Expecting having children to mean you cannot have a life means you are deep throating the boot.

This country used to have enough prosperity for that to happen, now it doesn't, and you accept that. That's because you're weak and pathetic.

Demand more, don't be a fucking cuck happy to watch billionaires fuck your country.

The US mostly exports its oil so that we can replace it with a higher grade of imported oil which is more useful for our purposes. We want mostly fuel, not plastics. Our refineries are designed for the imported oil. We would have to do a bunch of work on them to make them work with our oil.

Whether they are stupid or not, they are commonly incompetent. That's why they got made a manager, if their work was so great, people would want them to keep doing it. Then they want to tell you how to do your job, which they clearly were never actually good at, and are even worse now because they're out of touch. There are of course exceptions to this, but I've seen it work this way more often than not.

Evil is almost irrelevant, once you're in the job anyway. Capitalism is set up to reward evil more than competence. But it's the dominant paradigm, so there's no point in complaining about it once you're part of the same system. It's evil all the way down.

You have to have an account but you can still post "anonymously". Slashdot knows who's posting but the users don't. What this means is that every single anonymous post is a deliberate choice to be a coward.

There is NO SHORTAGE of ideas. Get that idea out of your head now.

Could I be wrong? No, of course, it's everyone else that is wrong!

This is an obvious illusion and no adult should be gullible enough to believe it. Israel is doing exactly what the USA founded it for.

As a species we've been producing way more than enough for everyone to live comfortably on for years, decades even. Yet we're not living in a post-scarcity economy because economies are gamed for the benefit of the worst people. You know how everyone seems to think that Warren Buffet is a kinder, gentler billionaire? Well, Berkshire-Hathaway is the corporation behind buying up most of these mobile home parks that the old people on fixed incomes can no longer afford to live in, so they're going to go to a home. Bastards at least were fathered by someone, billionaires just slid out of a kaiju's asshole.

You're too lazy to even have an identity. Run along, coward.

He's trying to do both things. AFAICT the AI stuff is not much worse than anyone else's. As far as the metaverse, it's clear that he didn't read anything anyone ever wrote about it. It might be the future of computing, someday, but it's the far far future now as long as we have crap efforts like his to go by.

It's obvious that few corporations are really going to want to operate something like the metaverse with enough freedom for it to work as well as it's going to. Second Life proves that it's possible, but also that most people won't want to use it any time soon, at least outside of carefully curated experiences.

It's not that it has no value. It's that it has no value without a trained human to evaluate and guide its work. Then the unfortunate corollary is that it makes most people dumber just to use it.

In some universe, you typed that correctly. Only actually chiming in here to say I have problems with with words that end that way too, I think it's all of the single-stroke characters next to one another somehow.

I get paying, and I maybe get paying for the client once and for the service, but I don't get paying for the client and paying for the service and paying again for updates.

WoW has always amazed me because Blizzard was able to sell both the service and not just the client (which is common) but also updates. What the hell are you paying for with the service if not the updates? Because running the servers is not the hard part, the amount of data is small and the latency is not as critical as in many financial applications (to say nothing of the security) so it's relatively ho-hum. Highest grossing game of all time, possibly the most profitable as well.

Managing the steering wheel is the easy part, doing shifts well is much harder than steering. The ease of operating the shift lever is going to depend on which is your primary hand. As I'm right-handed, driving on the right side of the road and sitting on the left side of the car is optimal for me. But as you say, the manual transmission is unfortunately going away, and all we are left with in ICEVs are expensive DCTs and inferior and more expensive everything else. (Slush boxes/traditional automatics can be good, but usually aren't. CVTs are poop.)

Batteries degrade even if you don't use them. A battery which is rated for 10,000 full cycles might be able to do 100,000 partial cycles or more, depending on the charge and discharge rates. Why would you not want to get paid for owning a battery that always degrades?