Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn’t even understand what that means. And many wouldn’t care. People don’t seem to care about things, even as those things chew them up.

Getting peers on board is probably the way to go.

Elden Ring and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead”. That’s… interesting. Elden Ring is very self serious, so I don’t know what happens when you add in semi self aware satire.

Justices shouldn’t be allowed to have investments. Their wealth should be in some sort of blind trust where they don’t know where it is.

Alito should be removed from power. Any box of justice will do.

Because they’re assholes. They don’t care about making a good product. They care about making money. Even though they already have a lot of money, they need more. No matter the cost.

Oh I remember this story. I thought it was by Asimov or Clarke, but I guess not!

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

Sadly, most people won’t learn anything from this. We need a way to get the average idiot informed.

Good. The penalty should be enough that it’s not something you can just shrug off. Scale it with wealth. Make repeat offenses lead to the license being revoked. Mandatory community service.

Many people are worse than toddlers and their moral framework doesn’t go past “I shouldn’t do that because I’ll be punished”

I’m still in the “Microsoft can fuck off and die” camp, so I don’t imagine I’ll be using this.

The people pushing these AI chatbots should be liable. Make them do farm work. Reconnect them with the earth.

I’m pretty happy not using Spotify. I will continue to do so. My library of drm free music (mostly from Bandcamp) is just fine.

Perhaps I should have written “simple” instead of “easy”.

But yes, the road to implementing solutions is blocked by rich people and class traitors.

People online often use “introvert” interchangeably with “social anxiety” and “agoraphobia”. Someone will be like “if I have to make a phone call I have a panic attack and vomit lol so introverted right?”

I’ve used example.com in tests because my understanding is that domain is for examples and tests, and it’s pretty harmless if something accidentally really sends an email

Break them up. Fine them for anti competitive practices. Bar their leadership from working similar roles for life. The solutions are easy.

I read “dying of whiteness” a couple months ago and it’s literally that sometimes. Some people would rather die than let those people have nice things.

The culture, probably. Post scarcity. Live as long as you want.

It varies.

I was employee #50 at a startup. Prior to my joining, they had a lot of incredibly poor practices. No release management. Few automated tests. Around when they hired me, that stuff turned around.

The CEO was kind of a controlling jerk, but was kept in check by the other founder. When that guy left, it got worse. The org also accrued layers of sycophants. The soft skills of knowing how to weasel your way into the CEOs favor paid off.

It’s not really based on merit. It’s all based on emotions. Building a cool thing can help, but that’s not enough on its own. You could rewrite the code base so it’s bug free and easy to expand, but if management doesn’t know you or understand that, it won’t matter. Meanwhile, the guy who’s always at his desk making a lot of code shaped noise to management might get promoted.

You can be pretty sure a hand written note isn’t AI slop, at least.