SirDerpy

It's the before times, analog days, and the Internet was in it's infancy. Stephan Hawking, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, said the following:

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Computers have been very effective applied to vehicles. In my life I've seen the advent of the aluminum block, anti-lock brakes and stability control, variable ignition and valve timing, more aerodynamic body, paddle shift and continuously variable transmissions, drive by wire, now even hybrid and electric drives. This has allowed leaps forward in safety, efficiency, and performance.

Then, we enshitified. Today there's barely choice in the vehicle market. Toyota/Honda; Hyundai/Kia; Ford/Chevy/Chrysler and a trim package defines everything but trucks. 1/2 ton trucks as symbols of identity break repeatedly if regularly used for payload and towing. "Choice" is a 1/4 Ranger, 1/2 Chevy diesel, or 3/4 Ford/Chevy/Ram. They didn't make the first two for decades, still scarce and expensive for what they are. And, for all vehicles one now often needs to remove inaccessible bolts in tight spaces, for several parts, to get to the part that's broken.

Profit optimization through technology is why there's little choice in vehicles; Why you can envision a Walmart and Lowes strip mall and every American knows exactly what it looks like and where the closest couple copies are; Why we can't replace phone batteries and screens. An out-of-the-box idea from AI that's also conveniently practical for humans will probably cure cancer. AI is also what's analyzing all the data being collected, just as inhumanely. The vehicle manufacturers want their cut.

Did Herbert envision that the spice of prescience was computational cycles?

seems to rotate around a central point is

No. These are different things. One's an illusion. One's real.

You're right. It's just cheap junk, boring and drab.

so I skimmed

Okay.

It looks like a twist because it does a twist.

No, it's an illusion at scale. You almost say so yourself in your next sentence.

There’s no angle where you realize the windows don’t actually change planes.

Discreet flat planes constitute an illusion of a curve at scale. There are no curved components. They used offsets and angles in the outer layer. All the windows are flat planes. You can see the rectangles yourself just as you can see the triangles in a geodesic structure's approximation of a complex curve.

A modern true curve is still often made from wood. If there's money it's laminated I-beam. But, curving or twisting structural steel is breaking all sorts of cardinal rules. Assuming safety is valued, cost rises exponentially from construction through build out and into maintenance and repair. An exception is large ships. That's why they're so expensive.

It’s very obvious you’re now trying to make a point

An artist and an engineer were given a modest budget and found a way to ask an obvious question to which the is answer is: It depends upon the perspective each of us chooses.

If you look closely you can see the flat planes and angles. There are no curves. You can see the truth of it yourself. It's right there.

They're obviously some intelligent people to be designing such things at all. Imagine how many times they've been talking about some subject or another and said, "Hey, friend, if you look more closely you can see (whatever truth) for yourself."

Then the other person says, "It twists."

Amazing piece of art, huh?

So, it's an illusion made out of entirely untwisted components. Imagine that.

The total comment count from all the subs you created is 309. You made roughly 99% of the posts and over 81% of the comments. Language analysis shows you're also responding to yourself on alts constituting roughly 16% of the remainder. There's net negative karma for both posts and comments.

You've tried to manufacture importance. But, it's such a shallow and poorly constructed fascade I dismantled it with two basic tools and five minutes.

Your identity and self worth are wrapped up in this mess. But, you didn't do the homework, at all: Your content is devoid of ideological substance. You've no business moderating anything as you can't care for yourself.

You're not going to break out of this cycle without professional help. That process will be hard work as it'll not only be truth, but truth of self. If you manage progress and come out the other side honest, if you begin to place others before self, then others will love you IRL and there won't be a gigantic hole in your heart that needs filled daily with online nonsense. Life will become much easier and much happier.

All I can do for you is plant the seed.

Best of luck.

It's truthful. I cared enough to tell them.

Check out OP's comment history. They're claiming to be a socialist while endlessly spamming divisive identity politics, never mentioning fiscal class or the means of change, being consistently downvoted by everyone, and never asking why or adapting. Someone follow them around, shallowly agree with them, and present facets of ancap ideology as a means to authoritarian incarnation of communism, while calling it socialism. We could take bets on how long until their head explodes.q

Neither is publicly traded. Neither of us know the numbers.

Does Steam make money on hosting indie games?

How does one research such a question?

I don't need answers. I had them before I made my second post above.

Good luck to you.

Hijacking a phone connection like that is fucking HARD

Man in the middle at the demark, flower pot, or ped. It's "clipboard and safety vest" easy until underground or past the mux.