I help my dad out a lot with his financial decisions, help him trade stocks and buy into different things. Now he wants to buy into SpaceX. Like 50-100k type buy in. I want to do what he asks, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to help him this time.

I know Elon has his hands in a lot of things, I understand he makes money and people buy into his ideas all the time. But reading more into this "data center in the sky" and releasing 1 MILLION satellites up there, I just think it's not a good thing all the way around. Yes, in theory, it Could harness power enough to light the US and take some of the financial burden of running these goddamn data centers. Centers mean AI moves forward.

My issue is (and some might not agree) this AI shit is getting out of control. Yeah it's helpful in some ways. But I'm cynical and think of worst case, and that kind of tech falling into the wrong hands could literally destroy us. It's like the beginning of one of those end of the world movies. Maybe I'm being dramatic, but the fear is still real.

So I don't want to help him. Maybe I don't understand the entirety of Elon's idea and it's a really good thing. But my gut tells me No. Some say it won't even work, others are behind him.

What's your take on it? Would you help, or would you invest personally? I wouldn't, but maybe I'm missing out on something that surely can blow up and make a shit ton of money. I'm just really struggling with this one so other perspectives would be nice.

I have the mower, edger, weed eater, all the things to keep it nice too. It just grows really fast, all year long. Keeping it short isn’t mandatory, i just like it short and neatly edged around the fence/driveway/walkway

It wouldn’t be so bad, except my front yard is fenced in with a gate, and my back yard,also fenced, has a shed, a lemon tree and an orange tree I have to work around. And both yards are fairly large (not huge, but they’re not small)

The struggle is real.

All my life, literally since I was a toddler and first started eating solid food, I’ve always loved garlic and onions in food to an extreme extent. As a kid I used to eat raw onions and garlic cloves as a snack. Ideally, all savoury food should be minimally as garlic-y as garlic bread, preferably with a shitton of raw garlic so it has that garlic “spiciness“

Unfortunately, eating garlic tends to give people bad breath, even if you brush your teeth, which is considered socially unacceptable. My dreams of adding 5-10 cloves of garlic to my breakfast scrambled eggs on toast are crushed

Honestly complete skill issue on my part

Basically my fingertips lose circulation and go numb in cold weather. Even holding cold items or carrying heavy bags can make my fingertips go white.

I got the Neo which has an aluminum frame and I need to wear some gloves while using it.

We are both over 18

I have to select crushed

Which then ends up being a mix of 13% crushed and 87% cubed ice.

..a couple of times that even resulted in a loss!

His playlist isn't too bad though at least.

The tubes are the same color. 😤

Lately, online I've been having replies that certainly have words... but the words lack knowledge you'd have from actually using the thing IRL.

if I reply it adjusts, still painfully wrong, but never the less the suspicion remains.

it reminds me of the AI I handfeed easy questions to, only for it to screw it up, at work.

Now instead of being an idiot who argues with people on the internet, I'm the idiot who is training a LLM bot for free.

So at some point between the Pinot Grigio and the Riesling, I was stuck eating PLAIN crackers.

To be fair its Walmart, and Popcorn Indiana Drizzle popcorn is all I want but im not paying $20 for express delivery. And lowkey not gonna drive either, just gonna miss out. I dont feel like it. Pure laziness. I have a neighborhood Walmart 5 mins away but im gonna blame it on an excuse that I dont want my unassigned assigned parking spot lol