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The pokedex says that Salamence has wings because of Bagon's dream to fly, which is obviously very simplified. The real reason is funnier.

Say you're an ancient bagon (more like a common ancestor, but for the sake of simplicity, bagon). You make your homes primarily in cliffs or canyons- places with large drops and which become easier to live in if you can fly. Bagon, when frustrated, smash their heads into rocks, and they developed pretty hard heads to deal with that. Now, you're a small reptile, and you have a lot of predators, the most dangerous being ground ones. What's an effective but dangerous way to escape them? Jumping off cliffs, of course! Yeah, it sucks, but your hard head protects you from any serious damage, and the predator is too stunned/confused to follow you. Realizing that this is an effective way to deal with predators or unwanted enemies, you continue doing this, even as a shelgon and as an ancient salamence (which didn't have wings, nor is its head as hard because they stop trying to smash rocks).

As an ancient salamence, your chances of survival are now lowered by your lack of a hard head head, but you still sometimes have to run from fights and jump of cliffs to escape enemies because that what you did as a bagon and a shelgon. Darwinian evolution notices this so, what does it do? It gives you wings for some reason instead of bringing back the hard head, so you can fly instead of smashing your skull against rocks!

(It's possible that they developed wings from repeated crossbreeding but shhhh. I like the previous phrasing better 🤫🤫🤫)

Tldr: Salamence have wings because their ancestors were stupid and kept jumping off cliffs.

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now that the world cup is out of the way can we focus on me instead

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tpwrtrmnky

Tbh I think the "but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI" talking point misses that like

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

That is the problem.

tpwrtrmnky

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

tpwrtrmnky

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life