Imagine an old-timey saw with a lumberjack on each side, pulling it back and forth across the tree. The saw just goes back and forth, but effective work gets done.

It ripped off this famous poem in the process:

Most States

I’ve been playing around with the offline version of the model. It’s interesting, but I think we’ll have to wait for people to tinker with the open source base for awhile before we get something really great.

More like chiroquacktors! Haha, you get it? Because…

Thing is, industrial revolution bleeds into colonialism. Sure, there was colonialism before industrialization, and colonialism would look very different in a time before nation-states as we know them today, but those resources will have to come from somewhere.

Metallurgy is always where they get you on these things. You can bring stuff like division of labor, assembly lines, and replaceable parts back in time pretty easily, but good luck getting aluminum for your bicycles in any kind of quantity. Not sure how well a bronze bicycle would work, but I bet it could be done.

Selection is bad, price is meh. If you have the red card for the extra 5% it helps balance things out some. I go because it’s convenient where I live, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to buy groceries there.

AI poses an existential threat to humanity

AI:

There was one Voat. When the one Voat goes bust, Voat goes bust. Like any enterprise, it’s failure can be attributed, at least in part, to poor management.

There are many Lemmy’s. If one Lemmy collapses, another Lemmy can take its place. The individual instances might be less stable than a centralized social media site, like Voat was, but when federated the whole unit is more resilient than centralized social media.

Sell