Bribes to local governments and police, mostly.

Unfortunately, the people pushing AI are the same ones selling recreational flamethrowers

It’s great for getting off the ground in a language you’re unfamiliar with. But a recipe for technical debt when used long term. You’re inviting spaghetti code with some real hair pulling bugs.

Walking in with my pants rolled up to mid-calf and the knees busted out like I’ve been giving head at the local truck stop for the last three weeks. I’ve got a full head of hair, yet I insist on shaving everything but the crown. I absolutely cannot grow a beard, and I refuse to get a proper shave. I’m wearing a watch in the year 2025, purely to show off how much money I can throw at one of the only allowed men’s accessories. Neck. Tattoos. There’s a 50/50 chance I’m wearing socks.

The entire cast of the Jersey Shore is lining up to get my number. Everyone else is staying at the distance necessary not to smell the patchouli.

Several of the apps traced back to Qihoo 360, a firm declared by the Defense Department to be a “Chinese Military Company." Qihoo did not respond to questions about its app-related holdings.

I have to wonder if this headline would be received the same way if it was “US State Department Accuses Chinese Internet Security Company of Conspiring With Chinese Government”, as all this seems to go back to a claim by Trump’s 2020 department that Qihoo leaked info to the Hong Kong police during the protests five years ago.

Still… Qihoo 360 appears to have been an active investor and developer in Silicon Valley since 2014. Chinese investment in the US isn’t new or even undesireable, as of a decade ago.

But consider how the US has also recently attempted to seize the US branch of TikTok and block domestic sale of Huawei phones. Add in the domestic freak out over Chinese AI companies outperforming their US peers. This could easily be American tech companies trying to freeze out their competition on national security grounds rather than Chinese tech companies posing a military threat to US domestic interests.

Would there be enough land for the crops once everyone went crop eater

Yes. Even despite absurd levels of agricultural waste (40% of our crops go in the trash, in large part due to poor refrigeration infrastructure, dismal labor conditions, and market price fluctuations killing a harvest season) we end up with enormous vegetable surplus.

Fish, shellfish, and other sea life are still a highly efficient source of protein and other nutrients. Crawfish, for instance, are basically an invasive species byproduct of sugar and rice harvests in the Gulf Coast. There’s little reason not to eat them, given you’re getting them whether you want them or not. Same with mussels and clams, as anyone who has had to clean the underside of a boat can tell you.

But the degree to which pollution and industrial fishing wreck coastal and deep sea habitats absolutely does make it unsustainable long term. We could live to see a future without tuna or swordfish or halibut purely due to our aggressive ecology-wrecking fishing practices. So it’s less a question of “Could we live without fish?” and more a question of “Will we live to see the extinction of fish?”

C is just a letter

It’s the successor to B, which was derived from BCPL (“Basic Combined Programming Language”)

Incidentally, C++ is a reference to how integer values are iterated in C. And then C# is a pithy take on C++ wherein you’ve stacked two rows of plus signs on top of each other.

There’s often some rhyme or reason to these names.

American Exceptionalism, Baby!

Maybe worked 4 hours over two years?

And you’ve got 450k cans in the back of your pickup?

Sure, dude.

Chuck Wendig is a Tumblr stream from 2010 that somehow keeps getting reposted fifteen years later.

He paid for a down payment with seven years of manual labor earning less than a living wage.

half a million cans over seven years

If the cans are only $.10/ea, then 450k only netted him $45k. It took him seven years to earn just enough to pay for the deposit, not even the house.

Real Boring Dystopia Shit

Seems to be the intent

They have a price that’s still hundreds of times above their earnings. The stock is comically overvalued. It isn’t crashing and it has nothing to do with Luigi posting. Air is just coming out of an equities market that’s been hyper-inflated since before COVID.

P(rice of stock)/E(arnings)

It’s not even about banning people, it’s about the fact that Reddit was never a sustainable business model from the start, at least not in the traditional capitalist sense where you’re actively trying to make a profit to please shareholders

If they’d been stalwart about banning automation and keeping original, legit human content pure, they probably could have used it as a fountain of fresh data for AI, for polling, for engagement farming, and for promotion.

The site was still growing even despite the admin induced atrophy. But they just couldn’t resist killing the Golden Goose.

It’s got triple digit p/e. The stock is doing fine.

millennials and generations onward have learned less and less maintainence skills to the point where most of us can’t sow or fix shit if it’s broken because we grew up in a consumer culture where you just buy a new one when the old one breaks

Planned Obselecence means a lot of modern consumer goods are deliberately designed to be difficult to repair.

More cheap plastic used for buckles and clasps. More glue used in place of screws or latches. More electronics soddered or otherwise made irreplaceable/inaccessible to an amateur. Shoes, in particular, leap to mind. Shoe repair used to be a standard dry cleaning service. It’s practically extinct today. Very few good ways to repair a modem sneaker.

My parents generation hold on to old items and they patch up their clothes and know how to fix shit around the house but they didn’t teach me any of that because the culture shifted and it wasn’t really needed.

There’s a time cost to repair and maintenance that’s often frustrating. I don’t blame folks for opting towards convenience. But I feel horrible every time I take out the trash, knowing how much plastic waste I accrue every month.

What about the transition.

It’ll likely be a bloodsoaked mess, given the history of these things.

Or, more broadly, when individuals are recognized as valued participants in the community rather than obsolete expenses to try and scratch off the books.

Realistically I can’t see either of those things happening.

Not under current business and political leadership, no. But with a strong union movement leading a next generation of working class people… maybe.