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At this point, yeah ... fuck it, I'm in.

I'll bring snacks.

It reminds me of the documentary Hypernormalisation, well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.

"The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s. He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

Once again republicans are trying to make their weird hangups everybody else's problem instead of simply talking to a therapist.

I'd love to see the numbers for computers with it immediately uninstalled.

Step 1: Start with lots of money

Step 2: Find a bunch of other rich idiots willing to invest their money.

I guess that's one way to get me to support bombing Gaza.

Maybe build something useful that solves a real problem?

That's the problem. For now at least, we're at the end of "new tech make line go up". Crypto wasn't it, neither were NFTs, LLMs are no different. All the low hanging fruit was picked a while back so they're stuck trying to make us believe that there's a Next Big Thing just around the corner when, at best, there's some fairly niche and difficult to monetize tech requiring vast resources to work.

Corrected, thanks!

We even have small nuclear reactors that can use spent fuel from the larger ones, thus solving in part the disposal of it.

Do we? Last I heard there aren't any in service.

Furthermore, significant advances have been achieved on fision power.

We'll need a hell of a lot more advances before fusion is even close to powering a grid.

The C suite and management of these companies want two things - for the stock to go as high as possible, and for them to be able to sell at the top and leave a bunch of bag holders wondering what the fuck just happened.

it is not enshittified ... call it anti-consumer

Same difference?

Too expensive, too enshittified for me to consider. All they had to do was not fuck this up and they would've had a guaranteed sale but I don't ever see myself spending a cent on Nintendo ever again.