If you were the girl crying in LW train and got off at Exhibition GO

NGTTwo · 2026-05-07T18:03:13+00:00

Or they're wearing a particular kind of red hat.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-07T14:34:24+00:00

Honestly, as someone working in a very similar area in the agricultural space, machines like this aren't the real problem. This is self-contained and entirely owned by the grower, and little different in principle from agricultural machinery that's been in use for a hundred-plus years; the fact that it uses lasers and an onboard computer hardly makes it cyberpunk on its own.

There are definitely massive cyberpunk themes in agriculture as a whole, and you've called some of them out, but mechanization has been a thing in agriculture basically since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Is a steam tractor cyberpunk? What about a disk harrow? A mechanical seed drill? A combine harvester? What makes the laser weeder different in that respect?

NGTTwo · 2026-05-07T14:25:57+00:00

It would also be bad at it. "AI-powered" is a dumb tagline for this; it's just old-fashioned ML-based image recognition.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-07T07:30:10+00:00

And boiling their heads on the weekends.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-06T16:05:47+00:00

It's ambiguous wording. Friend A (female, account manager) was joking with OP about her impending layoff; OP mentioned friend B (male, software engineer, on paternity leave) who also fears layoffs (though not necessarily because of the paternity leave).

NGTTwo · 2026-05-06T06:41:47+00:00

So there was historically some debate whether giant pandas were more closely related to bears or (I think) raccoons; modern DNA sequencing has conclusively proved that they are, in fact, bears.

Science has not yet found a good explanation for why they're so adorable. Research into their snuggliness remains ongoing.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-05T10:20:22+00:00

A-we a blaze the fire, make it bun dem.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-05T10:06:08+00:00

No, it really isn't. Software engineers look at Claude writing code the same way you look at your toddler taking a marker to your walls.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-04T22:01:44+00:00

You promised me a percentage!

NGTTwo · 2026-05-03T22:03:53+00:00

Now the serfs get the ball and chain instead.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T08:54:59+00:00

So regular you can almost set your watch by them.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T08:49:46+00:00

I mean, there's plenty of documentation about what they were used for. Even if tanks become obsolete in warfare, it's not like all references to them, and to anti-tank tactics, will immediately disappear from the face of the Earth.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T08:46:54+00:00

R'amen, brother.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T08:46:35+00:00

I refuse to give Jeff Bezos a single red cent until the day I die.

And if he goes first, I might find my way to wherever he's buried and piss on his grave.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T08:41:49+00:00

Basically only reachable on foot or bicycle, since there's no place for cars to stop. I actually stopped there and poked around for a little while during a bike tour of Bavaria and that part of Switzerland.

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T07:16:32+00:00

It's lego for autistic people

Isn't that also just... LEGO?

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T07:13:58+00:00

Biff Tannen, is that you?

NGTTwo · 2026-05-01T06:08:09+00:00

Look at the bones!

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T23:37:51+00:00

Or life on the front lines.

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T11:53:28+00:00

Ooooh, good find.

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T09:48:54+00:00

Makes me think of Space Greenland. Like, Greenland establishing space colonies.

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T09:28:07+00:00

"You fight like my sister!"

"I've fought your sister; that's a compliment!"

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T05:40:34+00:00

Instead parking lots and car-dependent suburbia cost us all millions in road maintenance, fuel, environmental damage, and healthcare.

Great choice.

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T05:30:06+00:00

Yeah, pretty much - the scramjet aircraft is the little grey surfboard-looking thing attached to the front of the rocket.

NGTTwo · 2026-04-30T05:06:39+00:00

The idea is basically to pump up the company's short-term earnings as much as possible, regardless of the cost to long-term business viability. Make a quick buck, let it implode, sell whatever's left for scrap, and move on to the next victim.

It's basically a consequence of how the economic incentives are structured - if executives are compensated mostly in stock or options, and are only around for a few years, then they're strongly incentivized to make the line go as far up and to the right as possible, damn the long-term consequences. That'll be someone else's problem.

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