nxdefiant
@nxdefiant@startrek.website
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 4 hours ago:
And that was late 90’s/00 dollars.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
I’ll have to see what my social status raising fruit budget looks like.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 2 days ago:
250 years ago people would rent pineapples for parties as status symbols because they cost $8000.
Nowadays the most expensive pineapple you can get is barely $400.
That’s progress
- Comment on Moon dust 1 week ago:
All those oxides but the iron is pure? SUS.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
Yo Bro, Nah.
- Comment on Discovering what this man has done has ruined my day 1 week ago:
He looks so much like Gary Oldman. It must be the Zorg haircut.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Themselves. I’m just saying internally they run it like an investment fund. Example: medium.com/…/area-631-what-i-learned-in-ibms-star…
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
It’s basically an investment fund that runs the companies it invests in, like Alphabet, but with a bigger mix of real estate and finance investments thrown in.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
IBM is 100, but the Internet didn’t exist in 1924, so we’ll say the clock starts in 1989. I’m pretty sure at least MS or IBM will be around in 15 years.
- Comment on Sticks 1 week ago:
Now I wonder what “Aaaaakshually” sounds like in ancient Greek.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Imagine scrolling back in the Slack chat 50 years to find that one thing someone said about how the chip bypass worked.
- Comment on Crime 1 week ago:
Pay the fine Attack
- Comment on Peer review can be fun 1 week ago:
Wrongly motivated?
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
One will make you urinate, the other will make you uraniuminate.
- Comment on Not like this 1 week ago:
We don’t know who the original was, but the last guy to travel back in time and save him was named Steve Irwin.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
You may not like it, but this is what beak performance looks like.
- Comment on Google Gemini is really bad. 2 weeks ago:
The whole point of a language model is that you shouldn’t need to be an engineer to talk to it. The LLM is bad.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy to decide these things from the other side of history. At the time, when very little was known about survivability, transmissivity, etc, it was absolutely an emergency.
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
“It was probably either religious in nature, or used for deciding when to put seeds in the ground”
- Comment on It's getting hot in here 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure there’s a shiny bead in your brain that regulates your temperature. Keep in mind, all my knowledge on this subject comes from Osmosis Jones.
- Comment on MRIs 2 weeks ago:
cremortionist hath slain me.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
Hell, maybe even above average if the model can update itself in real time.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
we should go with “conscii”
- Comment on "Also, try our new deep dish special." 2 weeks ago:
Little Caesars guy maybe?
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 weeks ago:
Abbot has the ability to call the legislation into session whenever he wants to make them address special needs, he doesn’t need to wait for the next once-every-two-years session. Instead he tweets about it.
Nothing will get done to address his until someone greases his palm about it, and given the signaling here, he’s angling for that grease to come from the corps.
- Comment on Analysis: Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory? | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
- Comment on Analysis: Europe is beating inflation. Why can’t America declare victory? | CNN Business 2 weeks ago:
You’re so close
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 2 weeks ago:
So Neptune has a rogue rock in its orbit that also orbits the sun and we’re just gonna give Neptune a pass on that one because we saw it first.
At best, this is size discrimination, and neptunotism, and we both know it!
- Comment on Very understandable, have a nice day 3 weeks ago:
I kinda get it. Some people are imagining a Nespresso commercial from the 90’s, all cozy and comfy.
I, a person who once share an office with someone who thought air popping popcorn at their desk was a socially acceptable thing to do, can imagine a Sam Kinnison-esque vibe the the “AHHHHs”.
- Comment on Amazon's Fallout TV Series Renewed For Season 2 3 weeks ago:
Shes got a smidge of a Battle Angel Alita thing going on, but that ain’t all that bad.