Were you older than 12 when you first tried to play it? Because that’d do it.

I was 12 when I played it and I loved it so much that I wrote a convincing essay on why it was the greatest game ever. I then freehand drew the logo as a cover to the essay. I attach a copy on my resume.

I’m not doing the burning. I don’t plan to vote if my values and principles won’t be represented. How could I possibly have any blame for what others are doing? Blues have a historical political advantage and they treat it as a means to get away with fucking people over harder than they would in normal times. If they want to needlessly make it a zero sum game then that’s the game we’ll have to play.

My local politicians represent the issues I care about well. I emailed the white house saying they need to do the same if they want to earn my vote. I’d rather watch it all burn down than take another fucking step towards all housing owned by corporations.

They leaned their strategy pretty hard into mining when that was on the table. They for sure chase trends and alienate their base. Any way to juice near term profits and they will. It’s working out for them right now, so surely it will forever.

The converse is that SEO spam has become better at the game than google, despite google’s best efforts. It’s a less comfortable thought because how could a bunch of unorganized distributed actors out compete the one of the world’s richest company at their bread and butter game. The alternative is that one of the world’s richest companies gave up playing their bread and butter game.

>see headline

“Oh cool. What fun and inventive thing is Microsoft doing?”

>reads first line of article

“Oh it’s for AI. Gross.”

The economics aren’t there. A cellular chip and a subscription will not pay for the private conversations of a random house.

That’s 50x smaller than an EV battery. Being able to drive once every two months doesn’t seem practical.

There is 1.4E21 kg of water on Earth. 0.03% of hydrogen is deuterium, a suitable fusion fuel. H2O has an atomic mass of 18 and O has an atomic mass of 16, so Earth has 4.7E16 kg of deuterium readily centrifuged out of ocean water.

D-D fusion converts about 0.1% of mass to energy (4 MeV / c^2 / 4 Daltons). E=mc^2. So we have 4.2E30 (420E28) Joules of fusion fuel ready for us on Earth. We used 2400 TWh of energy last year. If we used this amount indefinitely then we would have 485 billion years of fuel.

Bonus: deuterium depletion would have virtually no environmental effect.

Speed of light in glass is 33% slower than in free space.

Regardless, in most scenarios that people notice latency it’s from sitting in router buffers, slow CPUs, bad software, and slow last mile. All of those things are fixable, so tricks to lower the fundamental latency floor, like laser beams in space, is pretty neat.

This is not a Just World fallacy because I’m not talking about justice or people getting what they deserve. My assumption is that OS developers are competent. Until I see otherwise I’ll maintain that assumption.

If there were better options then they would have been adopted.

If you’re asking because you don’t know how truly awful and scary AfD is: AfD is truly awful and the prospect of them gaining control is very scary. One of the world’s richest people can make things happen in politics.

If you’re asking because Musk supporting right wing politics is well known: yeah but see above. AfD is scary shit.