Why doesn't it surprise me that Elon didn't give a shit about his neighbors?

Despite the "get rich quicker" mentality,Kiyosaki's books were revolutionary for me. They basically taught me that it's impossible for the working class to get rich. You need to invest in either a business or real estate.

The missing part is that it's practically impossible to invest in a business or real estate. You need vast amounts of capital or a loan with nearly zero interest. Oh and the ruling class has been sucking us dry for decades.

Still, his books are very valuable knowledge.

Here in Mexico we have a saying, "más católicos que el Papa" (more Catholic than the Pope), referring to people who are too zealous in their faith and keep judging others.

Ah, yes, nothing like forbidding people from calling out fascism to prove your government isn't fascist.

Intentional? Better use Negligent. It's hard to prove intent; knowledge of something going on is much easier to prove.

The year is 2020.

Covid was in full force, and we were suddenly assigned impossible tasks in very little time. Not to mention we hadn't been given a raise in more than 2 years, not because the company finances were bad, but because the owner was a greedy bastard.

Then one person decided to quit. And another. And another.

What did the owner do? Raise salaries to keep the personnel? No, he let them leave and loaded all the work onto us.

I decided I wouldn't be the one crushed by that load, so I was the next to leave. Bye bye.

Plot Twist: They've already gone rogue. Right now they're just bullying to get what they want.

They can just go fuck themselves. 🖕

Seems the novelty VW engineers had to be reminded of the first item in the Unix philosophy:

Make each program do one thing, and do it well.

Buttons already had this. Each single button did one and only one thing: Turn a feature on or off, or in the case of the radio, switch stations.

We didn't need complicated menus to navigate. Press the appropriate button, and voilá. It was simple. It worked.

Who the fuck came up with the idea of having to use touch menus? I have no idea, but I really hope they got fired.

An HP Printer is a bad investment.

Despite that, its depiction of an ignorant society unaware of the technology supporting it was incredibly prophetic. If we ignore the "dumb people reproducing" bit, we can see it as a warning about how an uneducated society is detrimental for everyone.

I mean, we have flat earthers, for fuck's sake.

While silicon is abundant on Earth, monocrystalline silicon is incredibly hard to produce. You need to use either chemical purification methods that use silicon compound gases, or to use a slow process that starts with a crystal seed to slowly grow giant rods of pure silicon under a chamber filled with argon gas, and many things can go wrong.

Semiconductor-grade silicon needs to be 99.999999% pure to guarantee good yields of microchips.

More on this process here:

https://hackaday.com/...

OTOH, there are more (and cheaper) ways of grafene production:

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

(On a related note, you might be interested in the history of the transistor to know the arduous path that humanity took just to get where we are )

EDIT: Apart from the manufacturing methods, graphene might offer a way to lower the voltage required to operate. Not only that, but electron mobility in graphene is 10 times higher than in silicon.

Good graphene chips might one day require much less power than silicon, and this will be a boon for computationally intensive applications such as 3D rendering or AI.

There's still a long way to go, tho.

People on Mastodon are preemptively blocking federation. What can I say 🤷

I would classify this as sexual harassment. It's no different from being sent obscene videos over email. The gravity resides in that they're sexual assault videos with the recipient being the victim.

His password may be ripeadmin, but that admin looked pretty green to me.

The scientific community needs to gather and reach a consensus where AI is banned from writing their papers. (Yes, even for translation)

And by "citizens" you mean slaves.

And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.

If you don't give a shit abount Facebook enabling genocide, amplifying white supremacism or, you know, selling milluons of users' private data to the Kremlin, then sure, why not.

This isn't about elitism, this is about a known bad actor threatening to harvest our conversations without our fucking permission, or using Microsoft's tactic of "embrace and extend" to destroy the competition.

Anyone can implement ActivityPub. We have no problem with that. Facebook is a corporation whose business strategy has consistently been about harvesting users' data and selling it to political advertisers.

Did the ordinance specify that the app companies would have to absorb the costs and NOT pass them to the users? No? Ah, well, that explains it then.

The very nature of the fediverse makes fragmentation part of it. Since it's not centralized, control is distributed to the different instance admins. It's only natural that people with different opinions will want to split from each other, and that's without taking into account the levels of toxicity allowed by different moderators.

Is an instance allowing racists to thrive in there? Of course it will be blocked by leftists, since banning is a concept that no longer applies.

Let me repeat for clarity: You CANNOT ban someone from the fediverse, you can ONLY defederate from them.

And don't tell me it's that much different from reddit, I've seen political subs denying access to people simply based on what other subreddits they're subscribed to.

Would you rather have a single hierarchical "network" where an asshole dictator decides who is and who isn't allowed to post? Of course not, otherwise you wouldn't be here.

Federation implies defederating instances you're not comfortable with.

And that's perfectly fine, because safety comes first.

My freedom of association necessarily implies that I'm free NOT to associate with people I don't like, and my insurance admin should be able to make sure I'm free from harassment by those same people.

Want to solve this issue? Solve human nature first.