FabledAepitaph

u/FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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on We have a problem · c/linuxmemes · 9 pts · 1d

I personally can't separate the artist from the work tbh. If the creator is disgusting then I'm going to do my best to avoid the product every single time. That being said, I'm completely out of the loop on this Omarchy thing so I dunno about that lol

I dunno if this is so obvious that nobody has mentioned it, but they launch near the equator because that is where the earth spins the fastest, and the rocket is already loaded up with a proportional amount of angular momentum to carry into space with it. Therefore, less fuel is required to get the rocket into space.

It all comes down to the money in the end. This government and that government can lie all day long about who won, who lost, what happened and what didn't happen, but they just can't hide the cost at the end of the day. I hope the Repubs enjoyed their weird culture war because everybody is going to be feeling it.

What a luxury it is to pay for it with your pocketbook instead of your life, like every innocent person the statistics reduce to "collateral damage".

I don't get these comments. The people browsing this website are basically the exact opposite of the people who "voted for it" lmao. Stop taking your weird anger out on the only people who cared enough to vote the other direction lol

I'm guessing a big part of the problem isn't even the Tesla politics or the right-wing perception of EVs.. it's probably close to 100% cost. They're expensive AF and everyone in America is poor. Most EVs are touted as a luxury ordeal with luxury prices. China can do cheap EVs, but that doesn't work with American business's demand for profit margin.

Maybe it's time the corporations go through some austerity measures?

As a non-dev person who recently started using AI to get into doing some computer programming, I think the marketing by the CEOs has done a lot of harm. People who truly know what they're doing and who are very careful thinkers could see all along that this technology is not at a point to where the following hype was true:

-it will not entirely replace human workers,

-it's almost certainly not going to be better at what it's doing than a true expert,

-and it remains to be seen whether or not it will ever be able to generate truly unique, bespoke, and fundamentally new solutions.. you know, like what humans had to do for every single issue that came before..

And what it's really good at from my perspective is allowing a non-expert person to generate productive materials in an area where they are not a master-level technician/developer/knowledge worker. It has really dissolved the barrier of entry and the value associated with routine technical skills, for better or worse.

The practical issues though involved with massive data centers, the price rises associated with computer parts, and all the other environmental garbage that's happening is pretty discouraging though. This technology has legit potential for benefit, but the companies and CEOs have ultimately made it into a moral conundrum whether or not it should be put to use.

Typical capitalism, imo ..