Isn’t that the exact same argument for Twitter? If Twitter gets shitty, people will just leave? Because I feel like we’re not really seeing that.

Rocket equation notwithstanding, there is the tyranny of development. Electric motors, rocket engines, ion thrusters… All of these locomotive technologies went through iterations. Even if alien scientist invented a warp drive capable of carrying an infinite amount of mass an infinite distance with no energy, there would still be a development process to implement and integrate that drive into a spaceship.

Technological progress, or the accumulation of knowledge does not happen overnight, it’s built layer by layer.

We’ve been looking all over for signs of life. Earth screams “there is life here!”

Legit.

I always giggle at the idea that aliens would come here in some super advanced spaceship.

Look at the spacecraft we’ve managed to land on other celestial bodies. They’re basically the lightest, sketchiest, life support boxes with a rocket motor that we can manage to get to the destination. It would be reasonable to assume that any alien out there reaching earth for the first time would either send a rover, or it would be the jankiest craft that could just barely get here.

Sam Altman is an alien in a human suit. Our AI sucks because aliens had to adapt their software to our crappy binary logic/architecture.

Yeah, I’m sitting here like “memes? Motherfucker most people didn’t have internet in '94”. The same year JP came out, everyone was distributing shareware copies of Doom on floppy disks.

Every year, take the richest person and redistribute 50% of their wealth.

Working hard or smart doesn’t make you that kind of money.

Not true. We’ve been losing people because of expensive healthcare for as long as I can remember, and so far only one insurance CEO has been capped.

For some people, surface level is enough.

Everybody thinks bunnies are cute and harmless.

My smallest rabbit (7lbs) took every single vet tech in the building to get his meds one time.

The wheels were the only “property loss” crime we’ve experienced in ~10 years living here. All the other crimes were landlords illegally withholding our deposits.

The electric motor for the Mach-E is available in a crate.

Agreed, but needing the truck for truck stuff 2% of the time is waaaaaay over the typical truck usage. I think most people who have trucks actually do “truck stuff” with them 0.2-0.0% of the time, and in that case, regular car, wagon, or van is a better all around option.

People stole the wheels off my wife’s car, in a lit parking lot, in one of the safest big cities in the US.

Yeah, you can’t leave your nice tools out in the back of your truck bed in most places.

Eh, my family camped frequently and reno’d/repaired multiple houses. I think the only time we used a truck was to take a bunch of bathroom tile scrap to the dump. Everything else was done with minivans or a club wagon.

Good thing we have the CFPB to register and punish companies for shady practices like th…oh, nevermind.

I would have been your daddy…

It’s an old Halo CE reference that gets shortened to that acronym a lot.

IWHBYD

That’s the business model these days. ChatGPT, and other AI companies are following the disrupt (or enshittification) business model.

1. Acquire capital/investors to bankroll your project.
2. Operate at a loss while undercutting your competition.
3. Once you are the only company left standing, hike prices and cut services.
4. Ridiculous profit.
5. When your customers can no longer deal with the shit service and high prices, take the money, fold the company, and leave the investors holding the bag.

Now you’ve got a shit-ton of your own capital, so start over at step 1, and just add an extra step where you transfer the risk/liability to new investors over time.