gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago

it's what you get when you don't involve private sector innovation!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

To me this looks like it's already been out-innovated by the USAF:

https://newatlas.com/military/quicksink-modular-strap-on-kit-smart-bomb/

Range of 40nm, other glide bombs have longer range.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 3 months ago

Arguably a literal concrete slab does more hard work by holding up structures etc than a GenAI influencer

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

balajis has been a bitcoin shill since almost the very beginning (I was blocked from following his crap on Xhitter ages ago probably because he applied a collective banlist to everyone who had ever expressed an anti-BTC sentiment he knew of ) His probably most famous venture was trying to construct and sell a self.-contained BTC miner in an RPi form factor, which crashed and almost literally burned hilariously. Now I think he's just coasting on his VC billions, slowly self-radicalizing in a social media soup. If the superyacht he was traveling in to his Arbeitslager island was sunk by orcas at least we'd get a decent headline out of it.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just what the world needs - disruption in the tactical nuke delivery space!

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm fascinated by the fucking size of that yacht and did some more research and found more stories about obscenely expensive boats going to the bottom.

https://www.superyachttimes.com/news?filter=Casualty

Still feel bad about those missing though.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Scientology polycules with a Heinlein fetish?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the map of Singapore there are lots of islands around it (Singapore was probably chosen as a reference datum because libertarians like it and it's a big transport hub). Most of the islands seem to be Indonesian territory.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

What or who are NSBM? National Socialist Black Metal?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago

Most people who buy entire islands in Sweden are evil as in they are very very rich, don't give a crap about the local community, and do dumb things like build giant pools depleting the scarce local water supply.

But if you wanna start a cult just snag a big ole house in the relative boondocks and have it there. Creepy cults in the country are a staple of mid-budget TV action thrillers here, so apparently they're everywhere.

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