Yes, let’s cover the planet in walkable cities and industrial farms. It’s totally cool because there’s no cars.

Frick.

Humans cannot eat without destroying nature.

Humans cannot have homes and clothes without destroying nature.

Dude, tomorrow’s Saturday

Humans can destroy beautiful wild lands without the help of cars.

No, it’s definitely humans. If humans lived in the top picture there would be no trees and I’d get arrested for being naked in the snow.

I’ve had plenty of winters like the top picture. Your mistake is living near humans.

Behold the violence inherent to the system

California über alles

If you can find it the Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day show from 2024 was amazing. Billy Bragg played and Woody Guthrie’s daughter came on stage.

Best concert I’ve moshed alone to in my living room since 2020

To hide the leaks in the tank they painted it brown to match the molasses.

Agriculture was a trap

Privacy doesn’t exist on corporate networks, so they don’t. However, the early thin clients had local servers. I don’t know how the very largest companies would feel about giving Amazon that much power.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even on WiFi with other peoples streaming it’s good enough to play games like Minecraft and Subnautica, but since I mainly play boring stuff like KSP or Civ latency isn’t much of an issue.

What I won’t do is tell you who my provider is because they’re already having problems at peak times and I don’t want to make it worse.

I already sort of do this with my gaming machine. It lives on a cloud host and I connect with a client.

It’s cheaper and more convenient than buying a new PC - especially since I’ve got three gamers in my house - and offloading graphics means I can get better battery life when playing on my laptop in my hammock.

However, if you’re more than a couple hundred miles from the data center or there’s network problems you won’t be having much fun. That’s the only reason I’d want an actual gaming machine, and even then I’d play via remote desktop from my hammock.

From an IT operations perspective this makes so much sense they’ve already tried it before. They were called “thin clients” and just had enough compute and network to connect to run remote desktop software.

This greatly reduces the amount of spending you need to build out a large corporate network, and centralizes management just like they already do for servers with stuff like VMWare.

Sweet! Four day weekend!

Nearing 500 years at this point

Remember who you are, American

Ugh don’t remind me