We can all live in big fuck-off mushrooms like the Telvanni showed us
skulblaka
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That sounds like a great way to accidentally muzzle sweep a thousand international satellites with a billion-kWh laser beam. Not saying it's entirely a bad idea, but having invisible unshielded beams of stupendous energy bouncing all over the solar system sounds like a recipe for a couple accidental meltings. I could just see someone making an adjustment to the next mining target without informing China and whoops, that secret manned satellite you sent up a couple months ago is now slag.
I don't recognize that machine... I think that is new. The bulbs in it sort of look like the liquid bulbs on the hazmat armors. But it could be (and probably is) something else.
Doesn't do anything yet, I suppose?
There are, but they're hosted on Discord now. It's pretty much entirely taken over that niche.
I miss IRC.
Oh I guess I'll just save this then and try ag- SEGFAULT
Thaaaat's more like it.
I agree. I hope that makes it into the feature list for the future. It seems like an obvious next step to make that part easier and less painful for users.
This is why I threw in with the Star Trek fans. I'm only moderately familiar with Trek but I know these nerds will be nice to everyone.
The only instance that I'll usually immediately give a side-eye to is Hexbear, and only them because a significant percentage of those folks have a certain.... style and culture that gets on my nerves. But an individual can still be a cool person and it's not like I'm about to come in the comments and dunk on you or preemptively block you based on your home instance. I block users because they're assholes, or annoying, or argue in bad faith, not based on where their account is hosted. And I would expect that's probably consistent across most lemmings. You won't get a bad rap only for being affiliated with ml. Now if you say something stupid somebody might use it as a bludgeon to talk bad about ml as a whole, or vice versa, but that's going to happen any time you have something approaching "team sports" like this.
In general, don't stress this too much. In specific, keep up with what's happening on your home instance and if they're doing something you don't like, pack up and move elsewhere. That's a core function of the way the fediverse is constructed. If it sucks, hit the bricks. You can just leave, and set up shop in another instance, or host your own, and you aren't beholden to anyone. But if you don't care then you don't have to.
This is the most absolutely buck wild and inefficient version of this idea I've ever seen, ever. Director AI's have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these. If I was Joel and was woken up at 2am to go drop a couple more bugs on Leedle III I'd tell my entire management team to eat shit and do it themselves. What the fuck. Who came up with this? This is half baked as hell
Tl:dr: Wendy’s CEO thinks we’re all dumb.
People still purchase Wendy's, he's got good reason to think that.
Snow Crash is 100% over the top satire but also 100% enjoyable. When the first chapter of the book introduces you to your protagonist, Hiro Protagonist, you know you're in for something a little off.
Ooh, this is new info. How so?