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Comment Re: Obama can't run for a 3rd term (Score 1) 112

Then you are a sucker. Trump isn't good on any of those issues and he will prove it further.

As far as immigrants, they are not the top job killers; that is I.T. (for over a decade) and then probably outsourcing; AI will make the list soon. Trump isn't helping except on outsourcing. Also not top for crime either. Also not eating cats (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/video-headlines-immigrants-eating-cats/.)

If conservatives weren't so racist and sexist we'd not have to force quotas on you sneaky fucks. As far as pronouns, everybody hates those woke freaks and the cowards who give into them. If conservatives weren't selfish Luddites, we'd not be fighting them for herd immunity. If conservatives didn't want to indoctrinate people on their religious beliefs... or be total hypocrites...or hate science... or hate facts, logic, and maybe soon start attacking math once the Christian Taliban gets entrenched... Although the real god is mammon so enough math to handle money will always be allowed.

Comment Re:Headlines 3 years from now: (Score 1) 112

full quote
"Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."
The Origins of Totalitarianism 1951 p382

Comment Re:Headlines 3 years from now: (Score 1) 112

I remember as a teenager, when my peers learned about projecting guilt for misdirection. It manifested as farting and blaming others as farting. Variations on the expression "whomever smelt it dealt it" caught on fast (and before I ever heard it in pop culture.)

What is amazing is how many morons there are; who are adults but can't think beyond the teenage mind (the definition of moron,) like Trump... Trump being a teenager who learned the tactic and the followers being teens who have not yet still learned the tactic. Those who do, see it as a clever smart trick:

"totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; ... they had known all along that the statement was a lie"
The Origins of Totalitarianism 1951

Comment Re:Jesus Christ that is freaky double speak (Score 1) 112

It should have been a scandal that Trump took the oath of office WITHOUT using the bibles his wife was holding. It was a scandal when a Muslim used the Koran to take his oath... and when Obama used two bibles... Many would say he didn't actually take the oath. Not that he couldn't break his oath. again.

Comment Re:Jesus Christ that is freaky double speak (Score 1) 112

Ignorant people just make us all have to repeat history's mistakes forever. Humanity is so doomed... once a people get ignorant and lazy enough they undo progress and that cycle keeps humanity's potential limited. Just look at the USA for a live ongoing example.

You can't stop imaginary drug cartels when you believe everything you're told about them. As far as actual real problems, you can't stop sex or drugs completely and the pursuit of perfection is a road to hell.
I could solve the problems, but "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

How? legalization and smart regulation... People say government entering markets ruins them... well, you do that on purpose to ruin the black market (the only truly free market.) Free, safe, almost unlimited drug clinics where you can die if you wish and without harming anybody else. Actually kill the profit motive of the black market. Yes some people die; but only because of their choices - they'd die and harm many others along their determined path to destruction (not to mention fueling a black market.) So, yes, the solution is not one where nobody dies because such an answer does not exist. Impossible problems can only be solved it you fix the flawed description of the problem. This is why people can't ever find solutions to foolishly defined problems.

"If God wanted us to have unlimited free energy, he'd have put a giant fusion reactor in the sky."

Comment Re:Ring wing propoganda is a threat (Score 1) 112

What purge? Too many Nazi escaped and began the movements that became today's Fascists in the USA (Italian style,) Russia (Putin with his franchise of it,) and light on the extreme racism in the next gen implementations. Also, faked democracy is the modern form of most despotism; that way you keep the lower IQ portion placated and even supportive.

Comment Re:Bari Weiss (Score 1) 112

Rounding errors should be rounded off. It's nuts when people make a huge deal out of a few people with complaints while ignoring 10k who die of something viewed as harmless. Hydrogen Dioxide kills a ton of people each year and do we even bother giving any time to those who bitch about the dangers of having it around?

How many of us know people who leave a bad review for something because they were too stupid to realize the product needed batteries or to be plugged in? Just because somebody has a problem does not mean it is not totally 100% their fault and they are blaming something else. Ignore the cranks; it's reasonable and mature to do.

"Dog Bites Man" is worthy news that could be useful but instead we get "Man Bites Dog" as news "infotainment" which wastes our time.

Comment Re:Luckily there is an intertwined multi conductor (Score 1) 35

That's why both vehicles and chargers are typically designed to let you quickly change out the charge connector. At least on Teslas, it's something like a half-hour job to swap out the charge port, and Tesla Mobile Service can do it without you even bringing in the car. And commercial-grade EV chargers typically have cords that are field-swappable. (Whether cheap consumer-grade chargers do or not, I couldn't say.)

Comment Re:I see a problem with no solutions (Score 1) 77

You can't doom people too much; they don't listen enough as it is.

Most people like 3/4 have an optimistic bias, it's likely a genetic "feature" as well. Whatever it's cause, it is a BIAS while us so-called pessimists are actually the realists who lack this reality distortion gene; that is not to say that some people don't have a psychological pessimistic problem, but we don't have that gene influencing us.

I've been thinking perhaps one needs to throw them a bone so they don't grasp at the wrong headed escapes to maintain their optimism. Not exactly sure what but perhaps providing a positive counter measure somebody is doing they could at least think about if not help out. Some seem to hint at this in their whining about being given only problems and they need some escapes; rather than most simply avoiding problems completely with distractions or dismissals or wishful thinking.

Comment Re:Luckily there is an intertwined multi conductor (Score 2) 35

I recently evaluated a 200W wireless charging system. I thought it would be like 50% efficient, but, it was 90%. I was very impressed! It totally changed my mind as to if this was a "good direction" for charging.

Even if it is 90%, that's still an 11% increase in power consumption. Now consider a car. If you are driving two or three hundred miles per week, that might be 50 to 100 kWh per week. At California prices, that could mean an extra $2.50 to $5 per week, or $130 to $260 per year.

This is not a small amount of power loss we're talking about anymore.

Comment Re:IDC (Score 2) 97

This consumer doesn't care if it's a meat or generated actor, as long as it's entertaining. If they can keep the generated one away from politics, I'll probably like it more than the meat.

And the argument is bullshit; all the meat actors trained by watching other meat actors, too.

By the way, they're doomed, resistance is futile, AI will be taking over. They might be able to collect some rent for not doing anything for a while, making entertainment more expensive for consumers, but at some point there will be no new meat actors.

Nah, there will be plenty of them working at every cafe in Hollywood just like they are now.

But in all seriousness, the real problem with acting as a career is that only maybe one or two percent of the people who graduate with degrees in drama actually end up acting as a career. Maybe a quarter of them manage to get some odd jobs on the side doing a little bit of voice acting or hand modeling or whatever, but it doesn't pay the bills. The rest of them end up doing other things. There are far more people who want to act than there are jobs that can pay them.

And the reason for this is because Hollywood rakes in huge amounts of money for a small number of elite actors and actresses, and leaves no market for much of anything else. That's changing somewhat with the rise of streaming, but even there, the number of companies doing production is relatively small, and the amount of content they produce is quite limited. In other words, acting wasn't ever really a realistic career in the first place.

And because most of the money went to the wealthy people at the top instead of being turned into more production, and because copyright has made it so that studios can reissue old films and sit on their laurels and make money off of their back catalogs instead of being forced to compete with the public domain by creating new content as the creators of copyright law originally intended, we're seeing more consolidation and less production. Every year, seasons get shorter, fewer shows get greenlit, etc.

So the way I see it, this is destroying a job that was already in decline and hard to get, while in the process creating a giant pile of new jobs for content creators at a different level. I'm not sure that's a bad thing. And there will still be people who choose to act. They'll just be doing it on stage, in schools, in short films that people create for fun, and so on.

Comment Re:Amazon enshittification (Score 1) 114

Honestly thats exactly why its genius Amazons inline video ads arent some random annoyance theyre a masterclass in subtle marketing Youre already in a buying mindset actively browsing products so these ads hit when youre most receptive

Hahahahah. Receptive. Sure. When I'm wasting half an hour or more of my time trying to find a very specific product that meets very specific requirements and can be delivered in a tight timeframe, I'm going to be happily distracted by an ad and say, "Oh, maybe I should buy toilet paper, too." If Amazon's search didn't suck harder than a black hole, maybe, but as long as it's an uphill battle just to buy things on Amazon, and as long as 75% of my purchases end up with me doing a carefully tailored Google search to get to the products that I'm trying to buy instead of the higher-margin, but useless products that they're trying to push, their ads are just going to piss me off even more.

Instead of waiting for you to leave and maybe forget what you wanted Amazon reminds you of complementary items you might genuinely need

I leave when I make a purchase or conclude that I could not find what I needed. And every extra distraction that gets in the way of finding what I needed makes the latter more likely than the former. It's self-defeating. See also my comment above about seeing products locked in a cage and giving up before someone came to unlock it and ordering it on Amazon. If Amazon becomes too inconvenient, I'll buy it on AliExpress.com or Walmart.com instead.

Its targeted its efficient and it often saves you the mental effort of searching for alternatives

Do you know, out of all the times I've shopped at Amazon, what percentage of the time an alternative was worth considering? I always have a list of requirements, and products that don't meet all of those requirements are of no value to me. When I'm looking for 6mmx30mm hex pan head machine screws, knowing that Amazon also has 5mmx30mm machine screws and 6mmx30mm countersink Phillips screws is of no value, because I need the exact product that I'm searching for. Again, all that does is make it more likely for me to leave and buy it somewhere else.

Maybe 1% of the time, I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. And even then, I know enough to reject large swaths of products in a particular space. What's missing is the "Don't ever show me products like this one again" button. That's what makes Amazon so miserable is that there are so many hundreds of vendors selling the exact same products with different name badges, and you can't find the legitimate products by established vendors for all the dross.

You could see it as bombarding but really its just smart datadriven commerce making the shopping experience more complete and if you think about it sometimes you discover stuff you didnt even know you wanted

And I've literally never, in all the years I've spend many thousands of dollars per year on Amazon, bought anything because of any of that. So clearly it doesn't work, it isn't smart, and it isn't data-driven, because if it were, they would have realized that they're just wasting my time and pissing me off, and they would have stopped showing me that crap.

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