My favorite comment on this statue, Charlie Kirk has become what he hates most, a person of color.
I think the point is that really hasn't changed. You just take the family slaves and farms and you can make a fortune, kind of goes back to the nations founding. Only real change I guess is the rare exceptions of someone starting with nothing and building up an empire, are getting rarer.
To me honestly the idea of non earth colonies are an amazing potential, IE I feel like most of the good in the initial US founding came from basically being able to start later in the game with knowledge others didn't have, and thus make a better government than currently existed faster, thanks to not having the centuries of red tape and "tradition" to deal with. Of course after that head start I think they set themselves up in a way that made them progress slower than the rest of the world.
Now it feels like the actual true start needs to be another form of that, and best part of a non earth civilization is, it would be perhaps the first recorded history of expanding into an area, that we aren't actually just killing off and replacing an existing civilization. So true governance from zero is actually on the table.
pretty funny once I actually read the transcript... gotta admit I spent way to long trying to get why someone was drawing an ear of corn in the sky.
Yeah that's the key point there, IE was faster, because it was using your memory even if you didn't want to use it. So loading netscape was running 2 browsers at a time, and thus slower than using 1.
I think further that needs to be noted though, the motorcade and claims of "a knife" are both moot.... The shoddy work from the get go for this no bid contract is the actual thing to blame. If I recall actual pool experts have said over and over again that, were the job done anything close to right, that neither knives nor armored cars should have damaged it... the fact is they just threw on one cheap slap of paint in one layer, on something that should have had several layers worth. Or they could have just left it as it was and not made everything 100x worse.
Personally my favorite tattoo of an idea to play with the viewers ignorance. I want a tattoo that is just "Leviticus 19:28" as a fun poke at people who get bible verse tattoos.
It's expensive, a lot of pain and time... so it's usually a safe assumption that it has a meaning to them. But obviously like everything it's not universal.. clearly there is a (hopefully small) percentage of people who get a tattoo because of a random drunkin whim, or to impress someone etc...
well yeah why I used the word "more evil" rather than just evil.
I believe with both deadpool and wolverine they kind of rule that the portion with the dominant part of the brain gets the body and the other portion is supposed to waste away.
Though I do know there was a deadpool comic in which a doctor basically gradually took pieces of deadpool including portions of his head, and freezing them, Deadpool took them out of the freezer and put them in a garbage bag, and they merged into a more evil franken-deadpool.
Trump came to Drain the Swamp and end wars. He's going to keep on doing it!
And no president has done those things so many times. He should get the nobel peace prize for how many times he's ended the war in Iran.
and, he had to create a literal swamp in washington so he could get to work on draining it.
Missing the key point though... your general concept is absolutely right... it's failed over and over again because it can't keep up with the fact that it's cheaper and better performance with what you can buy locally, on top of bandwidth access etc... But there's 2 ways to make one product a more common option, option A, try to make the one you want them to use better, but with AI they've done something different, they are working towards making local systems worse.
Key point is, the direction of attack. Instead of making remote compute better, cheaper, faster etc... what if the attack is make local hardware, more expensive, harder to get, less reliable, or even illegal.
Right now, all of that is happening, on top of course of windows being more bloated, hardware costs are multiplying at a rate never seen before, even for outdated hardware. Netflix and spotify have already adapted the public into no longer buying physical medium for movies and music, and as people are also noting, governments making more and more regulations come in place on say OS's needing age gates, 3d printers needing to report to the government etc... It's literally an orchestrated perfect storm to be pushing people away from owning computers.
The point is they aren't trying to "catch up" to local hardware, they are trying to hinder the ability to obtain local hardware.