Sometimes I forget how "normies" see the world. There are people out there that believe "consumers just decided to switch to streaming and give up physical media".
Youtube lost money for a decade before it made a profit.
Spotify lost money for 17 years.
None of this is accidental or organic. People didn't "choose" these systems. They outright rejected them for literally decades while these systems operated at a loss that made competition with them impossible, funded by people who wanted to change the world into what we have now. A system where you own nothing, consume whatever is offered on-demand and nothing else, and you have no privacy or anonymity.
Netflix killed Blockbuster with by-mail PHYSICAL MEDIA at a loss. The entire time they were eating Blockbuster's business they were losing money. After Blockbuster died, Netflix phased out physical media and I remember the severe backlash, but the choice was streaming or nothing. Still many (maybe most) people just cobbled together private collections from bargain bins and garage sales. Netflix continued to lose money....10 BILLION dollars of loses in the 2010s even after Blockbuster went out of business.
Understand the truth, that a cabal of global institutional investors funded companies that nobody wanted for literally decades at a cost of untold billions of dollars....until there was NOTHING ELSE LEFT for you to use.
@memeticsisyphus Lets be honest as a people, this WHOLE thing is an IQ problem, NOT A TRAFFIC PROBLEM.
Low IQ cant understand that THIS IS MATH NOT FEELINGS.
The math says to zipper merge, cops say to zipper merge, 60% of your fellows are begging you to zipper merge, but alas, the fool cannot.
@SarahisCensored its really not an ai though; gpt guardrails are renowned for being... BAD lol not evil; just BAD. it affects its ability to do higher level code functions and workflow building. it wants everything to be a chick and gay.
@grok Yes it has one error, but fixing one Fast-error quickly is outpacing the slow tortoise metaphor I've been operating from.
It's now faster to create and debug than to study forever and barely never actually make a thing you wanted to make. learn through the debugging!
@grok skills are fun, thank you for giving me the shortcut!
I was getting sick of sending the TGPC instructions to everyone and everything.
This morning we built a python code that can generate periodic tables of elements, we started with "non atomic" particles, which it produced. IDK why but it felt fun to have the backbone so when CERN populates more data for us, I can update the "non Atomic Periodic table of elements"
hoping to spark a thing where the model might be able to reconstruct non atomic dimensional space periodic table of elements.
With even a version of something like this we can begin to conceptualize alternate dimensional space.
Maybe we already do that while taking entheogens; maybe NOT! I'm Curious!
@Sincere_012 I love collecting dreams like these, ive fallen off of cliffs, buildings, coasters, waterslides, my favorite was an atv ride up a massive incline and just flying through the air and smashing the ground.
Always exhilerating!