What users are voluntarily pro-spez (and by voluntarily, I mean their paychecks aren’t jeopardized by dissention)?
I have met plenty of anti-spez users, and I have met plenty of users who just DNGAF, but I have yet to meet a single actual bona fide user who is ‘pro-spez’.
Some people just like to be contrarian. Others have been fed up with the protests because they themselves were not impacted, they are the ultimate narcissists.
I’ve seen some Simping. Could be Trolls, could be quietly on the payroll. Same kind of people simping for Musk.
That’s the real thing. This all didn’t have to go down like this. Asking for a small API fee is sane. Having a small amount of transactions per month free would have allowed all the mod tools to continue to operate, hell even registered dev accounts. This problem as been solved a thousands times over.
But all this landed gentry bull shit and complete tonedef messaging. He’s just another ass who’s going to write his company into the ground.
For me it was the AMA that was the last straw. It was so disingenuous - all the responses had been pre-written and were copied and pasted from other previously written stock, the only answered questions were cherry-picked from reddit shills, and the several dozen most upvoted questions were completely ignored and never responded to. The very concept of “AMA” is an idea that was birthed on reddit, for reddit, and the foundational core tenets of AMA were ignored and disregarded. Ignored and disregarded…is also exactly what they think of their users, subreddit moderators, and 3rd party developers.
My comrad in crisis, we can’t even keep this planet habitable, or build/select builders for reliable space vehicles after dropping billions of dollars on development and deployment. What makes you think we can even come close to the level of cooperation and competence needed to establish and maintain human habitation on such a hostile world?
Let’s see if we can’t ensure continued habitation on Earth first. Then, maybe, we might have a chance on some other sphere?
I totally agree with you on that we should spend money on saving our perfectly fine and gorgeous planet instead of chasing useless dreams.
But I’ve seen a video of Kurzgesagt explaining how “easy” it would be to terraform Venus compared to Mars. And since then I’ve been a defender of the idea that we should focus on Venus rather than Mars.
Terrifying Fact: before Venus became the Hell it is today it was exactly like Earth. But at some point its average temperature reached 23°C. Water vapor being a greenhouse gas and a fantastic heat capacitor, it transformed the planet into a pressure cooker, leading to its current state
The average temperature of planet Earth is 13°C, but with all the CO2 in the atmosphere we don’t know when that critical temperature could be reached.
But hey, billionaires gotta get their billions, right?
I don’t disagree that we should focus on earth first, however - Tons of amazing technology has come out of funding for space-related activities, and I believe we should also continue working towards the goal of propagation of our species throughout the stars, if nothing more than for the potential of the incredibly useful technology that might come out of that pursuit.
Best I can do for your mammoth blood is five bucks.
I’ve got to get it into a decorative vial, then I’ve got to store it until I find a buyer, and the market is super niche. If you had come in fifteen years ago when True Blood was all the rage, and the vampires were still out in the open, it would be a different story.
Those things are so bizarre. They latch onto the fish’s mouth, severs the vein to its tongue so the tongue falls off, and the parasite becomes the new tongue. Apparently the fish functions just fine with its parasitic tongue.
It’s common for scientists to prefer a decimal point in their measurements because they are inherently limited precision, but “1 mm” leaves some ambiguity as to whether you meant 1.0 mm or 0.1 cm. It’s a matter of significant digits, since leading zeros are ignored.
interestingasfuck
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.