They will have plenty of Saudi money to prevent that. Instead what you're going to see is more embrace, extend and extinguish.

You're going to get more buyouts and more small struggling studios snapped up and crushed.

Au contraire -- quite a few police have a well-known back door that you can exploit with nothing more than an envelope full of $100 bills.

You should learn a little bit about current politics. Our supreme Court overturned the decades-long president Roe v Wade citing a literal witchfinder general from the 1800s because they had absolutely no other case law to make it possible.

Our highest courts have been compromised and are now a fully owned subsidiary of the Republican party. They will rubber stamp using whatever bullshit they need to come up with

Let me guess you probably think America was founded as a Christian Nation or some bullshit?

We're going to have to hope this project pans out, I guess. I used to run Familiar linux with GPE (gnome-based) desktop on my HP Ipaq... H2215 I think? It had what was then the fastest mobile ARM processor, the Intel PXA255. Unfortunately it was power hungry so I had to have a big stupid battery.

ANYHOO they had phone versions of those PocketPC devices, and you could run Linux on those as well.

For the time being, I guess I'm stuck on Android. I have an app library there I'd rather not abandon, and I still want to be able to use the bank app.

This is silly. You can run whatever you want on a phone, and while more pixels and more real estate are better (he saw himself type on his 42.5" 4k TV) you can still do a lot with a small screen. Work is done with phones every day. It's of course absolutely true that most people are mostly consuming content with their phones rather than creating it, but that doesn't negate actual uses like CRM and data collection which are completely viable on a small-screen device.

Having all that processing power on the phone is mostly squandered, but it's handy for a lot of short-running, high-horsepower tasks. When was the last time you experienced a perceptible delay in loading an image that wasn't related to storage? And on the more expensive phones, even the storage is fairly snappy. I buy mostly cheap Motos and the storage is plodding on all of them, but I rarely do storage-limited tasks so it's only irritating when installing or updating apps.

Do you mean Palmtop PCs, or PDAs? Both have done a lot more jobs than that. I've known a lot of people who had sub-laptop PCs who did actual work with them. A friend of mine had a Dauphin 486 tablet-with-pen for example, and used it as his primary machine on the go. That had a kind of laughable form factor by today's standards, and it was amusing back then too to be honest since it was as thick as a GRiDPad 1910. Maybe thicker? Too lazy to look it up now, and I only have the gridpad so I can't just compare.

When I point out that AI is a fundamentally antisocial technology because of its excessive water and electric use while destroying jobs in a society where you don't work you don't eat inevitably a shitload of people come out of the woodwork to tell me I'm being a Luddite and then start using the good old buggy whip thought terminating cliche.

Then along comes crap like this to remind us that we are rapidly descending into a techno feudal post-capitalist hellscape.

The socialists and the Communists have always said capitalism what eventually fall to whatever their preferred system was.

But what if there's a third option? An option that doesn't include you and me? Where we are relegated to the kind of lives native Americans had on the worst of the reservations before the casinos?

There's about 2,000 people in America with virtually unlimited money and power working towards that goal and automated policing and military is a big part of that.

Hmm, that was supposed to be ejected, but you know, fucking Google. Autocorrect always picks the dumbest option.

They can, mining equipment can do that. And it's big enough too

Because he saw how much good it did for Bush Jr and he thinks that it can cinch his third term election. Honestly he's probably right.

Americans have very little understanding of politics. Last year right before the election the number one search on Google was "is Joe Biden running for president" . Biden had dropped out months ago...

I don't think the average American is going to understand just how bad a deal it's going to be when Trump runs for a third term. So it's not going to occur to them they shouldn't vote for trump. I mean for Christ's sake's Trump has 28 credible right accusations eight of which are against children. Americans are clearly not paying attention.

No. You can rip people off by making them work long hours for little or no pay. You can use work visa programs and steal people's passports so that you can force them to work your farm and that's okay. You can do tens of billions of dollars of wage theft and that's absolutely 110% okay.

But we get really uppity about these kind of minor little scams no matter who is doing them.

Pirates and emperors I guess. It's like how if a postal worker steals your mail we send the prison for 20 years but when a rich guy from Florida steals a few hundred million for Medicare you make him a senator.

The key is if you're going to rip people off you want to do it right in the middle, you want to do it in a complex way that people can't understand easily, you want to make sure along the way you are bribing people who can pardon you, and above all else you want to make sure you don't rip off any of the 2000 or so billionaires in the country

If you can manage all that then you are in like flynn. My advice would be to try and rip off the taxpayer. You can almost always get away with that as long as it's meeting the criteria above.

Is that I have come to realize they are preparing to destroy capitalism and replace it with a new kind of feudalism with themselves as the Kings.

Don't think any of us ever imagined capitalism falling to neo feudalism instead of something like socialism or something. Even most fascist regimes tended towards capitalism like China does. So the idea of the trade of goods and services for money with the goal of people obtaining and using capital fundamentally breaking down not from the bottom but from the top is something I don't think people can really wrap their heads around.

Heck I have a hard time doing it the sentence above is just terrible

That's too bad it had an absolutely amazing sound chip. There really wasn't anything else like it on the market for quite a while. Especially at that price point. I think it was one of the first wave table devices.

The problem here is that we are all being forced to compete with China in a global race to the bottom.

What if instead of that we focused on the health and well-being of American citizens?

I don't mean American first bullshit nationalism nonsense. We don't have to close our borders or anything like that to make things better.

The only thing I'm talking about is ending the race to the bottom we have been trapped in since Nixon opened up the globe and the factory automation got going in the '80s.

Every year there is less work thanks to automation and every year we have to work harder because we are literally competing for work at this point.

Switching to a single pair of healthcare system like watch France and Germany have would save us about half a trillion dollars a year. We could take those savings and use it to pay off our foreign debt in about 15 years.

But we don't want to do that because it would wreck the value of the us dollar. We want countries to hold a bunch of our debt because that artificially boosts the value of our currency which artificially lowers the cost of buying goods from other countries.

It would be one thing if we got a bunch of good middle class jobs by having those goods manufactured here but we automate it 80 or 90% of those jobs away over the last 45 years. So we don't get the jobs but we do get the pollution and the increased cost to electricity and water.

Manufacturing in America needs to be the really high-end stuff like expensive medical equipment or expensive machinery that requires a lot of skill to build so that you get at least a handful of high skilled jobs and a lot of profit from selling that machinery overseas.

There's no benefit to workers from having consumer goods manufactured in your country anymore. Stuff like coffee pots and TVs and whatnot are almost entirely built by machines except where slave labor exists.

I mean I guess there is one advantage. If you like the comforting knowledge that somebody is a slave and has it worse than you because you measure your quality of life based on how much worse everybody else has it then bring back manufacturing jobs by bringing back defacto slavery seems like a good idea. The same with bringing back child labor.

That's a uniquely unpleasant thought process of the extreme right wing that I understand intellectually but I find morally repugnant for what I wish was obvious reasons.

You mean we will be left in mass graves? They are absolutely not planning to give us any basic income.