If this article proves anything, it’s that the American GDP is now fully reliant upon Americans wasting money incessantly buying stupid shit they don’t need, marketed to them all day, every day. There is a saturation limit. Even for the addicted.

A brain-addled President and equally unqualified VP created Bidenomics and pretended to run the most powerful (marketing) economy on the planet for the last four years. We watched tens of thousands get laid off then. Still watching it happen today, with layoffs being reported here damn near daily. Companies posting fake jobs just to make it look like they’re busy and hiring but not really. Massive chains of stores (UK candy shops are the latest) that force into question every money laundering law we have on the books due to lack of customers. Wall Street turned into one of our worst house of cards yet. While others propose a $30 minimum wage for an answer.

Do we really think the American GDP marketing engine would ever even let it slip that a Recession has been going on for months or years now? That information would be highly classified trade secret sauce by any other measure. Do we really assume QE printing presses running 24/7 while vehemently marketing Recession denial is exactly how we avoid another Great Depression? I seriously doubt it.

The cost is what? Cheaper for both native and international visitors? Yeah. I agree.

Geographically and financially advantageous is how one would describe Houston accurately. How many people can afford to visit DC in a good financial year? Not like your hotel is gonna be in the District.

Before we talk about how “wasteful” a move would be, dare as what the cost is to support the status quo. You act as if longstanding waste simply cannot exist in the MANY Smithsonian contracts and support agreements. For all we know, $85 million might be the fucking current annual budget. Rather obvious DC ain’t cheap. For corrupt reasons. Let’s not be ignorant about costs until we AUDIT.

Oh, cmon now. You say that as if you barely recognize a single fly-by-night brand name anymore.

Don’t you remember playing with all those toys from XXzzizz industries when you were a kid? And who could forget the Froxfftjjd fridge? Those SixZzrUs lawn darts were the real pokey ones..

Tell me again how “society” always patiently waits for it to fit perfectly inside your tiny definition of one.

Economists can prevent a Recession about as well as a teenager armed with girl math can prevent financial ruin. But by all means wait until profiteering liars tell you when to start worrying. I’m certain those defining recessions are looking out for YOUR best interests, right? /s

Its called a Recession. And it’s been going on for a long fucking time. A lot longer than anyone infected with TDS can try and assign blame to with an auto-pen. In fact the Recession has been going on for so long now that I wonder if we’re literally marketing ourselves right into a full-blown Depression due to denial alone.

If I’m wrong then tens of thousands laid off over the last few years in a struggling economy is because denial reasons.

If I’m right then you already know I am. You’re likely profiting off the lie, and contributing to making it worse.

I’d love to be proven wrong and have hope that this won’t go from bad to worse. We have Us vs. Them politics within a single United (alleged) country, along with hedge funds that are allowed to bet against the basic tenant of success. Gee, who could predict moar failure become some kind of twisted goal in today’s society with THAT kind of shortsighted profit motive feeding Greed who’s deaf, dumb, and blind?

Hell, next thing you’ll tell me Insider Trading is a Congressional lawmaker job per, oh get the FUCK out of here, they’re calling it the Pelosi Playground Pass?!?

Yeah, we’re fucked. Rip the Billionaire Band Aide off, sprinkle some Ghost Pepper Taki dust on The Rich and let’s get this over with. GenZ is starving and are looking for something to eat.

Since you feel taxation against addiction (call it what it is, even professional gamblers don’t ever advise anyone to follow in their footsteps) is “horrid”, care to share your thoughts on how we should tax prostitution income?

I mean, what should we label as reasonable depreciation on that kind of ass-et? All these OF queens running around love to assume you can just roll the odometer back and ignore the 47 previous rental agreements that tore that chassis up and left a shitload of old luggage in the trunk. Sure. It looks like it only has 30,000 miles. In reality it’s more like 80,000 miles when you wipe all that bondo off and realize that odometer is lying to you.

There’s an easy way to avoid being “ripped off” by taxation on addiction. But other than quitting, perhaps stop believing that any Representative of any color or stripe actually reads legislation before passing it. (They call it “Pulling a Pelosi”.)

Great. So when Al-Sex-A the Amazing Analbot hits a billion in sales all spanks in part to the AI-enhanced chat-sex-bot that helped promote the marketing, humanity will magically be gifted with the almighty AGI based on this promotional definition.

Leave it to the race wholly infected with the Disease of Greed to reduce a crowning achievement in technology down to a fucking number in the bottom right hand corner of some fucking spreadsheet locked in the bottom drawer of a file cabinet in the basement with a sign hanging on the door that says "Too Big To Fail".

Ignorant fucks.

Any organization bragging about holding thousands of patents is painting one hell of a target on their backs. Innovation N. Progress is being strangled to death by Greed N. Corruption due to this phenomenon worldwide. The kind of patented shitcore exclusive to patent law that allows mega-corps to literally buy and warehouse tens of thousands of examples of our most brilliant inventions and ideas, to then purposely do jack shit with them other than contribute to the death of Innovation. We hear judges speak and respect the “spirit” of the law at times. How the FUCK is that shitcore resembling any spirit in utilizing the most amazing ideas and useful inventions humans have ever had?!?

Those that build Patent War Chests, shouldn’t be so ignorant of the key concept they’re helping champion; War. No one said actual warfare was patently off limits when you abuse Greed to strangle Innovation.

New US patent law to save Innovation and promote the kind of progress humanity needs; you have 10 years to put a patent to active use or fully justify a defense as to why you cannot that is completely unrelated to profit. Otherwise, you give up the patent to public domain. And if we think the rest of the patented planet won’t follow suit and simply ignore that new law, then I’m not sure why we’re discussing patent concerns between countries.

Yeah. You’re right. It told a defense lawyer and the public everything they needed to know about the sheer incompetence of an IT department in charge of digital evidence.

Yeah. You’re right. You barely need a lawyers statement to infer gross incompetence and start to question every case that department has ever handled.

Shocking you don’t see how fucked that could get in a courtroom.

Not sure how that addresses the problem of those charged with enforcing evidence tampering laws being guilty of evidence tampering. Not even Infernal Repairs is equipped to deal with that shit.

Ironic how the public will start to see law enforcement as needing more than reasonable doubt to prove their innocence. Perhaps if they weren’t guilty of trying to shitcan the Bill of Rights damn near daily in the endless pursuit of profit..

Uh, I’m gonna go with malice until someone can actually validate the actual innocence of their “mistake” and excuse for evidence tampering.

You know, before the public starts wondering just how many other prison sentences were created or enhanced by the exact same “oops”.

Depends on how you look at it.

A hackathon allowing the use of AI/LLMs is measuring competitor skill about as well as a chess tournament is by allowing the use of engines.

Hacking the hackathon, isn’t really self-serving. Kind of like robbing your own bank.

When teaching the basics of mathematics to a toddler, exactly no one starts with a calculator. Screw how bored a student may be. Education isn’t called entertainment for valid reason. When it doesn’t make sense to compromise, you shouldn’t. Plain and simple.

If they’re using it “chatgpt style”, who’s teaching who here?

Exactly. As if the carburetor rebuilding I learned as a kid will do wonders for the EV Generation who plugs in the lawnmower.

Greed is wanting to replace the human mind in the workplace. Not sure why the hell we’re assuming we can fracture that education problem down to “computer science”. That’s merely one of many dominos to fall as AI progresses. And it has. And it will. And, no. It will not take AGI or even “perfect” AI to replace most at their job. Human workers are hardly infallible. So it will only take good enough AI to replace most. Which is coming sooner than most assume.

All that said, education is the least of our future societal concerns. The bloodshed, chaos, and violence will become far more obvious if we even add 20% to the global unemployment rate. Remember, AI doesn’t just make you temporarily unemployed. It’s working to make you permanently unemployable. That is also why romanticizing comparisons to previous revolutions is stupid and wrong. There won’t be any more “go get an education” suggestions coming from the white collar peanut gallery. Why? Because they’ll be standing with everyone else in the unemployment line. Perhaps even sooner than most.

Greed won’t even get the chance to feed itself because of the societal instabilities it’s being quite deaf, dumb, and blind to. (Not quite sure where Greed expects paying customers to magically appear from when everyone is getting laid off everywhere.) Those armed with brains who used to be valued members of society won’t take kindly to being dismissed as worthless, earning UBI that is still called welfare for a reason.

Yup. It IS a bitch to find a reasonable line between pessimism and reality on this. Happens when you’re around Greed long enough to know exactly how deaf, dumb, and destructive it can be in the endless pursuit of moar.

Future charging stations will be defined by their charging capability about as much as the average person shops for a phone today based on making phone calls.

You won’t mind hanging out so much when you’re getting a massage, watching a movie, eating a good meal, or playing a game with friends and family. In a world full of attention-addicted narcissists, entertainment options are plentiful. Especially when Greed knows you’ll pay handsomely for it. Pay a couple of supermodels to come “hang out” for a day and pretend it’s fun, and you can sell a years worth of FOMO to the addicted.