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Why do insufferable nerds always dream of a world full of autonomous self-driving cars?? Driving cars yourself is fun. gently caress the self-driving car crew.
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fishmech posted:It's both. But also that Elon Musk craves evil. If evil has a chance to get us to Mars and the rest of the solar system then I don't care.
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Nov 18, 2017 20:00
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Couldn't you just spend 2 billion dollars on homes and, you know, end homelessness?
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Sep 15, 2018 06:43
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Space is Cool, Good, and worth every penny spent. Please do not reply to broke-brained sad sack Ace of Flames.
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Oct 26, 2018 20:28
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gently caress this weird Facebook crytpo currency poo poo. I'm tired of this awful gay world.
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Jun 18, 2019 14:45
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Disruption was never about shaking up the market to bring on some imagined dream of competitive battleground of small firms. It's also about finding a way to insert yourself into an industry, become a middle man, and squeeze some profit out of rent-seeking.
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Aug 26, 2019 15:03
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Oh no, what ever will people do if they can't order a grubhub or take an uber. Imagine being slightly inconvenienced.  For real though, I'm having trouble figuring out which of these VC suction holes is an actual linchpin of society.
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Oct 15, 2019 23:47
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I will never install any of this 'smart home' poo poo, loving christ. It blows my mind how people get so excited over it. Smartphones always listening is bad enough.
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Nov 5, 2019 03:06
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Mega Comrade posted:At some point they will just become the standard for new builds. Lmao at the idea of ever being able to buy a home.
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Nov 5, 2019 16:07
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Steve French posted:So do you not get contacted by recruiters on a regular basis? What field do you work in that this is a thing? How could you possibly believe this is common? It's not a loving thing for working people, that's for sure.
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Nov 17, 2019 01:42
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Do people not google a potential date's name and info before going out with them anymore?
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Dec 3, 2019 21:15
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I am really loving tired of Elon Musk.
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Dec 12, 2019 23:01
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Xarn posted:There is actually a whole bunch of cultures that make different awesome meals with veggies, but based on the reactions here, we will have to make meat substitute anyway, because eating veggies as veggies is still haram Have you actually tried the new generation of meat substitutes? A Beyond or Impossible burger is actually tasty as hell. You're giving off a "heh, stupid Americans" vibe. e: to be clear Americans are indeed very stupid, but looking down your nose at folks doesn't make you cool either.
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Dec 29, 2019 19:02
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LookingGodIntheEye posted:Alright a less shitposty post. That's the same justification drug dealers use when they sell fentnyl laced heroin to junkies.
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Every time I see Mark Zuckerberg I cannot help but to think of the famous Jaws quote. His eyes are dead, they are dolls eyes. He is an absolute sociopath.
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Jun 3, 2020 05:30
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Mars for the Martians, IMO.
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Oct 31, 2020 23:18
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Fame Douglas posted:There are always idiots that expect tech to take amazing leaps that are wholly unrealistic. Just think of how many people these days imagine we'll be colonizing space and end up a multi-planet species, or flying at warp speed in the future. We'll be colonizing our solar system, at least, if we can get our poo poo together this century. Planetary and space colonization are well within our reach. Warp speed, tho? I'll leave that to the physicists and mad scientists.
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Dec 11, 2020 02:11
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Fame Douglas posted:No, planetary and space colonization is absolutely not within our reach. We won't be colonizing even our solar system. Do you have evidence to back up this assertion?
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Spazzle posted:Do you have evidence to back up your masturbatory nerd fantasies? ...everything required of space colonization is well within our current technological grasp. There's no breakthroughs to be made, it's simply a matter of political and social will to do it. I thought this was really well-established by this point, my bad. If you want to talk about specifics you could hop into the Space thread here in D&D or the Space thread in the Science & Academics subforum, where this is really normal conversation.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:It's kind of reductive to say right now that even hundreds of years from now solar system colonization won't be possible (considering all of the poo poo that people said was impossible) but whether or not there will be a critical mass of humans left is another story Pretty much. It's a question of when, not if, but depends on us solving our climate crisis.
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Dec 11, 2020 03:09
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Mister Facetious posted:Yeah, having actual families doesn't really make sense within our lifetimes. Government-backed/corporate research is possible, but the pie-in-the-sky dream of moon mining doesn't really make any sense. Unless you find a solid ball of rare-earth metal near the surface, unrefined ore wouldn't be valuable enough to ship back in quantity when industry numbers are measured in hundreds to thousands of tons a year. The dream of resource extraction in space isn't for the purpose of bringing resources back to Earth, with some exceptions. The idea is that building an extractive and manufacturing infrastructure in space makes everything else (further exploration, colonization) incredibly, fantastically easier.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Pointless because you are a secular person. Religion has motivated people to do things that are insane. We have been normalized to the idea that space travel is a must. So even if people die doing it we will absolutely find reasons that justify the suffering. "We're doing it because we want to and it's interesting" is justification enough. Human beings explore, it's in our blood, it's a fact of nature.
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eXXon posted:Since this is apparently troubling you deeply, I apologize for my split-second decision to derisively refer to the head of an organization as a capo - an Italian mafia slang term that also literally means head - in order to exaggerate for effect, mistakenly leaving the impression that I consider their activities to be genuine organized crime rather than just mildly sociopathic. This time there wouldn't even be the moral hazard of existing residents.
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Dec 12, 2020 01:27
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LionArcher posted:Anybody talking about the garbage around Pornhub because of that lovely piece written a few weeks ago about think of the children? The major cards are pulling out because Mind Geek has apparently done jack and poo poo to keep revenge porn and other non-consensual recordings off of their services. Not to mention unverified and underage stuff. Do you have more info that paints Mind Geek in a better light?
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Dec 14, 2020 21:02
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LionArcher posted:I’m opposed to all of those things as well. And you personally taking a swing at me turning this into it being about me being a creep is just boring and lame. I’m personally friends with people who have worked in the industry and plenty of them are going to be hurt by these broad arguments instead of specific cases. My impression, and that's just what it is, not super into the adult video world, but my impression was that Mind Geek was pretty much single-handedly responsible for the destruction of the established adult industry. At least in the US?
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What in the living hell is "hypno-porn" ??
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Dec 29, 2020 20:48
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Ruffian Price posted:People seem to mass migrate to those platforms that provide the one feature everyone wants, "a chronological list of every update from the people I follow", before they get bought out and replaced with a copy of the News Feed They really should be treated like public utilities. People want Facebook from 2006, not Facebook from 2020. The problem is that Facebook of 2006 made little to no money, and Facebook of 2021 is one of the most profitable and powerful companies in human history, and the degeneration of the platform is directly tied to its increasing profitability.
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7of7 posted:I wish I could get billions of dollars from the federal government to blow up grain silos in the desert. I guess its fun to make fun of failure, but...this is what advancing technology looks like. You build poo poo, test it, learn from failure, and repeat. How do you think we put American Astronauts on the Moon?
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Feb 3, 2021 21:06
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7of7 posted:Certainly not by blowing up billions of dollars worth of grain silos in the desert. This looks more like what would've happened if we gave a billion dollars to that guy who killed himself in a home grown steam rocket. Ok well at least you're only claiming that it looks stupid to you, and not that you actually understand the process of advancing spaceflight technology.
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Doggles posted:https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1371467173059776514 Oh yeah I'm sure it was *definitely* a mistake. Oopsy! e: oh i thought this was uspol. this is probably the thread to discuss crypto! How are u fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Mar 16, 2021 |
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aware of dog posted:Oh I’m sure this will go swimmingly This is absolutely wretched, what the gently caress? They know exactly how toxic this poo poo is for adults and they want to do it anyway.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:is harvard actually a good university i thought it was just the expensive class-signaling one that you need to be related to rich people to get into You can get a world class education, but that's not the primary purpose of schools like that.
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Mister Facetious posted:Reminder that the filter isn't bleeping others, it's bleeping you, the streamer, before you can have an "accidental gamer moment". Oh my god I just assumed it was the other way around. Jesus christ.
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Ford will be releasing a hybrid truck, soon. It could be a game changer in the US. A fully electric F150 as well.
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enki42 posted:Looking at the fuel efficiency of larger vehicles (a highlander) vs. the Prius it uses nearly double the fuel though. While I agree hybrid / EV trucks are a good thing, I do think there needs to be a push to get people into smaller vehicles as well. For sure there's always going to be some demand for pickup trucks, but a good number of them IMO are purchased more as status symbols / cultural identifiers than a genuine need to have one. Oh I wholeheartedly agree. If I were king I would ban all those ridiculous chud bro trucks like yesterday.
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I have a car similar to a 2007 yaris, and I plan to take good care of it and drive it until it falls apart because i dont have $10-15k to spend on a new car.
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His Divine Shadow posted:10-15k is a fuckload of money to waste on a car. Frankly this post oozes privilege. It is a pretty big chunk of change. If I had that kind of money I'd use it to pay off debts, hopefully allowing myself to start saving for a new car in the next ten years. But some people live luckier lives!
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Aug 10, 2021 18:20
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It seems like it would be a nightmare to try and operate a car where everything goes through a touchscreen. Yeesh.
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Motronic posted:I'm struggling to find the actual market for that truck. The battery tech just isn't there to do most truck things I'd be doing with a truck. I wonder how far that thing would pull a 9,000 lb trailer. Pretty much. It's a gateway to EVs for the lovely middle and upper class white conservative men who love their little dick commuter trucks.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:I teach teenagers and plenty of them can't type (on a keyboard) and don't know how to use a computer. I'd say the majority. Phones/tablets are their exclusive outlet to the digital world. Would you be willing to elaborate on your experience? How do the teens feel about typing? How do the lack of these abilities seem to affect them in the context of your class or assignments? I find it a little concerning, so I'm curious.
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