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“anyone who tried to harm the robot would be identified and arrested.”

But what if you sneak up and dress it like a Dalek, maybe with a speaker that yells out, “IT IS THE DOCTOR! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!” That cannot possibly be a crime.

Besides the earthquake, there was also a literal rain of fire across the planet, like a blast furnace, that likely killed everything that wasn’t underground or underwater.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dinopocalypse-redux

Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.

I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.

Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.

Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.

As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers’ computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it’s a more efficient keyboard as long as that’s the only machine you’re on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.

Should that not be properly, “Oi, cunt!” ?

Why does Baron, being the tallest Trump, not simply eat the other Trumps?

Constructive = one after another

I think you mean “consecutive”.

I find this hypothetical posed by this social media user to be poorly phrased, somewhat irksome and deficient in interpersonal empathy. I will use my considerably greater mental resources to consider why this user felt obliged too ask this hypothetical, and provide a suitable answer.

Yeah, but you can use it for demand smoothing: store the collected solar during the day and use that at night.

I am in complete agreement.

There’s a region of Venus that’s not horrible. It’s basically a band in the atmosphere where the ambient temperature and pressure is relatively Earth-like, so one can arguably be outside with just an oxygen mask.

Never mind that a long lasting floating habitat has not been built on Earth, much less thirty million miles away.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus

it gets dumber

In six months, ChatGPT will be talking up Brawndo, because it’s got the electrolytes that plants crave.

There actually is a Dinosaur BBQ originating in upstate New York. Sadly, the only actual dinosaur they have on the menu is the chicken.

if you make millions of Legos in mass production it reduces costs to make them dramatically to a point where the Lego Group has basically no operating costs to make them anymore

That’s how economies of scale work in general, across many, many industries.

On a somewhat related note, your Lego example is more gloriously intricate than you may realize. So, you’re spend a lot of money to make a machine to produce Legos at close to zero cost. What happens if someone the next city over thinks they can make a better machine and undercut you?

One way to protect yourself is with the law. You set up intellectual property protection for your Legos and sue everyone who makes “Lehos”. This works for a while.

But problems come up. Intellectual property protections have a time limit. They also have a jurisdiction limit, as some guys in a different country, say, Xhina, don’t respect your country’s laws and start making those Lehos.

What do you do? How does your company survive?

Well, you can leverage the other valuable part of your company, the brand reputation, to do things that Lehos can’t, like make deals with other intellectual property holders to make themed Lego sets. So, you strike deals with Disney to make Star Wars and MCU sets, with Warner Brothers for those Harry Potter designs, with Microsoft/Mojang for Minecraft Legos (because they’re a perfect fit). That’s something that some random plastic injection mold company in China can’t do. You’re motherfucking Legos, not dipshit Lehos. You can do that, as well as open company stores and theme parks that are tourist destinations.

So, Legos survives, and not just that, but prospers.