• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    It’s really incredible how I can no longer tell what’s satire and what’s very real opinions and ideas being shared seriously

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          What? That’s not at all what that article describes.

          That’s talking about using federal lands to build towns. Towns with very odd and selected features, but I don’t see anything even vaguely like a hive city in there.

          Don’t get me wrong still terrible, just for other reasons

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            In this case, “proposed by Donald Trump” is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.

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      if you can’t tell that this is satire maybe some time off of lemmy is warranted

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        I think maybe ‘irony poisoning’ is overhyped and we should talk more about cynicism poisoning. So, so much rhetoric on lemmy and reddit only makes sense through the lens of the most cynical theory of mind possible. An opportunity for malfeasance existing is assumed to be proof of malfeasance.

        I actually believe that >90% of people are evil for all intents and purposes and I still think the rhetoric needs to chill.

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      Yeah and even if it’s a joke, it’s only a matter of time before some billionaire asshole takes it seriously

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    I’m sorry, but what about this cube is “population sized”?

    Well, if you liquefy the entire human race, it would fit into a container with roughly those proportions.

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    Are we compressed into the gigantic meat cube mechanically or are we assimilated into it like the Borg assimilate species?

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      I think you just start pitching people in, and the compression happens naturally as the people pile up.

      Good news though. Without using any math or science, my AI determined that the people at the bottom will be under enough heat and pressure to become oil, or diamonds or both. Just put a spigot at the bottom so we don’t lose that economic value in the bodies of the people we’ve systematically crushed to fund our lavish extravagant lifestyle.

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      I think you just walk into the fluidic solid walls, like the Homer into the bushes gif, except face first, where you are slowly enveloped by the acceptance of the warm loving collective.

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      Even though those are very different procedures, I fail to see how the outcome could be any different.

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      have you smelt my brand?

      it’s had buildings cleared until they saw me and said “it’s just this guy’s farts false alarm”

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          am i getting my own farting cube because i want an angry dome too. i’ll share the angry dome but i won’t share the farting cube. i mean i’ll share the farting cube but after one fart it’s mine.

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      The Web invaded Mainframe
      Sprite and virus battled side by side,
      Attempting to reclaim the city
      from the rift which opened wide.

      But Megabyte betrayed Bob and
      he threw him deep inside the pit.
      The pit was closed and Bob was hosed
      and all that he could say was “Nooo!”

       

      Without Bob to protect us
      we thought we would have no barrier,
      From he who would infect us
      except Enzo, which was scarier,
      The city shivered terrified
      from fear of the Infector’s touch…

      “I guess your fear was verified, I wasn’t a protector much.”

      (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protector much)
      (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protector much)
      (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protectorector much)

       

      It wasn’t Enzo’s fault at first
      he only was a little Sprite,
      At best he was the worst but then
      he slowly learned to do it right,

      And just as he was getting skilled
      a Game came down he couldn’t win,
      I thought for sure they’d both been killed,
      first Bob then Enzo, not again!

      (And just as he was getting skilled a Game came down he couldn’t win)
      (She thought for sure they’d both been killed, first Bob then Enzo, not again!)

       

      I went from Game to Game
      I aged, I grew and lost my innocence,
      I soon became enraged by each
      and ev’ry bad experience,

      The Sprite you knew was gone
      I had become a grim aggressor man,
      I knew from that point on
      that I was truly Bob’s successor man.

      (The Sprite we knew was gone, he had become a grim aggressor man)
      (He knew from that point on that he was truly Bob’s successor man)

       

      I met up with the Webriders
      and took the form of Interface,
      I joined my gun with pirate swords
      and sailed the seas of cyberspace,

      And when at last the pair of us
      were fin’lly reunited guys,
      Our shouts of joy did blare because
      we really were delighted guys.

       

      We soon made tracks to Mainframe
      so our friends could reunite with us,
      We made it back and Megabyte
      was waiting there to fight with us.

      When Bob went
      face to face to face to face
      with Hexadecimal

      …his chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal.

      (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal)
      (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal)
      (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesiesimal)

       

      Bob helped to defragment my head
      while Matrix fought with Megabyte,
      I thought he’d wind up dead
      but Matrix put up a terrific fight.

      I’d dreamed of this each lonely night
      of doing in that virus trash,
      But just as I had won the fight
      he engineered a system crash!

      (You dreamed of this each lonely night of doing in that virus trash)
      (But just as you had won the fight he engineered a system crash)

       

      What Megabyte had hoped to do
      was cause his death to crack us up,
      I gambled on the User to ReBoot
      and thereby back us up.

      It worked! We all were born anew
      and rid of things barbaric,
      And now we’re back together,
      Ev’rything’s alphanumeric!

      (It worked, we all were born anew and rid of things barbaric)
      (And now we’re back together, ev’rything’s alphanumeric)

      ___And now we’re back together, EVERYTHING IS ALPHANUMERIC!!

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    Such a stupid take. You build a data center in Sydney when all the people are in NY? Think of the latency!

    We need to build a giant spherical data center and humans will crawl on the outside like ants. No one will ever be more than the circumference away from another user, and all traffic can be routed through the fastest and shorted physical route.

    Then the rest of the earth gives us 24/7 solar power. 10/10 super happy love love!

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      They built the Dyson sphere to exclusively power grok. The sun no longer licks the earth with its warm light. The land based datacenters on earth, now buried under hundreds of meters of ice, provide the few remaining sources of heat through their exhaust shafts. The last of the surface bound human refugees cling to them as camps and villages pop up here and there. Sustaining themselves on Jensen Huang brand “Hot Dog flavored” meat-like rations, they gather in small villages hobbled together about the exhaust vents. Unable to exhaust enough carbon from their blood they can’t even risk letting their core temp drop. They know atmosphere as well the cold to be their prison wall. There they huddle for warmth, rationing, and waiting for the next hoard of autonomous PolyGPTMarket Enforcement Drones. Waiting to learn whether their agenetic overlords placed enough stake on their survival, or that the day had come - that they might be swept down the shaft, macerated and baked into hot-dog flavored oblivion.

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      But it’ll take four and a half billion years to compile its model and just as it’s about to be completed the Vogons will destroy it to make way for a hyperspace bypass.