[2022] Tweets by Orteil42 on 09 Feb

remembering some years back being optimistic about cryptocurrencies and how they could change the world then learning about their inefficiency by design and how it'd only get worse and nervously thinking ohhh... this isn't very good at all haha

this combined with the realization that rather than empowering people internationally outside of the banking system they mostly just coalesced into a big stupid speculation playground ie. Wall Street 2: Now Even Less Ethical Somehow

i think that was around the same time Elon Musk had that awful meltdown about the submarine and got visibly worse from there and we collectively realized oh maybe there's no miracle magic tech coming our way for a while. maybe we're on our own

i used to be so sincerely hyped for self-driving cars now i just want more public transports funding

(gamer having a bad breakup) *sniffling* relationships should have new game+

i'm an idiot. that's marriage. i'm a bona fide imbecile