It’s a two way street even if it’s designed to not feel that way. They were right to reject you, because they already fucked up on your end… Maybe piles of money could’ve brought you back, but it clearly wouldn’t have been a healthy match
You buy a thing, you end up being able to get $30k back
If I wanted that stupid looking car, I’d be overjoyed too. Especially if I think I can return it again and get it even cheaper
My friend asked me today if global trade really benefits the US so heavily, why is it so hard to afford things?
Rent. Healthcare. That’s it - it’s so insanely expensive to survive in this country that it doesn’t matter that games are cheaper than ever - the switch 2 is cheaper than the Nintendo 64 adjusted for inflation, the games too.
Food is cheap, entertainment is cheap, tvs and computers are cheap… But that means nothing when you have no disposable income
Luxuries are cheap now, but it doesn’t seem that way because living is unaffordable
Yes. It’s all over the place, no clear lines really
Oh, you’re missing the most important part of the meta:
CEO: We just did that the consulting company told us
Consulting company: We just make recommendations
Kinda the key to ecosystems in general… How many times do we have to learn this lesson to understand it?
Competition is good… Let them compete with the steam deck. Competition is good, even if it just highlights how much better the existing option is
Lack of competition is why capitalism fails - competition is literally the only good part of capitalism. Cheer it on when it actually happens
True, but the second you can’t buy enough food at the grocery store it all goes poof
If we stop, even for a couple weeks, the system collapses. If a third of people stop showing up for work, if a third of people steal their food rather than pay for it, if a third of people stop paying rent… It all just melts away like a snow flurry
Money means the value assigned to it - if it can’t feed you, it means nothing. If it stops moving, so does ‘the economy’. It’s so much more fragile than it seems
That’s wasteful and dangerous
Harvest the beast for batteries and GPUs
Okay, so like ac in a capacitor smooths current, right? As opposed to DC, where it stores energy?
Imagine a positive and negative terminal with goo in the middle. Atoms move around it randomly in diffusion, but charged atoms are pulled left then right in oscillation. On average, they’d be in the middle
Those ions impart positive charge to the side they’re on, so if your cycle is off in one direction or the other, they’d be pushed to the opposite conductor - smoothing the current
I’m not just talking about an insulator - I’m talking about an insulator fluid enough for ions to travel through based on the charges of the…I forget the word in this context, it’s anode or cathode
Like rubber? Great insulator, but it’s solid - you can’t make a capacitor out of it (or a gate, but that’s more about heat conductivity). So dielectric insulators must be fluid to some degree, right?
Well, at least it’s set for 1/1/2027. By then, free speech will be long gone anyways or we’ll have gotten our act together
I’m sick of this constant fight to stay in place. Fuck the Democrats, we need a party that will do more then slowly cowtow to the fascists
Not really. We don’t have to live in a society where every idea is used to extract wealth or exert power over others… We just happen to live in such a society
I mean, there’s no such thing as a perfect insulator (at least nothing we can build with)
It definitely resists the movement of free elections through… But think a capacitor let’s ions flow, grease is a sort of fluid…
So I’m thinking it must be a material that let’s atoms move around to some degree, but resists the transfer of electrons
What do you mean? It’s a problem in your way, it takes how long it takes to get through it
I love the in between, where you have to actually adapt algorithms to useful situations
It’s like 2% of all the work I do, but those moments stick with me
Perception filters? Absolutely they could be used for good… Being able to put window dressings on your reality is basically the AR version of deep dive VR
Not even that… Kids do it IRL, because they hear it so much online
I’d argue the tech is never the problem - it’s always “how can a bad corporation/government make this neat idea a dystopian nightmare?”
It’s so invasive too… Hearing kids self censor for advertisers, like “unalive” or “pew pew” is deeply disturbing
Our language is being artificially pushed towards Corpo-speak
Press your middle finger against your thumb. Pull the middle finger down, but barely stop it with your thumb. Play with that hand movement