All companies that knew how to build things period. We had China and Russia to do that for us -- oh shi
There's literally nothing Musk could do to stop it, Tesla is the biggest bubble on earth. Once the market changed it was inevitable it would drop because there's no reason it was as high as it was.
There's a lot of people calling for "more sustainable" decisions to be codified into the law. The idea is it'll help reduce energy usage. Sounds nice but reality doesn't stop at intended effects.
We have generations of people who are already priced out of home ownership forever and are well on their way to not being able to rent either, this seems like it'll just make that even worse.
We're going to have a stratified class system where at the top you'll have the rich who are not just materially better off but considered morally superior because they can afford the latest whizbang environmentalism, and everyone else who don't have anything material to their name and are also considered monsters morally because they're forced to subsist using that horrible inefficient ancient stuff that's been grandfathered in for years.
I mean -- more than we already do.
This isn't good. When you disenfranchise generations of people like that, that's where you get populism. Presently populism is a four letter word among the left, so guess where you end up sending everyone?
We're on a freight train barrelling towards a future where people specifically reject everything that's being pushed right now because it is so decadent and divorced from reality. People who are barely able to get the basics of life are being told they're rich and they're evil for not using their "riches" to save the world, and if nothing changes the next step looks pretty scary for anyone with the slightest inclination towards any of this sort of thing.
We have generations of people who are already priced out of home ownership forever and are well on their way to not being able to rent either, this seems like it'll just make that even worse.
We're going to have a stratified class system where at the top you'll have the rich who are not just materially better off but considered morally superior because they can afford the latest whizbang environmentalism, and everyone else who don't have anything material to their name and are also considered monsters morally because they're forced to subsist using that horrible inefficient ancient stuff that's been grandfathered in for years.
I mean -- more than we already do.
This isn't good. When you disenfranchise generations of people like that, that's where you get populism. Presently populism is a four letter word among the left, so guess where you end up sending everyone?
We're on a freight train barrelling towards a future where people specifically reject everything that's being pushed right now because it is so decadent and divorced from reality. People who are barely able to get the basics of life are being told they're rich and they're evil for not using their "riches" to save the world, and if nothing changes the next step looks pretty scary for anyone with the slightest inclination towards any of this sort of thing.
Not just for communication platforms, either. For many many things, if you don't control it, it isn't yours. You might have found the perfect little program for part of your workflow but oops it's an online app from Google and it's now in the Google graveyard. You might have found the perfect free to use 3d tool, but oops they got bought out and now it's $1000 a year to keep using it. You might have found the perfect iot device for your home but oops, it relies on a third party server and the company went out of business so now you have to throw all the equipment you bought away.
Nope. Won't happen.
Big tech sites becomes so because they can make overwhelming amounts of money. Even stuff like crypto which is decentralized is popular because people think they can make money. By contrast, decentralized social media costs money.
The mastodon/pleroma/soapbox/misskey/friendica side of the fediverse has hit a critical mass where there's enough users for many purposes anyway. I follow 600 people, and there are times that my feed is just flashing by so fast I can't even keep up. There's enough users of enough different types that different mutually exclusive communities can form and it's fine.
The peertube side and the lemmy/lotide side both really need more users to hit that critical mass, unfortunately.
Big tech sites becomes so because they can make overwhelming amounts of money. Even stuff like crypto which is decentralized is popular because people think they can make money. By contrast, decentralized social media costs money.
The mastodon/pleroma/soapbox/misskey/friendica side of the fediverse has hit a critical mass where there's enough users for many purposes anyway. I follow 600 people, and there are times that my feed is just flashing by so fast I can't even keep up. There's enough users of enough different types that different mutually exclusive communities can form and it's fine.
The peertube side and the lemmy/lotide side both really need more users to hit that critical mass, unfortunately.
https://archive.vn/sxLR0
Netflix in talks with Metallica about how to best protect its brand after threatening to sue customers and whine about not getting enough money.
"We've tried doubling the price, that should've done it but these stupid people keep paying! Then we added advertisements, and now we've got to figure out how to make sure everyone jealously protects their password like Gollum protects the one ring!" Netflix said in a statement
Netflix in talks with Metallica about how to best protect its brand after threatening to sue customers and whine about not getting enough money.
"We've tried doubling the price, that should've done it but these stupid people keep paying! Then we added advertisements, and now we've got to figure out how to make sure everyone jealously protects their password like Gollum protects the one ring!" Netflix said in a statement
Made it further down the island. Sleeping only works for 1 hour before an "enemy arrives", but a few steps and the enemy is no longer in range, so I don't know where they're spawning. Found this gap in the gaps, so presumably you could swim to the island from here.
This didn't quite seem right, so I ended up doing some console stuff and ended up on the island proper, but I don't know if this is the wrong island (it shouldn't be, the map seems to suggest it's the right one) or if it's just degraded because I walked from Sentinel.
There was one landmark I could count on, there's a big rock formation near the western edge of the island. Can't miss it, and the likelihood of two different islands having the same strange rock formation on the exact spot doesn't make any sense.
So there we go, I did make it to the island. It was basically uninhabited except for a standard dungeon I didn't talk much about because it was after the console shenanigans, but it seems the most interesting things about the island were because the game never really expected anyone to take hours going over the ocean from the south to see this little place.
This didn't quite seem right, so I ended up doing some console stuff and ended up on the island proper, but I don't know if this is the wrong island (it shouldn't be, the map seems to suggest it's the right one) or if it's just degraded because I walked from Sentinel.
There was one landmark I could count on, there's a big rock formation near the western edge of the island. Can't miss it, and the likelihood of two different islands having the same strange rock formation on the exact spot doesn't make any sense.
So there we go, I did make it to the island. It was basically uninhabited except for a standard dungeon I didn't talk much about because it was after the console shenanigans, but it seems the most interesting things about the island were because the game never really expected anyone to take hours going over the ocean from the south to see this little place.
No, that was arena. Daggerfall does have a map. It was procedurally generated at Bethesda when they were making it, but it's all in the game. Copy that I'm using even adds a bunch of stuff like roads and different encounters so there's a benefit to walking between cities yourself instead of fast traveling.
Daggerfall unity. Gog has a copy for free packed with a bunch of mods that make it look and play well in a modern sense, and it's still one of the biggest games of all time.
There's an island in the game Daggerfall that's just north of Sentinel that's always bugged me. There was nothing on there, but it was considered its own region, so what's there?
Well, now with Daggerfall Unity I flew there, and I'm not sure anyone was supposed to make it here... Pretty sure that's a massive fall into the void if you walk off.
Once I made it over the void, the trees are all.... ghost trees? They're all transparent for some reason. I tried to go to sleep to spawn an enemy, and apparently it spawned but I can't see it anywhere. I walked to the other side of the island and suddenly there was nothing again, just the void. I flew to the top of a big rock and it looks like the trees are transparent on a gradient. The further south the trees, the less transparent they are.
If I see anything else interesting I'll post a reply.
Well, now with Daggerfall Unity I flew there, and I'm not sure anyone was supposed to make it here... Pretty sure that's a massive fall into the void if you walk off.
Once I made it over the void, the trees are all.... ghost trees? They're all transparent for some reason. I tried to go to sleep to spawn an enemy, and apparently it spawned but I can't see it anywhere. I walked to the other side of the island and suddenly there was nothing again, just the void. I flew to the top of a big rock and it looks like the trees are transparent on a gradient. The further south the trees, the less transparent they are.
If I see anything else interesting I'll post a reply.
I put my instance on fediblock because the sort of people who would mindlessly use that list are worth being blocked by.
Thankfully my grandfather's story was passed down through the generations, and made it into my book to my son.
Imagine the trauma of not only watching your best friend die right in front of you while you were walking down the street, but watching moment by moment as the free country you fought for melted away one hour at a time.
On November 11th when we're asked to remember, I do remember, and it makes me mad as hell that we betrayed them like that.
Imagine the trauma of not only watching your best friend die right in front of you while you were walking down the street, but watching moment by moment as the free country you fought for melted away one hour at a time.
On November 11th when we're asked to remember, I do remember, and it makes me mad as hell that we betrayed them like that.
https://video.fbxl.net/w/6VVndpjSF1jKya4o6Yd4tA
This is what our ancestors who fought feel about the world their kids made.
This is what our ancestors who fought feel about the world their kids made.