What we’ve learnt over the last decade or so is that it’s a lot easier to generate bullshit than it is to verify it.

Are they though? The top valued companies in the world are balls-deep in advertising and data collection.

We’re still looking at it!

Because they’re pretentious twats who can’t even use it correctly.

You wouldn’t. You’d buy Titanfall 2 for a whopping £2.49, and play a great (if short) single player campaign and then delete it.

If only for Effect and Cause, which is right up there with the best levels in any game.

Tell that to the guy who drives a 3 ton pickup truck to work every day, because of that one time 4 years ago he had to transport a fridge rather than pay £20 to have it delivered.

I mean that’s just physics. Less light entering the sensor = more grain as it boosts the brightness to compensate. They both take the same picture, but extra processing hides the flaws.

Got to be honest, I prefer grain over a bunch of AI swirls.

A lot more lost it.

Do you not have a pension saving scheme that gives a tax break when employers pay into it direct from your wages?

In the UK it’s pretty standard. I think it’s even a legal requirement for employers to offer it, even if the amount they put in is paltry.

What did you do in 2020, when everything shut for COVID?

What did you do in 2008, when the arse fell out of the housing market?

What did you do in 2000, when the dotcom bubble popped?

Chances are the answer was “just shuffle on as normal, carry on living paycheck to paycheck, possibly get a new job if you work for somebody badly affected”. Odds are your pension pot will recover by the time you need it.

What do rich people do? They gamble. Watch The Big Short. You could try that, but chances are you’ll lose money. “The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”, as the old saying goes.

Appeal to their vanity. Start saying how brave the astronauts are and make them celebrities. Give them all the credit. Don’t mention the funders at all.

Next ones go up with a billionaire on board for sure.

At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It’s only a matter of time.

I’m holding out for an Airwolf or Street Hawk.

I turned off ads on mine.

By turning it face down.

Are there many left where you are? The UK has one plant left, and we had to take it over so it didn’t close completely.

I guess it’s quite handy to have a steel plant if war breaks out and you’re not relying on China for it all…

I don’t think you’ll find a public company right now that isn’t balls deep in the slop machines, desperately trying to offload staff in favour of machines that can’t do the jobs.

It’d better!

Almost like they’re not losing it, but stealing it.

I’ll just wait for the movies to come out ten years later telling us exactly how they all lost our money again.

Spaced.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187664/