The fact that we invaded Iran because the senile old man didn't understand that they would and could close the strait of Hormuz is huge.

Unless Trump backs down in the next week or so we are going to have massive food shortages. That will drive up the cost of everything everywhere as everyone competes for a shrinking food supply. This is because so much of the fertilizer goes through the straight and we are in the planting season and we need to get going and we can't.

One of the problems with this country is people aren't very bright. They can't extrapolate even simple things. The majority of Americans seem to think at about the level of a 12-year-old. So they can't figure out the difference between news and propaganda and they can't understand that just because they could afford to eat this week doesn't mean they can afford to eat next week.

On top of that you've got a good chunk of people who are over that edge already and when you are struggling for your next meal it's hard to think clearly. So even if you somehow made it over the hump of thinking like a 12-year-old a few years of poverty and the stress that comes with it will knock you right back down.

Which is exactly why the Epstein class keeps so many people in that state. Idle hands are The devil's plaything after all...

It is what the Epstein class is actively trying to do. They may not achieve everything and all of their goals but they will achieve a lot of them and significantly reduce their dependency on your labor and therefore your quality of life.

Not everything has to be black and white 100%. You're thinking is too constrained and limited. Members of the ruling class think generationally not moment-to-moment. They aren't trying to survive until the next year like you and I are so they can think in ways you and I can't

If you talk to an actual farmer you're going to find out that there is literally nothing that robots can't Farm. The problem is cost. But remember when all of human history and civilization exists to glorify and uplift 500 people out of 8 billion money is not an object.

The Earth is a resort for 500 billionaires and we are all just staff. We are about to get replaced.

Unfortunately, we do have to. I have to this morning.

This is a story about AP. They haven't been top notch in years, if ever. Their stories are purely surface-level. They're an important part of the picture, but certainly not top notch.

No, it wouldn't, and that's why. We started using glass on phones for a reason, and that reason is that it works better.

Surely she's overjoyed by a line of nonfunctional pixels and your objection is logical.

No, wait, scratch that. That's all 100% wrong, and you're going nutso.

Are you sure that's what you want? It's become clear that they will in fact send the Marines.

Did you do it on an app? If so then yeah, you are an innovator disrupting a space and a technology company so it's all good.

But that has nothing to do with the point the op made.

Preventing criminals from destroying private businesses isn't "structuring laws around business longevity". If you want that the complete lack of antitrust law enforcement would be a better example.

Private businesses are part of the overall infrastructure that makes your society work. So yeah when there is a attack on necessary infrastructure you do something about it or your civilization collapses.

I really hope you're at least getting paid to post nonsense like that. It would be sad if you were doing it for free...

China is headed that way with their renewables. Ireland is planning for renewable hydrogen production as well.

I think it will probably only end up with relatively niche uses, but it's a useful option.

Cryogenic has bee used for the ground tests, so presumably it was here too.

Still, Slashdot doesn't have to play along with their weasel wording. For example, "ergonomic collars that deliver an electric pulse" - just say "shock collar". Don't help them whitewash what they're talking about.

If I already own everything and I have a limitless supply of robots to tend to my needs?

Yeah I need some engineers to keep the robots going and some thugs to keep the engineers in line but that's a few thousand people tops. Everybody else can just go live in squalor.

If you've ever seen an Indian reservation before the casinos that's what the Epstein class has in store for you and me.

Basically they are tired of the exact kind of dependency you are describing. And they are taking steps to eliminate that dependency.

There is absolutely no commodity here or anything approaching something regulated by futures trading. This is obviously just gambling.

These gambling businesses are draining about 60 billion a year mostly from Young men. There will be long-term social consequences and if you're not really old and about to die you will experience them. Like it or not you and I all live in the same society.