dustycups

The all caps get me every time. Just take your damn upvote.

Absolutely. It really blurs the line between fancy autocorrect, mechanical turk & apocolyptic AGI. We can only guess we are somewhere between 1 & 2.

I cant wait till we start seeing them with all the conspicacy-nut writing all over them but the other way around:
Vaccines work, fuck musk, lgbt rights are himan rights etc.

Just make sure you dont use sub-standard copper. Future generations thank you

Asianomics did an awesome video on the technology that China is going with for EUV. Not better or worse, it just has different issues.
Edit: found the link
https://youtu.be/rIR3wfZ-EV0

Getting an endmill with a dessicant package:
It said not to eat the dessicant so the rest should be ok, right?

I can only hope my bingo card somehow explodes & kills me.

PS: The level of actual violence isn’t relevant to any of this. A dictator, or a government, that is in full control only need the threat of violence.

That’s why a rules based system is also needed.
Police in Finland also have guns (I assume) but they the rules they follow are the written law, not what the “boss” says.
People will always self organise. If we don’t have a formal representative democracy with all its quirky conventions (like not having the opposition assassinated) we end up with mob rule or tyranny. That might protect some but, in my opinion, allows less freedom for ordinary people.

Slavery is illegal?
I know there are failures everywhere (eg American prison system) but without the threat of state sponsored violence and a rules based system we get the worst kind of corruption.
I’d rather live in Finland than Russia.

Ben Elton called this 35 years ago:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)

I’m surprised that I’m surprised.
It seems to be a default state nowadays.

That’s OK. In this context theft is art.

“Broligarch”

From the hitchkikers guide:

It is by eating sandwiches in pubs on Saturday lunchtimes that the British seek to atone for whatever their national sins have been. They’re not altogether clear what those sins are, and don’t want to know either. Sins are not the sort of things one wants to know about. But whatever sins they are are amply atoned for by the sandwiches they make themselves eat.
If there is anything worse than the sandwiches, it is the sausages which sit next to them. Joyless tubes, full of gristle, floating in a sea of something hot and sad, stuck with a plastic pin in the shape of a chef’s hat: a memorial, one feels, for some chef who hated the world, and died, forgotten and alone, among his cats on a back stair in Stepney. The sausages are for the ones who know what their sins are and wish to atone for something specific.

It fell off.

That and a sprinkle of Ayn Rand bullshit: If I fuck you over its your fault for being somehow inferior.

Agree. I got downvoted to shit for making this point although, as an outsider, I probably came across as smug or something.
Quasi-compulsory voting is awesome.