Anthropic is buying millions of rare books, scanning and destroying them because legally destruction is the safest option. This was a plot element in the Vernor Vinge novel, "The Rainbow's End", which I read 20 years ago.
Forever grateful for crypto man. Without satoshi Iโd be a permanent wagie. Even I take a moment now and then and acknowledge how ridiculously lucky I was.
Everyone saying class of 2017 and before had it stupid easy is correct. Born at exactly the right time I canโt even lie.
So basically a โnon-profitโ is a highly profitable enterprise for the people who run them - their friends in government funnel taxpayer dollars to them, and they pretend to engage in some kind of charitable activities that donโt achieve anything.
Agenda 2030 is right on track.
Introduce centrally controlled "proof of human" system.
Let an "autonomous AI agent" "attack" a company's infrastructure.
Mandate centrally controlled "proof of human" compliance.
Cattle herd everyone into the supercharged digital panopitcon.
@moneyfromstate lol same, added MSTR in my IRA. Need that extra juice ๐
After watching swings of almost half a mill, just not exciting enough anymore.
@moneyfromstate Yeah I agree, parked half my working capital in STRC. And 50% seems like the best we were going to get. Just watching the Iran situation and new Fed chair effects as we head into summer. But seems like weโre in accumulation phase. DCA all day from here
US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"
my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable
the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point
we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it
the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive