Of the kind used to stop mass shootings overseas, specifically where you seize everything except a handful of hunting rifles and farmer shotguns.

That's because down south you will find plenty of Black folk who need those guns to protect themselves from the white folk. And I'm not going to pretend that's not happening.

A while back there was a story of a bunch of Red hats who drove down to a mosque with their rifles intending to cause trouble. I don't think they were going to shoot the place up just intimidate people but it wouldn't have taken very much for it to turn into shooting...

So when they got to the mosque they found it was a Nation of Islam mosque and when they saw the brothers out front with their rifles they turned around and went home.

What I'm saying is mutually assured destruction works on both sides.

The argument could be made that we could take away the Red hats guns too except I know damn well we selectively enforce laws in this country and again I'm not going to pretend what's happening in the real world isn't happening.

This is not to say we shouldn't have some gun control laws. Irresponsible morons who leave tons of guns easily accessible by mentally unstable teenagers need to stop that shit.

But what I'm getting at is I don't have any illusions about overthrowing the government with civilian firearms, logistics and tactics but there is a place for preventing oppression with firearms.

But more importantly it makes everything into shit.

Specifically AI copies and regurgitates and when companies start using it what's going to happen is everything ends up turning into slop like all those shitty mobile games that all look the same.

Apart from AI devouring all the RAM and drives and electricity and jobs the reality is if you use it to make games your games are going to look like crap because the AI is going to spit out a rough approximation of everything that was used as an input resulting in the lowest common denominator.

It's like how you've got those modern military shooters and you can take five of them and take a screenshot and they're indistinguishable because they're all being made from the same crap template. YouTuber Yahtzee called it spunk gargle wee-wee.

The reason it's called AI slop is because it all blends together into a slop and becomes an indistinguishable and gross mess and there's no getting away from that just because of the nature of AI and the fundamental underpinnings of the technology.

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They just did. Jobs are still being created.

A recovery more like it

First off AI needs to sit in a desk and be watched for productivity. How do we know they are really working if we don't badge swipe and see them?

AI needs full collaboration and creativity that hallway moments and using shared poopy toilets, which brings in that real company value. It can't happen.

Just ask any pointless HR rep or CEO on this?!

You can kill as many Musks and Putins as you want there's a million people lined up behind them to take their place.

This ignores the fact that you can't really get to those people anymore because modern security tactics work. But even if one of them slips up and gets sloppy they are easily replaceable.

Now if you know your history when the King dies there's a lot of misery and chaos during the succession but that doesn't help you in the peasantry.

This isn't a problem you can solve with violence or violent revolution. Honestly I don't know what the solution is. I really do think that we're going to give Trump a third term and he's going to put a bunch of religious lunatics in charge and is our economy collapses we're going to start doing colonialism and eventually start world War III.

Than those religious lunatics are going to launch nukes expecting God to protect them and its game over for the human race. If we are really lucky something like raccoons or beavers will evolve to take over from us in a few hundred million years.

And they are absolutely done with capitalism. They don't like having to compete and they don't like having to be dependent on consumers to pay for their yachts and rockets.

So we are gradually moving towards a feudal system with modern militaries used to enforce everything.

And if you think your AR-15 is going to make any difference then you don't know how tanks work. Let alone drones.

I don't know a solution because the feeling of resentment means that socialism doesn't fly.

Ubi is like trying to patch Windows 11. It doesn't fix a fundamentally broken system. The billionaires will just use their monopolies to suck the money back out and then blame you for spending your Ubi money. And that's assuming you could even get that much socialism past them...

ob disc: I used to work for nio usa.

batt swap is a great idea and its been done well. tesla tried it for a very short while and gave up. too bad.

one use case not always mentioned: you run out of juice and you are too far from a charging station or maybe you are in a hurry or just dont mind paying the convenience fee for a local drive-up swap. yes, they can do that. you can be on your way with a 'full tank' in very short order. no idea how common it is; usually you drive to one of the swap garages and it guides you in, you stay in your car the whole time, robots lower the old batt and raise up the new one.

the kinks are worked out.

dont bash on this cause its china. it IS and will continue to be a good idea.

china pulled it off since it was NOT adverse to ev's. in fact, they see ev's as their future, so the gov was eager to install all the infra they could.

during the very early T days, we still, as a country (usa) were going full speed ahead. car companies were doing well and we, the workers, did well.

then, the presidency changed and all went to hell after that. he picked his gas buddies over ev tech and the country is now suffering for it.

I'm 99% batt swap will never hit consumer cars in the US. monied interests dont want it. they know its their demise. their argument of '30 minute fillups' goes away with this. and you buy the car sans batt and so you always have a rental batt. you get used to it. upside: you never have a long-term battery that gets bad and bad. all swap batts are maintained so that no one gets a truly bad batt.

when you read the comments, you can see who has an open mind and who is a paid shill for a certain viewpoint.

Do large scale illegal layoffs and then hire sycophants.

One of the reasons Trump's coup attempt in 2020 failed was because so many government employees weren't on his side. So he's looking to replace them.

They also had one of the billionaire types by up the company that makes all of our voting machines. Also one company makes all of our voting machines so that's a thing...

The Republicans are currently doing Republican policies and they have a 30% approval rating. They aren't planning on losing 70% of the elections though. Last year about 7 million people were denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tricks. Illegal challenges to signatures and voter registrations with the understanding that you have to drive down on a weekday to fight that at the courthouse. Also multi hour wait times to vote in blue districts. It was also some really crazy shit like several swing state districts where the Democrats sweeped the down ballot races but Kamala didn't get a single vote.

In 2028 we can expect them to pull out all the stops. Trump said it himself you will never need to vote again.

And the company who got the contract gets a kickback every time they deny coverage.

If you're somebody dependent on Medicare, and I mean Medicare and not medicaid, or somebody who is planning on being dependent on it then you need to start making a backup plan. There's a good chance that Trump will win again in 2028. It's also possible Vance will win if Trump's Alzheimer's is too advanced for him to run.

They're not going to just shut down Medicare they're going to use tricks like ai and whatnot to gradually chip away at it until it's completely useless and all the money is just being funneled into their pockets. Remember that one of the senators from Florida is literally a convicted felon whose crime was robbing Medicare.

Basically if you're retired you're going to experience the same healthcare system everybody else does.

I have exactly the same problem copying code I have found on the web and now AI. Typing it in instead of copy pasting is a huge help, especially if I change variable and function names and reformat on the fly.

In my mind you'd be buying a car without a battery and simultaneously subscribing to a battery service, but if you ever wanted to own a battery you could buy one. You'd get the battery delivered to the dealer (and/or they would work with one or more services directly and keep some on site) before you picked up the vehicle so it would be all the same to you as if it had come with it, and it would also come charged.

Moving them around without a battery at scrapping time is not a detriment, as vehicles to be scrapped are usually moved around with a fork lift anyway.

And they stopped months ago. We've been in a recession for months. With The current trajectory we'll be in a depression by the end of Trump's term.

And through it all voters will somehow convince themselves that Republicans are better for the economy. Just like how Trump is getting ready to get us into three separate wars (Venezuela Iran and Syria) but somehow the Republicans are American first and less likely to do a draft.

Yeah, one of the things I like about Claude (and Gemini 3 as opposed to 2.5) is that they really clamped down on the use of "Oh, now I've got it! This is absolutely the FINAL fix to the problem, we've totally solved it now! Here, let me write out FIX_FINAL_SOLVED.md" with some half-arse solution. And yep, the answer to going in circles is usually either "nuke the chat" or "switch models".