Frothing eco-marxist is angry.

As you suspect, I would in fact prefer to literally pave the roads with the bodies of the children I am going to kill with my CO2 emissions. Ideally, they're not quite dead yet so their chorus of little screams will cheer me along during my commute. Can we throw in some endangered animals as well?

"Our estimates imply that U.S. innovative firms operate in too few markets relative to the social optimum."

I'm curious what the 'social optimum' is, and who defined it according to what standard.

My point, as you apparently missed it, was that the recording / broadcast industry has massively enriched a few while leaving most artists scratching for pennies. I don't feel the collapse of that business in favor of artists playing live is a terribly sad thing.

Just keep handing your $ to P.Diddy, I guess. Baby oil ain't free.

(shrug) feels like people are missing the point, enraged about the AI origin, and not the fact that it's "fine" compared to the rest of the (human created) slop on the radio.

I don't care in the slightest.

A photograph can more accurately reproduce an image than the most precise painter ever. What did we get since? Picasso, Nieman, and "modern art" that pretends to greatness like the Emperor's New Clothes.

Before the era of recorded music, musicians made a living by live performances and patronage. Now we have DJ Khaled and Kanye, utterly talentless billionaires. Actually talented people can still perform for incomes vastly beyond normal people's dreams. If ai can effortlessly replicate the crap that fills the pop airwaves? So be it.

I run a small regional office for a large multinational.
When I've needed to hire new people, I'm well aware that basically nothing in college prepared me for what we do (manage logistics). But when I put in the job posting that "no college degree is necessary" I get heavy pushback from corporate hr. They actually edited it out once.

They seem to believe that implied that I was just going to hire any deadbeat off the street and not evaluate them like any other hire. I really had to fight for it to remain.

Telling parents - especially young ones - how not to do it is of limited utility.

https://t.me/nevzorovtv/28223 - this video shows ruzzian civilians, who are dead set on destroying Ukraine, no matter what. AFAIC Ukraine must exterminate this cocroach infestation that is ruzzia.

By "every couple of months" you mean every time I recharge the car and it takes 20-30 mins instead of 3?

But you've already lost; you're NOT trying to persuading according to the compelling objective advantages, now you're just quoting sacred creed. "SHAME! SINNER! ECO-SHAME!"

"more important than the environment." You misspelled "virtue signaling".

....and have been able to for a while. :|

It's complete and utter BS. The 2 state solution has been proposed multiple times ( https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQ... ) , the Arabs are refusing it because it would de-escalate the conflict and would normalize the very *existence* of Israel, which is what they are denying (and you here as well, due to their very effective propaganda).

Also very very personally, I have 0 sympathy for anyone attacking Israel, so no love to anyone who attempts on lives of any Israelis, may they all burn in this life and any and all afterlives (which I don't believe in, I am a complete atheist).

To me, everyone who attacks Israel is barbaric and must be destroyed, how about that? There is no genocide of anyone in Gaza because it's not me, who is running Israel, does it work for you?

I am well aware of ruzzian/Israeli relationship. There are a couple of million ex-soviets living in Israel, I was one of them back in 1992, when I moved to Israel from Ukraine.

Israel is doing everything anyone could ever do to protect civilians from being killed in fire indiscriminately https://chatgpt.com/c/6876bd05... Sure, you can always say that more could be done, AFAIC they are way overdoing.

Have a horrible day.

I drive to Chicago from Mpls maybe twice every 3 months. Essentially 400 mi.

ABRT shows an EV makes a 6:30 drive over 8hr, almost 25% longer.

I even tried to rent an EV (Genesis GV60 from Avis, that was a clusterfuck) for a run last year and ended up just driving some shitty jeep because when I showed up they'd forgotten to plug the GV60 in and if I waited I'd have missed my meeting in Chicago.

That and I test drove a Volvo PHEV and a) it was kind of a shit ride, b) it has a 35-40 mi elec range* at best, c) despite them explaining when the electric would kick in, when I drove it around for 20 mins, IT NEVER DID...so what the fuck? Why would I pay for 2x powertrains and double the maintenance to (basically) drive an under-engined, overweight car?

*which sales admitted during MN winter coldest months would be more like 20-30 tops...I couldn't even GET TO WORK on that.

Look, I absolutely think eventually EVs will dominate. Right now they're for people who functionally could probably get by with a golf cart instead, virtue signalers, and religious zealots.

I think it's rsilvergun likes to lurk as AC
If you look, almost every one of my posts has this shit attached to it. Even if it isn't faintly political.

I have two sons and I can guarantee that "the system isn't skewed against you, look your older brother isn't a failure like you are" wouldn't exactly hit the way you probably intend.

Absolutely Israel is fighting for its survival. 7th of October shows that Israel must destroy all of its enemies that surround it. Hamas and others were supplied by Iran, which must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb specifically because it would be much easier to just get that bomb into Israel through Gaza and blow it up in the middle of any city, most likely Tel Aviv or Haifa (they wouldn't do it in Jerusalem). Any 'civilian' within Gaza is suspect, that's where Hamas is recruiting from in the first place. I applaud Israel for making progress against Iran and now it must finish what needs to be finished all around it, especially Gaza.

Iran has policy of destroying Israel, it's their religious policy and policy of the State, so they are obviously interested in keeping all of the various local conflicts going for as long as it takes to destroy Israel. Israel is under a strategic threat, it's not just Gaza and Hamas, this was made clear when Iran started supplying Houthis with missiles. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis under the guiding hand of Iran and with support from ruzzia. That's what Israel is fighting against. Just because you don't understand it doesn't change their equation and they must not and will not give up, they must destroy its enemies to survive.

The fact that the Western world has been brainwashed and is now so antisemitic and anti-Israel just shows how effective the propaganda pushed from Iran with the help of the ruzzian troll/bot farms became, that's a weapon that must be taken seriously. It was used to brainwash Americans into supporting putin and ganging up against Israel as well.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.