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Comment MPAR (Score 5, Insightful) 107

Smart people lose interest in social media when they realise they're just arguing with the TV because most people are NPCs who can't do anything but repeat The Current Narrative.

It's become even worse now half the posts are AI-generated and half the rest are paid political grifters. If I want actual discussion I got to private web forums where smart people hang out.

Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 245

> And these health care jobs, that's good for the next 20 years, but what then?

All that "free healthcare" that Boomers voted themselves is soon going to swallow up the majority of the economy. It's simply unaffordable and those jobs will be automated away or they'll never be hired.

It's impossible to make sensible long-term plans when governments can create or destroy industries overnight.

The good news is that degrees are mostly just a way for colleges to make money and aren't needed for the vast majority of jobs. They're just a tick-box for HR, which is another job that's about to be automated away.

Comment Re:whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also rea (Score 1) 245

Donations are pretty much irrelevant at this point.

US "healthcare" is something like 20% of GDP. It could be slashed to maybe 4-5% just by enforcing existing laws, but then you'd see an economic depression as 15% of GDP disappeared overnight and the politicians who did it would never get re-elected.

The cancer has simply grown too big to solve in a democracy and will continue expanding until the economy collapses because no-one is willing to lose the votes that fixing it would cost them.

Comment Re:Solar fricken roadways all over again (Score 1) 120

The cost ends up being similar assuming mass production of satellites and realistic future launch costs, and you can "just do it" rather than have to waste years fighting through bureaucracy to build them on Earth.

Just as regulation pushed chip manufacturing out of the US, it's now pushing "AI" data centres out. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, but it's clearly a thing.

Comment Re:As an american... (Score 0) 109

> Like whom?

Uh, smart people? I know a lot of them and we tend not to hang out with midwits.

We knew it was stolen by noon the next day, simply by looking at the stats and alleged voting patterns. It was impossible to legitimately get the results they claimed.

> Sure would help their case if there actually was any evidence.

Like I said...

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