Culture is full of persephone eating pomegranate seeds, beware of greeks bearing gifts, don't eat fairy food, don't accept favors from demons because you'll owe them, monkey's paw wishes...
And then all these "ain't no such thing as a free lunch" fuckers tell you to check in LLM pull requests, and mock the reluctant as fools. STRINGS ARE VERY MUCH ATTACHED. This crap is fucking sticky at nuclear contamination levels. You pivoted from NFTs to this, we watched you do it.
@eigen I believe in free lunches. I've been an open source developer and science fiction convention organizer for decades, humans were hunter-gatherers long before inventing money, parents really shouldn't present their children a cumulative bill when they turn 18, etc.
But THEY don't believe in it, and are thus hypocrites. They do not ALLOW free lunches. The tragedy of the commons is capitalism, whose matrix math consumes "free" infinitely until scarcity puts a price on each lungful of air.
#quote | «The tragedy of the commons is capitalism, whose matrix math consumes "free" infinitely until scarcity puts a price on each lungful of air».
@[email protected] this is a beautifully quotable phrase, thank you.
An israeli academic has been growing all his own food for 15 years on 750 square meters of land, working 1 day per month. Basic explanation: https://youtu.be/TNR8JfHah00 Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/KN6RuFqvOns He grows wheat, fava beans, and olives, plus a small vegetable garden for variety. All locally appropriate to his mediterranean climate. He says he could get 50% more output if he watered stuff rather than letting rain do it, but doesn't see the need.
@Technomagik @eigen His catch is living in the mediterranean and growing the same locally-appropriate crops people there grew ~2500 years ago.
As it says, he's cultivating just under 1/5 of an acre and not even watering it. His "catch" is you can't replicate that in Minnesota, plus olives take forever to establish.
The reply post to that one was somebody feeding 6 people on 1/4 acre in north america with locally appropriate stuff for there. (More labor, more output.)
@Technomagik @eigen I bought three "Orange Pi 3b 8gb" boards shortly after Biden announced he was running for a second term, on the assumption supply chains would crash so hard they would no longer be available.
Instead, the price slightly more than doubled: https://www.amazon.com/Orange-Pi-Frequency-Bluetooth-OpenHarmony/dp/B0CDP6R2XR
The hard part was getting vanilla linux to run on them. I refused to apt-get update from huaweicloud.
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