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Not to detract from your point but Y2K was a very real threat - albeit likely not to things like nuclear weapons or planes as was often reported, but to every day software that was beginning to run the world - and it was only not a problem bc thousands of engineers worked like hell to fix it ahead of time. I only like to mention it because it's somewhat hopeful, like dealing with the ozone layer. We can in fact take collective action to fix problems.

Anyway Google "2038 problem" if you wanna get in on the ground floor of grifting for the next one

This is actually probably as good as any US copyright shit can be. Wholly generated works aren't copyrightable, but an actual artist using an AI to do some generative fill or something on a photo isn't screwed out of their ownership. Time will tell how it actually gets used I guess

You may enjoy this talk/blog post: https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/marx-on-capital-as-a-real-god/

I had a specific sandwich the morning of an infusion, 5+ years out I genuinely can't think of that sandwich without getting nauseous and I haven't been back to that restaurant since

I will not make a power dynamics joke and instead just wish you the best of luck

Fellow Breloom fan!

Starting to think this Hitler guy might be a Nazi

I've made an edit

I think someone's original comment was actually making a joke about the gold the Swiss laundered for the Nazis - they were saying that Switzerland is bad

I haven't fully finished it yet but I'm also losing it over this. I knew the Sino-Soviet split was a disaster but I didn't know how deeply China worked with the US as a result. I guess I understand now why they were able to convince the US to tie their economies so deeply together

Vietnam stays winning