Food, housing, clothes, education, healthcare and leisure? You don't deserve them for just being born.
A Substack account, though? That is your inalienable God-given right as an existing human being.
bitofhope
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Thank you, I meant to include a nitter link but forgot.
Reminds me of this game, where you try to spend billions https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
When I was a kid my mom told me not to drink from the garden hose and that was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up not wanting to be blasted in the face with a pressure washer. A strange authoritarian impulse.
During WWII everyone computed on slide rules which had zero transistors. Then they invented the transistor which had one transistor. Then they started making mainframes and Ataris and C64s which had like what, hundred or thousand? Then they invented computers and Windows and PS1 that had maybe a million transistors. And then we got dual core CPUs which had double the transistors per transistor. Then they invented GPUs which is like a thousand tiny CPUs in one CPU. Then they made i7 which probably has like a billion transistors and Ryzen which has ten billion and RTX4090 Ti has 79 billion. Now they say China is going to make a phone with trillion transistors.
That's called exponential growth and assuming perfectly spherical frictionless nanometers it will go on forever. In eight to twelve years schoolchildren will be running GPT6 on their calculators. We will build our houses entirely out of graphics cards. AI will figure out cold fusion any week now and Dennard scaling will never hit its limit, right?
Nobody knows and it's impossible for anyone to know so let's all just assume I'm right.
Oh, so when ISO does it everyone loves that but if we do it it's suddenly cringe? Stop canceling my freedom of speech you SJW implementoid.
Trying to get my product certified as standard compliant but I keep getting rejected because my accent makes me say a word in a wrong way
a spec that famously specifies nothing
I have read some specifications that get surprisingly close to this. You might think it's the worst failure mode a spec can have but frankly there are some specs out there that would be improved by specifying nothing at all instead.
Not far off, per Wikipedia
in 2007, [BB&B] acquired Buy Buy Baby, a chain of baby supply stores founded by Feinstein's sons
I agree though. It's not hard to imagine a crowd of mostly millennial redditor men get nostalgic for companies like Gamestop, AMC, Blockbuster or Blackberry, but I didn't exactly imagine them being a demographic big into a big box furniture and interior decoration store. Ikea, maybe.
Liberalism failed to end history after all, so anticapitalism is popular again. You don't have to be a leftist or even have a coherent political worldview at all to resent the billionare caste. "It should have been me" is more than good enough for many.
Triggers, the exact thing you want more of when already working with footguns.
I'm not sure when deplatforming became a dirty word in the first place. Freedom of speech doesn't entitle anyone to a platform. It's not a crime to express whatever views you have, but you may need to bring your own soapbox.
Or maybe deplatforming is bad and an affront to freedom of expression. If that is the case, I will let you know on the next episode of Joe Rogan. If I'm not invited, consider me silenced by the cancel culture mob.