The idea is to come up with goofy million dollar ideas that you thought of in the shower, while going to bed, or during a fever dream that would get you laughed off of Shark Tank....
I need a couple bil to train an AI model on ALL mythology and folklore from all cultures of the world to then create real gnomes, elves, trolls etc by sticking it in robots and releasing them into the wild, then they will constantly clandestinely steal materials from us to construct more fae.
“The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS), wiping the agency’s database and backup copies.”...
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
at least that would be visually cool. currently we have none of the benefits of feudalism, but all of the downsides. Like at least during the massive wealth inequality around 1900, they built shit like this:
from what I’ve seen pretty much the only newly built “pre-war” architecture comes from citizens movements. You know, the people that actually have to live and work in these buildings, that can’t flee to their island on their mega-yacht.
It only takes around 3-5% more money, not to build oppulent buildings like this, but toned down, still beautiful versions that used to be the norm before the World Wars. But they are 100x more beautiful than any of the McMansions and shoe boxes we mostly build today.
Don’t worry, the real economic crisis is just now coming with the Fed planning on raising interest rates next year. That’s been a pretty reliable indicator that shit is about to hit the fan for the last few financial crisis. What we got after the Pandemic was just a little entrée.
I can’t find too much info on this online, but I stumbled upon it as related to “distributism”; seems to have been a movement sparked by opposition to industrialism in the 1800s, by Catholics, who wanted to preserve a more agrarian way of life. It has been revived in recent years, or there is an attempt to create a...
the future is going to be so weird when we have living street lamps and genetically-engineered rats&pigeons that are compelled to clean up our all our garbage. perhaps we’ll have genetically engineered crocodile engineers to fix up our infrastructure too. genetically engineered wasps that clean our building facades. genetically engineered window cleaning birds with a squeegee shaped beak.
You have like a 1m² solar hat that collects 200 watts so you can fire one rifle equivalent shot every 20 seconds, at 50% efficiency.
Your tanks covered in solar panels generate about 6000W of solar energy, vs the 1,120,000W of the Abrahams, so you can drive it for 7.7 minutes per day.
The solar impulse 2 can carry pilot, so about 80kg at a range of ~7000km. The smallest nuclear bomb is the Davy Crockett at about 23kg, so you could carry 3 or 4 of those around 7000km. Really you could build a gigantic solar glider to carry nuclear weapons.
What else? Maybe land mines that need to charge up their explosive power with solar.
dual use, I like it. nothing is wasted in sustainable war.
you could also use space mirrors, 1) to reduce the temperature on the planet, 2) create on demand night and day anywhere in the world at any time, 3) as a melty space laser
you could deny your enemy sunlight, make their climate 10x hotter or green deserts or light your greenhouses. melt a shipping lane through the north pole.
crazy they were ahead of the curve. Haven’t played it, but I heard it has good world building.
oil never made strategic sense to me, like oh yeah you want to make your prosperity dependent on hostile foreign powers? great idea
yeah it’s cheap and energy dense, but we could have invested in alternative technologies way earlier. spending billions to trillions on useless crap instead.
well if you are extremely strict about everything having to be powered by on board solar, you could probably just use potential energy. Fly as high as possible and drop a guided projectile down that is as heavy and as aerodynamic as possible. like a light version of the rod from god.
Also we’ve seen how effective cheap drones can be in warfare. the same could be true for small solar drones, to drop various payload on your enemy. Yeah they are slow and have big ass wings. but still they are silent and cheap. If you design them well some of them could loiter “forever”.
And also I would say solar powered artillery works. either using linear or rotary electromagnetic accelerators. Like a railgun or spinlaunch.
otherwise you could build gigantic transparent blimps covered in fresnel lenses that focus sunlight on an extremely small spot. normal sunlight has ~1kW/m². The Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser has 300kW, so you need ~300m² to match its power, so like 17.32x17.32m dimensions. The Hindenburg-class had like 10,000m². So you could have something in the ballpark of a 10MW laser. The destructiveness depends on how well you can focus it and how much enrrgy you loose via the air. And 2x longer blimps get 4x the death ray power. So you really benefit from scale. Or you just use a fleet of blimps all focusing on one point. You know, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
You could also use mylar if fresnel is too expensive.
back in the good old days kids didn’t have anxiety since they were constantly breathing in cigarette smoke. bring back smoking on air planes. won’t anyone think of the children?
I can’t talk about the others involved in BlueSky, but I think Jack Dorsey is genuniely regretful about how Twitter turned out and truthful in his intentions to make a decentralized alternative. I wouldn’t equate BlueSky with the rest of Big Tech. The XMPP creator sitting on the board and the CEO being someone who worked on Zcash, they can’t be that bad.
If they’re just a little bit better, it’s an improvement. If we have to win through salami slicing, so be it.
Federation alone would be a massive improvement already. Because it practically infinitely increases competition to do better, since there was zero before.
It’s all about setting up incentive structures so the ones in power and even the biggest assholes are compelled to do the right thing. And federation is a giant step in that direction.
Shitty Million Dollar Ideas: A place to pitch your fever dream ideas for Shark Tank
The idea is to come up with goofy million dollar ideas that you thought of in the shower, while going to bed, or during a fever dream that would get you laughed off of Shark Tank....
Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....
Vatnik historybuff copium (holy shit) (sh.itjust.works)
Ike is coming to pay a visit to the Houtis or is i just blue balling? (sh.itjust.works)
Raw Deal (lemmy.zip)
Hands down (lemmy.world)
Credible Cyber Offense (sh.itjust.works)
“The Ukrainian government’s military intelligence service says it hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service (FNS), wiping the agency’s database and backup copies.”...
Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test (beehaw.org)
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn’t seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Inner Duality (startrek.website)
Oh what fun it is to ride (lemmyf.uk)
I've earned it (startrek.website)
The royals are in the news right now. This stuff is gonna be coming, any time they walk, stand, sit, etc. (lemmynsfw.com)
I just want it to stop (startrek.website)
The "Catholic Land Movement"
I can’t find too much info on this online, but I stumbled upon it as related to “distributism”; seems to have been a movement sparked by opposition to industrialism in the 1800s, by Catholics, who wanted to preserve a more agrarian way of life. It has been revived in recent years, or there is an attempt to create a...
👨🍼 (feddit.nl)
Jusant concept by Andrey Surnov (cdnb.artstation.com)
Source: Jusant concepts (by Andrey Surnov - ArtStation)...
The duality of the vatnik (sh.itjust.works)
China's Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First (www.sciencealert.com)
Oh, is that so? (startrek.website)
Hes very sophisticated (lemmy.world)
Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
Projected in Oakland (slrpnk.net)
Before long, it'll be all grill and drivers won't be able to see which direction they're going. (startrek.website)
Which button do I press for the gay frogs? (files.catbox.moe)
Help what do I do next (lemmy.world)
I've been robbed! (startrek.website)
Fuckin project managers (hexbear.net)
Uh... I wouldn't dream of it. (startrek.website)
I didn’t plan this far ahead (lemmy.world)
Toddler blowing out mom's cigarette match. Long Island, NY, USA, 1950s (lemmy.world)
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Giant batteries drain economics of methane-burning power plants (www.reuters.com)
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Company that created ChatGPT is thrown into turmoil after Microsoft hires its ousted CEO (apnews.com)
Inflation (lemmy.zip)
The art of saying nothing (thumbsnap.com)