identical apartments

Under Communism, we were forced by the government to live in Poor People Houses. It was illegal to tip your landlords. If you updated your wallpaper, the local Commissar would murder your first-born child and eat your dog.

Incredible.

This is like the time I put my Halo Playing Machine in a big hamster wheel so I could get an early release of the XBox 360.

Everyone knows the collapse of the AI bubble is imminent

Paul Krugman was predicting the Housing Crash as early as 2004 in his NYT column.

Everyone knows except the people who are investing billions of dollars into AI and their press.

The theory of the modern tech industry is that you can simply outrun your problems. Meta/Facebook has done this repeatedly, leaping over multi-billion-dollar failure after failure based entirely on the inertia of their core product growth combined with low interest rates and a bullish long term economic outlook.

Even in the worst-case scenario, we have such an enormous array of tools to manipulate markets - as demonstrated in 2008 and 2014 and 2020 - that investors are reluctant to sell with a massive federal bailout always on the horizon. And we’re far from the worst-case scenario. '26 Q2 was a historic earnings season. We are in the middle of the biggest bull market in history.

So a lottery winner is guilty of crimes?

They’re routinely the victims of them. Lottery winners are a scam target rich environment. North of 5% of lottery winners go bankrupt within five years, far above the national average.

You can just luck out and have an idea like online banking take off

Utterly clueless if you believe the advent of online banking was Peter Thiel’s idea. I seriously doubt you understand how banks form or function.

You won’t need to hand over your guns. You’ll just put them on the blockchain.

Are they sitting on a treasure trove of corporate secrets? Or is it just a thousand executives writing “Claude, synergize expediency to increase value for shareholders. Maximize usefulness. Implement Six Cigma methodologies to unlock a more agile work cycle. Generate a billion dollars in new cashflow. Make no mistakes.”

Some gained wealth legitimately

Nobody gets truly rich by playing within the rules. Show me a billionaire and I’ll show you a list of crimes.

That’s been the Jeff Bezos gambit for nearly a decade. He’s still an absolute POS and we all know it.

The smart ones are the ones we have never heard of.

Behind every great fortune is a great crime.

Billionaire: “We paid some college kids to build a robot that doesn’t immediately tip over when it tries to move.”

Internet Slacktivist: “Black Mirror! Terminator! The Matrix! It’s game over, man! We’re all gonna die!”

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Or from your own piss.

But that’s not what’s at issue.

Don’t you think that’s something better to focus our energy on

I’ve got rooftop solar to cut my electricity bill, but no real options for my water utility

LessWrong “Water Hoax” posters incoming!

Yes, it does

I was promised soapy tits

God Awful Movies literally just reviewed the last stupid film

Every podcaster jumped on this movie, because it’s so easy to tear apart. Idk who else bothered to watch it, outside the die-hard incels that give Ben Shapiro money to hear him speak.

It’s an incredibly dumb and hateful movie worth laughing at

The irony of the movie is that conservatives sympathize with their fantasy Muslim terrorist. The bad guy just stands up and says all the things Benny Johnson and Ben Shapiro actually believe.

No Jewish person ever dies in the movie. No chud dies. Only the Stupid Leftists ever have anything bad happen to them.

Jihadism is like Noah’s Flood. It’s a divine punishment that only hurts those damned leftists.

also don’t want my thoughts and comments to be an income stream for a for-profit organization

I mean, you’re fooling yourself if you don’t believe Lemmy has been scrapped by a thousand crawlers by now.

I’m more paranoid about how many accounts are bots than about some data aggregator getting my dumbshit hot takes as training data.

The great thing about the Internet is that people can just find stuff, often by accident.

What’s the alternative?

The SR-71 can get up to 85k feet, so there are conceivable applications.

But this is a plane that already exists, largely for the purpose of surveillance. It’s only “military” in the sense that it was requisitioned by the air force. It’s not armed.