Hate to tell you, but that’s closer to 20 years than it is 10.

No one cares.

I always thought they were a cool idea, but never bought one. Idea-wise, IDK, use them for cluster-computing? I considered getting one as a retro gaming arcade…so maybe that?

Okay but you can dual-boot with a partition. That’s how it was done for decades previously.

Damn, is your professor Thor?

Eh, I’ve been to AC. Same difference. Vegas has the sphere, AC has junkies in alleys…both can be entertaining in their own ways, and cost about the same.

It says “you can create or resize partitions”…am I missing something?

I would enjoy a show about restaurants that serve rich people…

Well this hurt my heart.

Multiphasic sleep made a big difference in my life. I’m fortunate to have the kind of job where I can just nap at 3PM randomly.

So what about 3:45AM? Asking for an alcoholic friend…

I think the lesson is: the friends we made were on the way to the bookburning. Or maybe: life is like a box of burned books? IDK.

Yeah, we get it, you’ve recently discovered atheism and think you’re proving a point. Yawn. Call me when you’re burning the Kyballion. I’ll bring smores.

Hey, that’s an insult to shitholes. Many shitholes are very clean, well-douched and cleaned daily via bidet. Most American shitholes aren’t, but we’re people of the land, common clay of the new west, you know…morons.

This is what happens when Dr. Evil only partially-aborts one of his Mini Me fetuses.

I believe AI is a great tool that we should develop further. But we need to be smart about it. Power-usage is stupidly important, and researchers have been looking at spiking neural networks (SNNs) for a while as a lower-powered option which more closely mimics the way the human brain works. I’m not a ML-researcher, but to me that translates to “biglier smarts and smallier electrickimicity”. Maybe I’m wrong.

Now, from my drunk layman’s understanding, SNNs haven’t quite gotten to the point of giving outputs which are as useful as traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). So there’s an obvious reason they haven’t become the standard. But does it really make sense for tech bros to invest billions building these datacenters across the globe for a model that is…likely to be obsolete, just because “AI” is the hype-word du jour? I don’t think so. Seems to me that it makes more sense to pour research money into SNNs. But what do I know, I’m just a country hyper-chicken.

It’s a direct democracy, so generally Citizens decide what constitutes “service”…or at worst “representatives” (if we’d building off the framework of the idea). As far as administrative regions vs. federal…well, assuming we have a system that’s not broken and janky like this one, I think we could manage. As far as weighting things like “health risks”, yeah that’s a serious weakness here…but not an unaddressable one.

What I see is a world where we aren’t screeching about “immigrants” because most folks are similarly just residents. And residents have every right and protection as a citizen…aside from voting or holding office. I see a world where the responsibility of such power also comes with commitment to building society…rather than simply being born, whining, and burning everything down in a tantrum…as we basically see now with bourgeoisie white folks.

Don’t throw an idea away just because it isn’t immediately a panacea to every broken aspect of our current system.

Shh…we need the dream of possibility.

Humans in 2025 are…well, mostly horrible. So if we’re working with this stock, it’s never going to work. It’s more of an idea that works really well AFTER the morons die from COVID/etc. because they refused to wear a mask unless that mask let them brutalize brown folks. Long-term, I think it’s in idea we shouldn’t bin (as a species). But it absolutely won’t work TODAY.

Yeah it’s one of those ideas that work great if it’s the way we had always done things for several generations…but it’s not gonna work if we try to start it when anyone alive now is still…well…alive.