EnsignWashout

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[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

It's also a thinly veiled attempt to land at tax other than 100%, and overseen by courts that we suspect he has influence over.

I like the confidence. I imagine things could still go that well for him. Everyone should get a chance to dream of nice things.

For someone who has taken so much from the rest of us, a mere tax could be a pretty nice outcome.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I just mention it because I've generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I'm not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yikes! You can't just tell people about the

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 9 points 4 months ago

and even that is a bit generous.

True. AI is also laying the groundwork for data breaches, and unplanned downtime.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I considered sharing my own choices that led to lost money, while still more profitable than OpenAI...but there are just too many.

Edit: Here's one - that time Homer Simpson bought a mint condition copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, and then ate it - was still more profitable than OpenAI.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 14 points 9 months ago

When the law no longer pretends to serve the people, it loses a big part of it's social power.

Many people in power today don't seem to really understand the nature of power.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

That was a surprisingly good sequel.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A woman once told me she worked in a club and when one of the regulars passed away, a bunch of them went to his funeral.

There's certainly worse legacies one could leave, than having spread some wealth around while presumably having been respectful enough to be missed.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

There's a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't really think you can possibly do something to deserve eternal torment like some of these comments seem so gleeful about.

It wouldn't be eternal. Most kids don't have that kind of attention span.

Plus, these consciousnesses might be carefully protected the way major corporations have protected my SSN. So maybe the billionaires have nothing to worry about...

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I would.

Of course, the pool won't have a ladder...

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