Ayyyyyy

Eh, World building has been rather quiet recently.

And that was the end of the wave for invite started social media.

The problem is that it isn’t an intentional design decision. It just happens to be the easiest way to add a “cost” to sign-up.

Pissed.

That won’t happen with its environmental laws unless solar takes over completely.

Unless the existing staff break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place running, management don’t care.

First, live somewhere that won’t be a target. Most of the Continental United States is going to suffer from a direct blast or suffer consequences of fallout. Then, after that, you’re going to have the degradation of various facilities which will release toxic chemicals into the environment.

You’re going to have minutes of prep time to decide what to do, so don’t expect to be able to leave where you live if you plan to hunker down until the attacks are over then move.

They’re greedy, not stupid.

Don’t you understand, the Fediverse is serious business!

According to the US military, it takes 64 weeks to learn Japanese as a native English speaker as it would take 26 to learn Spanish as a native English speaker.

Say what you want about the US military, but they likely have a lot of data in learning how long it takes for native English speakers to learn other languages.

Except that the payout for those bets are generally done so that the house takes a cut of the overall action. The vig is baked into the payout for sport outcomes; betting on all the outcomes equally isn’t going to probabilistically give you the payout equal to what you’d buy in.

Well, the Lemmy devs have stated that their goal isn’t to design a system that scales well and it shows. Part of it is that there may be a future where there are too many new users for a mod team to handle, especially if the barrier for signing up is extremely low.

Unless I’ve got some insider information on specific athletes or I’ve done enough statistical analysis to gain a statistical analysis to gain an advantage over the house, I don’t see myself getting positive expected value.

Also, it is in the interest of sports books for a rumor like that to propagate.

Gambling with any company is going to be negative expected value. However, I feel the same way gambling with individuals where the expected value is zero.

Most rockets are designed to not rely on aerial flight to provide lift. Because of that, it is more efficient to point the rocket “up” in locations of thicker atmosphere to reduce fuel burn in locations of high air drag.

If you point the rocket slightly above horizon, a lot of the rocket’s energy gets lost in overcoming air drag.

If you point the rocket below the horizon, the rocket’s energy gets lost in resisting the drag of the ground.

I don’t do it because it feels like I’m throwing my money away.

I ain’t got time for bird sex, I wanna fly.

I only keep the window screen closed when it is light outside but the cabin has been dimmed. If the cabin lights are on, the window screen is up.

People mention the AI bubble popping because the rest of the American economy is already shit. The housing market is already seeing prices drop from Covid highs. Most major brands are going up-market because the typical consumer market is tapped out. Almost all non-AI tech is on the right side of the S curve, limiting growth.

The only thing good about the market right now is a bubble that keeps blowing up.