I’ve always suspected that Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party did happen and there were many people there but Hawking’s agreed to tell everyone that no one showed up.
I bet they also made a clone of Hawkings and left the clone behind and took the real him to the Future with them.
He’s probably partying in 2743 right now in an 18 year old body, surrounded by beautiful futuristic space babes with neon hair and skintight glitter clothes.
I remember reading The Infinity gauntlet comics and in it Adam warlock was supposed to be the greatest human being ever created.
And then they picked the actor that they chose for him and I’m just not seeing it.
I don’t know, the only thing stopping me from getting 150 billion is the threat of having to pay an 800 million fine on it.
If it weren’t for that
I was going to say, it’s starting to sound more like the EU is just taking kickbacks in a circuitous legal manner rather than via a shady under the table deal with men and trench coats exchanging packages of unmarked bills.
I mean, in the last 5 months how many times has the EU fined meta or google?
If you really want to make a message that sticks, you ban the danger sites from operating in your collective and then fine them for their past misdeeds.
If you want to be seen as lenient, you then set down a list of objectives that the site must adhere to in order to be reinstated in the collective.
Anything short of that is just lining your pockets. I mean, what is the money being used for?
Oh yeah. I’m guessing the drives themselves are going to cost something like $10,000 a piece. Maybe more.
If you’ve got 250 Grand to drop on ssds then adding in $10,000 for the server that can run them is not that big of a spend
If you’ve got that kind of dosh, you should definitely do it and then back up the internet archive.
Remember, the rule is “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”.
Threads is doing this. Kicking them to the curb regardless of the cost is the only solution.
I don’t know what normal people do but people like me don’t see ads because they use the appropriate protections from the invasiveness of the internet.
Pihole. Firefox. ublock origin, privacy badger, decentraleyes…
It also helps if you don’t participate in systems that attempt to intrusively shove ads down your throat, but you do you.
What I would do is get a lot of experience with a lot of different systems.
If you’re enjoying self hosting and setting stuff up, go to something like TurnKey Linux and download a handful of applications that you’re interested in using.
Spin up virtual servers on a proxmox server, install the turnkey Linux systems, and then learn how they work. Get ldap running on your home network. Set up an nginx reverse proxy and get a certificate so that you can go to a duckdns internal name spaces instead of IP addresses.
Find use cases for your home network system and then find how to make the systems you have available work for those use cases.
And for the love of god, find yourself a cheap Windows server license and virtualize one of those and integrate it into the mix.
Host a WordPress or Joomla on IIS, set up a pihole for your home DNS on Ubuntu server.
Run a jellyfin server and download a bunch of public domain movies to it.
Hello, find yourself some Kiwix images that you like and figure out how to get https and nginx names running on them.
The more you play around with the technology, the more you’ll find out what you like doing and what you don’t like doing and what you’re good at and what you’re not good at and that will help you understand where you fit and wear your talents lie.
Once you know that I’m sure you can put those talents to use for gainful employment.
And yet, can anyone off the top of their head tell me who it was that originally said that?
Did your mom name you Lee Harvey oswald?
Did your mom, aka Mrs Oswald, not know that Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK, or was she like really proud of that fact and wanted to carry on his legacy?
Did she legally change her last name to Oswald just so she could name you Lee Harvey Oswald?
Or are you like a Jr and your dad is Lee Harvey Oswald Sr?
Did your mom bully your dad into changing his name to Lee Harvey Oswald?
What is there to be positive about?
I used it for a while. It honestly was a really good browser for a long time but since everything started going this shit it quickly fell from my good graces.
The only time I even think of missing it is when I have to open a page that is optimized against Firefox on purpose because the developers decided to use some janky Javascript plugin and didn’t test.
I miss my games being on solid media that I can trade with my friends or sell at a game store.
But I would not give up the seven seas to have that back again.
I fully expect an incessant torrent of smug assholes on every corner of social media I go to alongside a never-ending stream of horror stories of all the shitty things that people are doing to other people.
Yeah I’m 6’1 but I’m native American so I don’t think I will fit into their thing cuz they tend to prefer white guys
I’m definitely a jack of all trades, but I have a bachelor’s in IT and like 10 years of work experience.
I feel like the competition is pretty high for people in that category though, but I could probably handle a couple hours a week of berry picking and English teaching.
Yeah, now it’s entirely reasonable to drop a human being from your friend pool for the rest of your life because of which person they voted for.
If I find out somebody has voted for Trump they are now persona non grata to me.
And before you say I shouldn’t let politics rule my friendships, my dad is dead because of how Trump bungled the covid pandemic response, so any person who has voted for that person has said that my dad dying is less important to them than that guy being given the highest office in the land.
I cannot think of a graver insult, and it is one that cannot be apologized for short of bringing my father back to life.
So if you voted for Trump, fuck you.
I guess my only question is, if I sell everything and liquidate all of my assets I would probably have like 30 grand, maybe more maybe less.
How long is that going to last me while I’m wandering, and what options are there to keep money rolling in?
If I can transport things back and forth, I would probably go and max out a credit card and buy all of the gold that I can to bring with me for trade.
Then I would go to the library of Alexandria and use my cell phone to get photocopies of as many books as I possibly can, and in the downtime I would go to any open Street markets and purchase any cool relics that I can find.
Then I could come back and share some of the Lost books of Alexandria with the world and also have period correct relics that have somehow magically not been exposed to a thousand years of environmental corrosion.
Then again, that would probably also mess up their radioisotope dating but I don’t know if it’s specific enough to only cover a thousand ish years.
Maybe if I have a little more time to prep I can find some place that I know hasn’t been Disturbed and like put them in an airtight safe and store them for me to go back and ReDiscover now.