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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • VHS is cool to have on the shelf if you’ve got space, but unless it’s a modern reproduction, the tape is very much going to be turning to dust over the next decade or so.

    DVDs/Blu-rays should have a good few decades left on them unless they were super low budget (i.e. basically on recordable media rather than properly pressed)







  • But…the vast majority of corporate decision making for the last ten years is solid evidence that they are 100% high on their own farts.

    Completely agree, but in the gap left by “vast majority”, these guys don’t seem to be behaving entirely like your conventional consumer squeezing companies, they seem to be playing a much more collusive game at the very least

    But it’s all already not worth the money invested

    That’s the flaw in the common view of this. You’re looking too short term. The second someone can offer to replace a business owners employees for half price, it’s basically infinite money.

    That is what they’re pouring all the money in for: a chance at that prize. A chance at replacing all paid work with an automation they own.




  • I’m answering the question of what the arms race is

    The goal is a technology that replaces the need for humans in any job.

    The FOMO is different now because they don’t give a shit about the consumer. The FOMO is versus the other competitors because it’s a winner takes all scenario.

    They will keep accelerating to the detriment of literally everything else.

    Whether you believe they’ll make it is almost moot. They’re going to burn the world down trying.