For the people who got paid, yes of course it was worth it.

Senior devs love vibe coding because they have the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors. They hate it because it makes morons think they don’t need the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors.

For what it’s worth, Vantablack isn’t a pigment, it’s a process for applying carbon nanotubes that absorb light. They don’t sell the “paint” part by itself because it requires special equipment and it finicky. They don’t sell it because then a bunch of social media influencers would try to spray their bathrooms with the stuff and make a bunch of videos about how it doesn’t live up to the hype.

The owner of the exclusive license to use it for art might be a douche who uses the licensing to make himself feel powerful, but there is a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.

Isn’t that how you’re supposed to do it?

Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.

The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.

No, I’m sorry, the answe is “profit.” The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn’t make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don’t expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.

Not one of those people ever did anything worth a damn. They produced no value, created nothing novel, built nothing, contributed nothing, or earned a fair wage for honest work. Each of them was born with more money than they could spend in a lifetime, and they will use that leverage to grow their fortunes.

Humanity will continue to aupport their oppulence at the cost of our own joy and liberty. Billionaires are parasites.

“Effective” is a relative term. Going meatless won’t fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren’t electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.

You can just block whole communities and even instances, if you prefer. I use the blocking feature for forums in foreign languages. It’s not like an insult or anything. You can just hide all the F1 and comic book stuff.

Wait, is it milk made by stoats, like goat milk, or milk made from stoats, like oat milk? Which ilk of milk is in the same boat? Do you bilk the stoat out of it’s milk? Or is there a moat of smote stoat passed through silk on a float?

Link is mobile cancer.

Nothing wrong with Swift, but she’s not a political though-leader. Best I can tell, the conservative vitriol has more to do with misogyny than any particular message she’s putting out into the world.

Who’s that lady that wrote the folk song “It’s not going away”? There are like three or four folk groups and troubadours writing protest songs for tiktok. Mon Rovia with Heavy Foot, Jesse Welles with The Poor, stuff like that.

Taylor Swift sorta got under Trump’s skin, but she’s not particularly political.

It’s tough to be an optimist these days. But like, at least they’ll flood first, right?

4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.

Let’s all take a step back and recognize that this is not a man making thoughtful decisions. He put drugs in ice cream for his granddaughters. His thought process isn’t likely to be anything we can fully comprehend.

Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn’t him.

At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.

Ashli Babbitt, terrorist.

TLDR Youtube is quietly testing AI enhancements that look like shit, and Will Smith is using AI generated video created from real photos of his crowds.

So the people are actually there at the show, but the videos of them were just still photos turned into clips using AI. And AI still looks like shit.