mopbucket.bsky.social
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 11h
Like one thing we can do is "hold the copyright" on stuff we post and then somehow get a court somewhere to say that matters more than the technical details of how our stuff is accessed

No? Not going to happen, huh. Well it was a thought anyway
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12h
Like set 2020 to 100, what do the lines look like now?
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12h
No, it makes perfect sense, I just missed it

This type of chart is sensitive to where you decide to normalize you data to, though
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12h
Additionally, inflation should have increased the price from 13.5c/kwh in 2014 to 14.8 in 2020-- but instead it remained at 13.5, meaning that before COVID kicked off inflation, electricity prices were *decreasing* in real terms
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12h
13.5 cents/kwh in 2020 should be about 16.9 c/kwh in 2025 after inflation, but it's 19c/kwh -- i.e. inflation accounts for 63% of the price increase-- that leaves a lot unaccounted for.
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 12h
Where's the unit marking for electricity price on the Y axis?
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 13h
The project was founded in the Web3 swamp bubble and this tells us 1) it is doing remarkably well compared to other projects with similar ideals cooked up at the same time, i.e. it's not a smoldering ashheap of other people's money, yet, and 2) it will never, ever do what its leaders claim it will
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 14h
You ever feel like we're making every kind of crime legal just so we can find out what's wrong with crime from direct experience and make new laws based on that instead of lofty abstract principles from two thousand years ago
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 14h
Star Wars
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 14h
The correct answer has some generational variance but for mine it's sausage, onion, green pepper, and whole black olives
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 14h
I feel like we must credit drudge for this
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h
bsky.app
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h
Drum magazine, rail system, compressor... maybe an FN 303?
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h
"Colonialism" works pretty well, too
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 1d
This whole discourse went rancid days ago and needs to be tossed out but I do think it's notable that the AI boosters have shifted from triumphalism and "you don't get it, you're going to be left behind" to "stop saying nasty things about the computer, it is my friend, why are you so mean"
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 15h
Why doesn't my team have a mascot handled by Pinkertons
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 16h
How epic, now the Tesla model names spell out S3XYCybertruckY+3-/Y-
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 17h
Then the remaining value prop is us, of course. The old "you are the product, not customer" line
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 17h
How would a machine-generated statistical model be distinguishable from a candidate who just takes whatever positions the polls tell them are popular?

I call it, uh, the turding test? OK yeah I'll work on it
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 17h
Well, if they release the version that works then there's nothing to stop a company that actually wants a left-leaning userbase from setting up a server and siphoning away the only value prop Bsky would have left
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 17h
"local rogue mods" is shorthand for "decentralization does not solve moderation problems; in fact it exacerbates them"

Like if you're self-hosting then you're a mod now and you're in the soup with all the other federated mods, you didn't escape
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 18h
But what if instead of books people like we read Theory
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 18h
We've got a real Dumb Smart Guy opinion here, but then it's Stancil isn't it?
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 21h
You'd think it would take only one case of a parent sending their kid to a quack shrink to turn them *gay* for this to blow up on them, but I guess we'll find out eh
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 21h
Except Checker made a good and instantly recognizable car for a while there