Yeah or use one of those drill-taps they use to tap maple syrup.

I think you need to read some more history about fascism my friend. That “pure” capitalist you talk about has never existed.

On the other hand, capitalists were essential to Hitler’s rise to power, and the likes of IG Farben and Bayer profited greatly during the reign of the Nazi’s.

Now we see the same thing with the likes of Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk installing Trump, and abusing their influence to completely deregulate the markets they are in (e.g. banning any regulation on AI by states).

Fair point, he is a toxic piece of shit

Pretty sure he’s biodegradable

Yeah but the choice is between socialism and fascism, and capitalists stand to lose a lot under socialism.

You’re right, it’s also about the capitalists who put them in power.

What devilry is this? Written word? Real cultures use oral history to store knowledge!

That sounds like “right answer, wrong method” to me, tbh. Did you feel ashamed for having to sit in the front or having detention, or was it more like “eh, works for me, might as well go along with it”?

I think those trucks actually are in the gender affirming care category. /s

They should buy an overpowered motorcycle and try not to wrap it around a tree.

You know, when you put it like that, it kind of sounds like Scientology…

Nor do they remember the previous AI boom of the 90’s and 2000’s, where the likes of Lernout & Hauspie were also promising the world. In that case they went bankrupt and executives were convicted of fraud, because they resorted to “creative” accounting to paper over solvency issues.

Capitalism baby

Exactly, they are a breakthrough built on top of decades of steadily paced progress. Those decades are conveniently ignored by the commercial interests, who like to act as if those once in a decade breakthroughs are actually the normal pace of research at their company, and the next one is right around the corner.

For now, he does have that yes, but his wealth is for a significant portion a house of cards built on the value of tesla stock. If the value of that stock falls far enough, lenders who gave him loans with tesla stock as collateral could margin call him, essentially asking for more collateral. That could make him the poorest person in the world quite quickly, i.e. billions in debt.

It’s also kind of obvious by accounting for concentrations why this kind of carbon capture is a fairytale, isn’t it. Trying to capture from a carbon source like an exhaust, you’ll see a gas that’s easily 80% CO₂, compared to the meager 0,04% (400ppm) concentration in regular air. My guesstimate is that you’ll easily produce more CO₂ than you’re able to capture just trying to move enough CO₂ molecules through the capture device, even if you’re 100% efficient in capture.

Also a sidenote: I think carbon capture at the source has its use in combatting climate change, but we must not forget reduce > reuse > recycle. Carbon capture is very much recycling, so we should be careful to only do it for situations where it’s very hard to decarbonize.

If I’d Only Known I Wouldn’t Have Wasted So Much Of My Potential Club.

I’m in this club but very much trying to leave, because I’m starting to realize “wasted potential” in itself is a toxic idea that’s been ingrained by years of teachers telling me this (with my parents doing their best to counter). That’s not to say I’m not still trying to do my best, I am, but only because I want to and because it makes me happy.

Also hard problems may produce some eclectic code which could be bug prone in a way which isn’t detected by automated tools.

Yes! Fuck this individualistic “you should cycle instead of taking the car” language. We need collective investment in mass transit, because not everyone can bike to work, and even less people want to do it in the rain.

It’s also such a funny contradiction: a big part of the free market model rests on the idea that well informed consumers can vote with their wallet, which should reward good businesses and punish bad ones. Yet it is very difficult to argue consumers have ever been informed enough to make this work, which is in large part due to advertising flooding communication channels with noise, and also because it is unreasonable to expect a consumer to be fully informed for the hundreds of purchases they make on a daily basis.