I don't know my 74 Volvo seem to do just fine. Same with the 84 Volvo station wagon I had. I miss that station wagon. I got rear-ended by a guy who just finished a 12-hour fast food shift on his way to his kid's birthday party.

On the other hand if you're going to have a SUV the car itself is going to be a lot heavier so it's going to need more support to keep the thing from collapsing if it rolls.

But that doesn't explain why a lot of cars are built like that. I get the sports cars because people drive those things at speeds do not supposed to but my kid's Corolla had pretty crappy visibility.

You need to do something about antitrust law violations

And if you want that, then you need to make political trade-offs. You are going to have to give something up if antitrust is important to you. At least if you are a typical slashdot reader.

It's unlikely that folks are going to give that up so we're not going to see antitrust law enforcement or Linux on the desktop.

Because every single time Linux on the desktop is a threat Microsoft will take some office money and use it to give Windows away for free or less than free because of free support contracts. Extremely illegal but they've been doing it for at least 30 years now and getting away with it.

Christ I remember when the CEO of Acer had his drunken rant. Might have been Asus I always confused those two.

You got data and studies to back that up right? Because I guarantee you Jerome Powell has data and studies to back up what he said.

I don't care for the man, he told senator Warren he wanted 15 million layoffs and had zero plans to stop the layoffs once they started hitting. But regardless of what I think of him he doesn't do anything unless he's got data in front of him.

That the judiciary has had for as long as I've been alive at least that's used to curtail abuse of government power.

Donald Trump and the project 2025 goons running the show behind him are fully intending to use this ruling to negate birthright citizenship.

It does not matter what the law says. Trump can just deport people, including you, and unless you are very well off or you happen to wonder into national attention you are in for a world of hurt.

That wasn't true before this ruling. In the past, I.e yesterday, a judge could order a nationwide injunction on deporting people who are citizens.

Now every single individual person has to litigate in order to get an injunction and by then you're on a plane to El Salvador.

That is the plan project 2025 has. They are doing an end run around the systems designed to protect you.

Every single check and balance and every single institution designed to protect you from the government has been compromised. The voters were the final line of defense and they have failed us.

They will come for your house. For your property. There are at least a couple dozen billionaires vying to be the first trillionaire and they will seize your property to do it. None of them are capable men so they can't add enough value to the world to be trillionaires. But they want it. And so the only way they can get it is by taking what's yours.

I'm sure you've heard the phrase the banality of evil. That's what's going on here. It's a series of steps that lead to the kind of tyranny that ends in you losing your house.

Note that I didn't say it's a slope. It steps. One at a time one after the other. We've been doing this since Barry Goldwater lost and the right wing hooked up with the Evangelical extremists.

You're going to be homeless in your 60s. Maybe you're 70s if you're already 60. Or maybe you will live the American dream and die before they take it off. But at this point it's one or the other and you don't get to pick which.

They are downright claustrophobic. Itty bitty tiny windows designed to make it feel like you're in a armored car or something. I think it's because the focus groups say that makes people feel safer but I just find it miserable.

So even in the summary he is literally acknowledging everything you say but at the same time saying that the technology will continue to be worked on. And it will eventually become a job destroyer.

Remember he's not the one making that assessment. He is just reporting on the assessment. He is the head of the federal reserve. He has legions of minions running studies and numbers and taking that data and giving it to him. You aren't just hearing Jerome Powell speak you are hearing a metric fuck ton of analysts speaking through him.

A year ago every single AI picture had six fingers and now you can't tell them apart from real people unless you spend a bunch of time looking for specific small mistakes.

I saw an obvious AI video of a Asian man frying up underwear and honestly the only way I could tell it was fake was that in the background there was a guy with an umbrella that had a 2 ft Spike on top of it. But I didn't notice that until somebody in the comments pointed it out. I did obviously know that people don't fry underwear for street food but if it was a less ridiculous video and it first glance I wouldn't have caught that it was ai.

So all that in about a year.

What Powell is saying is that the genie is out of the bottle. And again it's not Powell saying that it's the legions of analysts providing him the data.

70% of middle class jobs lost in the last 45 years got taken by automation. Mostly factory automation and broad-scale process improvement that goes with it.

You know all those learn to code memes? That's why they exist. Economists know this but they don't talk about it except in these weird abstract terms that unless you are also in economist you would have no idea what they're talking about.

And we can't all just go be plumbers because at the end of the day plumbers have been relying on two things to keep themselves employed. A strong White collar working class that is pretty well paid and can afford to hire plumbers and growing cities so that there are new markets for them to start businesses and since you don't really make all that much money as a plumber if you aren't running your own business.

This represents a fundamental shift in our work culture and we are simply not ready for it as a society.

C-level employment is essentially the ruling class. You don't replace your ruling class like that.

We aren't going to deploy it to get rid of the people who tell us what to do and make us work longer hours for less pay. That's just not how capital works.

And make no mistake AI is capital. It's a thing that you own that generates wealth. It is definitely capital.

And it's going to be owned by a very small subset of people because as more and more AI slop makes itself into the general world the only people who will be able to keep their models trained or going to be people who own platforms where they can monitor people using devices and keep track of who's a person and who is an AI swap bot. So by it's basic design AI is something that is going to be held by the top platform holders and therefore a handful of billionaires and big shareholders.

I just do not think we are ready for this. It's a third industrial revolution and if you dig into the history of the first two it did not go well for workers. We didn't get back to full employment until we had world wars.

I guess though if we kill off 20 or 30% of the working population entrenches again that would solve the employment problem. Since we're going to have to rebuild everything we just blew up. Again if you know your history you know that the reason America is where it is, is because we were the only country with a functioning manufacturing Base Post world war II because we were the only country that didn't get bombed into Oblivion.

You sound like a moron.

The mail girl was an example of executive nest fluffing. As stated.

My staff loved me. I had people directly asking to join my team. You know nothing about me. I ran lean highly skilled very difficult to replace teams with quality people who will never have reason to fear these dumb "AI" will replace them. If anything they'll be the people configuring and managing those systems to replace countless useless people. People like you.

You also completely failed to address my point because you know it's true and that hurts. I will restate for the short bus people (you): if you are easily replaced by an AI then your job was fluffy crap and you need to get real skills or go pick lettuce. There is no need for telephone switch operators. No one cried for them and no one will cry for these fluffy nest people later either after the workforce is rebuilt without them.

The only problem I see is dumb executives wasting this opportunity to increase my stock portfolio's value. The ones who don't will be ground to dust, parted out and shut down. Averaged 11% annualized under Biden, doing about 14% annualized under Trump. Expecting higher as primitive "AI" replaced expenses useless people and defluffs countless executives' nests.

And no, artists are not important or they'd get paid more. Did you think that was some kind of gotcha? It isn't. And while we're on that, how much art have you bought? Maybe some shitty prints? I don't buy much art but when I do I buy originals and only hand made jewelry for my wife and girl. How about you?

You sound like one of the bitter useless fluffy people that will be easily replaced by some primitive "AI". How are your lettuce picking skills?