@zeenix This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "helicopter parenting". :blobcatthinksmart:
@riley Nah, that's ancient history. Time to let go of the past! Move fast and break things!™ (Dang libs and their ✌️safety✌️ ✌️concerns✌️.)
Thing I didn't realize until just now: It is theoretically feasible to land on Uranus because, unlike Jupiter and Saturn, it actually has a discrete (though liquid) surface and the gravity there is less than Earth's.
The one thing I'm not clear on is how the surface-pressure compares to, say, Venus (the literal acid-test of probe survivability).
...not that there would be a lot to see, on a global sea...
(Maybe they should put some move all the AI data-centers there.)
"Throw up the switches on the Plausibility Maximizer, and step up the datacenter power THREE MORE GIGAWATTS!" -- Dr. Frank N. Furter as an AI Bro
(...is it time for a RHPS parody about techbros and billionaires?)
@riley ...vibe-submarine-testing?
I wonder if we can get SpaceX to unironically embrace the slogan "Vibe Rocketry". 🚀 💥
@artemis ...and I came across a relevant quote just now:
People who don’t shoulder the burden don’t like it when other people do, for the same reason anyone who refuses to do the work before them dislikes it when somebody else does the work. Suddenly their claim that carrying that load is unrealistic, impossible, and untenable is revealed as a shirker’s lie, and it raises the expectation upon them. The only options left to the shirker are to either lift their own share of the burden, or to cast aspersions upon the reputation of those who have exposed them.
-- @JuliusGoat , Are you Pulling, Or Are You The Rope?
(P.S. ...though I must admit, I can't be picturing the rope metaphor properly, because it isn't making sense to me.)
I wrote about the way that killing people seems to just be another cost of doing business, and a modest proposal for a reversal in the ways our systems of commerce, government, and law operate that just might provide an effective deterrent.
...the billionaire had decided that the blue check was the reason certain people had achieved a measure of celebrity...
OMG, did he really believe that?? I thought he was desperately scrambling for some positive revenue, and then using Happy Words to justify the decision.
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Seems more like "accidentally telling on yourself".
...or maybe not so accidentally.
(The virtual-JDV isn't saying "both sides do it", he's saying "that's what we stand for and deeply believe in, how dare you attack it".)
@MaryAustinBooks Calling it "popular" is perhaps a bit overstated; it has way underperformed projections, from what I understand.
@pzmyers has written much about this piece of buffoonery over the years.
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