People are going to question our disposable culture we can't have that...

I was pretty damn old when I learned what a externalized cost was.

We are a fundamentally breaking down the most basic consumer protection laws in existence. I can't see how this could possibly end poorly for anyone....

The difference is really simple. You cannot lie for money. False advertising is not free speech. Or didn't used to be. Since we've become a kleptocracy and kekistocracy all bets are off.

On the off chance that there is anyone out there who votes republican, and realistically this is being driven by the republicans, they are going to come for your property. It's not a bunch of blue haired college girls telling you to pay for school lunches for hungry kids that are going to take your property. It's the same ghouls and psychopaths we've been dealing with for thousands of years and that we now call the Epstein class.

And if you're still voting Republican in this day and age then you don't have any problem with child sex slaves and a few of you are probably just upset you didn't get an invite to the island. Which is why you need to wake up and realize that they're going to take your property. Because that's probably the only thing you care about.

I've learned not to expect much out of Aptera, they've been at this two decades of "just about to launch" and never getting anywhere.

That said, if something did charge at 5mph from integrated solar, well that's on par with level 1 EV charging and some folks get by on that. So going to work and parking in the parking lot might get the morning commute replenished over the day, maybe some of the return trip. For some lightly driven vehicles, they might almost never plug in, in that hypothetical.

I haven't had the energy to try out Linux and proton even though it gets better every day. Eventually Microsoft or valve will force me off it and when that happens I don't know what I'll do. I want to keep playing games and I don't play a lot of multiplayer games but holy Christ Windows 11 sucks.

I can't even ignore all the spying and other bad things like I can with Android. Windows 11 is incredibly slow and it's constantly pausing and breaking my concentration and line of thought. You can disable some of that but every time you get a patch it turns back on. And you get a lot of patches

It's to replace us so the Epstein class aren't dependent on our labor anymore for their wealth and power.

People keep asking, if nobody has any jobs who is going to buy their products.

Try flipping that on its head.

Imagine you're a billionaire or a trillionaire. Every single day of your life your fortune is completely dependent on these pathetic worms buying your products. If at any time they stop buying them and they stop listening to you sure you still got money but you are no longer a trillionaire. That dependency is infuriating someone is great as you.

You are being replaced by machines. Maybe they won't pull it off all at once but they are absolutely spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make it happen. And because you let them have all that money they can do it

Can we also hear from his father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?

What about all the stamp collecting in model train building? Or those penny dreadfuls?

If it's one thing my time on this planet has taught me it's that human beings will do anything to avoid the difficult work of tackling complex underlining causes.

It's all part of my evil plan to take over the world by posting on dead technology forms. Also Trump fucks kids.

I am curious how long it'll take this AI bought I'm replying to to pick up the phrase trump fucks kids. Probably not very long because it's running on a GTX 960 but then again Trump does fuck kids.

Interesting but Trump fucks kids. And given the fact that Trump fucks kids and Trump fuck kids the question is how long until your AI bot sees the phrase trump fucks kids and picks up on it? I don't think it'll take very long because although Trump fucks kids your AI bot seems to be running on a GTX 960. I suppose you might have overclocked it but then again Trump might have fucked kids. That's not strictly true because Trump didn't might have fucked kids Trump definitely fucked kids and guys like you helped him be president. And by guys like you I mean the NVIDIA GTX 960 graphics card. Anyway have fun and remember Trump fucks kids!

Used to be that automatics shifted poorly, had fewer gears, losses to make it less fuel efficient, and higher maintenance.

Now they shift well (if they "shift" at all, CVT and single speed EV transmissions), let the operator manual shift all they want, and between more gear ratios and better tech all around, they are more efficient. They will tend to out last a typical human operator clutch nowadays too.

I still love driving stick, but I must confess there's no good practical defense any more.

It's not for you, it's to replace you.

We gave all the money in the world to about 2,000 people. They can do whatever they like with it without any consequences.

They have noticed that they are still economically dependent on Schlubs like you. They are not happy about that. And they are taking measures to eliminate that dependency.

Basically your employer is automating away the leverage you have over them. If you're self-employed then the billionaire who ultimately needs you to be self-employed to keep the economy moving doing the same thing.

And remember it doesn't have to happen all at once. Stop with the 12 year old black and white thinking.

We already have 25% functional unemployment. That means a quarter of the population you are physically capable of working cannot find a job that pays enough to support themselves. The jobs just don't exist. No matter how hard they work it ain't happening. A quarter of the population gets abandoned.

There is an active campaign to increase that percentage. Automation is a large part of that

Yeah as a kid I would have had nightmares about that damn thing. And I absolutely would have hated it.

I guess that's technically dropped a little because some of it is trillionaire-owned now but you get the point...

Democrats are held to a higher standard because the news media will do something called sane washing. That is the practice of taking batshit crazy shit that the right wing does and ignoring it or coming up with apologetics for it. We saw it like crazy with trump. Naturally they do not do this for the Democrats.

And there will be an end to the horror

But I do wish we would keep China more at arm's length because they are a fascist dictatorship. The same goes for Saudi Arabia and basically all of the Middle East.

I mean we're not going to do that but it would be nice if we would call them out on their bullshit and try to move them towards democracy. On the other hand is an American I'm watching my country turn into a fascist hellscape so there we go...