The cool kids have been moving back to private forums and mailing lists for some time. AI slop just accelerates the change.

The point of buying Oculus for the VR hardware was to create the Metaverse where everyone would put on a VR headaset and log into Facebook to do things with their friends and relatives. But that market was taken by apps like VR Chat.

Obviously the plan was dumb, but it was a plan.

1. "The Public" are idiots.
2. How does "being traceable" somehow reduce crime? I seem to remember a study some years ago which found very few crime guns were traced because it either couldn't be done or there was no benefit to doing it.

"Tracing" is just another argument for registration, which is another word for confiscation.

Imagine going back in time and telling the founders that people would have to get permission from the government to make a gun.

Back in the modern world, there's nothing illegal in the US in making guns for personal use and many people do. This law is both idiotic and blatantly unconstitutional.

You can't make sensible predictions in a world run by clowns.

Yes. It's AI slop doing a very good recreation of Hollywood slop.

Some of the AI Stormtrooper Vlogs were better than anything official Star Wars has produced in decades. Which is probably why they got the videos removed from Youtube.

They're just worried that some guy in his bedroom can now produce better movies than billion-dollar corporations.

The goal is to turn the entire population into children so they won't rebel against their masters.

Also to force ID on all social media accounts by demanding everyone prove they're not a teen.

It'll be pretty boring thought because the "lawyers" will be AI bots.

If there were "Muh Runaway Processes", we wouldn't exist because the Earth would have melted millions of years ago.

And the stupid are the ones clinging to "Muh Climate Change" now AI data centres are the New Hotness. You can't have "Net Zero" and massive AI data centres using terawatts of power.

I believe part of the problem is that every bit three car has to cover thousands of dollars of pension payments to retired Boomers. So it makes no sense to try to sell cheap cars.

I don't really see how high-cost Western manufacturers with big pension costs can compete with Chinese manufacturers paying peanuts.

> We enjoyed an unprecedentedly high standard of living while the US could go off and be exceptional all they wanted

Because Americans were paying to defend you so you could afford to follow crazy policies and fund bloated welfare states.

A typical EU country rakes in 40-50% of GDP in taxes of one form or other. Just to increase defence spending from 2%-5% of GDP means cutting 6-8% from the rest of government spending. Most of that will have to come out of welfare.

At the same time your industrial corporations are moving elsewhere due to insane energy prices.

> You threatened our borders.

Dude, you opened your borders to everyone with a pulse.

Anyone remember that time that Hillary Clinton leaked the IDs of CIA spies in China to China and the CPC executed them all?

But I watched an interesting interview with John Le Carre (the spy writer) a while ago and he was talking about how the informants he recruited mostly just loved the idea of betraying people and did it for kicks. They probably don't think far enough ahead to imagine being betrayed themselves.

What happened was that the predictions of science didn't live up to the hype, and people realized that many scientists were actually idiots, grifters or sociopaths.

It's pretty much a trope that coffee has been bad for us one week and then good for us again the next week, ad infinitum.

There's a limit to the number of times people will listen to failed prophets.

You might also want to read Eisenhower's Farewell Address where he warns of the risks of government funding of science. The mass production of 'scientists' has let to an entire industry of people who have to find something to warn about or they'll be back on the dole queue on Monday.

This is why so many people just rip their Blurays and don't bother trying to get them to play on a Bluray player.