I am bolth

What sort of psychopath schedules an 18 minute meeting?

The unbounded profit motive, or more simply greed, ruins everything. This happens across time, continents, cultures, everything. It’s human nature, or at least common enough that we’ve never been able to do anything more than slow it down temporarily.

To be clear, that means they are all terrible for you. I think that’s pretty much universally true of anything you can buy in a gas station.

If voting didn’t work they wouldn’t try this hard to stop you from doing it

Come over here big boy and I’ll find you a handy

You people, I swear. I said specifically that I’m not arguing for increased population and yet your whole response is structured like that’s exactly what I said we should do. Do you even read what you respond to or do you just scan until you find the right key word to launch into a rant?

I’m not arguing for population growth but we definitely have more than enough resources for everyone now. Scarcity isn’t the problem, it’s that we allow people to hoard those resources and we waste a ton of them.

I know it’s not the point but you should just not buy stuff from Amazon at all

I like the memes here but I swear every comment section is 50% dedicated to some turd in the punchbowl who wants to make it political. Leave that shit in the politics subs

You know what it says you dumb bjtch

I’m mildly disappointed

I am curious if I’m on the list but not enough to find it and look. I guess I’ll never know

That’s certainly what it looked like to me. Not so much “I want to be here” but “my people didn’t tell me what to do after the medals”. He looked like a confused old man shuffling about.

You’re already paying for public schools. Might as well use them

That’s pretty cool, but it isn’t going to help AI data centers get bandwidth faster any time soon. Most fiber in the ground today, especially the kind of long haul fiber being discussed here, isn’t hollow core. Laying new fiber across the country is arguably just as difficult and expensive as building these AI data centers and it’s spread out over very long distances. It costs more than $1/ft to lay relatively cheap fiber in rural areas with no permitting fees and it only gets more expensive from there. Fiber builds between major US cities cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Additionally, glass based fiber can do these same speeds and even higher today. Granted, this reach is about 40% longer on average at 200 km without a regen, but that doesn’t save network operators as much money as it sounds like it would. Not enough to justify overbuilding their entire network with hollow core fiber, that’s for sure.

Why do you take cold showers in the winter? That seems like a poor personal choice if you don’t enjoy the cold

43C is 109F, which is what the headline says.

That house is a nightmare for any craftsman working on it too. You can pretty much forget about most external DIY stuff. Straight lines make for easy projects. Even crooked lines that are supposed to be straight are better than the curves and twists on this thing.

They built the cyber truck. A “ketamine fueled cartoon abortion” is one of the nicer ways to describe that vehicle.