My point exactly.

Perhaps we’re just not as interesting as we think. Maybe aliens don’t want to contact us for the same reason I don’t want to contact kids playing in the park: I’m simply uninterested in whatever they’re doing.

“Right near the beach… BOYEE!”

Here’s an example of a corporation demonstrating positive socio-economic change:

The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses.

I grew up in Silicon Valley and I can testify what you already know: venture capitalists and tech CEOs are just dumb kids with a lot of money. Many of them landed in their positions by chance alone. We are not obliged to give them more credence than anybody else.

Serious question: is x = my + b also a slope intercept? Why is it only calculated via the y axis?

Did that happen to you?

Lol. I honestly didn’t notice the instance before commenting. But I’m glad to have learned some new perspectives.

Yeah but what to do instead? The slave economies of the past weren’t exactly a blast (of course there is still a lot of slavery now). Feudalism had it’s pros and cons; at least the proletarians owned their property.

I haven’t heard of any stunningly brilliant and new economic systems being invented…

What is so bad about living with your parents? That’s still the norm in many parts of the world. For some reason western countries, and especially America, have exaggerated the benefits of being financially independent, as if shared resources were some kind of failure.

I beg to differ. The only people who lose when we share resources are the capitalists.

I’ve got a few friends in their thirties who live with their parents and the whole family is very happy. And although my kids are only six and three, I can’t imagine any reason why I wouldn’t want them to continue living in my house for as long as they needed support.

We all need support. It’s not a shame. It’s an asset more valuable than property, imho.

(guillotine emoji)

Damn. I’ve got the Mountain Dew drinkers riled up.

“Possibly causes cancer” is sufficient for me to never the touch the stuff. Please stop drinking these things. They’re literally addictive.

I never trusted the stuff. We use to say this matter-of-factly when I was a kid, about thirty years ago. I’m glad to see that my unfounded confidence and speculation turned out to be right!

Probably stepping down to sit on the board instead.

If I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read a similar story in the last thirty years…

Rendering 3d immersive AI generated deepfake porn is going to be so fucking fast

Isn’t past perfect “it had been a tense gathering”?

Very legal. Very cool.

Shantanu and Ganga?

Yeah, I figured as much. At least they can’t count me as a user when they go public.