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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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The code will break and they will be back. People are buying into the bullshit until they realize its just marketing and has no practical application
Interestingly, that's how it works for construction jobs too!
Things will break and they will be back.
Doubtful. The oligarch class only needs a handful of good developers to make working code for rich people use. The rest of us are being stuck with half-assed AI slop. They're trying to carve 99% of us out of the economy (the parts that pertain to them) and relegate us to backbreaking wage slavery. Killing middle class jobs is the point, they think.
Not saying it's a good plan, but it sure looks like what they're trying to do.
That is the plan. But eventually they will start dying to the same buggy hospital code that the rest of us use, or whatever other issue.
There's a billionaire fantasy that they can afford to buy artisinal everything, and not get poisoned by the results of their own stupid callousness.
I don't believe it. I do believe they will try, for awhile.
They're not going to make any money selling to other rich people. They didn't get rich buying someone else's trash.
They are literally building doomsday bunkers while knowing we're pretty much heading unavoidably towards cooking the earth alive. The 1% has concentrated more wealth than ever in modern history. They dont care about squeezing a little more money out of us at this point, they're in their endgame. All that's left to do is to finish training the AI that'll be their staff once they seal themselves off and that's it.
Cory Doctorow's "The Masque of the Red Death" is my current favorite endgame for those doomsday shelter billionaires.... Here's a free audio of it: https://ia902908.us.archive.org/1/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_332/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_332_-_The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death.mp3
That's not happening in their lifetime. Unless all they want is something to talk to as they go senile and starve themselves.
This is 100% what i see the plan to be as well.