Pandas only evolutionary advantage is being adorable. It is like cows being delicious - without that, they’d simply cease to be.

Holy duck I love pandas.

Gonna hard pass on the entirety of having a female reproductive system. More trouble than it’s worth imo.

This has already happened in 2 labs. Final product and the “free energy revolution” are still years/decades away, but this is still an amazing achievement.

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Rates are coming down, and everyone is bullish as fuck about the economy, so idk that the loans are gonna be drying up.

Multiple countries demonstrating sustained, net-positive fusion reactions seems extremely likely.

A veritable orgy of uninspired crap taking advantage of the fact that people want to feel subversive but don’t actually want to subvert anything or say or do anything interesting, because all of those things are hard.

Basically the same thing as the Pooh-but-not-tigger comics you see posted on here that people pretend are funny.

How do you explain that?

it isn’t true, so I don’t

VC money is meant to crush the competition and lock in the consumer to charge rent.

This is not anything close to correct lol. VCs specifically do not invest in mature companies or they aren’t VCs.

Why would any commercial real estate firm allow affordable housing to exist when they can scalp it on investment properties and leave them empty? Why build affordable housing when the margins are small?

All housing built helps other housing come affordable because it increases supply. You are correct that there is little purpose intentionally building less valuable housing

My hope would be that we can transition peacefully to a hybrid model with the rising power of unions, gradual emergence of worker cooperatives, and increased demand for socialized health care and affordable housing.

None of this has anything to do with capitalism tho.

Like, capitalism can and should be the economic engine driving these positive outcomes.

There was this PC FMV game back in the early 90’s where there’s this woman doing all kinds of things that gets herself killed and all you do is flip the right switches at the right time and enter 3 digit codes.

This sounds similar to Night Trap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Trap

Straight up one of the most legitimately difficult games ever on that system too. Dark souls from a bygone era.

One of the proudest days of my youth gaming career was beating Eternal Champions. The environment-based fatalities were incredible.

Cyborg kickboxer dude and the weird cane-staff guy were both OP as fuck, but the future cop guy’s ranged stun was amazing for longevity.

Oh my god I loved this as a kid, and had a shitload of the toys, and from my late teens on I’ve been trying like hell to figure out what this show/line of toys was!!!

Thank you for posting this today. Gonna show my kids. This is so wild.

You’re not going to hurt my feelings by using words improperly lol

We’re talking about astroturfing, so yes it is quite literally the difference.

You’re not guaranteed a place where your opinions are the only ones expressed, ever in life.

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

I do in fact disagree with you, yes. I am not, however, paid for it

User adoption here is also “basically zero.”

Lemmy is a rounding error in population versus larger sites. It’s a walled garden.

You cannot weaken the fediverse more than the near-total lack of adoption that already exists.

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.