A-aron
mcc"If something is free, that just means you're the product", I say, squinting mistrustfully at the Sun
Every day I am shocked that people expect me to simply trust the cloud
lambdageek
René Moser (resmo) レネ
Phillip Carter@mcc kinda wanna go back in time and try to get people to re-explain “serverless” as just “less servers”
Yaoi Box Balloon@mcc lol wait what the cloud is free!?1
Matthew Hackling@mcc every now and then we get a peek behind the curtain like https://orca.security/resources/blog/autowarp-microsoft-azure-automation-service-vulnerability/
teknomunk 
aran@mcc ... huh, I guess we are
PC@mcc nicely said. Thank you.
leah's tiny pc retirement home@mcc i mean, in a very real sense we are all products of the sun
Joel de Bruijn@millihertz @mcc and we both, people and the sun, are products of older stars, fizzled out already.
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@mcc @muffinista Standing in the middle of the forest after a refreshing walk, looking around suspiciously, "I feel better... But at what cost...?"
Robert McNees@mcc This is like when Edward Murrow asked "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" and Jonas Salk replied "There is no patent. Could you patent the Sun? No, the people are the product."
Rev. Bussy Body of The Church of America MLM and Shooting Club
Daniel Schwarz@mcc …that sums up the circle of life pretty well! ☀️->🌱->🦌->🧑🍳->🦠->🌱
evolbug@mcc it's playing the long game
Entitled@mcc sun is not free. It is killing you a little bit every day.
Dave Byrne@mcc and that product is entropy.
Thorne Lawler@mcc we are products of the sun. Yes.
@mcc well, unless you can sponsor it (!) and it runs open source software.
RichardOntario@mcc Sorta like the flowers, trees and plants that are in reality harvesting us as a food source when we die and decompose back into the earth as nourishment They just let us believe we’re the dominant species to keep us quiet
Margaret, The Fell Omen 🏳️🌈@mcc what's her game, what's her angle
ScatalogicAI@mcc
We build solar farms, but the Sun is farming us.
We build solar farms, but the Sun is farming us.
Cher Tailor
@mcc the product... of billions of years of solar-powered evolution!
Benji@mcc To extend the quote: or your being productive enough to get it.
I think that is a more positive message than being the cog in the machine.
AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@mcc until they can monetize the sun, industry will distrust it, and by monetize, i mean make it so they can limit your ability to use its energy and light, without paying them for the privilege
Justified Ancient of Moomin
s0 Is Not A Sysadmin@mcc I think nowadays it’s called Oracle, and we seem to mostly not be their product
Paul Fernandez@mcc “Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”
― Tom Robbins
Dallas Swoager
Wolf480pl@mcc keep in mind Sun has ben bought by ORACLE
Felix S K II (pnkfelix)@mcc but the Sun also says that while squinting at *us*. (The Sun is very invested in the “is Pluto a planet” question.)
Adam Gonnerman@mcc life exists to capture energy from the environment and dissipate that energy as heat.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/
Keith DawsonEven
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
“You owe me.”
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.
― Hafiz
Maria Elena
zendao42@mcc
Never forget that we are stardust
Never forget that we are stardust
Voron@mcc or it’s propaganda
Resuna@mcc According to Dan O'Neill in "The Collective Unconscience of Odds Bodkins" the sun is a dying star and is waiting for the energy of our final nuclear war to revitalize it.
phantasm@mcc we are the byproducts. by products. buy products. checkmate, capitalists.
Six Possums In A Trenchcoat@mcc When someone figures out how to charge us for sunlight, they will.
Kaity A@mcc remember though, that just because you pay doesn't mean you are not the product. Stares at solar panels.
Jon Rowe@mcc Pan-galactic mice look at each other shiftily...
Luna Corbden@mcc I mean, it's true.
Fernhead@mcc For all our perceived advancements, we still owe our existence to the sun, 6 inches of topsoil and the fact that it rains.