I worked at a place where the asset management system was called “ASS” and yes, publishing assets was called “pushing to ASS”. Unfortunately management eventually made the developer change it.

Tap objects that can experience true suffering.

Peewee, Chairry, Cowboy Curtis,
Chairry, Randy, Jambi
Human Fetus, Mr. Kite, Chairry

Angela Collier’s video about this: https://youtu.be/wBBnfu8N_J0?t=2213 (Kaku part starts at 36:50).

A TLDW on the rest of the video: “Gell-Mann Amnesia” is a term Michael Crichton coined. It refers to how people read articles in a newspaper about a topic they are experts in, realize it’s all horribly written trash, then turn the page and happily read the next article about an unfamiliar topic forgetting they just learned the newspaper is trash.

Collier expands on the idea to include the Gell-Mann Complement and Gell-Mann Recollection. The Recollection is what Kaku does, where he doesn’t know anything about a topic but presents a simple explanation on it anyway just because he’s an expert in something different. This frequently gets him into completely bonkers territory, like Deepak Chopra level bonkers.

Back in the days where they used miniatures to do spaceships sometimes the vfx dept. would take model kits and glue the entire plastic sheet, sprues and all, to the miniature. You know, like this.

I feel (maybe hope) that countries doing this would face significant challenges with currency substitution and private currencies. Ultimately if I want to buy something and my neighbor wants to sell me that thing the government becomes the, “Is there someone you forgot to ask?” meme.

It’d be metal af if I bought something from my neighbor and paid him in Yuan, lol.

all those bills you have are worthless.

That’s the tricky thing is technically the government doesn’t actually control what is worth stuff, its all just vibes. By undermining faith in their currency the government could actually lose a bit of control, not gain it. This was actually a huge fucking problem early in US history.

To your point, here are two adjacent “parks” in Washington DC. The park on the left is fully open and walkable. The park on the right has a low fence and shrubs surrounding it. You could technically hop the low fence and walk there, lots of people let their dog do that so it can crap there, but both practices are discouraged.

Also, if you are mobility impaired, or its muddy, or whatever, you wouldn’t want to walk in the park on the left either. So it makes sense that OSM wouldn’t try to shortcut you over it.

I know it’s a shitpost but my mind immediately goes to Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

* slaps sphere *

“You can fit so much Perlin noise on this baby.”

There’s no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, “bots that aren’t paying us.”