But these fuckers are still dragging me and my family down with them.

Their reckless political choices and their obsession with culture War bullshit combined with the fact that most of them are boomers and older Gen x that receive shitloads of socialism from the New deal and Great society so they are all in on I got mine fuck you means that they have been able to indulge their worst impulses and get away with it pretty much their entire lives.

For the longest time I thought that they'd get away with it and that they would die of old age before the shit hit the fan and a lot of them have but Trump is accelerating things so fast and AI bullshit is wrecking everything else that I don't think these morons are going to escape. For one thing Elon Musk is coming for their 401ks and what's left of the pensions.

Hunter Biden put him up to it.

Most people want things to just work, and then they delude themselves into thinking they do even when they do not.

If I had a dollar for every person who I've seen join a 3d printing group and ask how they can print more than the models shipped on the machine, I could buy another printer. It's a desktop-sized industrial robot, not a games console.

Getting a coherent style good or bad from AI requires training, which is a lot harder than just prompting. Since AI isn't actually working from pictures, just statistical analyses of them, it has a really hard time giving consistency. A real art department making a real film has a body of concept art, samples, and other resources to draw from and compare to, and brains to do it with.

What good is emergency speed capping when the tower loses power? When we had our last earthquake the local cell site went down after a few hours and they never bothered to bring in a generator, I had no phone for almost three days.

Yes, they do, in fact typically every FD has their own for example and then there's one for each county as well, but what's the relevance of that to this?

Spoken like a city dweller with no health issues. Maybe when you get older you'll realize that your situation isn't the same as everyone else's.

Apparently you live in a big city, and not in the country (which describes most of California, despite persistent misconceptions) because in my area, POTS service is absolutely necessary for a large percentage of the population, and in particular a big share of those on fixed incomes who don't have the money to change because COLAs don't keep up with the actual cost of living.

I think you eat crayons while doing paperwork. For someone who's lived in California for so long, you sure don't know shit about it.

Dumping POTS absolutely will reduce power consumption, because they won't have to push analog signals through copper over long distances. It's just not sufficient justification for doing it, because that functionality is irreplaceable. We should be keeping some POTS service around for customers out of wireless range, and for alarm systems. A lot of those have gone cellular, and in some case that might be fine, but it's inferior and cellular should be used in addition and not as a replacement. (It can be text only, so the cost can be very low.)

I take absolutely nothing Cheeto Benito says at face value. He is absolutely never trustworthy. You can learn things by listening to him, but not by assuming anything he says is accurate or honest.

Our current systems are overwhelmingly unsustainable. Maintaining the status quo means ensuring our collective demise.

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DEEP THROAT THE BOOT.

Go look at PGE's dividends and then tell me again they don't have the money.

I can't be the only one that noticed. Still, their unions got them the money. And it's still a lot of money. Just a reminder that divided we beg, United we Bargain.

You get your ass kicked you're entire life, you cope with unhealthy life habits, and then some dipshit at Harvard who couldn't do any useful science blames you for it.

The correct framing here is that 80% of health problems in old age could be mitigated if we treated people better and gave them access to better food and more time to spend on self care and more leisure Time. And remember Americans especially are now working more hours than the fucking Japanese so don't tell me we have leisure Time. Your 2-hour commute is not leisure Time

His father, and his father before him, handed money down to their new generations of their crime family in order to keep the whole thing going. In order to feel like he measures up to his father, he has to do the same thing.

I'm reasonably certain that was sarcasm, but... mostly because it actually literally kills people, like PGE skipping maintenance for 99 years and burning down Paradise[, CA] or ATT taking away the POTS so people in the hills can't call 9-1-1 since the cellular network doesn't reach them. This is an active issue in my town, which is in Humboldt county CA. I live about a block from the CO, which is absolutely tiny, because so is the town. (It's technically a city but it does not act like one in any regard. We don't even have a fucking disaster plan despite needing to cross a bridge or drive a road with "slide" in the name to get in and out of here. Yet Cal Fire is going to put a new HQ here, it's insane.