My vision is to build realistic (non-nanotech) self-replicating robots to brute-force the problem of inadequate science funding

Guillotines ought to be sufficient.

PORN site encrypts random nonce

Really unfortunate word in this context. (Not your fault of course.)

“And then after the apocalypse the techbro families died out because their children had heads too big to be born without a surgeon.”

To wash your cybertruck it’s important to use steel wool. Make sure it’s *mild *steel.

wut

You could try to trick them into a divide by zero error, as a game.

The T is for Tincel.

The Nashville chud’s handle is even “rohmstuff”.

They wouldn’t be caught dead in Hemet.

He owns(?) a building in Forest City, Malaysia (or as he calls it: an island in an undisclosed location off the coast of Singapore)

Sounds like a houseboat. It’s a houseboat, isn’t it.

James Ingallinera

Wasn’t he one of those “hey techies move into my cultlike terrible coliving / working space / company town” people?

this is how one department head at Google gets more money for his compensation package out of the other bits of Google

Was reading about an 11 year old girl who just graduated with two associates’ degrees and is heading off to a 4 year college. She wants to work on AI for SpaceX or Tesla.

My first thought was: Oh god someone keep Musk away from her.

A $56 billion gift card for Elon.

It’s the same taxation system, you have to pay US taxes still, but I think you can deduct taxes paid in the new country from what you owe the US.

I’m not sure Ive still knows how to design things that actually work as opposed to beautiful objects for Dubai yacht dwellers to look at and show off.

I’m starting to think maybe it was a mistake to let nerd media take over the world.

Yeah that was my read of the game from my first exposure to it. “You have to buy cards sight-unseen hoping to get good ones? That’s a scam.”

It’s like they looked at Dungeons and Dragons product churn and thought “No, that’s not shitty enough”

Going by the illustration of characters at the top of that page, “Kelthar” is a dead ringer for 80s Phil Oakey.