Maybe not direct miscommunication, but definitely a lack of context.

I got into a stupid game with my girlfriend texting back and forth quotes that start with “I am” like I’d send “I am Iron Man” and she’d respond “I am not a crook!”

After a while, I was running out of ideas, so I sent a quote from Pulp Fiction which I probably botched. Wasn’t sure if she had even seen it.

A few minutes later, my ex girlfriend calls and then hangs up when I answer. Thought that was weird.

Then I thought about how my ex and current girlfriend had the same first name.

I had just texted my ex who I hadn’t spoken to in two years “I AM THE LORD WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON YOU!”

I tried to explain the context. She was fairly understanding, but I was shoook after that experience.

Nah, we’ll go the '08 route and arrest a single brown person.

My point is …what was the plan before COVID? What did VR have to do with social networking?

People will do anything but seek out a therapist.

Bananas are a lot more affordable (for now).

Facebook bought Oculus in 2014.

There are no rat problems; only rat opportunities.

Just read the article.

They were at least in the same wheelhouse. Close enough to be seen as a threat to FB. Oculus was just a total shot in a new direction.

The tips of the turbine fan blades are going much faster than the plane itself.

The air leaving your lungs during a sneeze is moving roughly 100mph.

At the equator, everything is moving at over 1000mph.

Glass cracks propagate at an absurdly fast rate. Something like 4x the speed of sound (1400m/s). Not a physical thing moving, but very common.

Also need to specify rest mass. Light has momentum.

Can’t find any solid numbers on it, but the micromirrors on a DLP projector are really fast. They rotate 10 degrees or so back and forth something like 1024 times for each color channel for each frame at 60fps.

The crack of a whip is a sonic boom caused by the tip going supersonic.

I like to think of the average tech billionaire as Dustin Hoffman from Rain Man specifically in the Casino scene. He’s a savant at counting cards, and Tom Cruise’s character (the investors) see that and help him rack in a shitload of money at blackjack.

Then Hoffman’s character decides he wants to try a roulette-type game, a game for which savant-like card counting skills offer absolutely no advantage, and the investors, unable or unwilling to see how roulette is nothing like blackjack just blindly sign on and Tom Cruise quickly loses $3,000.

Why the fuck do we think the dweeb who made Facebook in college and hasn’t lived as a normal human for two decades would have any particular insight into how people would use VR?

The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk7eA4gVDno

Basically the entire US economy, every employer, many schools, and half of the commercials on TV are telling us to use and trust AI.

Kid was already using the bot for advice on homework and relationships (two things that people are fucking encouraged to do depending on who you ask). The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice. And if it’s even capable of doing that, we all need to take a huuuuuuge step back.

“I want to make sure so I don’t overdose,” Nelson explained in the chat logs viewed by the publication. “There isn’t much information online and I don’t want to accidentally take too much.”

Kid was curious and cautious, and AI gave him incorrect information and the confidence to act on that information.

He was 19. Cut this victim blaming bullshit. Being a kid is hard enough before technology went full cyberpunk.

Not where I was. Only ever saw square dancing in elementary school.

Normalize Worms 3D cursor!

I had to learn it in southern Virginia.

The same Virginia that at the time celebrated Lee Jackson King day.