100% of every thousandth payment taken, vs. 3% of every single payment....

One of the more shocking public surveys I've ever seen found that the majority of people would not pay $100 to see a live dinosaur.
Now this thread is filled with comments against this project, from "frankenstein" to "why bother".
I truly don't understand people.

I was much more suspicious of TikTok until I found the source of this whole panic. The only reason this is an issue * at all * is because Facebook/Meta paid millions of dollars to lobbyists to fearmonger it.

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F* this. I'll be over on soylentnews instead.

American users call it "Red Note". This article is the first time I've seen it's latinized name.

The open secret is that the national security concern is BS. The real story is they're eating Facebook & Instagram's lunch, so Meta paid a giant pile of money to lobbying firms to kill them off.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://fortune.com/2022/03/31...

All of the things you mention, excluding the last one, apply to Covid-19 specifically, and may or may not be true for the next pandemic.

The most dangerous thing to come out of the COVID pandemic, by far, is it destroyed the credibility of public health services. Many people feel like the villagers that listened to the boy who cried wolf. If a real wolf comes tomorrow, if we face a decimating Old Testament biblical plague, they won't listen until millions are dead.

We'd have civilization back up and running long before now. The emergency supplies are always just to get you over the hump.

It's difficult to overstate the lengths some folks were willing to go to. e.g. I've seen a Ford 8n tractor that runs off of a wood gasifier and multiple small engines converted to run off steam. Then again, if you grew up with duck-and-cover, maybe that's not so over-the-top after all.

Better to have it and not need it, I suppose.

Many freeze dried canned foods of this age have a nominal 25 year shelf life. I lurk a number of "prepper" groups on Facebook, and 2024 has triggered a number of "using up the Y2K cans" discussions. Fun times.

My coworker/manager is the absolute WORST. We share an office and she is SO LOUD. I'll be on a conference call and she just starts randomly walking around and screaming at the top of her lungs. This goes on for several minutes and then she lays down on my placebo keyboard and goes to sleep, exhausted by her efforts.

Her name is Gracie, she's a tiny dwarf cat, 4 pounds soaking wet, and the best M1 I've ever had. This is the most compelling argument I can make for working remotely.

I'm at a loss as to how they are monetizing my eyeballs. I've yet to see an ad on the platform.

The t.me/enginnering26 channel appears to be from a Ukranian EOD crew. They're posting a lot of disassembled photographs of mines and munitions. It's interesting stuff. They have shown some 3-D printed mines; The only metal in them is a sharpened bolt that acts as a trigger when it hits the metal-cased initiator.

I appreciate that this summary included the uncertainties about cause and future effects. It's much more balanced than the usual end-of-days reporting.

I strongly suspect Factorio ate up a bunch of the other 85%. The October re-release basically one-shotted the entire PC-using engineering world. :D

I am currently assembling a CNC mill that I 100% expect to pay for by making seat belt silencers.

Why would someone want that? Why bypass a safety feature? Because I, and a whole lot of other people, keep our bags on the passenger seat I we don't forget them.

GPU: NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 1024 CUDA cores and 32 tensor cores
CPU: 6-core Arm Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU
Memory: 8GB 128-bit LPDDR5 102 GB/s
Storage: SD card slot and external NVMe
Power: 7-25W