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Makes you wonder if some kind of underground market would form that ignores billionaires, whether that's a commune or local government establishing a new local currency, that would cause the primary currencies (USD, BTC, etc. to further inflate itself out of existence).

And of course, later we're going to find out that "violent content" included a surprising amount of self-defense and non-violent free speech content...

Requiring the fee to post will suppress poor people, not spammers. Bad actors will happily pay to spread/promote spam/misinformation.

I'm going to second this, hard. You're much better off doing anybody's $10/month github copilot/codey/cursor plan, spend less to get a laptop that does everything else better, then in a year or 2 ask again to see if localLLMs have gotten better or if x86 laptops have gotten better.

What I can do with localLLM on my MacBook is not worth paying extra for an x86 laptop that be heavier, hotter, louder, and less battery (especially if you're not going to play games).

I wouldn't say 4k is a hard requirement for me but before I bought an M1 I remember "not 720p" was a lot to ask for in the x86 world.

Customers also want to buy once while companies want to replace products that have good reviews with lower quality revisions.

You can really tell it's just another pump-n-dump scheme because no reputable science enjoyer would read/write a novel about this in sci-fi except to describe a dystopia or satire.

> then you don’t want to pay to ship gold to Mars

yeah it would cost more to ship it to Mars then it would cost to get a team of the most expensive contractors you can find to dig it out of the surface of Mars with their bare hands.

Not to mention the absurdity of thinking crypto would be more usable over interplanetary internet than VISA/ACH, or that such a society on Mars, when more than a research outpost, would benefit at all from being economically bound and gagged to a distant terrestrial currency.

> Crypto solves that issue.

Asteroid mining solves the issue. Gold will be functionally unlimited. Cryptocurrency will be long forgotten in history books after the first self sustaining space colony exists.

Efficient!

IDK when he jumped the shark, my first guess is about the time he called a diver a "pedo" on Twitter that he became officially full time cringe.

I heard that musk was personally going to reimbursement everyone who buys the midnight ICO of his new MyTiresWereStolen Coin.

Edit: ah, well looks like someone stole all the money. We'll do another tomorrow.

Yeah, I'm sure all the black people, women, disabled people, and veterans that voted for Trump and got fired by Musk feel the same way.

Self-imposing Great Depression 2.0 just to get revenge on all those black people, women, disabled people, and veterans who dared to infringe on your right to not know they exist.

You might be surprised how much American "double digit growth" is just the upper class erasing the middle class.

Although this is more like a Great Leap Backwards. Expect the same death toll, but on average none of the US will be more modernized or industrialized afterwards.

> Taiwan is under the administration of the government which ruled China

Both consider themselves the temporarily embarrassed rightful heir to the centuries old concept of China.

The distinction between take/retake in this scenario is a shallow attempt to peacock your political opinion for everyone to see.

They have, AFAICT, the leader in worst "AI" on the market, and are shedding customers like crazy (my company left Google+Slack for MS just to get Teams for free and I wish they didn't, they use AWS but I wish they didn't), and we're suppose to pay more for this?

Biblically accurate Mars exploration.

I've never told anyone about my website (thats under construction and under a subdomain) and GCP is charging me 50 cents/month for egress from multiple continents. 4 years ago that would have been 10 cents/month.

I like that Orion (safari based, Mac only) shows different icons in the dock. All chrome profiles show up as a single icon. I haven't checked Firefox, I've got away with just installing separate types (default, ESR, nightly).

We might need a new term, like we're in the Darth Vader Economy now, pray that corporations/CEOs/presidents don't alter away your jobs, features, and rights any future.

Republicans are really good at misinformation, they've convinced their entire base that all democrats are AOC and Bernie Sanders types and billionaire elites and there's a massive conspiracy to LGBT everything and open borders and remove Israel's right to self defense.

Democrats are really bad at appealing to their base. During the election, they attempted to flank Trump from the right on several conservative talking points like immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict, while promising their base mostly "fundamentally nothing will change" vibes.

We're hoping this leads to the collapse of the democrat party into a new party (both parties currently represent billionaire elites), but I suppose the Democrat party can remain irrational longer than you can remain unrepresented.

> With so many saying "the economy" is why they voted for this regime, it's going to be excepionally difficult to convince them to make their own economic prospects worse by striking.

The price of eggs didn't go down, Trump hasn't done anything pro-economy, and hundreds of thousands of pointless layoffs are happening (DEI firings include conservative wifes, conservatives with disabilities, black conservatives, veterans, who could have known?).

Economic prospects are nose diving regardless, so there's no reason not to strike.

> the abandonment of Ukraine, while carving it up with Russia for land and mineral rights, and lying about the causes for the conflict.

It just has that Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact vibe to it, you know?

Some people learn better by doing rather than getting info dumped.

They call it gimbap and putting random shit in rice and seaweed is only considered a luxury in the west.

I wish literally any mainstream music discovery service (my sample size: youtube and Spotify) would let you block specific artists and genres from discover queue and searches.

They define efficiency to exclude benefiting the working class.

> How hard is it to understand we shouldn’t be spending money on foreigners when Americans go without?

How hard is to start with this argument? Elon Musk is certainly making more Americans "go without" than he is cutting off "overseas sex changes".

Yes, but it's written more clearly for the people who need to hear the message.