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"Monthly fuel expenses that historically averaged approximately $1,800 per cabin have recently reached an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia" That a cruise ship burns $6-$8K PER CABIN PER MONTH is insane. What an environmental disaster.

Fuel cost of a luxury cruise ship hits 8000 USD per cabin per month.

"The thread is mostly a support group for people feeling burned out, soulless, and reduced to being "organic vessels" or "meat proxies" whose only job is to press enter." - Classic

What is wild is comparing the distribution in some of these countries. Try Uganda: https://www.populationpyramid.net/uganda/2026/ vs Bulgaria: https://www.populationpyramid.net/bulgaria/2026/ or Japan: https://www.populationpyramid.net/japan/2026/ ... and you see why any remaining expansion in the human population will come from Africa. Israel is an interesting exception to the rule: https://www.populationpyramid.net/israel/2026/

Interesting. Yep, I guess the projections did not forecast a protracted military conflict. Although the dent in the population of Ukraine is telling.

Thanks for sharing.

In what way?

"AI writing often puts an "or" at the list of items " ? Give us an example.

Honestly, I wonder what the other 10% of folks are up to.

They are all "no profit" companies at this stage.

I agree that a system in which we reward one man for building a vast loss-making empire is fundamentally broken and will eventually need to correct course. Elon Musk is not the problem, the irrational valuations of his (and his team's) work are. This said, the article is not terribly articulate in it's arguments and clings to an anachronistic view of how capital markets currently allocate wealth (and I am deliberately avoiding saying "how capital markets work" because I can't see this model working too long past this current wave of massive hyped up IPOs). Also, just to throw spice into the conversation, I bought into the IPO and cashed out above $160. So thanks for that.

Your chance to make an early investment into the Empire before they build the Death Star, at $135 a share.

"That’s equivalent to an estimated total of more than 11,000 microplastic particles in each Danone Happy Baby Organics pouch, and more than 5,000 particles in each Nestlé Gerber Organics pouch." - Wow.

On that topic: this is both entertaining and scary, especially the bit that says they fast-tracked into the NASDAQ 100 so whether you like it or not you have to buy into Elon Musk's financial house of cards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI

Remind me to come check this tracker after the SpaceXAI IPO.

Ha ha.

At the moment, the economics of software are out of whack. It's not about agentic replacing traditional painstakingly coded applications, but more about the massive influx of capital, and the subsidies from the newcomers to try and gain ground and demonstrate aggressive growth. In the early 2000's, Facebook's growth was described as "selling dollar bills for 90 cents." That is where we are now. Nobody will know for sure where all this lands until companies have to demonstrate their worth through real profits and stable growth.

I recall running this on my TRS-80 back in the 80's - there is a web version available here: https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

"Among the biggest customers for car data are insurance companies, and they're using it to charge some people higher prices. But there's no telling where your information is going. Some car companies admit they sell your data, but they don't have to say who's buying. That's to say nothing of the fact that you might find it a little creepy. Most consumers, experts say, have no idea it's even happening."