becausechemistry

When I worked at a kilo-scale chemical manufacturing job, some of our labs weren’t really air conditioned and/or were partially outside. It got up to 110F in the summer. The trick was to drop a little chunk of dry ice in each of your lab coat pockets. Kept me alive, at least.

They went on, however, to question the ethics and judgment of the potentially destructive payload.

Goodness me, the brain-rotted slop fans suddenly care about ethics?

Obviously yes, one image is too many. But companies only care about money, and if their money is going to evaporate because of their stupid technology, they’ll figure out a way to shut it off before it costs them.

The alternative is the status quo, which is that there are no consequences so there are no changes. Or maybe you make the fine ten quadrillion dollars for the first image generated, which is never gonna fly.

Let’s say a user generates one image per minute. If they do that for an hour, that’s $30M. If they did that once a day for a month, that’s almost a billion dollars.

These services have hundreds of millions of users. Collectively, if they don’t stop, the fines will be total-world-GDP levels in days or weeks.

These things are nonconsensual sexual image machine guns, dude.

Less expensive: yep

Actually fun colors: yep

Windows is worse than ever: yep

It would have been surprising if this thing wasn’t a hit.

No internal standard on the instrument (it failed). The linked article says that they found nitrogen-containing heterocycles that are “similar to precursors of DNA” but that’s a pretty big stretch. There’s a lot of stuff in there that they just don’t identify.

I think a lot of this stuff is consistent with what you’d get if a carbon- and nitrogen-containing meteor hit the surface. Definitely not a slam-dunk for life, and not really even close, unfortunately.

I want to meet the person who would consider buying this but doesn’t have a Steam account.

(I do not think this hypothetical person exists.)

I built my own (custom) version of this sort of thing too, but beware: if you’re traveling in or to the US, TSA can get very cranky about pills not in their original containers. If you’re about to go on a long trip and you have drugs you absolutely cannot miss doses of, just use the original bottles.