solomon42069

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[–] solomon42069 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Good question! Leonardo DaVinci was born in the 16th century and he came up with flying machines too. It's a very different problem to have a key person, or five, who have vital engineering and design knowledge versus the numbers needed to uphold an industry. I was more talking about the latter.

You might produce a few geniuses to write your whitepapers - but you need scores of them to manufacture vehicles, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. I've updated my original comment with an asterisk alluding to this point.

Donald Trump's Gilead is not going to inspire a lot of people to become a software engineer in a time when we're celebrating AI replacing jobs. Trump and MAGAs vision will not drive the world to do business with America - it will drive investors and new customers away, shrinking the US tech industry and eroding American dominance.

[–] solomon42069 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I find it really funny the US are trying to maintain their global position as tech leader while in the midst of a fascist take over. You know what's incompatible with a thriving tech industry? Fascism. You can survive a little while after a take over, but eventually your rigorous little Christian commune of a society isn't going to produce enough* engineers, scientists or anyone with a taste level worth a damn.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Zuck is the sexual abstinence clown. No one can get horny with that face around!

[–] solomon42069 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's really demoralising scraping by as an IT person in a western democracy, and then realising the outsource contractors your company hired for cheaper have a much better life than you. Simply because their earnings hold up better with the cost of living where they are.

[–] solomon42069 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah and they grew up in a mansion in Argentina, or Cape Town, for "the climate"...

[–] solomon42069 96 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

They need to join forces and make the Cyberplane!

The Boeing Tesla Cyberplane could be a revolution in aviation:

  • First aircraft to use afterburners to overcome lack of aerodynamics
  • Heavy and yet strangely flimsy construction
  • Cell phones and radar can ignite the battery in flight
  • Fuel efficiency can be throttled mid air by shedding parts
[–] solomon42069 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think conservatives fan the outrage over this issue because it's an easy distraction. Sex is gross and scary, harming kids is the worst thing imaginable and combining the two issues is disgusting. Some kids come from broken homes and this makes them more vulnerable to be exploited. I think conservatives know all this, and they also know that that guy who beats his wife and kids and might murder them later probably is one of their voters. So they complain about Hollywood and gay people to distract, but never go after well known perpetrators like priests and wealthy businessmen. So curious innit!

[–] solomon42069 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (10 children)

Star Trek Discovery was so bad I had to just stop in the second last season... and I was only playing it as background noise at that point! I guess I'll try this movie but if even Michelle Yeoh can't save it I'm going back to old 1990s episodes...

Update: I got through it but holy shit... It had some good moments and other bits that felt like a Red Alert cut scene...

[–] solomon42069 3 points 3 weeks ago

"There's no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!" - Ethel Merman

[–] solomon42069 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On Elon Musk's X, animal abuse is the safe content.

[–] solomon42069 8 points 3 weeks ago

In the United States, teenage kids were put on the sex offenders registry for sending each other nudes. Those laws are in place to protect minors from people who are not minors, but apparently the judges did not see it that way in sentencing. Gotta love the word of the law being worth more than its spirit!

[–] solomon42069 23 points 3 weeks ago

To be honest she's probably lucky this is week one and not a year in, when Trump would have her shot as an enemy of the president and criminal of the state.

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