A future that never was.

I work for a company in the AI industry. All staff gets endless emailed business propositions for short term “consulting” work or paid “surveys”. It’s so transparent.

• Make a brokerage account.
• Deposit $1,000,000 (or more).
• Purchase a balance of stock and bond funds.
• Profit.

The important thing is “adequately”. Sometimes the reality can make it improbable.

That this doesn’t happen is proof that we never invent time travel.

“I am ignorant and combative. Debate me.”

This is a plot point in Neuromancer. The AI recruits the Rastafarians by playing a “righteous dub”.

Very nice. Unfortunately completely illegal in NY. Thanks for the info, though.

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

This American Life did a full episode on this.

https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan

And the scars from the ones we lost to AIDS are old enough to forget about for a few days at a time.

FTL travel implies a mastery over spacetime itself. After that, a practical time machine is a matter of engineering details.

We can be sure that we never get there because we are not flooded with tourists from the future. QED.

Not gramps yet. My kid is just 16.

I’m on a max dosage of clonidine for HBP. I didn’t know it had other effects. It does explain a bit. Thanks for the info.

I’m 62 and had to be advised to get a few fit young people to assist with moving a piano.

As someone over 60: you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Fair. But weighing malice against incompetence seems risky these days with malice ascendent.

I agree. But the line can be difficult to see. Pulling together should be on the lookout for excluding others.

I am terrified that all organizations like this are likely to be raided at some point. Then every known member will be rounded up for blacklisting, “reeducation”, or disappearing.

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the (fill in the blank) party?”