🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

The boltzman brain idea had me realize something important... in any infinite universe where life is possible, however unlikely, **must** have life in it.

Add in limitations on light speed and if that life is sufficiently rare than all instances of life would be unable to observe any other instance of life.

@lonelyowl

It yused to. It isnt up right now because i have not had time to repair the database.

In fact, I was the first one to implement groups on the fedi (and quite a few other features :))

@ClaraListensprechen4

Right we are talking 1950s 60s and 70s. It was at its height in the early 1960s

That aside, even if you compare to a brick and mortar, a modern day thermostat has more wealth in it than an entire 1950s home.

@lovelylovely @dbc3

@lovelylovely

They were called prefab homes. Fully made at a factory and just moved in place and plopped down. Very cheap, popular from the early 1960s onward, and fell apart very easily.

https://builtprefab.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/prefab-housing-estate-post-wwii-600x338.jpg

@ClaraListensprechen4 @dbc3

@lovelylovely

People also bought much smaller and cheaper homes for a period there. The whole "pre-built" home craze was around that time and they didnt quite last sadly.

@ClaraListensprechen4 @dbc3

@lonelyowl

I have done a fuck ton of open source stuff, but only a small fraction directly makes me money.

You can see the full list of my projects on my front page: https://JeffreyFreeman.me

That said I've probably done as much work or more that is proprietary, probably more. I dont feel bad, I feel there should be a mix of both in the world.

Even now as I am spinning up my new company (we recently got funding) I am trying to decide the balance between the two.

All of my most prolific chance encounters have been with old dudes alone by a lake peeling an apple.

One such incident I recall and I still use his knowledge to this day. Never dont not listen to an old dude in the woods, they are wise as fuck :)

@lonelyowl While alot of my tech is open source sadly this one is not. Otherwise id love it!

One of the algorithms I invented for my company is called GANDALF (its an acronym).. but for copyright reasons we decided to name our mascot "Gandalfo the off-white wizard".... someone asked me if he has magical powers, I said "Just one, the power to avoid copyright laws"

Oh the irony... apparently on rosa parks day buses reserved a seat in the front of buses that no one was allowed to sit in....

This resulted in blacks being forced to sit in the back of the bus due to lack of the normal seating in the front...

Points for effort I guess.

Am I the only one who does this...

I keep a mental list of two groups of people.

1) People who have been good to me

2) People I have wronged or hurt that I dont talk to anymore that I feel a owe a debt to.

When I have the oppertunity I try to give back to these groups when I am fortunate. #2 is a very very short list but always on the back of my mind.

Just a reminder, if a light is bright enough it will cause you to explode.. though it takes the light of a nuclear blast to do it :)

For years scientists couldnt figure out why things they painted black near a nuclear blast would blow up before the explosion reached it. It was refereed to as the "rope trick" because it was first observed from dark colored ropes spontaneously exploding in the light of the explosion.

@georgetakei

Lets face it, obamacare was a disaster,, but it intended to fix a real problem... Sadly I am not sure the Donald has the competence to fix it though.

Interesting fact of the day: Pandora's box was neither a box nor did it leave "hope" instead.

These elements were mistranslated. It was a jar, not a box. And instead of hope it contained "inaccurate expectations" after it was closed/

@paul

Dude what is seriously wrong with you.... **you** mentioned wealth tax first. Here is what you said, and that I was responding to.

> Rich people are upset they are getting taxed. They are also afraid of a future wealth tax and want to kneecap the potential now.

The fact that you can use a word, not understand what it means, and then argue the word was never said is astonishing to say the least.

Remember, the early bird might get the worm, but the early worm gets eaten... stay safe, stay in bed!

@georgetakei If it were good maybe... its not even good...

@paul

> It's not taxed over and over again.
>
> New unearned money is new money that has never been taxed.

Then you never bothered to understand what this post is about. Wealth tax is tax on existing already taxed money, it is distinctly different from income tax (which is a one-time tax).