Honestly I just want to buy high quality blu-rays of the unedited original films. I have the DVD laserdisc rips from years ago and those are okay but the blu-rays are pretty incredible except you have to put up with those stupid fucking changes.

Not true. It moves based on money laundering and crime. The core value of cryptocurrency is its utility and committing crimes.

That the entire system is incredibly vulnerable to theft and that it's all really centralized and has been for some time. Money laundering and crime are the only things keeping crypto going. It doesn't help that the Democrats have taken a bunch of seats since they have this nasty habit of enforcing laws against people in suits... The nerve of them.

Jesus this whole form is filled with nothing but 12-year-olds.

You have insurance because healthcare is something we don't need all at once. The problem you're having is that you don't have insurance you have a for-profit system designed to ration the healthcare from maximum profit for a handful of billionaire psychopaths.

Actual insurance is when the largest pool people possible get together in order to properly spread the costs of parts that we all know are inevitable. That's insurance.

And as I pointed out on another comment we have more than enough capacity to produce as much health care as we want. There is zero reason why anyone should have to go without healthcare of any kind. I mean zero good reason. I already mentioned the profits and of course I on the other comment I mentioned super yachts.

And you need to stop with this 12-year-old thinking already.

We have not needed rationing in food, medicine or shelter for at least 50 years debatably over 100.

This is just a fact.

The problem is distribution. The problem is not that we can't feed the poor it's that we can't satisfy the wealthy.

Yes if we are going to have 2,000 super yachts for the 2000 psychopaths that losers need to worship we have to ration healthcare. But we don't have to have 2,000 super yachts. We don't have to have any super yachts.

We have been making enough food and medicine to take care of everyone on the planet for decades. We have more than enough production capacity and we can build more. Wind and solar can produce enough energy for everybody on the planet and for us to desalinate as much water as they could possibly need. We can terraform large parts of the land as needed we have the technology it's not cool and fancy sci-fi stuff but it does work.

People who tell you there isn't enough to go around or telling you that because they're planning on stealing what you have. They are hoping you'll be so busy keeping your eyes on your neighbor you won't notice them taking your stuff and frankly they're usually right. US 2026 midterms not withstanding

That's what caused it. They fired all the competent people and replaced them with corrupt cronies. They then gave the contracts to their buddies. This is a core part of project 2025 and the plan to consolidate power among the right wing extremists and Christian nationalists.

They literally put it right in their documents you can read it yourself. I think they left the part out about giving all the contracts to their buddies but I mean honestly if you read that document and you didn't think that's what they were going to do then well, son I don't know what to tell you. I've got some beachfront property in Kansas if you'd like to buy it. ..

He's a great man who invented the GPU and clearly should be reinstated as president and CEO. The news media is clearly just jealous of his success and his fantastic jackets.









I'm just fucking with the bots that follow me around here and keep calling me Chinese. Pay me no mind.

These are just Banks. There's no cryptocurrency involved here otherwise the ledgers would be permanent and untraceable and they wouldn't have been able to just seize the money.

The reason they were able to get the money back is because they are getting it back from centralized authorities who control the asset. You might as well just put your money in a bank unless of course you are laundering it because of crime. Which is the real product crypto provides.

Might also be fishing for brides...

The main risk with AI is that we're going to hit a tipping point where there isn't enough people employed to keep our society functional anymore.

Basically the tax base collapses, government spending goes with it and that creates a ripple effect where not enough money is moving in the economy companies start doing layoffs which reduces the amount of money moving in the economy so more layoffs and so on so and so forth.

As an added bonus to collapse of the tax base means that there won't be enough money to find police and fire departments and subsidize hospitals in rural communities.

We can't keep automating all the jobs away in world where if you don't work you don't eat. And no matter how many bullets you stockpile you're going to run out of ammo before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

Maybe Google rolled something out to you that I haven't seen yet but Google search is still there for me below the AI summary.

This is classic bundling of two unrelated products. No matter what Google says search is not ai and even the dumbest judge on the planet knows that.

We have let right wing extremists completely dismantle our court system so fuck only knows what's going to happen but any legitimate and sensible Court would simply declare this an antitrust law enforcement and tell Google to knock it the fuck off or they're going to split their company in the smaller sub companies.

I don't think we're going to see that though even with the Democrats in charge they have so many fires to put out from the last 2 years and honestly we never recovered from covid because we only got two years of Democrats in charge before voters inevitably put Republicans back in charge during the 2022 midterms.

People always complain about Washington gridlock and then every couple of years they send a Democrat president a republican Congress and the Republican Congress spends 2 years sabotaging everything the Democrat tries to do the help. Then the Democrat loses the presidency and if we're really unlucky like we were this last time the Republicans briefly take Congress.

And frankly we all saw how that went. No matter how big of Republican you are you have to know on some level they screwed you over. If nothing else when you fill up your gas tank. Or when you buy groceries. Or when you pay for healthcare. Or when you read about one of the wars going on. Or...

Yes I have been watching Colombo but without the governorship and the AG and the secretary of state which is appointed in Texas the Republicans won't be able to do the voters suppression they need to hold the Senate through the next election.

Every Republican in Texas right now is desperately trying to figure out how they're going to hold on to their seats in 2028 when they are forced to run on Donald Trump's shit covered coattails. They can't distance themselves from Trump because Republican primary voters will punish them and end their political careers if they try to and Trump will encourage that. So they just have to go down with the ship and they're trying to figure out how they can be the rats that escape.

This means that for the next two years the Democrats have a shitload of leverage because at the end of the day the cheating that Ken Paxton did as the attorney general isn't going to be helping Republicans anymore and without that all those Californians that were moved to Texas to avoid California labor law are going to vote blue finally because they don't have to wait in line 6 hours just to find out their registration was invalidated.

Republicans in the Senate will of course sabotage the entire State as much as they can in order to blame the fallout on the democrats. They've been doing that since the mid-90s when newt Gingrich developed the tactic. He called it the contract with America.

But when it comes to Data centers if those Republicans keep selling out they can't just quietly sell out because the Democrats in the lower chamber are going to force them on record. Then they're going to get slaughtered in 2028 when Trump drags the entire Republican party down with him.

The big problem is neither of these states have the water or electricity needed for these data centers and the only way they can get it is to either pollute local communities to the point where it's extremely noticeable to the locals and hits the press hard when people start getting cancer in a few years or they can just quadruple everybody's water and electricity bills.

They've been doing both of those things for years now. There are communities that have no water pressure because the local data center is just taking all the water. And everybody's power bills are going up 10 and 20 and 30%.

It's just to noticeable. They can't cover it up with a bunch of Elon musk's money to buy ads.

So the way it works is this. If you have a privately run airport paid for by public dollars that you're multi-million dollar private jet lands on the failure mode is for a dozen highly skilled air control experts to make the necessary corrections in real time.

If you're a regular sclob like you and me the failure mode is whichever afterlife your particular religion or lack thereof prescribes.

The cool thing about civilization collapsing is it doesn't collapse all at once it comes apart slowly and in pieces.

Both States just turned blue and a big part of that besides orange pedophile screwing up the economy is the Republicans welcoming data centers.

How the hell is Arizona supposed to have all these data centers given the Colorado River is cutting off water to it. Remembered data centers don't have to use all that water but they do anyway because it's slightly cheaper and then they lie about how much water they use in public.

And that's before we talk about the electricity usage. Texas' is grid can't take it. It's another reason the Republican party lost and the state turned blue. When you want shit fixed you elect a Democrat when you want to fun spectacle you go with the Republican and hope it's your neighbor that gets fired during the inevitable recession. It's been that way since the '90s when newt Gingrich started that contract with America bullshit.