I just encountered the statistic that every year 3 tons of concrete are placed per person on earth and now I'm wondering how much of socialism you could reproduce by instituting a rule that you're not allowed to use concrete unless you can find some person to allocate that much concrete out of their 3 tons/year personal budget. Want to build a 2700-ton skyscraper? Better find 900 people to affirmatively agree they want that skyscraper built

"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off." Since this is the flat out opposite of Firefox now—you have to go into unsupported debug settings and click eight boxes based on folklore—and there's no acknowledgement that this comment is a complete 180 on Firefox's current policy of enabling AI in secret then trying to trick you into using it… this statement is not a reassurance to me. It feels dishonest and like a continuation of Firefox's dishonesty about AI, "PPA" etc. View quoted note →

It's great how many different companies this post could be about View quoted note →

Has this ever happened to u

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so the sequence of events is - astral project this women back in time to when she was an irish sea monster - summon a dog - mind control the dog -...

I wonder if wizards learning to levitate have to train themselves out of simulation sickness the same way as people getting used to VR. Their eyes will be telling them in motion but since they're cancelling out gravity and inertia their inner ear won't accept it

Pondering the optimism implicit in the album title "You Can't Kill God With Bullets"

The coolest thing when you are learning a language is the moment where you try to translate a word and suddenly realize you're struggling because it's easier to think that concept in the other language's word now