I mean I'm still posting here aren't i?

Anyway did your account get hacked or something? What part of my post is championing oppressive bullshit?

Or you just call anything you don't like oppressive bullshit? How very libertarian of you. What's next, needing a license to make toast in your toaster?

This is a multi-billion dollar corporation with congressman on speed dial. This is basically setting up the justice department to go after the botnet directly. Google is just filing the paperwork to legitimize everything.

Trump is obviously senile. He doesn't understand anything except the hamburgers that get put in front of him periodically.

Our country is run by the heritage foundation not by Donald Trump.

Because it means the American empire, which is propped up by the dollar, will have gone down the drain completely and we will still have the ridiculous military and we will use it.

Failing empires will inevitably invade other countries and loot them in order to fill their coffers. And we have a growing Christian nationalist movement and things we are literally protected by God so the threat of nuclear annihilation isn't going to be a deterrent. Jesus will just swap those pesky icbms away.

What the hell are you talking about? If my net worth is $100 million and it drops by 90% I'm still filthy stinking rich and will never have to work again unless I blow through the money on extravagant spending.

And those numbers get a hell of a lot worse when you take into account billionaires.

This is before we talk about nepo babies and contacts and networking that you get to do when you're a member of the ruling class. The ruling elite have class solidarity while anyone that really works for a living does not. They take care of each other. We eat each other alive at the slightest provocation.

I will never understand people that defend the ruling class. It is just the most bizarre thing to me. I can empathize with most things understanding the underlining emotions even if I don't feel them myself but that's one that is completely alien to me.

And telling people they can unionize if they want is like telling Jews in Auschwitz they can go find another job. The people running the camp might have something to say about that...

Again I will never understand why people pretend we don't have a ruling class after they've been told and shown that we do. I get the people who never encounter that information, it's not exactly talked about, but I don't get the people that have the information and just pretend it isn't there.

Just a reminder that the steam machine won in the end.

I'm assuming it's cope. We all know the AI apocalypse is coming for our jobs and our livelihoods and in turn all of our property as we mortgage it off to survive but well, nobody has a solution that anyone is willing to accept. The idea of giving people food and shelter without inflicting pain is just not something we as a species are capable of. At least not at the moment.

To address the specific points in this post the reason CGI took over is because it's cheaper, and the reason it's cheaper is that the CGI guys don't have a good union or frankly any Union at all. Hollywood went all in on CGI not because it was the right thing to do but because it broke the special effects unions.

The thing is there were still plenty of jobs they just paid less. What's happening with AI is that they're just isn't any jobs.

We are going to be left with two classes of people, people who need to work and people who don't need the work because there is absolutely nothing useful they can do for society. Like it or not not everybody can be a plumber.

I'm sure they won't be any problems though with tens of millions of people who are permanently unemployable. Certainly that didn't happen shortly before world war I and I I.

The important thing is that we never actually learn anything from history. And that we continue to function like crabs in a bucket while billionaires going on trillionaires occasionally reach into the bucket to devour one of us.

Who knows maybe you won't be one of the crabs that gets devoured. But man they're getting hungry. I mean a trillion dollars of crab meat is a lot.

My stars and garters! Fetch me my fainting goats!

Every now and then nerds will realize that their computer is kind of suck because we don't enforce antitrust law but we always go back to sleep.

You don't trim executive salaries because they are members of the ruling class.

You are taught during a critical time in your learning process that America does not have a ruling class. This is a lie but because it's taught you during the 4 to 14 window it's basically impossible to get it out of most people's brains.

If you do manage to get the idea out of your brain then the whole world makes so much more sense.

Democracies are better at everything. Dictatorships always just turn into corruption.

The Chinese dictatorship has survived because it became the world's factory. And because it had a huge surplus rural population it could churn through. None of that is sustainable and the cracks are showing and they are working on moving to a wartime economy similar to how America did in order to maintain their economy without actually implementing socialism.

Empires never last because corruption sets in and they immediately turn to war and then the war eventually kills a hell of a lot of people and breaks the empire down.

It'll take a long time relative to a human life. And techno feudalism kind of changes everything of course.

It's interesting that India is a democracy and has managed to do this 5 years ahead of their goal. Their goal wasn't as aggressive as China's, but still.

It's a good sign because it proves that democracies can do this kind of thing. Of course for India it's been a massive benefit. Not just cleaner air, but lots of jobs in manufacturing and installation. It has helped develop their energy grid too, improving it and getting power to under-served areas. They have new micro and mini grids too.

It's a shame so many developed nations haven't taken this huge economic opportunity.

Probably the difficulty of connecting them to the grid. Most places there is paperwork to do, so they end up not being very temporary or agile.

It may be possible to improve the car parks with solar panels to use as shade, and the installation of some chargers.

Even if you don't account for the externalized costs of fossil fuels wind and solar are cheaper so long as you've got land and India has that.

The only reason to keep using fossil fuels is the prop up fossil fuel companies and fossil fuel dependent countries like Saudi Arabia.

We all know that but those companies spend a lot of money buying our elections. Mostly with propaganda to trick us into voting for people who are currently crashing our economy and getting ready to lay us all off

But also multiple houses' worth of typical consumption. Could be useful for something like a festival where they would traditionally have diesel generators on-site.

They don't have DMCA like laws though. Reverse engineering and breaking copy protection is still legal in the UK, for example.