America didn’t deserve the mental gymnastics of liberal feminist unaccountability justifying Make Whores Great Again championing OnlyFans prostitution as empowering. America didn’t deserve to be abused by those suffering from gender dysphoria, a mental disorder flying under a rainbow of colorful names to dispel it into some kind of innocence needing to infect a classroom and library full of children. America didn’t deserve to have their women’s sports become a global mockery by insisting men should compete with women.

American higher education didn’t deserve to become a liberal cesspool of political indoctrination and anti-Americanism. Americas stock market didn’t deserve to have a Speaker of the House try and justify Insider Trading as some kind of fucking Congressional job perk, destabilizing a country even further with blatant corruption. American US Veterans homeless on the streets didn’t deserve to watch “asylum seekers” walk into fully-funded nice hotels, courtesy of what they fought and died for.

America didn’t deserve a man suffering from dementia who bypassed the primaries to win the Presidency and create the worst administration in known history, with a wholly unqualified VP that became the country’s first Open Border Czar.

Yeah. America didn’t deserve a lot of things. It’s how America ended up with President Trump.

Twice.

Boy, kudos for the sales pitch here. A keystone holding up the entire scientific community you say. Understanding of the planet you say.

With such critical importance like that, someone else should fully fund and stand up a replacement NCAR ASAP. After all, a planet is in need.

Don’t all jump up at once now.

The US Military is about the most colorblind non-sexist organization out there. They can’t afford to see in color when you need a standing army all wearing the same flag on their shoulder. The only gender roles being suppressed for women are combat roles. For many a valid reason not to be debated ignorantly again.

If the graduates think it’s such a horrible option, there’s always six more months of submitting applications.

To see our machines impression of what a black hole looks like from millions of light years away, based on our understanding and subsequent programming within systems still limited by our capacity to understand from afar.

It's ALL an artist impression. Always has been.

Way to go Republicans? Hell, Republicans would love to see AOC run. They’d throw her up against Ben Shapiro or the like who would debate that mind just for fun. The mental bitch-slapping would be even funnier than when Tulsi left Kamala the Kackler in a puddle of her own piss on a primary stage years ago.

Liberals clearly didn’t learn their lesson the last time. Selfish ignorance and zero accountability is exactly what created and elected President Trump. Twice. While electing the Dumb and Dumber DEI administration in between, showing what happens when they win, and a country loses. But yeah, let’s see them double down again and assume they can come to the election promising nothing other than Get Trump. See how quickly Americans who have had enough of being ignored, turn their backs to that as nothing else is promised or even talked about.

Polls are 100% fucking worthless until you prove zero bias. Don’t trust a single one. Not like the idiots polling a strong Kamala win in the election will ever admit they were full of shit anyway.

Trying to constantly find a reason to blame the other political party, while getting ignorant citizens to engage in that shit-slinging too, is exactly why that “pattern” works for both Democrats and Republicans enriching themselves nicely abusing that Weapon of Mass Distraction.

Imagine waking up tomorrow to a single political party in America. ONE. I’d love to hear the finger pointing excuses then, which we waste the majority of our time on now.

Sure. I’m guilty as hell too. But staying silent has questioned the very sanity of those who always knew what a woman is. Along with why women’s sports only works on a separate playing field. A Nation staying silent and being bullied by the rainbow coalition, is exactly what elected the Dumb and Dumber administration before. People bitch about President Trump while those same people fail to be accountable and realize exactly what (and who) ultimately created President Trump. Twice. The undying irony of that ultimately infecting liberals with long-TDS, is not lost.

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Only the degree pimps selling degrees could convince the masses that after four years and six figures spent at an elite university where the goal is to graduate, you are still considered nothing more than a shitty “under” grad, and now need to spend far more to be recognized as a full graduate, and someone worth hiring.

Smells like the greedy arrogance at Ferrari. Where you buy the car, and after two years you get the luxury of paying Ferrari tens of thousands more for a certificate that finally says you own a real Ferrari. As if you didn’t spend $350,000 reasons before.

If you are in your third year of college actively in pursuit of that CS degree with fellow university students in every classroom and exam room for years now, care to explain how that student is still “competing” at the high school level? No. They’ve actually been learning and competing at the college level for years now. Rather odd to discredit the work like that.

The handful of billionaires investing billions, walk around wearing a Too Big To Fail lapel pin. They weild great power to privatize profit while socializing losses. In case we were wondering who’s paying for the smoke and the mirrors, and why they don’t care about cost.

The expensive part will be when they fail and take the stock market down with them.

The “arrogogsnce” that employers got a glimpse of during COVID when people sat on their ass and got paid while other hard workers became rare and therefore valuable, is what business owners are targeting here. They want a reset of job salary expectations because all these “greedy” employees got a bit too uppity with that COVID salary. Back when they were begging for people and had to PAY appropriately. And owners can’t have that “arrogant” shit now.

So it’s time to pretend AI is the reason we’re firing and not hiring in droves, while also pretending a recession hasn’t been going on for years now. Push unemployment up, make new students desperate, make grey beards not ready to be aged out into the pasture desperate. And once the desperation level is sufficiently high, then they will FINALLY admit AI “isn’t quite ready to align with our values”, then they will start re-hiring.

Natually they’ll hire the most experienced person asking for the least pay. Gen Pension can ask for a pittance. Retired military can do. Oh yeah, that reminds me. Desperation feeds the cannon fodder quotas nicely too. So World War III has that, going for them.

They aren’t. That is AIs job now.

The advice to “go learn something else” that we’ve given out during every other Industrial Revolution shaking up the job market, is now dead. Because AI is targeting the human mind. The greedy human mind infected with the Disease of Greed. The same disease that sells worthless CS degrees even though degree pimps know they are worthless.

Should have stopped pushing four-year degrees, but all those managers that were forced to get theirs, are forcing you to get yours with that ringknocker mentality for damn near every job. Doesn’t matter how much more expensive, or how much more worthless they are in the hands of someone with little experience struggling to gain it with junior employment. Won’t be “fair” if you don’t have to spend $50K and four years like they all did.

That same disease also loves to re-define metrics so we can deny it for years. You know, words like Recession. Which tends to explain some hiring deficiencies. If we could admit it.

Humans becoming permanently unemployable long before the social structure is set up for UBI, resulting in 25%+ unemployment in many countries, which leads to mass chaos and violence instead of any kind of AI-enhanced revenue-shitting utopia, where AI will be more used for mass drone swarms and riot control instead of building dreams and futures. World War III is the end result. Yeah. Lot can go wrong and stay that way.

And yes. It’s the Disease causing all of this. We’ve spent thousands of years caving this planet up into Yours and Mine, drawing lines in sand with blood. We’ve been infected for thousands of years, and will likely die right here on this rock, forever infected and addicted to warmongering our way to “solutions”. World War III is more an inevitability. Nuclear, questions how long it will last. I have hope we won’t bring this infectious mentality to other planets but knowing humanity’s luck the first element we’ll find on another planet will be a shitload of gold.

Yes, I know. I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that "Hollywood" defense we've heard all too often to dismiss theft.

Here's a couple bit takes on solutions, going from shitty to not-so-shitty.

They should standardize a usage/likeness AI addendum within the standard contracts used today to protect human actors and actresses, hand them to their agents and argue those in-perpetuity contracts, include any standard riders (no nudity, smoking, etc.), and be done with this. Those that are "in" Hollywood now in any way, should probably be damn grateful they'll be grandfathered in to this deal. Because human actors in Hollywood is now a species that absolutely will go extinct. And besides, aging starlets known and beloved by humans today, will jump at the AI opportunity to be frozen at 25-30 years old on the silver screen. Forever. After all, we know how much vanity is worth in Hollywood. Just ask a Kardasurgeon. (Now available on the DoorDashian app.)

Human background actors may soon become as relevant as worrying about the weather while filming inside an IMAX-sized green-screen building. Sorry. You'd really have to have one hell of a human face to beat what AI will mind-fuck everyone into believing is the "perfect" screen actor or actress. I sadly feel the relatively unknowns in this class may already be out of a job that won't be re-listed.

The concept of a Recession has been mauled by creative vernacular and definition to make Reality not look so bad over the last few years. Not the wisest move, because a more honest Reality might have forced people making burger flipper money for a bit too long to consider another profession a pandemic ago.

The fallout of the fires, is due to California leadershit. Not sure what more to say, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if California lost Hollywood too. Leadershit would try and exit-tax Hollywood if they do move, which is the ultimate dick move to try and save a dumpster fire of a state, pissing off the top of the Hollywood sign and hitting all the constituency. Hell of a POTUS strategy. /s

Perhaps all of Hollywood should package itself as a massive bundle as-is, and argue that it is a National Monument. A key historical piece worth preserving. Put it on the stock market as a family of risk-tempered mutual funds. Make it a government asset. Or some other stabilized security that feeds the kids and pays the rents needed today. Others humans could be added, but it might simply be more AI created content now. Yeah, I know. We still have a likeness legal argument because some humans will undoubtedly end up looking a lot like AI. Or at least until Hollyweird (Hollywood+AI) starts imprinting three eyes, three tits, and no bellybuttons as the visually pleasing norm. Then no human will infringe.

Merely my two bits from the cutting room to offer a solution or two. The latter solution might be the most ideal, but this isn't going to be easy by any means.

We know what AI would ironically say. That's Hollywood, baby.

Fighting to ensure we always have a way to suspend or manually control software updates no matter the vendor, sounds like the way to go.

If Microsoft has one smart TV vendor in their pocket, they have more. This behavior can get collusive real quick-like.

Approach every older Hollywood actor and actress showing their age and suggest AI.

When they reel in horror and offense and refuse, remind them AI can make them look 25 again. Forever.

I wonder how many would bite down so hard they snap the hook in two.

In an AI fight, this is probably the most worthless defense.

They’re not after the body. They’re not even after the human. They want the likeness.

Oh, and imitation is flattery. Or some shit.

If we dropped all the driver names into a fishbowl and let them randomly be drawn, how many team owners would find relevancy real damn quick?

With lap times matching in sub-second intervals, I see your mostly irrelevant point. But skill does matter. A snippet of stats from the 2020 season shows there are statistically worse drivers: