But only half.

Antimatter half-lives matter.

They were invited to join at the end of the cold war, and they kinda did, or at least they made advances in that direction. But I think Russia just didn't have the institutions in place to be able to follow through, and China did just enough to gain some advantage from free market reforms without also implementing the social freedoms that we thought would inevitably go along with it. You're talking about a society (Russia) where their cultural belief could be summed up as "endless suffering" and another society (China) where it's very low-trust. It was our folly to think you could build a western-like liberal democracy on top of non-western ideas.

I don't think we've used Airbnb, but we've used VRBO many times and they *always* require you to clean the place and take out the trash when you leave. Was this not a standard thing in Airbnb?

Let's see who gets what bids.

SpaceX needs Tesla's revenue to subsidize its AI efforts.

Tesla needs SpaceX for all the AI resources that were diverted from Tesla to SpaceX.

Elon Musk needs the merger in order to circumvent the performance goals in his compensation package.

That's a pretty non-nuanced view of history. The reason that we had so much explosive growth in the west since the end of WW2 was because the US setup a system of international alliances and a rules-based world order with the goal of containing Russia and China. The sheer number of people who were lifted out of poverty over the last century specifically because of that is mind-boggling. But of course the game is still the game, and countries are still maneuvering to gain the best position, and that includes the US. No, the US is not a saint, but we can't forget that their actions during and after WW2 definitely made them and their allies the "good guys", at least until the end of the cold war, and I would argue even through the first gulf war, where the US military actually stopped the invasion of Iraq specifically because they didn't want to exceed the UN mandate. The thing is, we got used to it. We believed it was the new normal. Fukayama wrote a book called The End of History, and people believed it. He was wrong. But the reason he was proven wrong was specifically because Russia and China refused to see the obvious benefit of a rules-based world order, and refused to get their house in order. Russia's government is essentially run like the mafia, and China manipulates its currency, corrupted the WHO, and both of them installed a dictator for life. And when the American people became disillusioned, they elected their own leader in the image of Putin and Xi. That's how we got where we are now. I'm over-simplifying, for sure, but "US bad too" has never been an adequate explanation.

Thank you professor. I get it, you're saying many people would find it funny? That's not bad, when you consider I wrote it for my own humorous purpose. Anyway, would love to see you make a more broadly appealing and funnier joke.

What if the conditions on Phobos require it to float at various points? MMX can't do floating at any point, and so they'll have to wait for the American Micro Devices that can do it and copy that and SSEnd those instead.

That sounds like a good gig, and a great excuse for being away from annoying family members or friends. "Uh, I'd love to but I've got to head back to the prison tonight .. will see if I can hangout more this weekend .. assuming they don't have me on library duty or something".

How can I be down?

A microsecond here, a nanosecond there, pretty soon you're talking big time. Now think about it, if you're off by a few milliseconds in terms of the Earth orbiting the galaxy at 515,000 mph that's probably tens of thousands of miles (you do the math, I'll do the implications) .. Now let's assume Jesus had planned to come back on say January 14th, 2100 AD. Where the fuck would the Earth be at that time? Since we didn't account for the microseconds and all that .. the Earth would be like thousands of miles off its actual predicted position.

It's never the right time to wrong time.

Bill Gates should have been taken more seriously .. like think about it .. how the hell is 8 BILLION bytes not enough???

Up until, I would say the 90s .. we used to view RAM as a precious rare mineral allocated to us by God. Every bit had to be accounted for. You didn't just go allocating memory willy nilly. You can't be like malloc this, malloc that, as if you own the place. Every bit and byte and to be mulled over. You'd think "do I really need to use an int? perhaps byte or maybe even a boolean would suffice?" Sometimes you'd have to compromise "I really need a double here, but fuck it, all I have is two booleans" That's how we dealt with shit. Contrast that with you Gen Z fuckers nowadays who are like "hmm, I need to store an on-off state .. let me use an entire JSON structure embedded in an HTML file!"

You know what, fuck all of you!

I actually toned it down by not naming the specific politician.

Super intelligent means smarter than a politician. A sand lizard qualifies.

Well, to get technical, they switched from using the Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm to the Obese Conspicuous Fattening algorithm.