@scmedicinals "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or come with me and change the world?" - Steve Jobs to Sculley, CEO of Pepsi. Postscript, he immediately f-d up Apple.
@Giovann35084111 Sun will burn out in 5B years. Plausible that we could live in accelerated perceptual time if downloaded. That's a lot of time to search for meaning, and people will opt out. Greg Egan wrote two excellent books about post singularity immortality.
@BranziniHaddock@boneysoups Interestingly, the closure of Limelight led to the firing of employee Angel Hernandez so he had to couchsurf at Michael Alig's apartment, a club kid who ultimately killed him, a sensation in the news at the time.
@RoKhanna@BernieSanders Elon bailed out the US space program, reduced pollution with EVs, and saved lives with autonomous driving. You've ruined your state, driven up the deficit, printed too many dollar, and now you're begging for money to bribe your voters. Nice!
@BilldeBlasio@ZohranKMamdani Why are they food deserts? Demand. And crime. If residents could (well, wanted to) spend on vegetables, there would be vegetables.
@NYCMayor This is a republic. No friction to move to Luxembourg (FL) from France (NY) because they're in the same country. Or vice versa! Not only are the wealthiest leaving, you're incentivizing the poorest to come.
@feelsdesperate Coming from NYC last week to FL this week I can observe very different perspectives on whether there is an outflux of New York finance professionals.