people who lived during those days must have thought at one point or another the war was inevitable... but they were wrong. This is perhaps why I am always a bit skeptical about inevitability arguements. 3/

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But this isn't applied equally. Take WWIII, or more specifically, the apocalyptic conflict between the US and USSR that was SUPPOSED to happen. Sure in hindsight we can recognize all the reasons it didn't happen, but the Cold War was just one long preparation for such a conflict. Certainly many 2/

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There is this tendency in alternate history to treat certain conflicts as inevitable. Take WWI: even if you have Franz Ferdinand survive, people will argue the war would still likely happen, pointing to all of the groups, events and other factors that show Europe was gearing up for war. 1/

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i don't think that anyone set out to make RAM the resource that "ai" hogs up but it sure serves their purposes that the thing those fucking companies are keeping anyone from accessing are also the first upgrade people usually make to desktop computers, the one that establishes your agency with them

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