You can check the Wikipedia article on Trump's sexual assault claims and eight of them involve children.

That's in addition to 20 that at least involved adult women.

Now the first time a woman accuses a man of raping her when she was a child that's bad but he's famous and maybe... The second time you have to start to wonder but again maybe... By the third time we've got a pattern and by the 5th I don't think any reasonable person would not be believing the women. By the 8th he's practically a Catholic priest.

And again this is an addition to the other 20 women who came forward.

I am also not going to buy it that those women are just trying to get money out of him or fame. Trump has well-known mafia ties and lots of fixers that make credible threats. These are the 28 women who came forward despite all that. I think it's safe to say there are plenty more.

The only reason Trump isn't in prison right now is the statute of limitations. He has absolutely been convicted of raping a woman only under New York law it was an adjudicated conviction because of the statute of limitations and it wasn't technically rape because New York law says if you didn't do it with your dick it's just sexual assault. Which is actually kind of fucked up when you think about it.

So yeah Trump's a pedophile. There isn't a single reasonable person who would not come to that conclusion. The fact that he managed to escape consequences isn't going to change that.

Is Facebook makes 180 billion dollars every year. And most of that is pure profit since they just don't need that many employees relative to that revenue.

That is way too much money for one single person to command.

It's not about some nebulous income inequality bullshit that you hear the left wing go on about at that point you're just being ordered around because somebody with that much money gets to decide what you do and how you live your life whether you like to admit it or not

Honestly I don't think the sexists are the biggest problem. They suck don't get me wrong.

But there's a group of voters that doesn't seem willing to vote for a woman to be president even though they will cheerfully vote for a woman all the way up to Senate.

It's not a big group but thanks to voter suppression American elections are so close that they can swing the election in favor of Republicans.

The thing about getting Trump into office in the first place let alone a second term, it required every single system of American society, economics and politics to break down on a fundamental level.

It's kind of weird because relatively small effects were needed in combination to get us into this giant fucking mess. If any one of those effects hadn't been there our civilization would have survived.

They are slowing down the deployments so that they can position themselves to be in control of it.

The people currently in control of our energy supply are going to make damn sure they stay that way. And we're going to help them because we are more easily distracted than a Chihuahua at a fireworks convention.

It's just going to string along a whole bunch of instructions from random tutorials that it ingested.

What's going to get interesting is in a few years those websites and forums that have been used to train the AI are going to dry up. GitHub is going to dry up too because a lot of the projects they are are from people either in college or putting together a portfolio to get a job and is just not going to be enough jobs for people to be bothered with either of those two things. Anyone going to college is either going to try to get an engineering degree, a math degree or more likely law or medicine. Maybe accounting.

Basically the training data is going to dry up.

I'm not sure it's going to matter that much when it happens. I could see companies just running with old technology that's already working and leaving it at that rather than hiring people or you know, having a functioning economy.

I have to admit I didn't expect to see capitalism destroyed by capitalists and billionaires. And in the worst way possible. Instead of fully automated space communism we're going to get a techno feudal hellscape dystopian.

Of course we're going to put idiots in charge of everything and keep the nuclear weapons around so you know, it's a problem that will solve itself. The only real question now is whether it's going to be the raccoons or the beavers that evolve in advance civilization after we're gone. Could be ferrets I suppose. All three of them are pretty close to having opposable thumbs I think.

Would be deep blue states without the voter suppression. Texas stands out especially because they have more registered Democrats than Republicans but virtually no Democrat representation. Heavy duty Gerrymandering combined with constant challenges for signatures and voter registrations in blue districts and of course multi-hour waits to vote in those districts mean that the Republicans can stay in power without actually representing the will of the people. Hilariously if you watch how they campaign they campaign is outsiders pushing Back against The Establishment even though they've been in charge for over 30 years.

There's a whole shitload of old people who think they're going to get away with letting America become an oligarchy in exchange for whatever stupid little promises of culture War bullshit they get from the Republican party.

If you're over 65 you might very well die before the shit hits the fan for you personally. And anyone who is thinking like this could care less about what happens to their kids and grandkids. Those little shits never visit anyway right?

But even if you're over 65 you don't really know how long you're going to live especially with modern medical care.

Or without it. Donald Trump has started using AI to deny Medicare claims. The company he has contracted with gets to keep any savings from denying the claims. A couple of my buddies were old enough for Medicare have already had trouble getting basic pills of the kind that they need to stay alive. Basically the heart medications that are the only reason they're not dead.

I'm sure it'll be fine. Nothing bad has ever happened when the German people have been under severe economic stress... And it's a good thing we aren't doing the same thing to the country with the world's largest military and the most nukes.

But on the plus side you can say Merry Christmas now.

There's absolutely no point disproving bullshit posts like yours. You have Google you're just being a little pissant.

So instead of pointing out things you could easily find on Google I'm just going to remind everyone that Donald Trump is a pedophile and substantially large numbers of people here voted for that pedophile with full knowledge that he was a pedophile.

And if you make a pedophile president then what does that make you? I think you know. And remember Trump himself said he's going to hell. I seem to remember something in the Bible about having no God before Jesus but hey, you do you.

That reigns in Wall Street. And there are tons of people in the Democratic party pushing for more who are very high up most notably Elizabeth Warren.

This is not a both sides bads issue. One side let's Wall Street run roughshod over you and your family and the other side consistently regulates them stopping the cyclic economic crashes.

The problem is because you think both sides bad every 4 to 8 years you let the Republicans undo everything the Democrats did. So every few years we have another cyclic economic collapse caused by Republican deregulation and then you hurriedly both the Democrats back in with numbers just enough to undo the worst of the damage caused by your previous voting decisions.

You really fucked up this cycle though. You didn't give Biden a full eight years to undo some of the damage. So we are going to get fucked and fucked hard.

Almost did on Black Friday.

One of the reasons I didn't was that I didn't think I could afford one that didn't spy, but it turns out those big name brands are some of the worst?? I figured Sony, Samsung and LG would be the safe brands. I never trusted TCL or Hisense, I'm sure they're connected to CCP servers all day.

And does this mean that Visio doesn't spy? I wanted to go with a different brand this time (replacing a Visio with a bad backlight array), and Visio has been running ads on the home screen, but I'll take ads over monitoring.

The points about Robux is fair. The microtransactions are very tacky, but not heinous. It's a "free" site...thus they have to pay their bill somehow and they don't presently advertise...so yeah, they sell you pointless outfits as well as game hacks. I've never spent a penny, but my kids have. IMO, paying for access to content is a fair way to pay the bills...and for optional costumes? that's honestly even better because I am smart enough to never pay for them. However, as adults, we have to realize that services cost money. You can't have free stuff without monetization. It's either fees, ads, or optional purchases. For some reason, that infuriates much of /.

I think you're overstating the addiction. Children are disappointed all the time at the smallest of things...you change their favorite flavor of chocolate milk and a child will have a meltdown. They're fucking children. Even so, I challenge your label of addiction and "fun game". Even if I am not an addict, I'd be annoyed you destroyed my saves or block access to my content. Liking something and being upset it's lost is not addiction.

I've worked in a few hospitals, 2 on the South Side of Chicago...in the 90's crime epidemic. I've seen addicts. I've helped people treat them. I've seen people with severe crack, cocaine, heroin, and meth addictions. I have alcoholics and pill addicts in my extended family. If you think an 8yo acting like a brat after you destroy their digital property is anything like addiction....fuck....I wish I had your life. I wish I could say something so fucking stupid with a straight face. I wish I could conflate the 2 unrelated things. I envy your life that you're so sheltered you think the 2 are similar in any way.

However, I am confident Putin isn't concerned about digital addiction of their children. He doesn't give a shit about his people. I don't know that any Russian leader has.

I don't think that's true. It depends a lot on who the shareholders are and how many of them there are. Sometimes the corporation prefers quality and a good reputation for customer and employee relations. Sometimes they prefer those things until a hedge fund or private equity group buys a lot of shares and starts making demands. Sometimes they let someone like McKinsey come in and give them bad advice.

You don't hear many complaints about Publix Supermarkets doing these things. It's publicly traded, but employee owned.

They also helped move our manufacturing base to China. It's also a pipeline for corporate and political leaders.

And, despite there being no logical justification, evidence, or even fairness in the allegation, I'm going to go ahead and blame them for the 1929 crash as they were founded in 1926 and survived it.

I think the point is making as much money as possible by doing as little as possible.

As much as I agree that this is not a good thing, but I don't think it's something that can be done away with without every large exchange agreeing to some sort of timing rule. No exchange will do it on its own, as too much capital will move to those that don't. No nation will block it on their own for the same reason.

So, a market solution where all exchanges agree to limit trades in some way (minute by minute or something of the sort), or a political solution where nations sign treaties to do the same, would be required. This is possible but requires a broad base of enthusiastic support that doesn't currently exist in either field.

I'd support it. I'm not in favor of any financial tool that isn't available to everyone. For example, I think we should abandon the "qualified investor" rule and every instrument gated by it. Why should I need $100,000 sitting idle in my back account to utilize investments that let the rich stay rich? Why can't I invest in a hedge fund or private equity group? Why do we allow finance to invent ever more incomprehensible shell games? Why do we commodify debt?

As someone who has spent way more time than I'd like in both Minecraft and Roblox, no...it's no more risky. It's probably a lot less risky because Roblox is the first platform I've seen that's really popular with young girls and girls like to tattle. So the jackassery that goes on in Fortnite, Halo, or any other shooter gets reported faster in Roblox.

I think the noise is based on 2 things:

1. Old people like to ban things they don't understand because conservative media needs a demon. If you're 75yo and watch Fox News every night, you're never going to understand Roblox. The games are weird. We've heard this before: Heavy Metal is satanic, Rap is making our children criminals, Mortal Kombat makes them serial killers. Marilyn Manson will make them school shooters. No one thinks to ban action movies that are just gun porn. Why? Because old people understand those and enjoy them. So John Wick is OK...but Roblox? No...that's Hillary Clinton's Pizzagate pedophile ring ran out of the basement of a pizza parlor in DC that doesn't even have a basement.

2. Gender: People are always more concerned about their daughters getting molested than their sons. I'd imagine Call of Duty or World of Warcraft or Halo or Arc Raiders or whatever are eve more of a threat, but those games are popular with males primarily. And the Roblox games are very kid friendly, like Adopt Me.

Popular online games have always been boys' turf. Now that girls are in, people are getting weird about it...not in a misogynistic way...just a protective of their daughters way.