So, I love boats and sailing.

Megayachts aren’t for people who love boats and sailing, they’re for rich people who love the privacy of having a mobile private island. In their operation (big diesel engines, fiberglass hulls made with MEK, dumping raw sewage and such), they pollute a lot more than basically any other method of travel/living.

The people at Gabe Newell’s company probably make decent money. But it’s a dangerous job working with extremely toxic chemicals (if it’s good for the boat, it’s bad for the environment, and it’s bad for the workers). A lot of them probably have to retire early with health problems.

I love boats and sailing, but this megayacht shit sucks.

So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.

This would hold up better if I could get a non-shitty car made in the USA. Alas…

Truly, it would be difficult for the Chinese to do a worse job of making cars than the planned obsolescence crap we’ve come up with.

Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students

IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

Not particularly, but I imagine it was just weird as hell haha

Cheaper than a large popcorn at the theater 😂

Right? Imagine if all of the money spent “building out” the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life…

Imagine like four or five of us sitting in the front row of a crowded theater, chowing down on rotisserie chickens with our bare hands.

In retrospect I feel so bad for the people sitting near us 😂

Heat gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QWu-7HddhM

In high school my one friend had a big trench coat, and we would use it to sneak rotisserie chickens into the movie theater.

Why do people drain the liquid? That’s free bean water!

Seriously, if you’re cooking the beans, leave the liquid in, cook until it boils off. Trust me dawg

And even then, the stores have always been selling rotisserie chickens at a loss to get people in the door.

https://www.seriouseats.com/why-rotisserie-chicken-is-so-cheap-11920596

A lot more frequently than I see private industry run something correctly/efficiently.

“The last capitalist will sell us the rope with which we hang him” ass energy

The current system has folks raising cap-ex by selling bits of control in their company, but this is a thread about how that system has failed to both expand capacity and increase the utility of reddit. So. IDK, they could raise money with bonds or grants or something. It doesn’t really matter too much because the current system simply doesn’t work in practice either.