Into a forever War with Iran. That would be very advantageous to his political party. And it would let him grab a shitload of land in the meantime. Some of which could be given to members of the current American administration as a reward.

The problem with that is it requires boots on the ground and it almost certainly will require a draft. Iran is too large and American birth rates are too low to supply enough cannon fodder through a volunteer army. The Republican party has not consolidated its power enough and it hasn't got enough voter suppression in place yet that they can just do what Russia does and force people to the front lines.

I suspect Israel will try to do a few more strikes and get a few more hand slaps from the Trump administration. As long as I ran doesn't take the bait and so far they haven't been then they've won. They now have control of the strait of Hormuz and with it they can shut down 20% of the global economy anytime they want. That's way more valuable than a nuclear weapon.

The great negotiator has basically given Iran everything and got nothing. All this because his base desperately needed him to show up a black man...

Meanwhile inflation is 4.2% and even with the War ending it's going to go up more. Despite that Trump is still pulling in 37%.

Training. They are still accumulating data needed to train the models. Also I don't think there's yet enough computing power for the LLMs to really work the way that the technology is capable of. As more and more data centers come online and more and more houses go offline as far as having electricity then I think you'll see the bots taking over. And by the bots I mean the people who actually own them. Epstein Islanders

The damage from covid being blamed on cell phones.

We had a period of 4 years during which everything in a kid's life got completely upended and we wonder why we're having problems with academics.

There's also a nasty little bit of business that we don't think or talk about. We spent the last 45 years automating every blue collar job we possibly could. Massive amounts of factory automation. And what we couldn't automate which was about 30%, we either shipped it overseas or we brought in cheap labor for it.

This means if you aren't cut out for college you don't really have a lot of options. Yeah everyone will talk about how much money you can make in Blue collar but the thing is those jobs are brutal on your body and you can really only do them until you're late 30s or early 40s at best. You can of course find the occasional genetic freak that can just keep going, I've known some. They are genetic freaks and they are not the norm. Meaning that you're going to be killing yourself for two decades and then suddenly have a large drop in your pay.

And that's best case scenario if you're not somebody who can hack one of those brutal jobs like working on an oil rig or diesel mechanic and you're not one of the handful of people that blenders into one of the really sweet gigs that are few and far between like the guys who maintain elevators or large industrial cooling and heating systems then they're just isn't anything for you.

So we've been taking those kids and basically forcing them to stay in school longer and longer because we just don't have anything to do with them and if nothing else while they're in school we don't have to face facts that there aren't any jobs for them.

What this means is that even though class sizes keep going up per capita spending on students is also going up. Those two things shouldn't be compatible in theory if you're spending more on each individual student your class sizes should be shrinking but my kid when they graduated high school had 45 students in their math class. Some of the kids had the stand in the back because there weren't enough chairs for fucksake.

You end up having to spend a lot more money because you have all these kids that normally would be on their way to trade schools but we just don't need them to do that work. I mean we could be fixing our infrastructure and rapidly switching the wind and solar power but fuck that. Elon Musk needs to be the first trillionaire because he invented the electric car and the rocket.

None of this is sustainable and the Epstein class knows it so they're moving to shut down elections and put a dictator in charge. And we are well on our way to letting them do that because fuck those trans kids in sports or whatever the fuck we're currently panicking about instead of anything that actually fucking matters. Because we didn't learn what a moral panic was when motherfucking He-Man was being attacked by Evangelical rapist assholes...

Everyone keeps thinking of AI is a product. It's not. It's capital. It's something that gets used in the production of products.

And it's something more than regular Capital like we are used to seeing. It's Capital that is explicitly designed to eliminate jobs. It's an entirely new automation technique. Something that we haven't seen since the assembly line was invented.

And yeah if you go back to the industrial revolution it's going to look pretty fucking primitive compared to a modern factory. But the difference between the ruling elite that are pushing for this massive automation and you is that they think in terms of decades and generationally and you think about whether or not you can pay rent next week. Or your mortgage if you are upper class and scoffing because I said rent and you're one of them highfalutin homeowners.

The goal and purpose of all this automation is to free the Epstein class from the bonds and chains of us filthy filthy working slobs.

Just the fact that they can be called the Epstein class because anyone could possibly call their behavior into question infuriates them. And the only reason that's possible is because they still kind of need us to do jobs and they still kind of need us to buy their shitty products.

Do you think they didn't notice that? Do you think they are happy about the fact that they stand at the Apex of human civilization but are still dependent on people like you and me?

The only real question is are you going to die before this shit really hits the fan? If you didn't have kids then I guess you haven't done any harm at least but it's kind of fucked up that you're leaving this completely screwed future for your kids. And this assumes that you're going to die before everything collapses which is looking increasingly unlikely.

I'd like to tell everyone to start thinking about how they're going to solve these problems but I just don't think human beings are equipped to solve these problems. How the fuck are we supposed to get people who are thinking primarily about next week's bills to think about even 5 or 10 or 20 years down the line. Hell there was a massive automation push starting in the late 1970s that has had significant impact on the economy that we just pretend didn't happen... There's no reason why we won't ignore the next big push

Yeah they stopped giving me mod points a while ago even though my karma is consistently excellent. Notice how as soon as I post I have a +2.

What I suspect they are doing is that there aren't a lot of posters because this is a dying forum so anyone who gets engagement doesn't get mod points because you can't comment on a thread you moderate on.

So it's actually the opposite, my posts are popular and well written and well received and drive engagement at least what little is left on this dying forum.

Oh and I've been here a very very long time and when I still used to get mod points it was five not 15. So get off my lawn and get away from my statue of Natalie portman, naked in petrified, covered in Hot grits and my greased up Yoda doll.

Trump is probably going to lift virtually all the Iranian and Russian sanctions as part of what he gives up to stop his own ill-conceived War. So yeah I can see Bitcoin continuing to drop.

You can just say bribes. We all know it's bribes so you can just say bribes. Bezos out bid Amodei.

It's going to be weird if we ever become a democracy again not seeing a headline involving an obvious quid pro quo bribe every day. There are Latin American dictatorships that would take a look at what Trump's doing and say hey buddy, tone it down a bit.

The basic attitude was that if Trump was going to fuck it up that badly it was better to shut it down.

Trump's pick was already going to dismantle the apparatus and the entire process while also giving Trump a powerful tool to attack his personal political enemies. And the Republican party have started to realize that includes them.

I wish the American people could do the same but well, here we are

Nobody in the UK thinks they're going to get the sweetheart deal. What's going on here is the younger people want to rejoin because they want access to the jobs that are available on the continent and the older people don't want to rejoin because they don't want to have to open the United Kingdom up to widespread immigration and they think staying out of the EU protects them from that.

As usual the old people are wrong because if it's one thing old people are good at it's being wrong. The purpose of the immigration is as always cheap labor and the kind of politician that will promise you to kick out the immigrants is always going to want all that sweet sweet cheap labor so while they're talking about kicking immigrants out on one side of their mouth on the other side they're promising business owners and corporations a limitless supply of cheap labor imported for next to nothing and that can be abused at will.

The real problem here is that human brains and human cognition did not evolve to deal with geopolitical issues. We are just not equipped for this much bullshit. We're supposed to be chasing down antelope

In charge of the intelligence apparatus. Even by Trump's standards he was a completely incompetent toady piece of shit lunatic.

This was Congress telling Trump he couldn't have his pick without directly opposing him because direct opposition risks a primary Challenger.

Anyway Trump backed down so it'll get renewed here in a few weeks. Nothing to see here just a little back room politics.

It is frustrating how completely fucked up our politics are because Republican primary voters are bat shit insane. On the other hand if you're voting Republican in this day and age you're pretty far gone.

I don't know about the United Kingdom but in the United States we have heavy-duty voter suppression done at the county level that makes it basically impossible for close elections to be won by anyone else but the candidate backed by the Epstein class.

The UK adopted all the shitty tricks that America did, their ruling class was all over Epstein Island too after all.

So I can't imagine they don't just use the same tricks to make sure people can't vote when they're not supposed to. Maybe it was just a little local color and flavor. I mean it's not complicated. They just make it hard to register to vote and easy to challenge a single voter registration then they get a bunch of volunteers to challenge voter registrations. Mix in some broken voting machines in any district where people oppose the Epstein class and that's it, it's impossible for close elections to go any other way and it's pretty easy to use propaganda to keep elections close

They use local guys to build the shell but that's done in no time. The insides needs specialized labor and there sure shit not going to pay the train local people to do that. Even if they did the skills would be useless once the data center is built. So they bring guys in from out of state and have them do all the work and they just go from state to state building.

Because they're going to get the data center no matter what. They won't stop voting for pro corporate candidates and pro corporate candidates are going to take over state governments if they haven't already and then they just roll in with the state government and force the locals to allow the data center to be built. It's already happened a couple dozen times in red states where locals told a data center to take a hike and the state government moved in and said fuck you we're in charge.

What small government conservatives never seem to get is that you just can't have small government anymore. Government is an invention like a nuclear bomb. Once the genie is out of the bottle you're stuck with it. Everybody has to have it and everybody has to deal with it and you can't just unilaterally disarm because that's not how that works.

Is it every idiotic and horrible thing they do is they distraction from the next idiotic and horrible thing they are going to do or the previous idiotic and horrible thing they did. They even have a name for it it's called flood the zone.

Also I've noticed that the judge that used to show up here and defend Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all those other motherfuckers just keep their damn mouths shut now. They stay in the safe spaces whenever they want to talk about dear leader. Occasionally one of them gets mod points and I can always tell because they go through my last five posts and mod them down because that's how many points slashdot hands out at a time.

But I'm upset with all the high inflation and useless wars and the 8 million dead children Elon Musk killed so they feel like they are winning because to them winning means the other guy loses and gets upset.

It's 12-year-old thinking and that's basically where they stopped. An entire group of people who never learned to read or think past the 6th grade level. And they are in charge of the world right now.

But you don't understand wealth tax. Think about the numbers there. We're telling you to give up 80% of your $500 million dollar company right? Go ask chat GTP what 80% of 500 million is.

The point of a world tax is not to take property away from you. The point is to take power away from people who can now tell you what to do because they have too much money which is no longer property it's power. You have to decide now if you want to have a say and how you live your life because you can't have trillionaires and freedom.