Is reserved for approximately 8,000 people worldwide out of 8 billion. This creates a lot of bizarre situations like the problem you're describing.

So basically we need lots of young people to work and drive the economy forward and generate economic activity in order to support the old people in their old age when they're physically incapable of work.

Basically line must go up. The economy has to grow because if it stops growing the people at the top take it out on us and we enter a permanent depression. It's like how you are running from the dragon hoping he eats The Hobbit. That's our economy.

On the other hand AI is taking jobs needed to make the whole system function. We need people to be working but we also need them to be constantly exchanging the value of their labor again in order to keep the economy driving forward and functional.

As the population of young people drops and there is less economic activity you will also have Ward drop offs in the number of available jobs due to automation. The entire economic system we have built will break down and we do not have any replacement for it.

Meanwhile we still have to take 70% of everything we do and use it to satisfy every single conceivable whim of those 8,000 people because they earned it and because clearly God wants them to have all that money and power or he wouldn't have given them all that money and power.

Also if you take away Elon musk's billions leaving him with only tens of millions then the next step is somebody's going to break into your house and steal your toothbrush in your car and probably fuck your wife. That's just logic.

Basically the systems we put in place are not capable of addressing either of the two problems you're describing and the two problems you're describing are going to put different pressures in different places on the system we live in. And we are not capable of reforming or changing that system because we are a nation of 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds don't like change.

If this stupid-ass AI bubble makes governments rush to add lots of nuclear power capacity which will soon have no AI data center to feed, maybe something good could accidentally come from it?

It's too expensive now! :P

M-Disc is built with the intention of lasting a thousand years. The data layer is a stone-like material.

I keep hearing that people are abandoning Plex but some people are clearly leaving themselves vulnerable to future Plex-user pratfalls because this stuff keeps happening.

All it's going to take is a subpoena and that's that. Writing reviews can be dangerous because businesses will cheerfully sue you if you write a bad review. Free speech is nice and all but you're still going to spend thousands of dollars depending yourself in court.

Everyone is. The economy is collapsing exactly as anyone with half a brain would have predicted when we put Trump in charge. Which is why Trump is hiding all of the reports showing how bad the economy is.

America is a failed state. When your leadership starts to hide report data that's when you know it's over.

We normally get 8 years of Democrats fixing the disasters caused by republicans. We never fully recover and the voters inevitably blamed the Democrats for that and go back to the Republicans because voters are dumb. But we usually get 8 years of relative stability with a little bit of Republican sabotage after the midterms and we didn't get that this time. Like absolutely everyone who isn't either an idiot or a paid shill predicted it's an absolute disaster.

I think one of the major problems is we have too many retirees who are completely insulated from the economy and who really do not give a fuck about their kids and grandkids. The kind that find Fox News entertaining for reasons that I do not fully comprehend. Like the kind of twerp that voted for brexit in the uk. People that can set fire to the whole world and get away with it. Probably anyway.

If you're under 65 though I don't think you're going to get away with it. The damage is too extreme and too fast. We are so fucked and the worst thing is is I don't think anyone has learned any lessons from this.

The internet is filled with idiots who have lost their livelihoods because of Trump's idiot policies and asserting that they will vote for him again given the chance. I do not know what you do with people like that but I know there are a bunch of them here and they like to keep their mouths shut when they're not in safe spaces.

Normally SSDs do data cleanup utilities when idle so simply having it powered on would do the job. But if you want to do this as periodic maintenance then use the time to do something useful, run an extended SMART diagnostics. It's guaranteed to touch the entire drive and spit out a nice report at the end of it.

Seriously? Why not run extended SMART tests? It cycles through all the active areas *AND* gets and stores valuable diagnostic information and spits out a lovely report at the end of it.

Your comment sounds like the kind of person who threw away the manual to their car and simply changes oil every 6 months hoping for the best.

Yes and no. The concept of urban sprawl means eventually cities tend to grow into areas such as this due to no voluntary choice of anyone. In many cities (especially mega cities) there is no simple availability of housing that makes the choice completely optional. If it were no one would move their in the first place. In some cases the choice is made for you. I'm reminded of one municipality in Germany building social housing units within the blast radius of ammonia tanks on one of our facilities. The people who are queuing in line for a place to live aren't going to turn down a roof over their heads just because the government fucked up royally during the planning.

There's a term called environmental poverty and it is highly correlated with actual poverty. No one likes living in places like this. No one does so voluntarily. Claiming someone can move out if they aren't happy is an astounding display of privilege fuelled ignorance.

Boundaries aren't arbitrary. The population is defined as the "City Proper". The official boundary of Tokyo ends where the next municipality (prefecture) starts, and has for eons been the boundary of the 23 wards of the old city, and that has a population of 14million. I'm not sure if you've ever seen any government ever, but they don't take kindly to the neighbouring one suddenly reclassifying an area as theirs so these are clearly defined (people know who sends them a bill for taxes).

Maybe you're confusing the words "greater area" which is a non-official designation that usually includes connected surrounding municipalities and in some cases conurbations from a whole extra city. The only time "Tokyo" has ever had a population above 14million is when talking about "The Greater Tokyo Area" which in Japan is the region of Kant and includes 6 other prefectures, Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tochigi which all have their own governments and their own official populations.

No, these boundaries are not arbitrarily redrawn. Redrawing city boundaries takes a lot of effort from official acts of government, yes even in the 3rd world. - Again people tend to know when someone different comes asking for money claiming "you are mine now". It is public and doesn't happen very often.

Well that's a scary thought in a world where people have to sell their labor to survive...I hope you're wrong but I fear you may not be.

Nurburgring records are separated into production and non/production vehicles. The car in question is currently ranked 3rd in the *OFFICIAL* lap records. And the only reason it's listed in a non-street legal is that this model was a prototype and hasn't been released for production *yet*. Unlike the other cars that beat it, the SU7 actually looks like car that you see on the road... because it will be and it's built in the body of one that already is.

I drive a Chinese EV (Polestar). Several of my friends own BYDs, and one owns a Geely. Many of my workmates drive Volvo EVs. I see nothing that doesn't put them right up along side and in many cases outclass any European / American cars. Both in build quality, fit and finish, and safety features.

I happily bitch about anything. Renault is on my shitlist. Mazda as well (some truly dumb UI decisions in its car). Ford, Chevy, Opel (GM), the cheaper VWs, they all feel like they are made in China, unlike the Chinese cars I've driven which feel very much like they aren't.

I'd happily pick a Chinese car again based on my personal experience. I was apprehensive until I drove a few of them. I was expecting what you get from Temu electronics but for the most part the cars feel good, responsive to input, stable, gutsy, my own car has Google Built-in so an actually competent dashboard UI (unlike Audi who need to take their programmers behind the barn and put them out of their misery), and surprisingly of all ... the buttons feel solidly clicky. Like far better than some European cars.

Plenty of people talk about them. Do they meet US safety standards? Fucking please, that's child's play. BYD Seal has a 5 star European NCAP and ASEAN NCAP. In several categories it beats a Tesla Model S.

What is most laughable about your comment is that Geely own Volvo, widely considered the most safety conscious car brand on the market. And since purchase by Geely Volvo hasn't remotely slipped in the safety department, still making some of the safest cars on the road today.

Yeah sorry but you're full of shit. There's nothing "egg shell" about them. They are heavy and chunky cars, even the smaller Atto is a massive beast compared to many other cars in its class (5 star safety rating by the way). Are you comparing them to a Cybertruck instead of a normal car?

You want to see it? Look it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... there's the video, one showing a crash or BYD's smallest car to a front driver half impact (one of the worst case scenarios for head on collision, that would leave the driver walking away and calling his own pickup truck. A fuckton better than many cars on the market.