Like dung beetles to shit.

I didn’t know there were Fediverse days.

I remember the internet era of the 90s/00s where piracy and porn sites had scammy ads and the legit sites were far more clean.

It seems to have completely reversed.

Because they either delusionally believe more captial is required to reach their AI nirvana or they want to keep the grift going.

I miss the hanging out with the same online mates.

It occured to me when I quit Reddit that I hadn’t made a single friend on there in 10 years but made loads on the forums I used to frequent.

I miss the old forums.

The peak of the internet.

What is this awesomeness?

I think it may have been even larger but not by much.

The difference is the dot com bubble ended up with huge amounts of fibre infrastructure installed which was ultimately used (many years later).

This bubble will end up with huge data centres with obsolete GPUs which have massive water and power consumption burdens.

“If only Hitler / Stalin knew”

Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the industrialised world.

You realise people can scroll up and read what he said?

Outside very rare medical conditions, circumcision has zero medical benefit.

It literally rejects empiricism.

Production must equal Consumption plus investment.

An excess of production leads to companies closing down.

Reducing consumption (via getting rid of workers, reducing wages, etc.) will lead to an imbalance that must correct itself.

This can be forestalled by private debt, government debt or exporting the surplus but this is unsustainable.

I got it on Steam on sale.

It’s great fun.

Totally recommend.

It is strange.

The only reason people who use Pangolin is to have control over the tunnel rather than rely on a company.

Every time you do a Seig Heil, your health is replenished.

Propping up an economic bubble isn’t helping the economy either.

I heard you can use Pangolin and self host your own tunnel.

Haven’t looked into it.

It’s sobering working in engineering and seeing the MBA bros take over.

No long term planning, no pride in the work, and no care about quality, safety or utility.

Just corporate slogans and bullshit.

None of the AI providers actually make a profit on their searches and the marginal cost per user and search isn’t dropping.