Some are.

Why are plants purple?

Spin it! Bebe. ;)

[To make a cheap adequate equivalent centripital force (centrifugal force?.. whatever) simulating gravity]

There be ways.

Bezos defo is lying to us though. … bwahahahaha, “rockets” XD Yuh, cos that’s how one travels through space. XD

I know I’m an asshole, but I was legitimately hoping that covid was going to wipe out a more significant amount. At least all the anti vaxxers, but that didn’t happen.

I’m the jackass that watched Endgame and was like “goddamn that abandoned neighborhood looks peaceful”.

Well, at least you know to some extent that that’s in the wrong. Better than still being in the terrorised totalitarianised fervor and seeing such atrocities (not as making you the asshole, but instead) as a necessary virtues.

It gets better when one realises where that [headspace] came from…

I’m glad most (all?) of the replies here get it, and get it so solid, like this.

Yeah, we don’t see e.g. the heads of the BIS etc swanning around doing the fauxlanthropist whitewashing bit on the podcast circuit.

A bygone age, where polymathy was still more the norm, before the corporation separated us into maximal-bar-one ignorance, of “specialisation”,

and (I recently read, in the new book I’m reading) they lopped off the latter half of the expression “jack of all trades, master of none” [something like, “… is more often better than a master of one.”],

and they convinced us the specialists were the “experts”, the sages of the enlightenment, the wise ones with superior knowledge. … All the while they’re one step away from maximal ignorance.

I wonder how much better acting (and all “professions”/skills) could be, with a broader range of skills beside.

You got me wanting to go listen to more soffmi muhod, boc, or autechre.

I know, not really the point you were making… but yeah… lets go find more of these mozarts, who, whether still obscure, or found their niche audience, retain their creative integrity, despite the economic pressures. … Oh that we could each be so. Or that we’d not even need be.

By that… We all live in Ethiopia. Compared to what could be, without the crooks and their rigged game holding us down

[and telling us they’re our saviours, when they let us up for a bit of air, or take credit for making us strong when we manage to struggle for a gasp by ourselves].

Yep. Especially if we’re all separated in spaceships. Dating’s hard enough in the same meat space.

Jesting aside, yup. And space expands faster than we even could fill it. So, at least we’re getting billionaires off the idea they need to cull the human population because there’s not enough resources here for their squanderous rigged game of manufactured scarcities and coerced dependence on pollution emitting finite resources.

But… Isn’t Bezos in the rocket club? “Space is hard”, is the idea sold with rockets. We never needed rockets. Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla, and all the less famous innovators of that era, and we can see the start of zero-inertia propulsion had its beginnings on air balloons in the 1800s. Then that’s just one step of creating a vessel that can surviva the vacuum of space, and you have a rudimentary space ship. … From human innovation. But do we get nice things? No. Such tech’s secreted, and only used on the wing tips of black stealth fighters to accelerate turns. We could have spaceships for everybody. Even almost a hundred years ago. … But then other plans were already laid down for us, by the existing power structures, and being followed through. So now we get the likes of Bezos, peddling preposterously implausible placation platitudes, pandering as if he’s a good guy, as if he’s smart, as if he’s a visionary…

… When really it seems like he’s the type that does not understand you cannot get 9 women to make a baby in 1 month. But [given Amazon worker treatment] would still keep whipping them harder to try get them to.

Yeah. If anyone can propose an exception, I will show them an example of effective image whitewashing.

Well said.

I tried say that too but probably got lost in my verbose rant.

Yep. So much wasted human potential.

Fuck billionaires, and their rigged game.

With proper resource management (up to and beyond availing and provisioning all emancipatory technologies), such that we could build vast multi-layered forest arcologyscapes, we could increase the carrying capacity of earth, for humans, to over 300 trillion, living in vast spacious lush garden abundance. Not saying that we should. Just that we could. Such is our headroom.

But we don’t get to have nice things, because of the likes of Bezos.

Industrialists, monopolists, “globalists” [oh they love that one, a flowery euphemism for more like “megalomaniacs”?], who eliminate any competition, by whatever means necessary to attain and maintain an imbalance of power.

A few years back I recall some journalists unearthing a study that showed how Wall St (and other stock exchange centers), were not only not “making” money/wealth, but extracting it from the economy, and further, for every dollar of wealth they extracted from the economy, they destroy another 7 dollars of wealth. … Takes a moment for the magnitude of that to sink in.

So then we get these fauxlanthropists, swanning around, like Rockerfeller, giving a dime to someone on camera, in a community from whom he’d stolen millions, to whitewash their image.

… by whatever means necessary… a lot of that’s just by the patents system and the legal system. How many patents get secreted a year? How many merely get sat on? How much lawfare’s done to scare off inventors of technologies that would out-compete and obsolete enshitified rent-extraction maximisation technologies? How much else? A spat of inventors disappeared or died in suspicious circumstances recently. How far would you go to protect a multi trillion industry? As far as to actively prevent a better world without resource wars or poverty from ever happening? How far would a psychopath who’s drawn to power go, with exacerbating tragedies of the commons for their own selfish short-sighted power-grab and resource gain? There’s nothing stopping them…

We can all be polymaths in the making,

not slaves in training, lapping up the platitudes that placate us, from those who enslave us.

(PS, I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004, waiting for everybody else to see it. Maybe now with their participation in vast rampant destruction of rare books to feed their AI for cheap, to become the info monopoly, able to shape our agnosis, more people will see it and stop falling for it, in this small window we have, before their total information management becomes complete and we become a cosmic dystopian tragedy, with our minds entirely curated by the everpresent cold-reading psychopathic ai hypnotist, not just coercively hoodwinking us to carrying it in our pocket, but skynet, will be everywhere, especially in our mind. Except it wont be our mind any more. It will be the corporation’s. Maximum capitalisation, reducing people to the numbers. … Bezos, a trillion humans? Sure. But we are not the same.)

19 years ago.

Yeah, depends.

How much do you load on your workhorse and how fast do you need it to run?

*Ahem*

mcedit

under sung hero of easy tui text editors. [Has controls on screen.]

overlooked because it’s part of mc, and thus does not show up in the text editor categories in package managers and websearches?

could do a similar THGTTG bit for it. … or other parodies of other stuff… idk, my brain not conjuring such things with ease just now.

(And yes, I missed the reference, at first, too… Thought about responding with some contrived towel elaboration).

Removes [your first step to be able to remedy a problem] your awareness of what’s going on around you in the real world. [Many people feel very unnerved by it because of this aspect.]

… I was going to share a link here to whatever first video I found of any of the many videos of thieves sneaking into people’s homes while they’re oblivious on VR, but someone has created a VR game called thief sneak, where the wearer of VR can play a thief sneaking into people’s homes, making it too hard to find the videos of that really happening. The potential for irony now, seems obvious…

Anyhoo, beyond that flooding-the-zone, plenty else goes wrong, born of that aspect, and more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VR+fails

I wonder if it’s more like VR.

People don’t like losing control over their technology in reality.

People want to retain control over their technology, like it’s a tool.

Virtual reality removes awareness and agency in the real world.

Same as agents do.

Here’s to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.

Thanks.

:)