No the current crop of insatiable capitalists in political power in the US are responsible. Translation, pure corruption, greed, and another effort to consolidate wealth, specifically fucking with the aerospace industry. Who’s involved? I wonder wonder.

I love this comment just for the fact you point out that no one really thinks about you and even if they do, their opinion isn’t relevant.

I myself am 50 and I gave up many years ago even considering what other people think about me, as long as I behave in an ethical and kind way.

This to say, I cannot imagine the daily stress of today’s generation, where every moment is spent disingenuously performing for others on SM and trying to get them to notice you

I am in full agreement with this.

I always thought white chicken was bland as hell… And in recent years I’ve met a really cool indigenous dude and he’s giving me all kinds of deer, elk, bear… It’s only reinforced that factory farm white meat chicken is horrible.

It is simultaneously bland, and yet the little flavor it does have is nauseating and unpleasant.

Everybody loves a deep fried chicken breast but it’s the fat caked on the breading that people love, not the chicken.

You have hurt people by saying what you said, but I couldn’t agree more.

Yeah this is some kind of specific oppositional defiance disorder

Absolutely not weird, and any normal adult would just walk by and think hey cool.

Unpopular opinion time, the only people, and I mean literally, the only people that are even suggesting it’s weird or thinking other people think it’s weird, are the sweatys that have never actually been to a park, or understand the dynamics of park people.

Man will you just shut up and leave me alone

Your first reply to me was dumb, because I already answered it… You just didn’t bother to read it

I really don’t care about your feelings because you bought this battery and you need validation

Just stop and leave me alone

Stop badgering me with pointless leading questions. You phrase them in such a way that they are rhetorical, yet you probably want an answer, WHICH YOU WILL ALLOW TO SAIL OVER YOUR HEAD, YOU’LL COMPLETELY IGNORE, AND THEN YOU’LL PROCEED WITH ANOTHER POINTLESS QUESTION

If you can’t ADD something to this conversation, leave. I’m not interested in this little performance you’re putting on here, it’s completely intellectually dishonest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

It ended all hope. Now everybody’s just screaming into the void.

Well then if I must answer the question to satisfy you, the answer is it’s too difficult and expensive to manufacture them right now

You may have a great battery, I’m proud of you for making that consumer purchase

But the technology is still in its infancy

It’s been known for years that silicon is much better at storing lithium ions, like insanely more efficient than graphite which is what’s currently used in anodes. But it’s ability to pack in the lithium ions is its downfall… Charging and discharging embrittles it by actually and expanding/shrinking the lattice

So it took a few years to surmount that challenge. Figuring out how to not have the material destroy itself, and finding the balance of how much energy to store. As far as I know there’s a few different approaches that involve deposition of individual molecules into crystals… and nanotech photo lithography and crazy shit that’s honestly too hard for me to keep up with.

There’s all kinds of hype surrounding them and people talk about them being like an order of magnitude more efficient than current LiPo technology, but that’s a lot of hot air, we’re looking at like 30% improvements now with slightly increased charging times… huge complexity increases in manufacturing… cost… We don’t even know what’s going to happen when we deploy a couple hundred million of these.

They’re going to be the next big thing for batteries but we’re kind of in the early adopting phase right now.

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That really dramatically takes the steam out of your argument though.

If the same conditions for you existed today, any modern game would blow qbert out of the water, and indeed you would put thousands of hours into it.

Also, Atari games were $20 when they were new not 10. So with inflation it’s about the same as an $80 game today.

https://www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html

This is not Guile… Cut to throwing sonic boom

I’m not sure but I’m sharing this for interest sake

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“I was wrong”

I love being wrong, it’s the gateway to new knowledge, but other people view not knowing through a self-esteem lens

In a way yes. There are times when I am so sick of dealing with people who cannot organize their thoughts - it becomes just exhausting.

So consistently being the most analytical, on-the-ball, ahead of the curve, able to predict the future, able to see-through people within seconds of meeting them, being generally good at most things, adept automatically the first time I try anything… It’s a burden.

But at the same time I’m not so dumb to think I don’t choose this burden.

Yes I’m being a jerk. Dude is a complete addict and needs HELP

I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol

The hard truth is that if you want change you have to change and there’s nothing else to it

You have to try new things even if you think you’re going to hate them

There’s no getting around it

I took my own advice. I’m not saying it’s easy, it’s work

I guess if you find it funny it might help you ease feelings

All that conjures in my mind though is a mouse furiously hammering on a lever trying to get a pellet