am i completely crazy or does the data center obsession only make sense if these companies are operating under the assumption that they'll be used for cyberwarfare?

like the economics fully do not make sense unless you assume you'll have a blank check for maximum utilization in the near future and the only money faucet big enough to meet that demand is in the defense budget. it explains the outright hostility to residents, the secrecy, and the maximalism of it all. but it doesn't seem to be part of the conversation. why?

threat neutralized

aside from the obvious that every one of them likely do have some amount of damage from oxygen deprivation, it's the kind of risk profile that is inherent to extreme physical training, not inherent to consensual sex.

buying an unsinkable vessel for $55 billion without double checking it's not currently on the sea floor

boy, i sure hope this doesn't awaken anything in me

same reason mr musk cried about bots on twitter constantly and promised to wipe them out only to make it more artificial and manipulated than it ever has been (i'm told)

no you're correct. reddit corp does NOT want to do anything about its bot infestation. even the apipocalypse carved out exceptions for the botnets that make their entire platform function.

bot content spew keeps doomscrollers doomscrolling and pumps up the metrics that they're intentionally manipulating to appear like organic traffic. having their cake and eating it too, even to the very end of everything the platform used to stand for

choking is pretty firmly outside of the ssc framework because it cannot be done safely. if you want to practice sexual asphyxiation, you're looking for a risk aware consensual kink model.

albert fish mentioned

lolicon torture porn, in a nutshell. at this point i can't just not find out how it ends but some chapters have me making an awful face from start to finish.

not planet earth?

this is where the fun begins

don't say that about the shambling undead. the walking dead was an incredible graphic novel and also a television show. i can't be bothered to continue the bit.

bawls are the only good energy drink

zizians are a splinter group of rationalists; it's the main group centered on yudkowsky that have their mouths around the silicon valley vc money hose

it gets weirder every chapter. i just can't inflict that kind of fetish shit on someone without a very good idea of their tolerance for it and those are conversations i'm happy to not have

i read a lot of manga. i love the world of made in abyss. i'll never recommend made in abyss to another human soul.

lil b would be rolling in his grave if he saw how people used it today

i would like sephora shoplifting tips!

people love the dream/myth of cutting their old lives free and moving away to start a new one. this is that dream writ large for megalomaniacs who have already run as far as they can from the people they've hurt and from themselves.