Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (of SMBC, Soonish and other fame) wrote about this topic in their recent book A City On Mars (and have we really thought this through?). There’s a non-zero chance that there will hot wars on earth over utterly useless land and resources in space that we either have no chance of using or no need to monopolize.
artifex
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Duh. The bears live in bear land (arctic as in arctus as in bear). Penguins thus literally live in no bear land (ant-arctic).
The term "artifex" itself is from a book called Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson (it's set in the same universe as his Snow Crash, which is where the word metaverse is from). In the story it's a kind of honorific/title used to denote someone who has honed their craft and created something really exceptional. I, sadly, have not done that yet, but I am a compulsive maker of things (some of which are kinda ok). I'm currently a manager of people who make things at a software company. As for the logo, I just thought it looked cool, it was a 2-min photoshop job :) (my first few jobs was as an artist/graphic artist).
Every “note” paper of mine is maybe 15% notes, 85% doodles. Has been they way since the 2nd grade, many decades ago.
Check out the upcoming Slate electric trucks. They have no modem and use your phone to do (optional) software OTAs.
Man these political compass charts get weirder and weirder.
I may have to make this my bio.
I never check for boobs before squashing them. They all must die.
Wicked awesome
There will be a follow up bill called Act to Mandate Aggressive Zero-Exception Bans on Anonymous Login & Secure Networks that makes VPNs, TOR, etc illegal. I think they’re working on it in the UK already.