Makes sense. Light bicycle won’t break your puny bones despite your insufficient calcium intake, but heavy battery will.

You want to drive one of these, up your calcium game. Drink your milk. Eat at least a kilogram of cheese every day.

Yeah, I’m as much for Amazon burning down with Bezos locked inside as anyone else, but this one is actually reasonable.

You want to turn on your AC, close your fucking door, you damn maniac.

It’s important, it puts the first patr in context.

You’re thinking Office Space I think

Superman III.

We don’t. We just exist. And then we die. It’s monstrous.

Can I think about it…?

No, lime.

Trebuchets.

I’m too burnt out to care about the economy or component prices anymore.

I just want the morons who got hooked on this shit and ruined their brains into mush using it to reap what they have sowed and face the music when their brain substitute costs more than they could ever afford.

They thougt they could game the system by saturating everything with metric cartloads of useless slop, the bastards, while those of us with still functioning brains waddled through it and attempted to fix it!? Well, fuck them, now they won’t be able to afford their crutch and their brain will be too far rotten to ever come back!

We’ll still have to clean their damn mess, of course, and the world will be much worse than before they and their suppliers ruined it, but at least there might finally be a light at the end of the tunnel.

It’s what governments are supposed to be for.

Here’s a list of reasons.

Evidence points to them being suckers, yes.

best

least worst

Alternatives being even worse doesn’t make firefox good, or invalidate any objective criticism against it.

ACAB.

https://youtu.be/pai3bV9mcnU

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Ew, no, thanks. Feels like he got this “idea” from some slop machine.

Just tax them, regulate them, fine them into bankruptcy, and sue them for crimes against humanity.

Use taxes and regulations to incentivize cooperatives and disincentivize private companies.

Tax revenue and income progressively (starting on the negatives: if you’re below the mean you get money), reaching 100% for anything above 100,000$/month for individuals and 100,000$/month/employee for companies.

Scale fines with personal wealth/ valuation, so that they have the same impact regardless of wealth.

Tax and regulate the stock exchange like the gambling joint that it is.

Hold CEOs, boards, and stockholders personally responsible for any crimes or torts committed by their companies.

Nationalise any companies that provide first needs or anything remotely resembling a utility, and turn them into cooperatives.

Tax 100% of any wealth over, say, ten times the mean.

I don’t know, there’s so many better things to do than spreading this cancer over all the population. All this would do is make it hit harder once the bubble pops.

for those of us not willing to write a fucking CPU

There’s insane maniacs who’ve written fucking CPUs in CSS, Minecraft, and Conway’s game of life, among many other environments not intended for writing fucking CPUs.

Can’t some insane maniac simply write a fucking CPU for FPGAs and release it as open source?

Plenty of insane maniacs have released lots of more useless stuff as open source, why not this?

(Using insane maniac as a compliment here; the world would be a much more boring and unenjoyable place without insane maniacs willing to waste their time making it a better or at least more interesting place.)

We’re reaching dot com boom era levels of absurdity.