What I understand is the photo was obviously altered, to the extent that hundreds of laymen noticed it. That would have included whoever is running the cops' Facebook page.

I'm sure the PD is used to having employees fuck up. It's telling that their reaction isn't to get the facts and investigate, but reflexively start with the "We're going to tell you that you didn't see what you just saw" bit - that's S.O.P. for police departments in the US.

you're making a critical mistake.

You're mixing up matter transmutation with automation.

We can still have lots of scarcity and little or no work.

And that's before we talk about shit like the male loneliness epidemic and 20% of straight men completely unable to get female companionship

The world is going to eat you alive now. But I guess your neck will be OK, since you've got that stuck in the ground.

You do know ostriches don't really do that right?

Well, an LLM clearly wrote your post, because I didn't mention anything you're responding to.

Crazy that a dying little website like /. still has bots trying to shape the narrative here.

I notice you're not trying to debunk anything, just tossing out a random insult.

Was "TDS" not working for you anymore?

that I can die before the worst of it.

Components are just as crazily marked up in the U.S. I wouldn't be at all surprised that the Chinese manufacturers can get even better pricing then an individual could from a Chinese supplier due to volume.

The primary use case for AI is to eliminate White collar jobs. Let China have it. It'll be a few more years before America's economy collapses and it's only going to benefit America if China's economy collapses first.

It's going to be fun to see communist China with 20 or 30% unemployment. I mean I know they will just kill anyone that steps out of line, and I'm not so naive to believe that America won't be doing the same and 10 or 15 years, but it'll be fun to see the contradiction all the same.

>" LLMs doing crawling? That might be ill-behaved, bot not an "attack".

Some of us will think of it as an attack when the bots ignore robots.txt (or honor changes very slowly), masquerade intentionally as something they are not, and use tons of different addresses hitting the same site, especially when it is continuous. I discovered this, myself, on a small internet-connected club server later last year. The mediawiki site was becoming unresponsive and throwing errors. On investigation, we were having dozens of http requests per second, from Amazon and Bytedance. Every one of them was coming from a different IP address. Only our main page was allowed in robots.txt, so SOMETHING would end up on search sites, but the bots didn't care. I changed it to ignore everything on the site, instead of just the main page, but that apparently isn't checked very often. It took me hours of manually banning over a thousand IP addresses before the server could reasonably respond to web requests again.

Example hit:

47.128.50.93 - - [22/Sep/2024:15:03:05 -0400] "GET /mediawiki/index.php?days=30&from=20240920012115&title=Special%3ARecentChanges HTTP/1.1" 200 10111 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Bytespider; spider-feedback@bytedance.com)"

Eventually, the overwhelming majority of the "robots" (web scrapers) did honor robots.txt disallowing everything, some just did so very lazily and took days of attempted hammering us before stopping. I still haven't removed the IP blocks nor put robots.txt back to allowing just the main page.

Rand Paul was selected among three other right wing Republican voting senators to vote against the bill because they are the most vulnerable. He did not take a principled stand it was a cynical strategy and trick..

I'm not sure I'm explaining this simply and clearly enough for you to grasp.

The Republicans all get together in a room and figure out which of them can safely vote against the bill and which of them can safely vote for the bill. They don't want to lose elections because they have not fully consolidated their power and we are still nominally a democracy. Propaganda and voter suppression are powerful but they can only do so much

So the guy who is running the Senate right now figures out from polling data which Republicans are the most vulnerable to losing their elections and tells them hey you, you over there, you go vote against this unpopular bill so that when you campaign you can tell your voters you try to save them.

Every single one of them is lying including and especially Rand Paul. But libertarians love him because he says the things libertarians want to hear while he always does the things they don't want done.

Pay attention to how he votes when the margins are closer and you will find it's 110% Republican platform / project 2025. He is a heritage foundation's bitch. They all are.

Frankly so are you. At the end of the day you do basically whatever the heritage foundation wants you to. Different reasons but the result is the same.

Of cops showing off their hauls was when they busted a shoplifting ring focused on a drug store and it was something like $5,000 worth of merchandise and it was a couple of tables worth because it was a bunch of machines used to treat diabetes and those are ludicrously expensive.

It's another one of those pictures that wouldn't exist in any other civilized country. Then again we shouldn't be criminalizing drugs in the first place. Only reason we did it was so that Richard Nixon could attack his political enemies on the left.

I do not understand what you are trying to convey. English is not my native language, some may have been lost in translation.

That's not going to be a matter of competition when you can just type into a prompt and get a fully functional application there's no competition there. That's not a job so you can't compete for it.

what we need to be doing is transitioning from a competitive society to a cooperative one but screw that. Too much pride and too much lizard brain. Also too much moral panic

I don't know normally talk about it because nobody here wants to hear it but just this ones I'll tell you guys what you need to be doing.

First we need strong unions for higher wages for the remaining jobs so that those people can drive a service sector economy with their purchases.

Next we need ludicrously high taxes on the rich in order to control their power and to get the resources we need.

Then we need enormous government programs. Trillions and trillions of dollars of government infrastructure spending. Trillions more social programs. We also need single-payer healthcare and huge investment in education with literally everyone spending half their life in college and education. That keeps them out of the workforce which is going to be shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.

All this just buys us time. I've mentioned it on other comments but the problem we have is we are running out of work to do but we're still going to have some work that has to be done, typically unpleasant backbreaking work that pays very poorly with it requires a large number of well to do white collar workers to fund via service sector jobs

The idea is to do all this to by time while we get used to a completely different society.

Without all this the economy collapses you have literally billions unemployable, not unemployed unemployable, and eventually you've got massive wars and people firing nukes off.

This was actually the plan Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had in store if you were paying attention...

And we aren't going to do any of this. Because as soon as any of this money starts getting spent it's going to trigger the lizard brain of all the people reading this because some of you are still going to be working while other people are not because they are completely useless and you're going to want those useless people to suffer because you're suffering at your miserable job.

So you will not allow any of this and we're not going to get the time we need to transition and we're going to do those wars instead.

I don't think our species is going to survive any of this.

That may work in college, but I teach in high school. There that would work for about 25% of the students. It is a mistake a lot of rookies make. If a big part of your class loses interest, you will be forced to use an authoritarian style of teaching to keep the others quiet. If you screw them, they will screw you. Keeping them interested is actually the job. Explaining things is the easy part.
As we all start as rookies, I can share that grades will be a lot lower if you do it this way. As a lot in social science related jobs, it is a matter of finding a balance rather than following ideals. There are no simple solutions in education. Well, there are, but they are always tailored to one specific group.

What comes next is mass unemployment and poverty