceable.
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY:
They spent decades saying labor was "the problem."
Now compute is the problem.
More AI adoption = more tokens burned = bigger bills = harder to justify the layoffs.
That's not disruption. That's a bait-and-switch.
WHO PAYS? WHO PROFITS?
Workers lose jobs. Communities crumble. Investors lose.
The executives who sold this fairy tale? Already cashed out.
We've seen this movie:
๐ Housing bubble โ "Everyone gets rich!"
๐ Globalization โ "Endless prosperity!"
๐ฐ Zero rates โ "Permanent growth!"
๐ฃ Neo-liberal order โ "Peace through hegemony!"
Now: ๐ค AI โ "It'll solve everything!"
Same scam. Different logo.
THE QUESTION THEY CAN'T ANSWER:
If AI is cheaper than humans...
WHY IS EVERY COMPANY PANICKING ABOUT AI COSTS?
Why throttle usage? Why "unlimited" plans getting limits? Why hire "AI efficiency consultants" after firing half the staff?
BECAUSE THE MATH DOESN'T MATH.
THE OFFLINE REBELLION:
While they build billion-dollar surveillance palaces, the real solution sits on a shelf:
$250 machine
Private storage
Your data stays YOURS
No subscription. No surveillance.
Independent computing = independent people.
And independent people are harder to milk.
FINAL THOUGHT:
When your "cost-saving technology" generates bills rivaling the payroll it replaced...
That's not a revolution. That's a warning sign.
The bubble is leaking. The execs are exiting. You're holding the bag.
Again.
@jimmy_dore@GarlandNixon