The only reason I ever want more is because there are things I want to do/create that require resources.
...starting with space, and time. Definitely could use more time. (Is there a get-rich-quick scheme for that? :blobcatthinking:)
@ObsidianUrbex Now I'm trying to imagine disco hits played in a [faux] mediæval style...
Maybe like the "Brave Brave Sir Robin" song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but the lyrics are from "Stayin' Alive"? :blobcatthinking:
(I am clearly a corrupting influence on civilization.)
Jesus Christ, Superman
you are going to fix all those buildings you knocked over while playing with your little friends
Suppressing Nazi ideas is kind of like defending yourself when someone attacks you.
The former doesn't make you intolerant any more than the latter makes you a warmonger.
@Kalshann Going back to ask a friend who self-unalived why they did it, and numerous other questions. (This is assuming a "can't change the then-relative future" rule.)
Just out of curiosity: does anyone know a university doing a tenure track search next year in technical writing, rhetoric, writing studies, women's and gender studies, or similar fields that's in a safe state?
Asking for no particular reason.
@servelan ...because their biggest donors think the middle class was a bad idea, would be my guess.
@gwynnion I've been calling this "the financial singularity": extreme concentration of wealth creates a distortion in the space-time-governance field (known to econophysicists as "regulatory capture"), which then accelerates the accretion of wealth. At some point the distortion becomes so extreme that the escape-velocity of money will be faster than that of light, resulting in an invisible and absolutely unaccountable fiscal black hole that will absorb all wealth within reach while projecting distorted views of everything around it.
"There are some who say that this has already happened." -- The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
#funny #humor #CatsOfMastodon #cat #caturday
Edit: it’s "Warrior Takes Armored Cat For Walk", by Noguchi Tetsuya, 2014 thanks @billstatler 🙏
"It's the wrong trousers, Gromit!"
(That said, there now needs to be a protest-movement called Occutrousers. The name just says something definitive about careless use of technology. (See also: "cdesign proponentsists"))
@alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
@lauren There's strong circumstantial evidence that TikTok is trying to do exactly this -- squeeze out all the human creators, then use their past material to train an AI model to generate material using their likenesses (and possibly their deleted accounts), effectively for free, and then that becomes the overwhelming majority of their ad-revenue generation.
When we reclaim the world for democracy, all the highway money will go to the most sustainable and low-maintenance forms of transportation.
I have said it.
@cwebber My favorite alogical gotcha was on G+ where a neolib troll named Noel Yap said basically "if you think poverty should be eliminated, then you should sell your computer and send the money to Africa", or something along those lines.
#GeometryNodes will have a new Sample Sound Frequencies node in Blender 5.2. It allows creating animations and simulations based on audio data without having to use non-procedural workarounds. #b3d #devfund
I strongly suspect that the problem there was funding, as it often is with community-driven forks. This is, in my view, the big problem that we in the open source fan/ally community need to solve, somehow... 🪄
