250 years old. Rocket ship IPOs. New York is winning again. Trillionaires. American soccer looks good. European minds are visiting, comprehending.
How can you be pessimistic about the USA?
@SteveSkojec@kalezelden@HilarityjaneArt There's definitely AI behind it. They way it responds to everyone is classic. Its the shorts responses to others' replies that are the easiest to see. It would be interesting to see how it deals with some really antagonistic replies.
And so am I. Sadly, I have not lived up to their level of success. But that's OK. I get by and I'm happy. And its not their success that's kept me from reaching their heights. I hope SpaceX gets us to the moon, Mars and beyond. And that will enrich him further. What he does with his wealth will show what kind of man he is. The communists in Congress taking it from him will only allow them to waste it while also stifling innovation. And I already know what kind of garbage the communists in Congress are.
Elon Musk is an engineer.
Jeff Bezos is an engineer.
Larry Elison is an engineer.
Larry Page is an engineer.
Sergey Brin is an engineer.
Jensen Huang is an engineer.
Turns out capitalism does reward skills and intelligence, and the richest people are indeed engineers.
I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.
As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.
A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.
This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.
In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.
But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”
British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?
We genuinely do not understand this.
Decolonize your vocabulary. Stop saying “Asia” and “The West.” Instead say “the orient” and “the occident.” Stop saying “Muslim” and start saying “Mohammedan.” Stop saying “Middle East” and start saying levant. Stop saying “northern” and “southern,” say “boreal” and “meridional.”
“The hottest hotel in New York is Baaa. It has everything: Exposed beams, single beds, and hotel sheep.”
“What’re hotel sheep?”
“You know, it’s that thing where hotels give you a sheep to stand on your bed and look at you like you’re the interloper.”
@_voidzero I may have to think about switching to something safer. None of the package repos can truly be trusted anymore. But is Gentoo or anything else really safer? They're just targets that are another level of indirection away.