We were all 19 or so and he was an idiot idk lol
I didn’t really hang out with him or know him before or after that night
We were all 19 or so and he was an idiot idk lol
I didn’t really hang out with him or know him before or after that night
Was back when I was 19 or 20, was hanging out with my buddies from home over the summer while on break
We were at a McDonald’s at 1:30 or 2 am. Kid around our age comes screeching into the McDonald’s parking lot, going over curbs and everything, sparks flying from two wheels. He had punctured both his front tires and was riding on rims. Turns out one of my friends knew him - he takes a look, looks at the guy, goes “yo man, you probably don’t wanna drive on those”
Kid goes “yeah well I really want McDonald’s I’m gonna go home after”
My friend goes “you live about 15 min away, you really shouldn’t drive.”
He gets his shit and starts driving, sparks still going off. Were a little concerned so we follow him. 200 feet later he gets pulled over, so we pull over behind the cop. The cop looks at us and goes “do you guys know this idiot?”
My buddy’s like yeah…
Cop says you should get him in your car.
Kid refuses. Drives 8 miles home in rims. Smoke everywhere, most awful sound you’ve ever heard. We follow him home, I find out he’s dumb rich.
We go into his guest house, which was bigger than all of our actual houses, smoke one, then leave.
That is of course a possibility and we cannot discount it, but I think it far more likely that we wipe ourselves, and in addition a ton of other life off the planet, but there will always be some that survives. Same way that when the dinosaurs died mammals came up. Maybe they won’t be mammals. Maybe some other form of life, but it will most likely exist after us. And once we are Gone and not constantly throwing more planet warming and toxic gasses and toxic materials out into the world, the earth will slowly correct itself and disseminate that.
Right now our feedback loops are occurring because we are not really changing anything in what we do.
Because most people don’t actually know that.
Most people have no idea where their laptops are coming from or what makes them run.
If you pay attention and you know about computers you would have heard something, but I guarantee you the average person has heard almost nothing about Intel’s issues
I make less than 100k a year and my dogs insurance costs about that much. I didn’t have insurance for him before because he was young and healthy but then he tore his ACL and the surgery set me back 6.5K. That wasn’t exactly a drop in the bucket for me, at the time I had less than half of that in savings, and had to max out my credit card. So now yeah it sucks having to pay that much but if he does get a bad injury or illness - obviously I really hope that doesn’t happen and I have him for many more years to come - as he grows older, it will cost me way less as a lump sum.