My insurance keeps going up because private insurance in America has a monopoly on access to healthcare so they can charge whatever they want until the public gets so fed up they demand a single pair of healthcare system.

If things continue the way they're going with voter suppression and right wing extremists buying up the voting machine companies I don't think it'll matter anymore and then that will be the end of that. About 10% of the country will be allowed to have health care and odds are you won't be in it.

And the answer is 0.13%.

What? We're you expecting a different answer?

AI is designed to take shortcuts in order to improve performance. It's already been caught more than once for example appearing to find problems on an X-ray with a very high rate of success when in actuality it had just picked up on a simple pattern where for example something is dumb as a ruler was included on the X-rays that had the problems and wasn't included on an X-ray that didn't...

Not that any of us have any say in this whatsoever. AI bullshit is going to dominate everything whether we like it or not. Just like how the price of ram has increased by 5 to 10 times and we all just have to suck it down.

We have a very small window left to the side of we are going to live in a society where around 2,000 people get to decide how we live. And we need to decide if having the girl that hands us our coffee say Merry Christmas is worth giving up everything else to those 2,000 people.

Not being constitutional has never stopped Trump in the past why should it stop us?

I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution so many times it's going to take a full rewrites to get the shit stains out.

Assuming We don't have a third term of Trump. He might be too senile. Multiple doctors have mentioned that it's likely the bumps and bruises on his hands are from an IV drip for an Alzheimer's medication. And if he's that far along he's not going to make it to 2028.

He's trying to solve the affordability crisis he created.

To deal with the affordability crisis. It doesn't work because if you get hit in one of those by an American SUV you might as well have gotten hit on a motorcycle. Hell you might be better off getting hit on a motorcycle is a small chance you wouldn' Get thrown clear instead of grinded into paste

The other problem is they aren't fast enough for freeways. Even the ones that can hit freeway speeds can't accelerate quickly enough to safely merge.

And of course there are much lower profit so nobody is going to want to make them. If a competitor company started to make them then it would get bought out and shut down similar to how Microsoft buys out and shuts down anyone that threatens their windows or office Monopoly...

It's a completely unworkable solution to a problem Trump created himself.

Joe Biden was on track to do the kind of trust busting we needed to do in order to start getting prices down. He had already gotten inflation to around 2%. But Trump wanted 2 trillion and billionaire tax cuts and to get that he needed to raise taxes on you. So he did tariffs. Basically a national sales tax so he could pick your pocket and put the money in his pocket and the pockets of his billionaire buddies who bankrolled his campaign. Meanwhile he's gotten millions of dollars from the trusts Biden was going to bust. So you can imagine what happened to those investigations...

Affordability is a political problem and we aren't going to solve it by electing convicted felons with multiple credible rape accusations.

Are the same people who want put these back doors in your devices so they can monitor "criminals".

I'm not saying we ease off to Chinese, we got to keep that cold war going somehow or people are going to start trying to cut the fence budgets and redirect them to education and we can't have that now can we?

But maybe ask if you're the dog the tail is wagging.

I mean it's for streaming and you can live without that but you can expect prices to go up now. They will pay for this buyout by jacking up prices.

Sure you can sail the seven seas for Netflix but you can't do that for food. I mean you can but eventually you will probably get caught and thrown in prison...

Fun fact Joe Biden was in the process of breaking up several of the trusts that were artificially raising food prices. Like the egg producers that were colluding and the beef slaughterhouses of which there are only four viable ones left...

You can imagine what happened to that work after Biden lost the election. Meanwhile Donald Trump got 5 million from one of the beef slaughterhouse companies.

Oh and don't expect other big corporations to save you. They just Sue the Monopoly trusts every few years and get a chunk of money from them to make up the difference. They do not pass those costs savings on to you.

But hey, If you go to Starbucks the girl who hands you your coffee might say Merry Christmas. Seems like a fair trade for a 20% increase in your grocery bills every couple of years...

People change their minds all the time because they are wishy-washy. They're confused because they don't have a lot of good information available and they don't have the skills and training to parse what they do have.

So you can do a 6-week ad blitz and change 3 to 5% of The public's opinion on pretty much any issue which is more than enough in a winner-take-all first past the post voting system to win the election.

This is why musk gave Trump $250 million dollars right before the end of the election.

By psychopathic billionaires who are actively trying to manipulate people into new feudal hellscape...

This is why they go out of their way to attack higher education and convince us all to be plumbers. They want us on educated and lacking in critical thinking skills. Yes some of us figure that shit out naturally most of us don't.

And the Republicans know this and many of them have their own presidential ambitions. If Trump is successful in a third term then we are probably in for a permanent Trump dynasty with Baron taking over when Trump dies and then Baron's son taking over and so forth.

While it's true that the heritage foundation is fine with that since it would still just be a puppet regime for them plenty of Republicans are hoping to be that puppet. Trump has made billions being president.

So what you're seeing here is the Republican party trying to undermine and split from Trump in order weaken his position in the party so that they can prevent him from running for a third term.

What's going to make that hard is the Republicans do not have a viable candidate for 2028 besides trump. The candidates they have with a national profile who haven't already retired are all deeply weird and deeply unpopular.

That means it's likely the heritage foundation will push for Trump to run for a third term.

It is possible voters will reject that but they can probably make up the difference with basic voter suppression tactics.

I suspect after the midterms when the Republicans lose the house they will go harder after Trump but it's tough for them to do that because he is still in a position that he can endorse primary challengers against them. That's why you're seeing so many people drop out of politics and then go after trump.

The difference is a human gets ticketed when they do that shit. Self-driving cars are explicitly excluded from traffic enforcement and police are told not to pull them over

I know there are a handful of people who are kind of freaked out at the suggestion that we should put a halt to any new technology. But besides that knee jerk reaction is there anyone who genuinely wants to see these data centers built out?

We could just tell the billionaires no. We would have to take their money away because money is power but we could do that. There's about 8,000 of them. There's 8 billion of us.

We could just tell them no.

That people still don't realize they have a ruling class.

Your Masters want this and they are going to get it.

One of the old bugaboos with the right wing is the idea that you work the first 3 months of the year for the government.

But we know about half of the money in any given country goes straight to the top . 01%.

Nobody ever talks about the 6 months you spend working to pay for Bill gates's yacht.

Meanwhile my tax dollars paid for healthcare for people who couldn't afford it. I had a neighbor who had a kid that was only alive because my tax dollars and everybody else's paid for a surgery they need it. Pretty minor stuff but they'd be dead without it. Single mom with a $15 an hour job no way she could afford even a routine surgery like that.

The people at the top have class consciousness but us working stiffs do not. Down here in the trenches it's every man for himself.

if they win they become God-Kings who's slightest whim is made real to the limits of human civilization.

If they lose they just go to their graves insanely wealthy.

There is a *very* small chance they get thrown out of a window or poisoned by a Stalin or a Mao, but it's very, very unlikely. They have their own private armies to protect them.