MS could be far more evil than they are, given their power and market-share. At least Satya is the devil we know.

Lying to the Board and lying to the public are different things.

It means you have a much less stressful job.

We know what ages people. It's over work. And it appears that once you get past 32 hours that's qualifies as over work, let alone the 50 or 60 the average American is doing right now. Just a reminder that Americans now work more hours than the Japanese...

Somebody that is putting in 50 or 60 hours a week on top of kids or something isn't going to a museum or even the library. They are lying on the couch exhausted maybe watching TV or maybe even too exhausted to do that.

Incidentally this is why actors tend to age so well. Less stress and more sleep and rest mean you age less. It's also why being president of the United States tends to age people. Because the job involves constant work and long hours and enormous stress. I mean unless you're the current guy. The job doesn't seem to be aging him in the slightest. I mean not anymore than he already is...

Yes, indirect benefits and taxation is core to how government services work. You can lose money in one sector and recoup from the gains in others. Cheap and reliable post service has been a backbone of the US economy since its inception, these are like force multipliers. You'd have to show me the USPS has always been "profitable" as a counterexample.

You even use "acceptable cost" so you get what I'm saying, we are just arguing over the amount that is acceptable.

Yes I will excoriate Republicans because they have never, ever in my life cared about root causes.

You want a return to pre 1970s USPS which means fully government controlled. Republicans don't want this. You want USPS reform, Republicans don't want this, they want to divest and privatize it.

Democrats may sometimes throw goodoney after bad but they also get actual governance done, they pass bills. Infrastructure, Chips act, inflation reduction act; all passed under Biden and those bills have project Republicans are taking credit for even while most voted against it.

Republicans can't govern, they have never cared about root causes because they are forced under positions and chose a leader who simply does not understand the concept.

Can you point me to one speech or anything where Trump understand the cause and solution to a root cause issue?

To take a hike and the billionaire backing it just built it anyway and told the town to go fuck themselves.

You can't have billionaires and sovereignty. You can't have that much power in the hands of one person and pretend that you don't have to do what they tell you to do.

I mean I guess you can pretend. But at the end of the day when they say jump you're going to say how high on the way up.

Yeah what scares me about that is it's clearly automatic bots making those picks on the stock market and it really shouldn't be something that can move stock prices that much. I can see a few idiots running bots maybe even a few of the rich assholes doing it but not enough to take a dying shoe store and bump its stock to 127 million.

That's a sign of a fundamentally unsound system that's going to come crashing down soon.

I wouldn't care but every time it crashes it comes down on my head. The entire system is designed to wreck my finances and anyone's finances when they work for a living and leave the top 10% untouched.

It used to be the top 20% was untouched but that number gets smaller every year. Heck it's possible that only the top four or five percent is going to come out unscathed this time around

Genies are fun and good. The djinn are generally malevolent spirits seeking to take advantage of people's greed and gullibility.

Somebody did some math on one of the mega data centers they want to build in Utah and it's the equivalent of dropping 23 atomic bombs in terms of heat output. It's going to basically destroy the local environment.

There's another case of locals telling the data center no and the billionaire funding it just started building it and told them go fuck yourself I'm in charge here.

And there's another data center that guzzled down 30 million gallons of water without telling anyone and now the community has groundwater shortages and might even have serious structural stability issues that come from taking out too much water too fast.

All of this so that a handful of Epstein class members don't have to pay wages.

Because make no mistake that is what this is about. It's about replacing people with machines so the people at the top don't have to pay those of us at the bottom.

FTFY.

I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.

It sounds like he's just doing basically like a Google search for a news topic. Using Twitter chat as the source to determine what the highest ranking search result is. To limit the amount of searching he's doing and to get attention he's focusing on news stories discussing AI.

There is absolutely nothing new here he's just trying to use an algorithm to pick up popular news stories and display them on his website. And he is limiting the type of news stories to ones that discuss AI.

It sounds like a big thing until you actually stop and think about it. It's still just a shitty aggregator just an automated shitty aggregator...

It's not going to go anywhere as far as people using it but throwing the words AI here and there might get some clueless investors to give him some money. But man this reeks of desperation

rivals like AMD and Intel offer competitive specs on paper, but their software stacks have struggled with bugs, compatibility issues, and weak adoption. As a result, Nvidia has built an Apple-like moat around AI computing, leaving the industry dependent on its expensive hardware.

Nvidia's competitors need to work together to improve open-source software tooling and to standardize hardware interfaces, or else go the way of Commodore and Tandy.

What I'm saying is that if everyone had IPv6 in their homes and offices, remote access wouldn't require all the silly cloud server games. You could just hit the device directly by its IPv6 address, and assuming your router suppoerts UPNP pinholes, you're done. You'd need dynamic DNS and that's it.

An emergency stop button in the app should be able to do the same thing. If that's not possible, it's a rather bad design flaw.

Also, if something jams in a way that could cause meaningful damage (beyond having to brush blobs of filament off of the hot end) and the printer doesn't detect it, that's also a rather bad design flaw.

Keep in mind there are dozens of other visa and immigration programs that we all just kind of lump under H1B as people who are getting replaced by cheap foreign labor.

If H1B was the only high skilled worker program then it's only about 60,000 people a year and it wouldn't really have much effect. But it's one of dozens of programs to bring in cheap labor.

The frustrating thing is as I pointed out on another comment without influx of immigrants we're going to go into a massive recession just like Japan did for the exact same reason and it's basically a permanent recession. However when those immigrants come here they take a limited number of slots in our society where someone is allowed to be a functioning adult. So you're basically trading social stability for economic recession.

If our economy did wealth redistribution so that the money generated by those immigrants didn't just line the pockets of a handful of Epstein class members this wouldn't be an issue but well, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Assuming our civilization survives the AI apocalypse, and I don't mean kill a robots I mean huge amounts of automation creating massive unemployment and leading to conflict in war, then it's a problem we're going to have to deal with anyway though because the entire planet has plummeting birth rates because we demand women into the workforce and women in the workforce don't crank out babies so it's going to be a problem we have to deal with someday but like I said, right now the solution seems to be to give religious lunatics the launch codes for nukes and let the Epstein class members hide out in there bunkers while we kill each other

Look we all know they're h1bs. GM didn't magically get less work to do in it just because they want to save money. There is a little bit of cutting back but most of that has already happened with the people in the EV division that got shit canned. So if they're firing people they are either shipping the jobs overseas which is tough to do because they've already shipped as many jobs overseas as they can or more likely they've got a batch of fresh work visas to replace Americans with.

But the question becomes what are you, me or anyone else going to do about it? And please don't suggest violence it doesn't work. Violence inevitably devolves into right-wing extremism and right wing extremism only benefits the people who are making these decisions and who have private armies to protect themselves from you. After Luigi they all bought a bunch of security and paid for it with money pulled out of your pocket or by laying you off. The only people you can get to are shitty middle managers who didn't actually make any of the decisions involved and they are just as much on the chopping block as you and me.

The real problem here is so far no matter how many of us lose our jobs it does not change how we vote. We still vote for pro corporate establishment candidates. Sometimes we desperately pick a lunatic because they look like they might not be establishment but when we do that they inevitably turn out to be pro-establishment because of course they do.

There are plenty of good candidates that would fix these problems but when we do elect one we never give them enough political capital and power to do anything. Biden was doing some damn good work up there right up until the midterms when the Republican party took over Congress because voters like to hand Congress to whoever isn't in the White House. As soon as that happened everything ground to a halt.

So again this just brings up the question what are you going to actually do about it? Are you going to change how you vote? Are you going to bring up politics and the changes you've made to your voting patterns at Thanksgiving dinner? Are you going to pay more attention to the media you consume so that you're not consuming obvious propaganda? And if you're already doing all this things are you going to make your family do all those things or are you going to go with the flow because it's fun to be the crazy right wing uncle but it is no fun being the crazy left-wing uncle or the crazy pro worker and pro-union uncle or the crazy pro government regulation uncle.

And make everything even worse while I do believe we are going to have to do a moratorium on immigration that's going to drive the whole economy into a massive recession because we don't have the birth rates necessary to sustain our system without immigration and we don't have the will to change our system to account for that.

I don't really have a solution so apologies if I sound like I'm trolling but I'm just bringing up a bunch of completely intractable problems that are completely unsolvable because of how humans work....

Cheapskate co. doesn't want to pay for retraining from one IT specialty to another.

Well then we *mostly* agree. I would say the USPS should dissolve it's quasi-private structure and just return to it's pre-1970's structure and exist as a mostly public service. First class mail has such a wide ranging benefit for all other sectors of the economy that I don't really care if it runs at a bit of a loss. For packages and bulk mail service it can operate at the break-even level as described.

One things for sure, if reform is what we want the onyl path for it is the Democrats, even if we consider us cringe. I won't stand for Republicans disparaging it or pretending like they care or have solutions though.