It’s wasteful

Pretty sure the mowing is the exact problem. Can’t remember if it’s solved by using an old school push-powered mower or something

Meanwhile, the “artificial intelligence” is chat bots that increasingly act like crackheads begging for money and trying to sell you random bikes and stuff

You’d need to know how they encode the data in their meows, which is really hard to analyze because the data being encrypted makes it seem like random noise

And then cats have really good ears, so you’d need to be a highly professional parrot or voice actor or something to convince the cat it’s hearing the cat you want it to think it’s hearing with your key in the exchange. Phone speakers wouldn’t be enough

You can’t decrypt anything with the public keys though, wouldn’t work

Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that

Hence artists shouldn’t really expect much money in the covid era unless they’re individually big enough to sell a lot of merch or collectively strong enough in business negotiations to stop taking such tiny percentages of corporate revenue

0% because cats encrypt their communications with AES256

But I showed up and didn’t sign up so who’s the real number?

I’m smarter than them and I can assure you the magic number is 2.4% not 3.5%

I went to one and it had pretty good turnout for a town in the middle of nowhere in Maine

Society will frame this as self-sacrifice. They won’t recognize that you’re trying to survive long-term. They’ll pretend blindly following commands would give you better chances of survival and health than a “refusal” that leads to 6 months of unemployment. They will sacrifice your health and well-being in the name of reframing what you’re doing, pretending you’re the one sacrificing your health and well-being to protest your choices not being exactly what you want, when you’re actually just trying to survive while offered choices that aren’t viable.

Or maybe you actually are intentionally protesting. Nothing wrong with that. But a lot of people aren’t

I’m not accepting the premise, that’s why I use nostr on the internet and actual library buildings off the internet.

But it is mandatory, whether that’s acceptable or not. Authorities in the US aren’t gonna suddenly change their mind when it’s your local librarian instead of the Internet Archive trying to run things differently from the corporations. The librarian needs better infrastructure to stand up to the authorities and break away from the corporate way

Then the libraries would have to pay for hosting, so they’d have to be the ones selling user data to advertisers and stuff. Hence the extra degree of separation / “plausible deniability”

If the hivemind cared about actual important priorities (instead of just the desire for low oil prices), then the Internet Archive would face more pressure to improve its infrastructure and the authorities would face more pressure to leave the Internet Archive tf alone.

Nostr can fix this someday

We also haven’t tried every possible configuration of atoms to see if anything creates a portal to an infinite energy dimension or a perpetual motion machine or something we can use to make our own stars

Sure, in the prime timeline. But in the pocket universe alternate timeline where time travelers went and executed the perpetrators, I’d say the instructors’ concerns were addressed

There is precedent. Hitler was taken out by a pretty big fascism enabler

Wow, so we’re not even in the top 30 when you count tied countries

At least they work as a quick visual cue that a car is designed with zero utilitarians in the room

Idk, “off the shelf parts” seemed pretty clear