Randomgal

Exactly. This is a silly conversation about HP. That's my point

Bro you're taking a children's book, made by an asshole, way too seriously.

Lmao you need more?

Your friends must love you lmao

See but that's my point. They are useless as far as we can tell in the present.

Maybe in 2 years we will regret not having mountains of recorded streams when we're training models for AI streamers. And so on and so forth.

You can also leave.

Don't spend yourself, you're talking to an obvious troll or a bot. Notice every single message is emotionally loaded and aggressive. They are not talking to you, they are baiting.

"cheap" is relative.

So fuck them, for something they had no control or voice over?

I think the point is that you can't know what you don't know. They weren't naive back then, they were ignorant and limited by the technology of the time.

We preserve stuff precisely because we don't know how it might be useful in the future.

We have a name for things we know for sure won't be useful in the future: Trash.

My hand and I are the same being, but when I go to the doctor, sometimes I'll have them look at my hand, sometimes at me as a whole.

Considering your answer to payments solution was "This is trivial.' it sounds like a) You've never run a business and b) you're more interested in fantasizing than a realistic conversation.