The US supposedly has all this massive oil production and refining capacity, not to mention a huge supply of ethanol. I guess we are really testing the self-sufficiency theory.
I am personally looking at home battery storage and solar, to charge existing EV. Seems like the break even point on such a setup might be shifting closer and closer.
But if we are to uncritically believe what the AI peddlers told us, that means this mystery company should be reaping $10 billion in additional revenue or quantifiable gains in productivity!
Someone tell my Midwestern grandparents their ship has finally come in. They had a backyard the size of a postage stamp and somehow produced bushels and bushels of tomatoes each year. They could probably singlehandedly close the supply gap especially if you settle for what they canned.
I actually live near one of the sites. Even a year ago or whenever the tickets and matchups were announced, it seemed all the tickets were unobtainium. Saw insane prices for random matchups.
I would’ve liked to participate in the spectacle but I didn’t want to spend thousands for me and a friend to go see Eritrea v. New Guinea or some such other prelim matchup I had no interest in.
So then I got to thinking, how many people (genuine fans) from some of these countries are actually able to travel to North America paying peak travel and accommodation costs in addition to the match ticket cost? It must be the 1% of the 1% of many fanbases.
Now to fuck up their plan by training their AI on "House of Leaves*.
“Not fair to those who buy physical software”
What was the most recent fucking calendar year when somebody walked into a CompUSA and bought physical boxed software??
I think I bought Half-Life 2 in box on launch day. So… 2004.
Well the murder weapon was literally a kirpan, so I guess that could be relevant.