Flying cars are also horrifying: they’ve existed for about a century, popular culture won’t accept they’re a bad idea and imagine the research breakthroughs drone warfare would experience if a consumer market were funneling funds in from a whole new closely-related industry
Idk what your society or definition of “insanity” is but assuming you’re asking what we believe most commonly leads to one’s mental health entering a negative feedback loop:
Broadly speaking it’s some form of hopeless desperation (yes, the hopeless qualifier matters here) that commonly kicks into high gear after falling into homelessness, at least based on my own observations
Some also get to play on hard mode simply for winning the genetic and/or socio-economic anti-lottery
The name Salazar will now forever be translated to “French Dwarf Dude” in my head
Lemmy is my niche community
Linear growth < exponential growth
So… Basic math…?
Does this refer to the overall Lemmy meta or was there a specific “sucks your mum died; maybe it was from the shame of you using Adobe products” moment?
If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:
Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of “cleaning things up” by making everything a “Microsoft shop”, even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)
They’re happy, they own nothing and they don’t even know it
Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts
Different jobs are different
Sorry for rambling
I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales
Admittedly I don’t know have a better idea either so… Guess I’m hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in
Pretty sure it’s actually missing King Kong given the design of those buildings and plane
How did that cat manage to keep its phone’s reflection out of this selfie?
For anybody else wondering about the roughly 1500 year gap, there are conflicting statements between the museum and an article (presumably the one above) written about it but I don’t see any explanation on either side’s reasoning:
We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.
Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead
Grub Rescue
Same way you overcome any of life’s challenges: decide it’s impossible bullshit and move onto another game
The moment I realized the most one can gain from (pre-buyout)Twitter is the respect of other Twitter users, posting anything immediately became a chore
I had a lot of fun with it
Sure. I can’t come up with anything sensible… Maybe some tax benefit I’m too poor to care or know about?
Who’s using ETFs for single stocks?
But climate change is the first existencial crisis humanity has faced!!
Besides WW2…
And nuclear proliferation…
And the hole in the ozone…
And Industrial revolution pollution…
And overpopulation…
And leaded gasoline…