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And lets not forget, by buying it from NVIDIA, they enable higher profits, which generates money that NVIDIA can invest into OpenAI to buy more stuff from NVIDIA.

And also, if you’re going to soon have more stuff, you can take a loan on those assets that you will soon own to buy more assets that you will soon own!

That has to be a joke

time is the one resource Big Tech steals that we can’t ever get back.

That’s an odd argument, since DIY takes significantly more time than just buying a solution.

By… Stepping outside and talking to people? I think all neighborhoods have that ability, even if we don’t really use it much.

Because you, and everyone, is in a huge bubble.

Normal people don’t give a shit where stuff is hosted, or if it’s hosted at all. The vast majority of people couldn’t care less what happens to their catpics if their phone gets crushed and they don’t want to use a separate messaging platform just to talk to you.

The things you think are important absolutely don’t matter to them. Most people don’t give a single second of thought to where their documents should live, and will just download it again on a second device instead of synchronizing anything.

It’s really nice that these things exist, but why would someone do anything with them if they literally don’t have a purpose for it?

Joke’s on you, my country is tiny, so I can just visit them frequently anyway

That way, mommy and daddy can easily chuck the sealed poop bag out of the nest.

There are only two types of games nowadays. Everything that isn’t AAA is labelled “Indie”, even when they’re with major publishers and have three dozen devs and a hundred externals.

Nah, if you hold arsenic in my general vicinity, I’ll feel extremely emotionally uncomfortable, but physically fine.

flamethrowers

Flamethrowers use oil products, which are part of petrochemistry. “Petro” comes from the Greek word for “rock”.

Magical forcefield though.

Zero times over my life.

I had great parents, who had a rule that I could just tell them any fuck ups and mistakes and they wouldn’t get angry and help me.

On the other hand, I was an incredibly boring teenager whose worst bad habits were staying up too late reading books in bed.

Yeah, those are the sane people I mentioned

The worst one I saw was some human-shaped piece of garbage telling people that cancer is actually a fungus and drinking alkaline water will kill that fungus. And if the twelve thousand dollar alkalinization machine is too expensive, they also sell bottled alkaline water.

I was about to explain how water alkalinity is pretty important to environmental scientists (and probably a few more groups that I don’t know about).

And then I googled it.

And now I’m even more disappointed in humanity than I was before

Or that the feed is ‘heavily curated’.

The projection is strong with them

“local authorities were swayed by the dissent and nearly turned against the government, so the government sent the goddamn army to crush those authorities too.”

It’s an ancient tankie tradition, after all. Hell, it doesn’t get more traditional than where you get the name from.

“to donate, send Bitcoin to…”

Yeah nevermind

Lots of people do that. It’s how they end up in crippling debt.

OK, let me rephrase, because i’m misrepresenting the book.

Colonizing Mars is extremely, insanely complex and we have no idea how to even start, and there are SO many better places that we need to try first unless we’re just willing to throw away lives (and trillions of dollars). It goes pretty deeply into all the stuff we either don’t know but need to know, or know but can’t fix, and of course there’s all the stuff we don’t know we don’t know. It discusses the insane logistical effort you need just get the bare minimum going, and how it’s not remotely like living there for a year, or colonizing a new country.