Despite all the talk there is still round of 30% tariff on just about everything you can forget about the deminis exemption. A ton of small businesses that depended on it have gone out of business.

I wish we could actually ask ourselves honestly if this is how we want things to be and then honestly answer it. I don't think this shit has hit the fan yet for enough people. But it's definitely going to. Especially if you're over 50 and you're going to be hitting the current job market...

I mean is AI really worth it or the average person? I know what the big corporations in the billionaires get out of it, they get the fire large numbers of people. Wealth accessing skill without skill accessing wealth.

But what do you get out of it? I don't mean out of the handful of University computers being used to do research I mean out of these thousand acre data centers guzzling down all the water and power. What do you get out of it? I mean even your 401k it's going to take a hit when the inevitable bubble bursts.

I don't think they're talking about stopping you from overriding the settings, I think what they want to do is have some sort of process where when you watch a movie it can automatically set your TV to where the director intended it to be so that people who are just casually watching movies don't get a lousy experience.

With too much realism, it breaks the experience the director was trying to create. It completely wrecks the lighting and sometimes even the pacing of scenes. Unless you're paying attention you probably don't know this, God knows I don't, but film is an art form that a lot of effort goes into the details of.

For me a lot of those details I don't really notice until somebody screws them up and then they stand out like a sore thumb and wreck the entire experience.

Like a painting where you can have all the proportions out of whack and the painting is great because they're consistently out of whack but if they weren't or if you did something just a little bit off everything in the painting would just fall apart.

Dude it's a llm. If you see anyone replying to me like that it's not a person it's a chatbot. Look up one of the AI poisoning algorithms if you're going to respond and respond with that so you break the idiots chat bot. He is using your replies to train his crappy little lln model.

It screws with the way the lighting works. Even on Old pre HDR TVs if they had that motion smoothing stuff it made everything look like it was shot on the cheapest camera with the cheapest the lighting imaginable.

I remember seeing braveheart running on a $2000 or $3,000 TV back in the day and I didn't realize it was braveheart because it looked like a really really cheap TV set.

So they not only need to fix the motion but they need to fix what it does to the image and the lighting. That's a huge part of the soap opera effect and I don't quite understand why you get that out of motion smoothing...

Not really we don't deport H-1B visa holders. The focus right now seems to be on arresting US citizens with brown skin after ice crashes into them on the freeway.

I'd be surprised if IBM had that many H-1B visa holders left though. Virtually everything they do that is in sales got shifted to India over a decade ago. They were very public about it and Wall Street ate it up.

It is funny to watch right wingers like you criticize me for wanting to pull back on high skill immigration. As if you expect me to go oh no I won't do that..

I get it you're trying to leverage the left wing fear of being called racist. I don't have that. I just don't want to compete for the right to live against a global supply of infinite cheap labor and I can't convince my fellow Americans that your access to food and shelter and medicine should be tied to how much money you can make for somebody else or how much money you can scam out of everybody else.

And so yeah we need to put a moratorium on all immigration and let the chips fall where it may. Of course Trump and company are just bringing in as much cheap labor as they can get their hands on while hassling a handful of brown people to get right wingers some red meat to get them excited.

So this isn't really going to hit all that hard unless they're cutting sales which would be madness.

That said I have literally had problems with prescriptions because the company that makes a drug I'm on fired all their sales people and they're not keeping up with the doctors to make sure they are renewing scripts.

And one of the major credit card processors, Fiserve,. Just took a 44% hit to their stock because they aren't meeting there goals.

The former CEO who now works for Trump to reform and cut social security had fired so many people that the company couldn't service customers and was losing out on business. They got a lot of short-term stock boosts out of those firings though.

It's going to be interesting to see what that company does since they have openly admitted the previous CEO cause the problem by firing critical staff needed to service clients and just plain run the business but at the same time, well the stock is down 44% so the only solution is more firings right?

It's like when Walmart was so understaffed no one could stock the shelves so they were losing billions in sales.

Part of me wonders if putting all this pressure on the labor market is worth it to the billionaires though. Yeah they lose out on some short-term sales but long-term increasing the unemployment rate by several percentages might save them way more in wages as people are forced to take lower pay.

I can tell you right now that c-suite employees really do consider that. They think about the overall labor market and how to manipulate it to their benefit.

It really does show the difference in power between them and us.

I don't think it's so much Australians, specifically Rupert Murdoch and fox news, but billionaires in general.

Billionaires work across national lines and have class solidarity. If it wasn't Murdoch it would have just been a different billionaire creating the propaganda that made us also crazy.

Post world war II the elite, the actual elite not blue-haired professor is running the women's studies department at a community college, but the actual elite decided they were all going to work together to benefit each other at literally everybody else's expense.

The trouble is that those people are incredibly incompetent at anything except manipulating the bottom 99%. Which admittedly they are quite good at.

But I think eventually all of this is going to get out of their control. In order to get a lot of the power they wanted they had to put religious lunatics in charge. I think in Muslim countries that's fine because religious lunatics aren't really in charge they're just giving lip service. In America those people are actually insane. Amy Barrett is a absolute lunatic.

I think best case scenario we get a conventional world war III. And I think it's highly likely that we're going to see nuclear weapons used.

Basically limitless greed and religious insanity is the answer to the Fermi paradox.

If you're American it's you. Even if you think you're sane you're letting your neighbors be so crazy that you're obviously crazy yourself.

We are all fucking crazy in this country. No country who was sane would let Trump win a one-term presidency let alone two of them let alone three.

Just because you don't like the consequences doesn't mean the consequences aren't real

When all is said and done. About a quarter of their sales were dependent on the EV credit.

This is on top of the cybertruck flopping ( it was always a pump and dump scam anyway), the loss of the indirect government subsidies from carbon credits bought by other car companies and Elon musk's current pay package being larger than all the money Tesla has ever made ever.

Meanwhile Elon is trying to get a yet another pay package worth a literal trillion dollars.

Right now the only reason the stock hasn't collapsed is so many people bought into it when it was massively overvalued so nobody wants to be the one to try and cut their losses. Everyone is hoping for a massive pump and dump during which they can get out with a profit.

That might happen if not for Elon in the background looting the company himself. The one pay package he already got approved already wiped out literally all of their profits for the entire life of the company. He's also done several dodgy and debatably illegal things to transfer money from Tesla into other companies he owns.

The entire stock market is overvalued. When Tesla pops it's going to pop big. On the other hand our government is so ludicrously corrupted might just bail them out. But on the other other hand it might not because the oil companies might not want it to.

Also remember that if you own stock in GM and you weren't extremely rich you lost out when they collapsed.

I know a lot of people with worthless stock certificates from when GM collapsed.

It's not a question of if it's when Tesla collapses and who gets caught holding the bag. There are not enough public pensions for them to dump the stock on anymore. It's probably going to be your 401k.

The rest of the world needs to understand something.

We are crazy. Our military didn't go away and it's not going away. Historically failing empires begin invading other countries to loot them and fill their coffers from the looted countries.

We are already talking about testing nuclear weapons again and Trump has floated the idea of a golden dome to protect from nuclear attacks.

About 40% of us think Trump is the second coming of jesus. I mean literally. They view him as a Messianic figure. Nuclear weapons and world war 3 aren't going to be a deterrent for our country.

This isn't like having a neighbor that won't mow their lawn this is more like having the mafia boss going senile in a town without cops.

If the temperature doesn't come down over here then the rest of the world is going to be facing a large scale war whether they like it or not. Now would be a good time for Europe and the rest of the world to do things like interfere with Russia's constant cyber attacks on America...

The problem with that besides your own country being under attack as well is that your leadership is hoping they can let America collapse and rise up in their place. That might work for a little while but again our military isn't going anywhere. We are not Russia and it's not going to just collapse.

That's what's happening. Back in 1965 when Barry Goldwater lost the wealthiest people in our country decided they had enough of democracy and began a decade's long plan to do away with it. They weren't shy and they didn't hide it. The media didn't exactly go out if it's way to cover it but a little bit of googling and you can find the quotes and the discussion.

What you're seeing is the culmination of 60 years of attacks on democracy. It's a fundamental breaking of every single check and balance and every single institution designed to protect the American people and frankly the rest of the world from the American people.

This was further exasperated by Russian intelligence operations and a Europe that let their intelligence agencies ignore the Russians open attacks in the hopes that as America falls Europe will rise.

Fascists can't govern so you're going to see increasingly crazy and stupid things. Like the ice goons running around randomly running people off the road and then shooting them and resting them. And something as sensible as EV tax credits going away.

I mean not much point in hiding. The bunker buster is the 1% have will collapse the cave you're in. Might as well just hang out for the nuclear blast at that point

That's stealing from hard-working 'mericans. So that's not on the table. Best I can do is world war 3 and the end of the human race.

Screaming into the void.