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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • The premise is pretty silly and indicates the author doesn’t really understand the history of 40k’s lore. Between real chaos gods corrupting any civilization too psychically involved with the warp and civilizations entirely unable to be reasoned with like the Necron or Tyranids, the imperium of man’s fanatical xenophobic culture is pretty reasonable. The only civilization that could have perpetually positive relations with humanity, the Tau, are on a path towards artificial general intelligence which humanity fears could lead to another near-extinction of all life.

    The emperor didn’t even want to be worshipped. That only really became tolerated and encouraged after the horus heresy once he was locked away onto the golden throne, and then-fanatics had nobody to keep them in check as they pushed their own narrative.

    One could argue that humanity could welcome xenos into the empire while remaining at war with the other civilizations, but I tend to think they find it much safer to not take chances when other races have natural affinity to the warp and could be vectors of further chaos corruption leading to extinction.



  • I don’t think the new strategy of injecting ads directly into the video stream can be defeated in realtime though. It’s like how you cannot defeat tv ads…you can blank the screen, or record and restitch without the ads, but the content itself has the ad. YouTube is a bit different where you can theoretically skip ahead, but your device has to tell Youtube that it wants to skip ahead in order to actually even get the video content, and youtube can look at request timestamps to know you didn’t see the whole injected ad and just re-inject it in the video stream.


  • The free market currently says that a new home is worth X dollars because of what people are willing to pay vs. the labor going into it. Materials are cheap compared to the work. The rates laborers get paid stem from the free market equilibrium on that. Labor rates go up, house prices go up, home ownership goes down. Builders in the US get about 15% margin on building and selling new homes. You have maybe 10% of wiggle room before the profit in building homes is not worth the effort. So laborers could get paid…10% more at best before home prices go up. That’s not going to attract many more people to offset immigrant labor demand.