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"but the climate is always changing"

Too bad we built a civilization on the assumption it wouldn't

"We have determined that we'll be able to fill 80% of the user's display with advertising before inducing seizures" ~Nolan Sorrento

1 inch is 25,4 mm, not 254 mm.

I googled for 50 mm. That should be close enough.

It always reminds me of those certificates for owning a piece of the moon.

Pretty much this size

dealing with the idiot customers and rude Karens

Of course the customers behave as entitled brats because they're paying for the entitlement with a tip that can be withheld for any reason. It creates a rage inducing power dynamic.

• Forest fires that turn the sky red
• Record rainfall and flooding
• Once in a millennium heatwaves

It depends on where you live of course

And don't mention the corporate presentation from two weeks ago where we said we had record profits this year.

It's not authoritarianism! It's just a very repressive regime with Chinese characteristics.

Interest rates went up and with it the era of free money. Now the investors come knocking for profits and lots of it. As they get squeezed, they squeeze the customer harder with worse products and services for more money.

VR was the future of entertainment when I was still in college, and I graduated in the previous millennium.

We have two identical forward looking eyes for stereo vision. As far as I know, Tesla's don't even have that. They're all different cameras with different angles. These cars drive like someone with one eye closed.

We already know how to create plastics from CO2 extracted from the air and hydrogen from water. There is no shortage of raw material for plastics. The main question for the industry is cheap plastics and the answer to that has always been cheap oil and gas.

Using proven reserves and current consumption you get to 47 years and things run out. That's a "within my lifetime" number for many.

It's the network effect. People still use it because other people are there.

Then those talented people will have to come up with a new way of doing things. Humans as a species are sensitive to relative wealth differences. It's hardwired. Riding tide lifting all boats kind of thing

By that logic, every front line worker should've received a 1400% increase during COVID.

It's also called the trust thermocline. Once a certain level of exploitation is reached, customers leaving suddenly goes very quickly and usually unrecoverable. The straw that breaks the camel's back.

Or in the case of unity, you smash the poor camel with a baseball bat and are very surprised it tries to bite you.

He got lucky nothing disappeared.

At a previous work place they rounded up a few employees to move stuff from one office to the new office. That ended up with a few monitors less than they started with. They couldn't ask who took it because they never wrote down who they rounded up for the move.

And that's how companies end up with a bunch of silly regulations how you're not allowed to move any hardware to the next room

More likely there will simply be no peace and they'll technically stay at war, with a huge minefield in between the two countries, until one of them runs out of money.