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Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
This is hilarious and awesome.
Awesome because this has annoyed millions of peoples for years.
Hilarious because WHY DOES IT TAKE 5 SECONDS TO SHOW A MENU OF GAMES?!
Steam takes 10 SECONDS?!
Do you realize how much time that is for a CPU with a modern internet connection? Am I crazy!? What am I missing?
We vibe coded the Epic Games Launcher to be faster than the other guy.
Don't believe us? Test it out for yourself in Preview:
launcher.epicgames.com
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
I sat my 7-year-old down and explained to him that dying industries (legacy media, academia, DNC politics) ride algorithmically driven cultural hysterias both because it’s the only way they can stay relevant and because their business models demand it.
He looked up at me and with a tear in his eyes asked, ‘so, for the sake of the journos, the assistant professors, and Dem Politics Inc, we’re obligated to attest to the moral urgency of the hysteria and act completely emotionally dysregulated?’
‘Yes,’ I answered him. ‘Yes, that’s right.’
And then we both sat quietly.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
There is a cohort of people who love play "Chicken Little". They are typically associated with the left, and their goal is the acquisition of power.
They screamed "No Nukes" when nuclear power was the safest form of power generation ever created. They managed to delay the use of Nuclear power for decades. Now, of course, we really need it.
They screamed "Climate, Climate, Climate" and manage to increase the price of fossil fuels. They seemed oblivious to the fact that those Nukes they blocked would have prevented a lot of CO2 from being dumped into the air.
Now they are screaming "AI will kill us all". And they are having the same effect. They will impede the progress on the one thing that could help us solve all those other problems.
Why? Because they want the power that breeding fear in others gives them.
Should we be cautious with Nukes? Sure. Should we be cautious with the climate? Sure. Should we be cautious with AI? Sure.
But we should not let fear dominate us -- that fear will be our undoing.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
SECRETARY RUBIO on AMERICA.GOV PASSPORTS: No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you're paying to do something that should be available to you.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
Bring back insane asylums, workhouses, and vagrancy laws. There's nothing kind or compassionate about letting mentally-ill drug addicts roam the streets like 28 Days Later. And it makes for a terrible city experience for everyone else too.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
I have significantly more fear of the people promising safety from ASI than misaligned ASI.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
"Microsoft’s new data center in Wisconsin will use about only four Olympic swimming pools of water this year, half as much as a car wash. Golf courses use about 30 times more water than data centers." wsj.com/opinion/data-center-…
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
every data center story says it uses "as much power as 100,000 homes" like that's a scandal. an aluminum smelter pulls five times that and it's why airplanes are cheap. measuring industry in homes is how you train a country to believe building things is a crime
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
If Musk stops malaria aid, and people die of it, who killed them, in order of responsibility:
- Mosquitoes (obviously!)
- Their gov, unable to provide NHS
- Their families / employers/ etc, unable to provide meds for their close ones
- People living the other side of the world
I can’t believe this must be said, but here we are.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
I'm excited to see Bernie take advantage of Apple's greed by launching a better product at a better price.
Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.
These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Apple spent $89.3 billion on stock buybacks in fiscal 2025, not $310 billion. s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/file…
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
If a civilization cannot protect its children, history will soon appoint a harsher guardian.
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, the packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it anyway."
Aurimas Adomavicius retweeted
It would be delightful if you pulled an @elonmusk , bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review.