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2 months agoAnd your metaphor was a fun oversimplification.
And your metaphor was a fun oversimplification.
Desertification has increased
Local flora has decreased
Rabbit populations have octupled
Deer populations have doubled
almost like our property codes were written for an era that is more than a century gone
squatters rights take entirely too long to kick in these days
reminds me of Nixon getting blackout drunk and ordering nuclear strikes on Vietnam. Apparently the SS just ignored him whenever it happened.
I still think humanity should have just terraformed Mars or Venus on behalf of the trisolarans. That way, everyone has a stable orbit
All hardware becomes legacy hardware in time. Even if we assume they’re eventually able to deliver on all those great big shiny promises, I’d rather not have to schedule an outpatient surgery just to keep up on emails. Pocket touchscreens being practically mandatory is bad enough…