@theliamnissan It's like an even shittier Big Bang Theory joke than normal, but it's serious.
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michael long
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3D Monkey @ General Motors / Cruise making robot cars. Previously Maxis/EA and Glu Mobile. vertex normal at blusky
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Elon thinks we live in a simulation. You are all just NPCs to him, I am not kidding
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@Lance91111 @SprinterPress He just burned 3 weeks, god knows how many billions and killed at least a dozen Americans, what the hell are you talking about.
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@SprinterPress Trump isn't going to waste time and resources on the Strait. He tried to get the EU, UK, and others to help themselves but they were too gutless to do anything.
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The US no longer needs the Hormuz Strait
Donald Trump stated that the United States is not interested in the Hormuz Strait because it is needed by others.
“We have already defeated Iran. We do not need this strait; we do not use it,” he said.
According to him, the strait will "open by itself" over time, and its importance is greater for Europe, South Korea, Japan, and China.
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@sundeep I dunno man, in my day the best coders were the ones who wrote the fewest lines of code, not the most. Same mentality.
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“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
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Anyone know what's under the wings of this B-52?
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@akinyi__wendy @AustinRoy007 And Cybertrucks on fire off the shoulder of San Mateo..
All these tokens lost in time..
Time to die.
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@AustinRoy007 He's seen $500k engineers . And seen how much tokens they burn.
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Sad to see one of the greatest minds of our generation get so lost in the pursuit of wealth that he starts saying some of the strangest things you'll ever hear
sunny madra@sundeep
“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”
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@lisavsworld @technollama We made or the boomers cynically made to cash in on the perception that we were nihilists? I dont think GenX is nihilistic, I think that when the cold war ended and the world somehow got worse we got dosed with pragmatic acceptance that in late stage capitalism the world is shit.
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@technollama It's not what you grew up on, it's about what you created.
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People don't want to hear this... but this is actually Millennials. Andy Weir is a Gen X, but the sincerity of his books speak to the generation under him. Millennials grew up in a time where they bullied each other for being sincere as the nihilism of Gen X culture was the dominant force. As soon as we became adults, we split into two groups: 1) continued on the path of cynicism into drugs, debauchery, and pushing back against personal responsibility, or 2) were free of the conformity of our youth and could finally do whatever we wanted and ernestly as we wished. This is why authors like Andy Weir have an audience, filmmakers like Denis Villeneuve as well. People are craving sincerity after a lifetime of being told not to care.
Paul Anleitner@PaulAnleitner
If you see Project Hail Mary this weekend, I hope you'll remember how I told you over 3 years ago that stuff like this was going to explode in pop culture. -From ironic cynicism to post-ironic sincerity. -Embracing the "cringe" & the celebration of the earnest "try-hard." -From deconstructing the past, to a nostalgia for some positive "vibe" we lost in the deconstruction. -The rejection of Fight Club-era nihilism. -The ability to stare at the apocalypse in front of you and be hopeful instead of a "doomer."
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@Rahll yeah but hes superman now, able to bend the laws of time and space with no need of such trivial things as 'money'
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Wait wait wait waaait a second....
He's saying he wants his $500,000 engineer to actually cost him $750,000 by using $250,000 worth of AI tokens.
Wasn't AI supposed to make things cheaper, not cost 50% more?
TFTC@TFTC21
Jensen Huang: "If that $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed. This is no different than a chip designer who says 'I'm just going to use paper and pencil. I don't think I'm going to need any CAD tools.'"
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@Microinteracti1 So we get the Ready Player One world without even getting the game.
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Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality.
He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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@NewsBarron @TheFaxMachina It’s irresponsible to spread lies like this just bc you dislike a patriot for not worshipping a foreign government like you do. You are committing treason and should be rounded up and deported to Israel. You are obsessed with controlling goyim news, and you can’t be trusted
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Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard may have been fucking, and that’s why they’re acting weird.
Follow: @NewsBarron
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@Bubblebathgirl @atrupar Democrats want accountability. Masked law enforcement rounding up people based on race without a specific targeted warrant is un-American.
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@atrupar Democrats want to doxx law enforcement. That’s what’s going on here.
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Duffy: "What Democrats really want is they want TSA agents to take their masks off. TSA agents don't want to wear masks. And by the way, Democrats spent a couple years during covid mandating that we all wear masks, now they want TSA agents to take them off." (He means ICE.)
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@GavRov I'd love to see a world where the weight of being Spider-Man actually breaks him. Him perpetually being a teenager is a pretty flat character arc. The best part of No Way Home was seeing the older Spideys as the end outcome of the weight of his life and actions.
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Makes me sad there's no point in me spending any time trying to do my Logan style take on Spidey with him as a drifter/recluse in a near future setting
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Covering up his actions and refusing to take responsibility for his actions made Col. Jessup a villain. He let his ego & political ambition rise above his sense of honor and duty and in doing so betrayed the Corps he’d served for 30+ years.
If he’d owned up to the truth he would have been forcibly retired but that would have been better for the service than the even greater scandal he created by breaking the law to protect his career. Even worse, he ordered others to participate in his crimes and bragged them down with him.
He put himself above his unit, the Marine Corps, & his country and that’s why he’s the bad guy.
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I fully realize Nicholson was the bad guy in this film, but Trump has got to feel this way when dealing with the gutless wonders that pretend to be our “allies.”
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@girldrawsghosts It's because virtual sets are shit at reproducing direct lighting. Sunlight is really bright in a way that stage lighting just can't do.
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It’s not that it’s overcast in the image; it’s the utter lack of contrast that is killing the visual spectacle of these movies. Everything becomes flat and washed out. That suit fucking *pops* in real life. If your spider-man movie is more drab than real life, you are fucking up
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There are times when i feel like color grading discourse can be overblown and borderline obnoxious, but it’s an actual real problem worth addressing when the set leaks looked like this
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Comics ➡️ Live-Action Spider-Man in ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’.
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@NACHOS2D_ "Perfect" is the key word here. The distance between this and perfect is entirely the point.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
You can't see him
But he sees you
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In all likelihood, Europe would collapse if America left NATO.
And I'm to the point that I don't care.
War Radar@War_Radar2
BREAKING: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Germany tells Donald Trump the war “has nothing to do with NATO — it’s not NATO’s war.” — Politico
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@hansmast @RokoMijic Solar drops demand during peak times, which reduces costs. Nobody goes full solar unless they have to, the grid is available if you need it. Is it a silver bullet? No, but redundancy and self reliance are usually seen as virtues.
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@RokoMijic I live in Kansas. We don’t have 9 days without sunshine. Plus I have a natural gas generator and a grid connection.
Grids are insanely expensive, but they do make energy fungible.
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What Brett isn't telling you is that the power from the solar panel must be used instantly.
If you want just 10 days of storage for a 400W solar panel you have to pay about $10,000 for batteries.
The barrel of oil is its own battery.
And if you have to put that panel in Southern England on land that would otherwise have been used for housing, you are going to pay $12,000 for the land.
So:
- Panel ($92)
- Batteries ($10,000)
- Land ($12,000)
You can see why oil is still competitive.
Brett Winton@wintonARK
a barrel of oil can provide as much electricity as a 400W solar panel does annually. a barrel of oil runs $92 and comes with a few minor logistical complications. this year the solar panel should run less than $90; you can order online, ships in a week.
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@RokoMijic CA is mostly rooftop solar on single homes, it only work in the day which conveniently when most households need it. $500-1000 power bills are common. The system pays itself off quickly. Full off grid is one thing, but augmenting your grid connection drops prices for everyone.
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Solar power is not a very good form of power generation for most parts of the world. It requires lots of sunshine, decent physical security over large areas, good grid connections and low population density.
In theory such land basically shouldn't exist, but due to political factors and abnormally low human birth rates you actually do have land like that in America and Australia (and to some extent in Central Asia).
Logically, the best form of power by far is nuclear fission power. It is vastly cheaper, requires less land produces power all the time rather than just sometimes.
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@scabragames @TansuYegen And turns into a fiery coffin if there is no manual handle.
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@TansuYegen My Tesla just does that when I walk up to it – without any weird hand gestures. What’s so special about that?
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A car in China can open its doors without touching, but it seems like people aren't ready for that yet 🚗
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@Tazerface16 Semantic bullshit. Every major military on the planet has this. Just because something is ballistic doesn't mean it's 'hypersonic', a rock dropped from space will reach hypersonic speeds. Hypersonic referring to aircraft or missiles means its capable maintaining that speed.
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This weapon is a hypersonic missile.
It travels at Mach 10+ into space.
That's a normal ballistic missile.
But this one is special.
It has a second rocket that activates on reentering the atmosphere, which allows it to maneuver around air defense interceptors. 😱
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Point blank, there is no existing defense against this capability.
None.
No other country has actively demonstrated this capability in combat, except Iran.
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