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New comment by damnesian in "Humanoid robots smash Usain Bolt's 100-meter record"

damnesian — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:58:29 +0000

Sure, and one person can plant and harvest a whole field with modern farming equipment.

These are apples and oranges. I guess it's an interesting footnote in their development, but humans and robots are NOT directly comparable, nor should the comparison to Usain Bolt be significant.

New comment by damnesian in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

damnesian — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:54:52 +0000

>“They're hitting like the old person niche, which is what I think is like the best niche to hit with AI content.”

Andreeson et al should have their asses RICOd.

New comment by damnesian in "A million dollars over asking: AI wealth is fueling housing market frenzy in SF"

damnesian — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:32:23 +0000

maybe it will become so expensive, it will be the first city made of only datacenters.

New comment by damnesian in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

damnesian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:30:21 +0000

oh well, data centers are far more important than the world's food supply. now get off the internet and back to making more gigantic diesel generators.

New comment by damnesian in "Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side with Them"

damnesian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:21:23 +0000

futurama script right here.

New comment by damnesian in "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live"

damnesian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:18:58 +0000

He doesn't care if WE live a satisfying, happy life, I think is the point here. From the very beginning he's had a sociopathic view of relationships. Over the years he's sounded empathetic, but we've learned how empty his pronouncements are- which serve to both soothe what little conscience he has and dupe users into not fleeing his platforms en masse.

New comment by damnesian in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

damnesian — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:16:21 +0000

if they simply stayed out of it, they would get my business from here on out. too late for that though.

New comment by damnesian in "Download Everything"

damnesian — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:38:31 +0000

Or, like I have done with all of my social media posts worth preserving, anything more complex than a one-liner or snarky comeback, compose them offline first. much easier than doing the reverse.

New comment by damnesian in "Walmart and Target are watching you. I saw the "lab" for myself"

damnesian — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:35:32 +0000

>It is the future of retail

If this is what they are trying to make the future of retail, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it really turns out to be the death of physical stores.

New comment by damnesian in "Data Centers of Track to Suck Up a Fifth of US Power Use by 2035"

damnesian — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:10:04 +0000

Somedays it's just incredible to me this is what we are prioritizing at the brink of ecosystem collapse. and absolutely no effort on US companies' part to use clean energy. None.

New comment by damnesian in "AI Is ThoughtWare, Not Software: The End of Thinking as We Know It"

damnesian — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:47:01 +0000

>Thinking is costly.

>Thinking is tiring.

Thinking is ESSENTIAL.

Brain power is 100% a "use it or lose it" faculty.

Regardless of what role(s) AI plays in our future decision making/society planning, we can't become those Wall-E blobs on floating loungers getting fat and letting AI do all our thinking. We do that at our peril. We already see how bad human decision making is getting. What happens when we turn AI onto it and none of us are smart enough to be a check on catastrophic decisions?

Bad, bad thesis here.

New comment by damnesian in "Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke, says he'll add cost to tariffs"

damnesian — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:14:00 +0000

it's not the world's biggest polluters' fault. of course not! they are sweet innocent money making angels.

New comment by damnesian in "US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:12:23 +0000

Studies have been conducted about the safety of sticking to one time. The ones who are the most vulnerable are kids waiting for buses in the dark. We can't move to dynamic school times because we are still working the same paradigm as the industrial revolution- same schedule every day, year in year out. And society is simply too divided and fractured, and the motives too hidden and craven, to decide to move en masse to a dynamic schedule.

New comment by damnesian in "Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok"

damnesian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:08:05 +0000

We just can't wait to run out of oil and natural gas, can we?

New comment by damnesian in "Decline in IQ linked to frequent or dependent use of cannabis use in youth"

damnesian — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:36:07 +0000

Like any tool, it depends on how you use it. As a teenager, I used it to paint and write. It opened many doors. I found inner expression that was not possible otherwise.

The measures used in the study are not absolutes and only a fragment of what constitutes human intelligence.

New comment by damnesian in "World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US"

damnesian — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:32:06 +0000

>Keller said he's changed the system so customers with reservations have to pre-pay for drinks, including a service charge. "It's just to protect our staff," he said.

Know what would protect staff no matter what? A living wage.

New comment by damnesian in "It's Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek"

damnesian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:24:23 +0000

remember paved roads! And libraries! and schools for poor kids! OH NO!!

New comment by damnesian in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

damnesian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:35:57 +0000

It's simple. The powers that be rely on the constant stream of bad news to convince the terrified population to give away what control they have. It's a spectrum- dictatorships use it, sure, but even democracies work with media to control the message, so people even continue feel the basic need to be governed. The whole thing is a psyop or sorts.

New comment by damnesian in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

damnesian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:31:27 +0000

All businesses that make their fortunes from gambling must deceive to get people to participate. It's such a major red flag.

New comment by damnesian in "Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market"

damnesian — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:18:27 +0000

considering his casual disregard for the feelings of fellow Harvard students back in the day, I doubt he cares what his legacy is. Just being rich and famous is plenty reward.