All our political parties still cater to Capitalism, so although two of them lean socially left they are at best Neo-Liberals.

Most of the people I know use the Facebook Purity Chrome extension that already removes all of the crap the algorithm tries to spew at us, and if we want to share some news (that is probably behind a paywall half the time anyway) we simply cut and paste the text that we found to be interesting and then add our own commentary below it. You don't need to be able to share links to news to share news , you just share the news and your take on it and if people you know want to know more they can Google it.

Once someone has gotten to the 10 year point of a continual daily use meth habit they are probably past 'curable'.

I literally see this every day, I clean the washrooms and the park for a community centre that draws in meth and opiate addicts because of its 'harm reduction program'.

We have people that I saw for the first time 10 years ago when they came to the park for their second taste after trying it at a party, and a decade later they are literally still here, sleeping on the ground and subsisting on granola bars and donated juice boxes because they use all the money they earn through theft, begging, and prostitution to buy their next fix.

Crystal Meth psychosis has fried them so badly that they spend most of their time talking to their memories, reliving trauma through hallucinations, and literally fighting with other homeless addicts over points of 'respect' to the point of stabbing and shooting each other.

It should be an option, not one offered , but available for those that seek it out.

We are at the year 1890 with automotive analogy to AI stage of development-
            our processes for the things AI is about to take over are still ruts for wood wheels.....

Stealing this to use in arguments

This is why I'm glad that I'm the janitor in an 130 year old building. It would be very very difficult for them to program a robot to deal with all the minutiae and variables that I have to deal with in the course of my day when trying to do such a simple job as cleaning a floor or walls or washrooms. When we get into refurbishment maintenance and restoration of old wood stairs floors trim and paneling the Manpower that would have to go into tweaking the code of any device that they tried to get do it would be unprofitable, and seeing how the building that I work in is owned and operated by a non-profit I think I'm pretty safe

I believe this is the first time I have gotten a response from rsilvergun, from the way most people respond to the posts that you make this is an honor apparently equivalent to getting f***** in the ass at a Truck Stop bathroom when you didn't want to; but I agree with everything you just said. I'm a far left authoritarian communist, I will get in line for my rifle when the revolution comes to tear down the capitalist establishment and send all of the f****** that knowingly exploited the people and the environment for Generations to get theirs at the expense of everybody else. I honestly think that most people are too stupid to govern, including myself, so we should have panels of Industry and topical experts chosen by people that work in those fields to argue with each other until they come to a compromise that nobody is entirely happy with but is obviously to the benefit to the most people and the environment for all decisions regarding resource extraction, processing, manufacturing, distribution.

Sigh. I agree with you.

I agree. The administrators, managers, analysts, etc. - the people that sit and twiddle a keyboard to process information are going to be hit pretty hard by this because there is literally no way to justify paying a human being to do an inferior job in non-creative professions.

purchase anything made by an AI or AI controlled automation unless it is a medical development required for life saving / quality of life.

No AI movies, TV, books, music, etc.. Refuse to patronize entertainments that are not created by human minds and hands. Encourage creation of arts that are analogue, require manual dexterity, and the acquisition of practiced skills to create. Celebrate those that shoot to, edit, and release films using only practical effects and living performers acting out scripts written by living people. Promote musicians that can play their music live on actual instruments, Buy books written only by people, surf sites hosting only content made by a person.

Stop purchasing clothing or finished good made via automation and instead spend a little more to go to an actual local tailor or craftsperson to have quality goods made bespoke.

This may help to mitigate AIs crowding out artists of all stripes and people that want to make a living making things.

The inexorable decline of deskbound bureaucracy, marketing, and middle-management busy-worker keyboard twiddlers I have no idea how to mitigate.

Vote with your money and attention.

Cory Doctorow covered this in his book 'Little Brother' https://www.gutenberg.org/eboo...

I started getting them a couple of days ago; youtube videos would not load as long as my adblockers where active.
On top of that every single video gets cut into segments interrupted by commercials.
I only watch youtube when my kid wants to share something with me, or the occasional linked video from a post or friend so I really don't care all that much; but for people that spend hours watching youtube videos it must be infuriating.

So you've had 54 phones since I got the Samsung Galaxy A5 I use that I bought in 2014?
Or are you just being hyperbolic?

in regards to convenience and connectivity.

If you choose to live too far away from the urban centres you give up conveniences in exchange for solitude and natural surroundings.

I've had this album in my collection for at least a decade, it's an absolutely phenomenal piece of work. When I initially got it and the Wub Machine was online I ran the entire album through it and it sits in a subfolder of the album folder and occasionally on shuffle I get either an original or a dubstep version coming out of my phone.

That is the real question. If they are riding long distances without a patch kit or spare then they are risking a long walk home no matter how dependable their Kevlar tire is.

Once these come down to $200 Canadian a set I'm probably going to get a pair, right now they are in early adopter pricing and the economy of scale for production has not kicked in.