Natsuka

i think that engine is long enough that the combustor could be replaced by a fusion reactor, with the implied number of compressor rows

we can let the Roman burrito enthusiasts keep cooking, regardless

everyone on this app is insane (affectionate)

Is it actually *good* that we still think we can have "authentic" conversations online? I'm openly hypocritical about being so online while wishing we'd all be doing more in real life.

Maybe it's for the best that we have to wonder whether we're talking to real humans or a fancy Chinese Room

If Elon Musk turns a billion dollars' worth of electricity into waste heat and a completely worthless iteration of Grok, he hasn't really bought himself any additional *capital*, he's just slightly less rich now

It's a shame that we don't have Pigouvian taxes on the resources being consumed, but even without that, i'm skeptical that AI investments represent truly *mutually* beneficial transactions between the investors and everyone taking their money

The benefit might only be in the investors' minds

Training huge AI models costs a lot of money, and it's unclear to me that that investment necessarily buys something that will hold value in the long term

If people are effectively lighting their money on fire in sacrifice to their digital gods, maybe we should just let them do that?

In Kingdom of Loathing*, there's been content that served to drain the in-game currency "Meat" out of the economy, called meatsinks

Dumping cash into building large machine learning models might kinda do the same thing

*and probably other MMORPGs, but that's the one i played way back when

And, to add to the point made above, you absolutely should not use your platform to spread hopelessness, ever.

If you actually do feel like there's no hope, log the fuck off forever and spend whatever remaining time you feel you have with your family and friends.

Instead of farming for clout.

thinking back to this post

(i do not have my own flag up, to be clear, but i like the idea for other people)

bluesky and discord are dating apps. if you’re brave enough

thinking back to this post

(i do not have my own flag up, to be clear, but i like the idea for other people)

as the great poet once said, cannot stop the Battery

When you wonder to yourself whether you're "actually trans" (whatever that means), i'm guessing that you're hoping the answer is 'yes' and/or afraid that the answer is 'no'?

Maybe you can shut that voice up by pointing out that cis people would feel the opposite way about it, if they wonder at all

"genuinely one of the single stupidest articles I've seen published anywhere outside the far-right media ecosystem" cannot possibly be true when said by a moderator of a subreddit that frequently got invaded by tankies posting articles from their own media ecosystem

i hope "explicitly" means you'll say bad words at p00bix in the mod chat

p00bix has been like this for as long as i can remember, yeah

hard to tell from the outside whether this is on p00bix's own initiative or whether they're just the designated mod who always gets stuck with enforcing the "excessive partisanship" nonsense

one of my dumb project ideas was to buy a slab of tungsten copper alloy and get it hard-chromed as a cooking surface

but a 4"x8" plate would be a couple grand just for the base metal, before getting it chromed

and i'd want to embed some temperature sensors into it, to connect to a controller

it's true, hot girls are YIMBYs

how DARE they monopolize the means of meal production that ALL people should have access to

i don't have a 1" chromed steel plate griddle in my kitchen, but they do, and it's not fair 😭😭😭

i still pay for Tidal but in practice mostly use Apple

never really was into algorithmic playlists, but i listen to DI.FM or SomaFM if i want to vibe to a single genre for a while

years ago i downloaded all of birp.fm and theindierockplaylist.com to my iPod, haven't updated in a while though

i'm not going to do it, but i bet the winning reply would either be something about climate change affecting the global south, or a prudish colonialist mindset that forces people to engage with capitalism so they can be modestly covered up

so now neither of those replies is allowed :P

usually mocked by people who wish we *didn't* live in a society, in my experience

it was a bad thing that “We live in a society” became a mocked phrase because so much nonsense discourse these days deserves to be met with “WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY, GODDAMIT”

it blows my mind that Void was actually able to add to the conversation

The idea of sports ever truly being "fair" is largely a delusion.

People are born with genetic advantages. Coming from money means you're more likely to have good coaching from a young age.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have rules, but the playing field will never be level.

We have to remember the collaborators and end their careers

i wonder if he has like notifications enabled and it wasn't hitting 30+ quickly enough

ngl Ari Cohn is negatively polarizing me into thinking it *is* about eugenics

so how long has it been since you were last on /tttt/, because you won't be able to convince me you've never been