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mrguyorama · 2026-04-10T19:27:23 1775849243

There does seem to be a distinct class of "Serial Bagholders" though. People who thought NFTs were going to be their "Ticket" and lost a lot, and then the next thing was going to be their "Ticket", etc etc.

I genuinely don't understand how they have money to keep losing.

ceejayoz · 2026-04-10T19:46:39 1775850399

They don't. They're just gambling addicts.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-10T18:45:11 1775846711

The three weed stores that opened up in the past week employs more people than that and produces more tax revenue.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-10T18:24:43 1775845483

Data centers do not produce many jobs, and in return it will put more demand on our power grid which is one of the most expensive in the nation. Instead of building new large power consumers, we should be forcing CMP to connect up the tens of solar projects looking to contribute to our grid.

It's not like we actually hurt for a "Tech" industry. Southern Maine has a lot more "tech: jobs than you would expect for being an old as hell and poor state.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-10T18:21:11 1775845271

The transmission line wasn't a power source for Maine. None of the power it carried would be sold to Maine.

Meanwhile CMP slow rolls connections to all the new Solar farms starting up trying to help our expensive power situation.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-10T17:45:56 1775843156

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

Imagine dressing Pascal's Wager up in blinking lights and considering yourself a rationalist.

Yudkowsky banned discussion of it for 5 years because he considered it a threat

mrguyorama · 2026-04-09T23:30:13 1775777413

Even if they did, what are they going to do? File a bug report that will sit at the bottom of the priority pile forever?

Devs don't set priorities. Software "Engineers" largely don't get to engineer at all.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-09T23:17:01 1775776621

How is the EFF charter incompatible with saying "Queer folks"?

What are you even saying with this criticism? Do you think queer folks were never going to come up in "Digital rights"?

mrguyorama · 2026-04-09T23:02:53 1775775773

>Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it.

The entire point of microblogging platforms like twitter is for you to be terminally online.

What the heck else do you call the service that invented "You can SMS your updates from wherever, and it will be sent out to all your followers"?

Having to "Keep up" like that is what being terminally online is

mrguyorama · 2026-04-09T18:40:53 1775760053

Community notes was built by Twitter, before the purchase.

nailer · 2026-04-09T22:45:57 1775774757

Yes and not released until leadership changed.

mrguyorama · 2026-04-08T21:58:21 1775685501

Buddy France lost it's country and still won WW2

It's the war, not the battle.

Invictus0 · 2026-04-09T02:37:22 1775702242

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/sivy5j/comment/hvi...

Boy is that a terrible analogy. France "won" nothing, they actively collaborated with the Nazis, and they were pretty useless for most of the war.