Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.

They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.

Frankly, it is both. Blackstone notably bought up the starter homes, but a lot of the bigger ones have been purchased by boomers to run as unlicensed hotels through airbnb. I know one woman who lives in Eureka who owns four or five homes which are exclusively used in this manner. With the vulture capitalists buying up the starter homes, and boomers buying up the bigger ones, there's only apartments and mobile homes left...

For a percentage of people this would not be harmful. You could identify those people because they would reject it as fake.

For the people who fall for it, it will be immensely harmful to their emotional development. It will confuse their whole concept of life and death. Death is part of life, and so is learning to accept it. Fucking with your mind with charlatan's tricks will only have negative outcomes. This is the waifu pillow equivalent of dealing with death.

This is becoming increasingly common in the USA too, and we also have a social credit score. It's called your credit score, and if it's not good you will have difficulty getting a job, renting an apartment... Except here it's more of an antisocial credit score since the only thing it cares about is whether you've been a good economic citizen.

War's not a problem which can be addressed through language, so what you said is silly. If you forced changes in language somehow which made it less violent, people would just invent new words for violence which glorify it even more.

So you mean they could pass down history in an oral tradition for thousands of years?

While I agree with much that you write, I disagree with this.

China is still mostly known for cheap, unreliable crap. Maybe they can make better things (excluding the ones that they simply copied 100%, factory and all, from western companies) but they don't export them. There's plenty of garbage coming out of China, while things "made in Germany" and western brands in general still have a much better reputation.

late-stage capitalism.

Communism self-destructed in the end. I fear capitalism will do the same. And if the fall of Communism teaches us one thing then it is that it can all go really, really fast.

Quite to the contrary, I guess. This is a move out of the "Make China Great Again" textbook.

Sure, short-term there might be a shortage of certain chips. But they'll produce their own in no time, and then even if the political landscape changes and we're all friends again, they won't buy from US companies again.

Opportunity costs are a thing.

But yes, as far as bancruptcies go, getting back all your money is a rare event.

I recall when the top Google phone was an LG product which was unreliable and unrepairable trash. The digitizer on my Nexus 4 died and the replacement cost was more than buying a new phone.

Naturally I did not buy another Nexus device. Been buying Moto since. No regerts.

If they give it more battery then it will have a longer useful life (as the battery degrades, and the OS updates cause more power consumption) and then you won't have to buy a new product as soon. They are specifically and only targeting sales frequency with their battery sizing across all of their battery devices.

Alcohol is inherently dangerous in at least two ways. One, it's toxic. Two, it reduces inhibitions in exactly the way that the other substance you mentioned (weed) doesn't. That's why it raises accident risk but weed doesn't - people on weed are able to recognize and account for impairment by driving slower and maintaining longer following distances.

The problem with the auto body repair business is that it's toxic AF. Most people don't last long in that environment, sometimes literally. When you spray paint, it's around half solvent. There are water based paints, but they don't perform as well as the solvent-based ones. When unibodies are painted they spray the whole thing and then bake the paint so hot that it reflows, which is how they get a good result even with water-based paints. Body shops can't do that when they make a repair.

Engine repair is much less toxic, but also in much less demand. By the time most vehicles need an engine rebuild, they need a lot of other stuff too. Doing an expensive engine job and winding up with a sloppy old car anyway makes little sense. And the number of people needed is waning as we shift towards electrics; not rapidly yet, but meaningfully. I wouldn't go into that career at this point, it would be exactly the wrong time.

If history is any indication, AI will be overused, then there will be a backlash and it will be underused, and eventually use will seek the middle. It might flop back and forth a few times, too.

It's already being overpromised, so that part of the usual pattern is already being fulfilled.

The kind of processing "AI" does now is clearly only part of the thinking process, the imagining part, or hallucinating as it's commonly called where AI is involved. We imagine a whole bunch of things and then filter out the dumbest ones, hopefully anyway. We can understand the things we've imagined. AI can't, because it's not thinking about them.

There is probably no heaven or hell, though, except what we create here.

So they've found the mechanism, right?

No, they don't. Coal and nuclear plants aren't located near residences either, but we still lose under 5% in transmission in the USA. The losses are higher than local, but not anything you could reasonably call "high".