I finally put my rack on a dedicated 20A breaker and replaced the old ups that was failing with a new (to me) ups that keeps things going much longer
I don’t mind doing electrical work but any time I have to open the panel I get a little nervous. Glad to have this done
It’s crazy that people don’t see this is where computers are heading.
The day tech bros realized they could squeeze recurring monthly subscriptions out of you for basically increasingly banal shit the writing was on the wall. The end game is that you have a chromebook with 800 subscriptions to streaming services for your os, music, movies, tv, games, image editing software, music DAWs, plugins for both the aforementioned softwares, subscriptions for hardware associated with the software (eg drawing tablets or midi keyboards), etc but covering every niche you can possibly think of and not just graphic art and music.
And when you bitch about it tech bros and weird alphas and young zoomers who were raised on this ecosystem and indoctrinated by it will go “well you see it’s fair because updates cost money to develop” as if the old system of expecting bug fixes and security patches to be free but not necessarily feature updates was unfair. Like if I buy a car and it’s fucked up I expect it to be fixed for free but I don’t expect them to feature match the next model year.
Tech workers are disproportionately high paid and so whiney when they have to provide even a modicum of support because then they have to potentially cut into that disproportionate high pay. Like “oh no i make 80-150,000+ a year but if i support this I’ll have to work more without generating sales and will maybe only make 60-130,000+. The horror!” fuck those libertarian shitstains that are literally overthrowing an entire government (and possibly more) with technofacism so that they can justify their “I know python, I should be able to earn as much as I want, fuck ethics, I never emotionally matured past 16” bullshit
All the people justifying carrying a knife everywhere: context, and also the kind of knife. I remember once being in the labor and delivery ward of a hospital and a guy visiting pulled out his wallet to sign in. He must’ve been one of those every day carry chumps because like 8 things fell out of his pocket, including a pocket knife that was at like 8” long.
What fucking threat are you gonna have to neutralize at the maternity ward you fucking nerd? Or do you think they’re gonna let you cut the cord with that dirty ass flea market knife that’s probably blunt as shit. All you’ve achieved is making everyone around you uncomfortable because america is loaded with incidents of mass violence.
That’s a different argument. Is consciousness meaningful? Yes, because I like it, but of course someone who is passively suicidal will disagree. Who is right? Debatable. That doesn’t change theory of mind though.
Edit: this is an example I don’t mean to imply you’re passively suicidal, to be clear
You are rejecting modern philosophy of mind so you can embrace science fiction and (more likely) wild fantasies about defeating mortality
Again this would upend everything we know about biology, physics, and neuroscience.
If the Descartes quote is all you care about then it’s potentially a different story. Like do you want to live forever or exist forever? Different things. Elon musk is probably chasing both but okay with the latter, for example
Duh, that’s the inherent philosophical construct. The body dies but a consciousness continues. What “is” consciousness. Is it a “soul” that can be extracted from a corporeal form and injected into a (in this example) carbon copy? If that is the case how does one “verify” the “extraction” occurred and the process of creating a carbon copy did not create a carbon copy “soul”? To the outside observer the scenario you describe would happen but you would die on the train and you 2.0 would pick up where you left off.
Perhaps (and far far more likely) consciousness is a byproduct of extremely high quality sensory processing with the capacity for storing both long and short term memories and attending to stimuli. But even again if we created a perfect replica of this that is all it would be, a replica. It would think it’s you, but it’s not. The original you, the you it’s copied from, is dead.
To defeat this means to upend several sciences as far as I know. Biology, neuroscience, physics. A clone will always be morally distinct, and teleportation would always ultimately result in creating a clone. What the legal ramifications of this would be i dont know. Capitalism is wild and if someone did figure this out I bet money there would be a product on the market that was rushed despite not having answered these (likely unanswerable) questions and probably protected from criticism because it “revolutionizes transportation” or some shit
So what would happen if the original wasn’t “destructively” scanned and was just scanned. 2 would exist. Ergo, you’re dying each time.
I’ve thought about this for over 25 years at this point. Ever since the first journeyman project game and moment where you teleport to work and it’s like you die, then come back to life, because that’s the only way it could ever work. Unless there’s some weird physics shit I don’t understand where you like slip through a wormhole or something. I don’t know I suck at that kind of physics
They get high on the propellant (usually difluoroethane), basically, enhanced by hypoxia
Nitrous oxide (“whippits”) is a whole other thing that is very much a grey market drug dealer “this should probably just explicitly be legal at this point because the hoops people jump through are kind of silly”. Like if you’re into cooking nitrous oxide chargers are a valid thing to own for making whipped cream and such so headshops often stock huge tanks under the guise of “for culinary use only”, just like how people only use bongs for tobacco, right
Some people have schizophrenia, shithead
She made bank off her tour, don’t speak as if Ticketmaster took all the money and she made nothing. Her “company” took in about 2 billion in revenue from the last tour and after expenses she made out with like 700 million in profit because she, like all shitty billionaires, extracts wealth from workers. I’m sure the roadies, people selling merch, tour musicians, etc are just doing great and definitely all have health insurance and aren’t being exploited because they work for Taylor and isn’t that so quirky and fun. She gave the musicians bonuses! That’s much better than a livable wage for everyone with benefits and definitely not a pr move slash a gift for the peons Taylor actually has facetime with and developed some empathy for.
Also Ticketmaster takes a smaller cut from people like her. Don’t get me wrong, they still take a monster cut and that’s part of why your concert tickets are stupid expensive now as you say, but part of the unfair advantage she has is the resources to negotiate far better terms than say, band z getting off the ground. Both she and Ticketmaster knows she will 100% sell out every single ticket of the entire tour in seconds and she and her team leverage this for a more advantageous contract. The capitalist calls this shrewd, everyone else calls this an unfair advantage that makes the already rich and famous even more rich and famous.
anyone involved in the Trump admin is obviously trash but chers argument is basically appeal to authority and discredit the other delivered in sassy tone that you like because she’s on “your team”. Both are garbage and if you upvote something like this you’re part of the reactionary tribalism ruining the world, fuck you. Absolutely nothing was debated here, boomer facebook trash.
Force people to justify their positions with coherent arguments, not just sassy doublespeak that says nothing yet you trust in it because they’re an authority figure or aligned with your cause. If they can’t do that then ignore them and don’t give them power
This happened in NJ and the billionaire who “left because of taxes” has both returned to the state since and pretty consistently stated he did not leave because of the tax hike and never said that was his motive. While I am sure these scumbags will do whatever is necessary to avoid paying taxes my point is don’t expect the media to not propagandize here.
The narrative being built is clearly one to make the average person think “increasing taxes on the wealthy will hurt us!” This is what happened in New Jersey. “If the tax increases are passed and David Tepper leaves it will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars and ruin everything!”. It’s that domestic abuse shit; “you should just let me exploit the fuck out of you and if you don’t I’ll bail and it’s your fault for not letting me continue to do so”. Also fwiw while Tepper left NJ was fine and while his loss was notable to the tax budget it was not insurmountable by any means. NJ and California are already quite wealthy states.