I understood that reference.

Guess I’ll really have to work for being patient… Or I’ll just break down and buy it anyway at some point.

Same! Waiting for it not to cost 80$ Canadian… If it goes on sale for half, I’ll buy it I guess

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Llullaillaco

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

Makes me think of Anathem

And suddenly all the AI weirdness is a feature, not a bug.

This is just a recycled George Carlin bit.

Thanks for taking the time to answer!

What’s the typical reaction to that? Bring honest like that doesn’t sound like a winning strategy, unless you pass it off as a joke maybe.

He’ll be sorry cop alright…

We had this in Switzerland for a while, but it wasn’t very popular.

The only way to regulate my intake is not to buy them.

Miles Tek does that in the later books, IIRC. strap a lasgun to a shield generator, instant pseudo nuclear bomb.

Edit: I guess the difference is that they are dropping the whole package, not just the lasgun.

100%! But the research is still vital, and we should be doing more of it while being way more aggressive about carbon reduction.

I disagree only on a technicality - economics still matter for decision making, in the minds of people who are in power of making those decisions. Otherwise yeah, things are past the point of no return. Mitigation is all we can hope to do I think.

I suspect there will be a point where economics don’t matter anymore and we don’t have a choice.

You got to offset your offsets, man! 7:00, 7:06, 7:12, 7:18, 7:24.

Alter, willst du mich verarschen? Das kannst du nicht ernsthaft glauben? The fucking Boomers had it worse than the Germans in 1930?

So what you’re saying is - it’s their choice. That seems worse, no?