Listen, China has had their share of air travel disasters in recent history. Never mind the fact that most of them were Boeing.
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- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]to
·6 days agoI had to make it say "Tim Apple" too and a couple of other fixes. Just sad.
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have hope, it's not very funny
(Trump: (squinting at a map of Canada) "Wait, hold on. What's this... Francophone part of Canada? Is that some kind of new iPhone thing? Did Tim Apple make a deal with Trudeau or something?"
Aide: (clearing throat) "Uh, no, sir. Francophone refers to the French-speaking population in Canada. It’s not about phones. It’s about language."
Trump: (leaning back, looking skeptical) "French-speaking? In Canada? Are you telling me they’ve got, like, a whole Paris over there? With baguettes and berets and all that?"
Aide: "Well, not exactly Paris, but Quebec is a predominantly French-speaking province. They even have their own distinct culture and—"
Trump: (cutting them off) "Wait, wait, wait. So they’ve got their own little France up there? And they’re still part of Canada? How does that even work? Did Trudeau make a deal with Macron or something? Very sneaky. Very sneaky."
Aide: "No, sir, it’s been that way for centuries. It’s part of Canada’s history and—"
Trump: (waving a hand dismissively) "History, schmistory. I’ll tell you what, if I were running Canada—which, by the way, I could totally do, huge success, everyone says so—I’d get them all speaking English. One language, one big, beautiful country. None of this Francophone stuff. Sounds like a bad cell phone plan."
Aide: (trying not to facepalm) "Sir, it’s not a cell phone plan. It’s a linguistic and cultural identity."
Trump: (leaning forward, pointing dramatically) "Identity? I’ll tell you about identity. America’s got identity. The best identity. We don’t need two languages to figure out who we are. We’ve got eagles, football, and the best phones—iPhones, made right here. Well, not right here, but you know what I mean. Tremendous."
Aide: (giving up) "Yes, sir. Tremendous."
Trump: (leaning back, satisfied) "Anyway, tell Trudeau if he wants to talk about this Francophone thing, he can call me. On a phone. A real one. Not some French-Canadian knockoff."
Aide: (muttering) "I’ll... get right on that."
Trump: (picking up a pen) "Good. Now, where’s that map of Mexico? I need to figure out if they’ve got a Tacophone region or something. Sounds delicious."
Fade to black.)
- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]to
·6 days agoSay you did private math tutoring through word of mouth or something where you could be a sole proprietor.
e: Haha just saw the other comments saying this. Maybe resume writing service or something like that. Some kind of business where you could claim you got customers by putting up flyers or something like piano or guitar teacher.
- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]to
Yeah, the way SaaS works right now is not sustainable, and in my opinion SaaS providers are about to get rekt. There's too much rent seeking and the margins have been too high for too long. VCs don't help as they prioritize enshittifying everything to squeeze the most out of users right when people are fucking sick of paying $15 per slack user or whatever.
- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]to
Integrations are nice. Like you convert a prospect into a paying customer and send them contracts, invoices, etc from other systems. Sales can then upsell existing customers shit like that. In-house makes the most sense to engineers for something like this, but sales people are used to certain systems from other jobs which can be useful for high turnover shops to just use hubspot or salesforce or whatever. Other systems are tailored to dentists or home service businesses and have features just for those industries.
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Thinking computing on atoms has more promise than mixing proteins in a beaker or feeding braincells in a vat is divorced from reality.
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I just think its funny how blind folks are to things they dislike, despite having great takes about other stuff. Besides, that's died down a lot from the early days as material reality continues to assert itself.
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Cellular computers using neurons or DNA might have been an interesting intermediate step on the path to quantum computing, but seems like kind of a half measure now when we're so close to solving problems around decoherence and just rolling out quantum more generally.
Oops, forgot where I was for a second, what I meant to say was, bazinga brain, waifu, treat printers, death machine, boiling the ocean, silicon valley grifters, black mirror, tech bro, horrors beyond my comprehension, and other played out chicken-brained memes designed to allay my own personal anxieties about technological progress and my place in society.
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My lib friend calls me "Qanon of the left" and I wear it like a badge of honor.
- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]toliterature•ok so I'm a fifth of the way through infinite jest·12 days ago
The "look how smart I am" book. It stinks!
- AtmosphericRiversCuomo [none/use name]to
·15 days agoIf I comment that none of these posts are funny, you probably find that funny.
Fav song of theirs. The drums on this are so good.
Would they have the weapons to even pull it off? Or is it a secret how many stocks they're actually sitting on? My thought was that they gave so much away to Ukraine and Israel that they're going to be behind for years.