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Then they'll just use that as an excuse to jack up prices even more. Sure, they have a lot less to gain at that point, but they'd have even less still to gain if they don't, so they will. As Dan Olson said in his NFT video, diminishing returns are still returns. It honestly seems to me that if...

This is why I've been skeptical about all those tax incentives in the Anti-Inflation Act. Announce that they can get, say, $1000 towards the purchase of a heat pump or new insulation, and the companies that make those things will at best take that as an excuse to raise their prices by $1000, or...

Don't forget everything that happened to Alex Jones this year. And speaking of people who owe a billion dollars to Johnny Law, you can add Epic Games to the list if you're petty enough to resent having to share a planet with Fortnite and the people behind it, like I am.

And as for those cars of his, I believe the standard police procedure is to seize them and auction them off? ...Actually, that would likely result in their total carbon footprint increasing by an order of magnitude, because they'd all be owned by different people and probably used a lot more often.

The fact that I can't even say "out of all two of them" speaks volumes already.

Also, was his original brag supposed to be about how much energy he wastes just because of how many cars he owns, total? Because uh... that's not how it works, buddy. Unless he purposely leaves them all idling when they're not in use or operates some kind of car rental service out of his own...

Does Twitter still have a working API? Because if it does, it would probably save the Archive a lot of bandwidth, clock cycles, and redundant storage space if they just built a dedicated Twitter crawling bot that can read raw tweets the same way third party apps do, and set up a read-only mirror...

No, the Christmas sale hasn't started yet. This is their semiweekly "here are some games that are cheap, probably because they've been out for a long time and nobody wants to pay full price anymore" thing.

Frontiers is already 30% off on Steam. Did it sell that badly?

OK, then the problem is that we did those two things in the wrong order. When I say "mankind was not ready", that's exactly what I mean. If there is a way to stop people from being bastards, then we should be putting all our resources into doing that before we make any more tools they can use to...

Counterpoint: The world would be a much better place if the bad people had never been afforded the means to find one another and coordinate their activities. We can't blame the specifics of how any one particular site works for the fact that they did.

Robert Zemeckis did!

It's possible the entire internet was a mistake, and that anyone who says otherwise is just speaking from a position of privilege and survivor bias.

While the algorithm definitely made things worse, I think the devolution into a rage breeder reactor was inevitable. If I understand correctly, Tumblr never had such an algorithm, always operated like the Latest Tweets tab where you only saw content from people you were following, but still...

Neither had Banjo-Kazooie. Mario 64 was the very first collectathon platformer anyone ever made, from a studio that had also never done anything in 3D before. It's a testament to their ingenuity that they were able to put together a decent game under those conditions, but it still turned out...

The problems with Twitter go way deeper than anything Musk could have caused or fixed. I'm starting to fully believe that "mankind wasn't ready" (and may never be) for such a low-friction way to say anything you want to anyone in the world as soon as it pops into your head, including and...

Well, speculation and money laundering are the only two things NFTs are good for, and the speculation ship already sailed. Does make me wonder how much of the initial wave involved money laundering schemes now, though.

Also, if they can just make this happen by passing a law, they didn't technically need to follow any judicial procedure that required all the evidence the committee spent the last two years gathering. They just needed a simple majority—i.e. all of the Democrats—to vote "yay" in both houses. Or...

It only took them two whole years. And people say our system is inefficient!

I mean, he already announced his 2024 candidacy; what else could he have had to reveal?