kira :3Nov 5, 2023
silicon valley VCs' best ideas of the 2020s:
-put a drone on something
-wrongness generator 3000 (uses more energy than a small nation)
-fraud
-space pollution
-self-crashing cars
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in another country
-an app that is actually criminally underpaid workers in this country
-fascism
-vrchat but it cost 20x to make and it fucking sucks
-layoffs
Show threadkira :3Nov 5, 2023
tech people need to find more ways to get money than from a bunch of coked up fascists who think they're going to live forever on mars. could you imagine how much cool shit we could be working on
Show threadMatt5sean3Nov 5, 2023
@chrisisgr8 There was that time the government just gave money to scientists and engineers hand over fist at NASA which gave us people on the moon, space blankets, the microwave, better computers, and a lot of other things. And then we stopped giving them so much money for ... reasons?
Show threadmiketcope
@chrisisgr8 @Matt5sean3 you know that was just to justify creating ICBMs right?
Nov 6, 2023 at 4:16amWeb
Show threadMatt5sean3Nov 6, 2023

@copito @chrisisgr8

It was also a matter of national pride. The Soviets sent up Sputnik and the race was on. Nobody would have needed to put people in the rockets to justify making an ICBM, but they certainly did put up astronauts and cosmonauts past the point when it was clear that both sides had the technology necessary to create an apocalypse in about an hour.