Seward's Folly

Hatcher Pass from Marmot Ridge

@jackmallers @DadAmused @elonmusk @PeterDiamandis My reply was to @DadAmused, im a big fan of what youre doing @jackmallers

@roe907 @DadAmused @elonmusk @PeterDiamandis Was my tweet a criticism? All I'm saying is measuring things in fiat over the long term is a bit pointless. It's more valuable to think in scarce assets. What am I building? I'm the founder of two Bitcoin companies. I spend my time building those and promoting bitcoin

.@elonmusk just crossed $800 billion — roughly 2.7% of the entire US GDP. The last person to hold that much of the American economy? John D. Rockefeller in 1913. It took a century for anyone to match him. Rockefeller had oil. Musk has the future.

@DadAmused @jackmallers @elonmusk @PeterDiamandis What are you BUILDING? Graphic novels and your personal financial freedom? Maybe not quite enough to be criticizing others quite yet?

Hey Jack, what exactly are you BUILDING? You are speaking of worth - Essentially you are just waiting for that worth to reach a figure measurable in your darling fiat the US Dollar ; probably from some expected supply crunch and retail FOMO. Just man up and applaud someone who is actually building something.

Be better than you were yesterday. That’s your competition, you from yesterday and all you have to do is be better than that loser to win. Keep doing that and within a year you will be a winner.

@HermesLux The entire system is predicated on perpetual debt funded growth. It all collapses in a deflationary environment. Incentivize debt at the expense of savers. What a fucked up system.

@JJTrey @brianmackenzie That's where the 'water source' part comes in.

@brianmackenzie I'm with you with the exception of the water and phone parts. You need water more than food, 2 days worth isn't nearly enough. It you follow that advice you're going to need your phone because you might be in trouble.

1. Get some camping gear. 2. Buy 1000 calories worth of freeze dried and canned food x 10 days = 10,000 calories. 3. Get enough water for 2 days. 4. Drive to a national forest. Park, leave your phone. Hike into the mountains for 8-10hrs searching for a water source w/ fish. 5. Don’t leave that place until 14 days is up. #Alone

@Nithya_Shrii That's actually a very popular opinion among stupid people who if they got their way would be living in Third World conditions or dead

@jbeam123 Thousands, that's cute

I grew up going to the lake. My mother said I could swim before I could walk. I still go to the lake as often as I can. This post is Minnesota (copied from FB). The lakes of Minnesota sit across the state like thousands of pieces of blue glass scattered across the land, quietly reminding everyone why this place is called the Land of 10,000 Lakes — even though the real number is closer to 11,800. Minnesota didn’t just get a few lakes. It got an entire geography built around water. From the massive open water of Lake Superior to tiny hidden fishing lakes tucked deep inside pine forests, water is everywhere. No matter where you stand in the state, chances are there’s a lake, river, or wetland just a few minutes away. Minnesota is one of the only places in the United States where water flows in three different directions. Some rivers flow south through the mighty Mississippi River toward the Gulf of Mexico. Others run north through the Red River of the North toward Canada and eventually Hudson Bay. And along the North Shore, water spills into Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake by surface area on Earth. That’s not just geography. That’s a flex. The scale of Minnesota’s water is hard to understand until you’re standing next to it. Up along the North Shore, Lake Superior looks less like a lake and more like an ocean — endless blue water stretching to the horizon with waves that crash against rocky cliffs and basalt shoreline. Storms can build waves over 20 feet high, and the lake can change moods faster than the weather forecast. Further south and west, the lakes become calmer and warmer. Thousands of them are scattered through forests, farmland, and small towns, each with its own personality. Some are quiet canoe lakes surrounded by loons and pine trees. Others are busy summer playgrounds filled with pontoons, fishing boats, and kids jumping off docks. Minnesota’s lakes shape the entire rhythm of life here. Summer weekends mean cabins, fishing lines in the water, and the sound of boat motors humming across glassy water at sunset. Fall brings mist rising off quiet lakes surrounded by red and gold forests. Winter freezes everything solid, turning the lakes into highways for snowmobiles and small villages of ice fishing houses. And then there’s the wildlife. Loons call across the water at dusk. Bald eagles circle high above the shoreline. Pelicans glide across huge inland lakes like they accidentally wandered in from the ocean. Minnesota’s water doesn’t just shape its landscape. It shapes its identity. The same lakes that host perfect summer sunsets also freeze into thick sheets of ice that test every Minnesotan’s tolerance for cold. Snow piles up. Temperatures drop. And yet somehow the water keeps bringing people back every season. Fishing boats leave the docks before sunrise. Kayaks glide across glassy morning water. Families gather around lakes that have been part of their lives for generations. By the time the sun sinks behind the pine trees and the entire lake turns orange and gold, you realize something about Minnesota that maps and statistics can’t fully explain. The lakes aren’t just something scattered across the state. In Minnesota… the water is the whole point.

@spikesguides @mymixtapez Graphic example

Instead of going for the easy dunk, there is an actual effect here called the benefits cliff. When you make more money, your assistance is cut basically instantly and you end up making less money overall than you did before when you were using programs. You can work harder but net less money overall. Happens a lot to recent college grads who get their first real job.

Florida mom in tears as she is about to lose her Section 8 housing assistance after starting a new job: “I feel like I got punished for trying and getting a job”

@JoeCoff85254501 @MrBradThomas @mrwtffacts Its an adult cruise ship, not a daycare. Whats with this attitude of needing to treat adults like kindergarteners?

@MrBradThomas @mrwtffacts Her negligence? A bar serving somebody 14 shots isn't negligent? Seems like shared negligence to me. Probably why the jury found 60% liability. Looks like they got it correct.

While on board a Carnival cruise ship, a 45-year-old nurse from California downed 14 shots of tequila in under 9 hours at the bar. She blacked out, fell down the stairs, and woke up in a staff-only area. Rather than brush it off as “one too many” she sued Carnival for overserving her. A Miami jury agreed - finding Carnival 60% at fault. She has now been awarded $300,000 in compensation.

@WorldDomStudios @JoeAnon2015 @Pirat_Nation To force you into subscriptions

@JoeAnon2015 @roe907 @Pirat_Nation Well then fuck this law. What's even the point?

The Stop Killing Games movement has officially backed the proposed California bill focused on protecting players when online games are shut down. > Publishers must provide an offline mode or a way to keep the game playable after server shutdown. > If this is not possible, players should receive a full refund. > The goal is to protect digital ownership and game preservation. This proposal follows growing concerns over games becoming completely inaccessible once support ends, especially after shutdowns like The Crew. Most gamers think that if players pay for a game, it should remain playable or be fairly compensated.

As it is, right now, subscriptions are excluded. With that in, subscription is the way the industry go. And you and everyone else is getting mad at me for just pointing it out, instead of all that energy going to getting them excluded. So yeah, the direction its heading is clear.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation Your pessimism is a cancer and I refuse to let it affect our ability to make iterative change that can eventually benefit all our lives

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation It won't be though. These are politicians with rich donors. What does pass won't be in your best interests if it does.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation So we agree that's a line item that needs to be axed.

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation It also says subscriptions are excluded from that rule. So either recurring revenue and no refund risk, or one time revenue and refund risk. Tough choice.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation it's not a one-time price. That has nothing to do with this legislation. What this legislation says is "whenever you shut down (and we know you will), you have to let it be playable offline in perpetuity or pay up"

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation How much taxpayer money has been spent on the thing? Did it all go to Elon and he just didnt do it?

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation it's because the resolution never passed we didn't make ours because we took Elon's word for it that he was going to build his own You think the law will pass and we're just not going to enforce it?

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation People said the same about the high speed rail 20 years ago

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation of course I don't expect it to pass but if it did it would only improve things

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation But why would fortnite, or anyone else, use a one-time price if this legislation passed? From a studio perspective, there's no upside, and a potentially massive loss as a downside.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation Games as a service can't run forever. Eventually even Fortnite will shut down, even if it takes 50 years. When that happens we are morally entitled to be able to run client-side servers in perpetuity.

@danicrestlive @Pirat_Nation I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the people who have completely fumbled your states high speed rail, arent about to save gaming.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation No, now it means consumers have all the bargaining power. That added price will scare away a good chunk of the market for any game. That'll cause the game to die, and then the publisher will have to port their server kits to clients, and then we get to play for free forever

Let's be real here, 90% of people in this thread would still subscribe to 'their' favorite games, and just have a much smaller library. They're not going to stop gaming, and no board members at a major studio are going to want any exposure to even the slightest possibility of full refunds to all users.

@roe907 @Pirat_Nation There clearly is demand, otherwise movements like Stop Killing Games wouldn't exist so there is no risk.