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Sunday, May 31, 2026
We'll start the Markiplier movie in ~10 minutes, since Gent's back now
@Rusp @taxes @Garbage
welcome back
good riddance?
Good job
Monday, June 1, 2026
I really liked Iron Lung
Yeah it was pretty solid
@Garbage it turns out China is doing the thing I was talking to you in vc the other day
It's a Big Dumb Rocket™
uses non-solid fuel (gasoline/kerosene) and just moves really slow
trivial to build, but no one does it because unironically it's seen as "embarrassing"
it's much less attractive payload wise, but yes
^ as well as it's slow, and usually they're not vertical takeoff
the official Cold War reason was because you couldn't use the designs for ICBMs or other military use
but genuinely, it's because when comparing to other rocket launches, nobody wanted to be the country with this oversized and slow LV
since this new Chinese one is re-usable, it might make more sense, but I bet it was hard to greenlight
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 uses non-solid fuel (gasoline/kerosene) and just moves really slow
is this why gas is so expensive right now?
Microsoft has 3% marketshare for the record, which makes them being the first to switch to usage-based billing extra funny
The days where a $5 or even $20/month plan are worth anything are definitely coming to and end
Despite being 1st and arguably the early leader in consumer AI in 2022/2023
Microsoft just absolutely fucked themselves over by trying to force it
same thing Google is doing now, and I feel like is backfiring
they have infinite money, and are trying to force adoption where no one wants it
*uploaded to the cloud
I've been trying to pitch that as the future of execution, hook someone up to a computer, perform a lot of theatrics while you kill them, and then have a LLM pretend to be them afterwards
everyone wants to be the ghost in the machine
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 I've been trying to pitch that as the future of execution, hook someone up to a computer, perform a lot of theatrics while you kill them, and then have a LLM pretend to be them afterwards (edited)
I also sorta think if we froze people who have life sentences, it would accomplish the same thing
prison just doesn't make a lot of sense for sentences >10 years, and public executions aren't popular enough
exile or forced service/labor is better, but also sorta limited in the options available
wait, genius idea
blood submarines
Markiplier has solved the incarceration crisis
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
it might not be as funny anymore as it was like a few months ago but if you ever want to laugh at something just check the issues on github for vscode
it's 90% swarms of pages of bizzare complaints from people using copilot
and it autogenerating issues
you pay for a certain number of token uses
tasks cost X tokens depending on how demanding the task is
as far as I am aware
Yeah, it was stupid cheap for no reason despite all the compute power
I made sure to always thank grok specifically to burn money
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time are they charging people per use of the AI instead of a subscription? idk much about this topic
sorta
right now there are a lot of "trial" tiers of AI subscription that don't really make sense since $5/month is NOTHING, but you can't get a casual user to upgrade to $100/month if they're not going to regularly use AI yet
but people hate useage-based pricing, because we're so conditioned to just subscribe to stuff and never use it, versus micropaying when you do
Same thing with cloud stuff, if you pay for Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS webservers, you pay for the actual use of those server resources rather than one flat monthly rate
idk how to solve it, because it's just different than how 90% of average people are used to treating their subscriptions
Lifetime grok subscription but they hard code it so that grok gets more and more passive aggressive about how you should donate to the company until it becomes unusably agressive about you not paying continuously
I think that is the peak AI model
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
