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Comment Re:less of a barrier than their terrible UI (Score 1) 58

I find most Office UI to be pretty good, though I don't mean 365 here. The performance is terrible, though. This used to be true of LibreOffice, and Calc still crumbles if you really load a lot of rows into it and Excel doesn't, but the UI is really painfully slow on desktop Office now and I've no clue why. Nothing else I run on the same machine has this problem. e.g. I can scroll a PDF really fast and it draws fine, but if I don't scroll a Word or Excel doc really slow, it can't keep up.

Comment Re:and fears that it will replace the work of huma (Score 1) 43

And what you don't understand is that there is no general "increase in productivity"

What I understand is that you have an insatiable taste for boot leather.

When the economy as a whole does, you get things like the 8-hour workday and weekends

We got those because union members fought and died for them, not magically or due to the invisible hand or whatever other magical thinking you want to invoke.

the productivity of the economy as a whole

It's worker productivity, not GDP. Though if the bosses can't make more with more worker productivity, then they are fuckups.

Comment I assure you I am far stupider than you think I am (Score 1) 43

I mean I'm still posting here aren't i?

Anyway did your account get hacked or something? What part of my post is championing oppressive bullshit?

Or you just call anything you don't like oppressive bullshit? How very libertarian of you. What's next, needing a license to make toast in your toaster?

Comment Re:and fears that it will replace the work of huma (Score 0) 43

Then what on Earth was their position?

The position of the Luddites was that the gains from increases in productivity from automation should not accrue solely to the already wealthy, but should also benefit the working class. Rather than only making the rich richer, they should enable us to work less and benefit more.

Fast forward to today. As worker productivity has increased, the workers' share of the profit has decreased, and this has enabled the owning class to dominate every aspect most people's existence by controlling government through capital, exactly as predicted.

Comment If that happens kiss your ass goodbye (Score 2) 35

Because it means the American empire, which is propped up by the dollar, will have gone down the drain completely and we will still have the ridiculous military and we will use it.

Failing empires will inevitably invade other countries and loot them in order to fill their coffers. And we have a growing Christian nationalist movement and things we are literally protected by God so the threat of nuclear annihilation isn't going to be a deterrent. Jesus will just swap those pesky icbms away.

Comment Re: Trucks would create a market (Score 1) 175

There will be a huge hydrogen logistics chain for industrial use regardless (volumetric heating in industrial processes, green ammonia, probably steel production too, etc). So that could help a little.

They will probably ship it by rail, while still not allowing us to have rail for transportation, or for most goods. Just like when the auto companies (etc.) attacked rail transport in the forties, and shut down profitable private rail lines in order to promote their products, but they kept rail lines running to their factories so they could bring in steel and export autos. But even those trains will still run on diesel, both so they can profit from that, and because it's a much better fuel for that purpose than depending on hydrogen. It gives great energy density with very high reliability and low volatility.

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