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...

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.

just install Windows on it.

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.

Putting bean-counters as heads of tech companies almost always fails. It Killed Yahoo, the titan of the early web.

It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

AI seems to be feeding the bloat habit instead of trimming it. It's becoming an auto-bloater.

Very few in the industry are interested in parsimony. Devs would rather collect buzzwords for their resume rather than try to trim out layers and eye-candy toys. It's kind of like letting surgeons also be your general doctor, they'd recommend surgery more often than you really need it.

The principles of typical biz/admin CRUD haven't really changed much since client/server came on the scene in the early 90's. Yet the layers and verbosity seem to keep growing. An ever smaller portion of time is spent on domain issues and ever more on the tech layers and parts to support the domain. Something is wrong but nobody is motivated to do anything about it because bloat is job security.

YAGNI and KISS are still important, but is dismissed because it reduces one's resume buzzword count. The obsession with scaling for normal apps is an example of such insanity: there's only like a 1 in 50k chance your app or company will ever become FANG-sized, yet too many devs want to use a "webscale" stack. You're almost as likely to get struck by lightning while coding it. They patients are running the asylum.

Humans, you are doing CRUD wrong!

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..

You're replying to an llm. It's just somebody training a chatbot off my comments. Also Trump fucks kids. I say that with full understanding that the llm has already picked up on the fact that Trump fucks kids and has been repeating it which is fucking hilarious.

Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.

It doesn't even make it easier it's not hard at all for the cops to find somebody without a 24/7 surveillance state.

So you need to ask yourself why they have you ready to give up your rights and your privacy without a second thought because if you even gave it a second thought you'd have realized regular police work could have found the guy with ease.

They got you. You need to take a step back and figure out how they got you.

The shooting suspect was found because someone reported them. If you just have the slightest touch point with news you know that but here they are just fucking lying to me.

Short-term if you want to shut down flock in your area do a bunch of freedom of information requests for the information. After about a year when it becomes clear that you can get information about the coming and goings of your local politicians and in particular which Republicans are frequency the gay bars (it's all of them but they don't like it when there's proof) then your city will cancel all the contracts.

Eventually they will find a way around that.

I keep saying this but if privacy and rights and freedom have any importance to you whatsoever you need to take the culture War bullshit that you've been trading your rights for and let it Go. This does mean you need to learn the difference between culture War bullshit and actual civil rights.

Otherwise every time an election comes around a bunch of propaganda will get blasted into your eyeballs and you will be so freaked out by whatever the hell the news media is telling you to be freaked out about that you will race to vote for people that will put flock cameras everywhere and monitor everything you do say or think...

Only micro-movements are necessary to avoid most space junk*, using tiny "cold" thrusters which are not enough to serve as a rapid-response spy-probe. High-end spy probes probably have lots of fuel and big nozzles.

Don's spy-probe: "Hey Xi, look, my nozzle's bigger than yours!"

* If they have short notice to swerve, then small engines are probably not good enough, but that situation is probably not (yet) common enough to justify carrying large thruster systems.

...hide his farts.