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  • I would have to explain color theory, and that shit is a cognitohazard.

    I don’t mean like ‘rokos basilisk’ “what if we reflavored the dumbest ideas of the dark ages, but cyberpunk flavor and with 200% more irrational dumbshit assumptions based on a pretty okay scifi story I read decades ago and now assume is a substitute for logic” ‘cognitohazard’ I mean genuinely shit that can break your brain, can consume you, can destroy you.

    so there is an answer, and when you even approach it, you will become the abyss into which others should not stare. may there be a god to help you, because I will be unable.



  • the prices for that aren’t even especially low, though.

    remember, it’s also massively inflated because all the cutting edge fab capacity is being used to build entropy-and-scam machines, and before that, scamming machines. I remember when you could build a damn solid gaming computer with current gen hardware for 500$ without much sacrifice.

    if you want to know what most of this actually costs, look at something like the MSRP on the raspberry pi. a general purpose chip that’s wildly overpowered for what 99% of these devices do.

    look at how much you’ll pay for an esp32 or, if that’s too beefy for your application, an esp8266. arduino if you want prehistoric oldschool italian luxury. it’s like 5$ plus 0.10-15 dollars per sensor, and the fifteen dollar sensors are for exotic stuff like air quality. You don’t even have to code as often as not-somebody already made and open sourced it; you just need to play legos.





  • I think the number of people they kill and the fact that 99.99% of them are used as gender affirming vehicles for cis men or fear totems for suburban white women means we should not have them.

    yes, there is a narrow use case. sure. but a sufficiently souped up small truck designed to modern spec without the limits of japanese law would probably do most of that fine, and the ability to do any, or even all of that, is not worth the cost in human lives and greenhouse gasses that these cause.