There are no two sides. There are rich oligarchs and their political puppets who wear Team Red and Team Blue shirts.

Do you think wrestling is real too?

You are clearly so tied to one team that you can't even see the puppet strings.

Why do you think the oligarchs donate millions and millions of dollars to both sides every election?

It's not because they're lovely people who just want to give the money away.

Vote the Democrats in. They totally won't cancel people for political reasons.

Nothing can be fixed while people continue to believe there's a difference between Team Red and Team Blue when the same people own both Team Red and Team Blue.

Anything that involves "just vote the Republicans out and Democrats in" is missing what's going on.

Congress is just a wrestling show with a few wedge issues. The people who own the politicians will continue to tell those politicians to do what they want regardless of which team is 'winning'.

Democracy is designed to keep people distracted by voting while the crooks loot whatever they want.

Now that the Big Tech companies have done all their training on illegal material it's important that no startups can compete.

The US has never been a completely anarchistic hellhole - we've always had laws (aka regulations). Gambling, for example, was very tightly regulated for hundreds of years and only recently has been opened wide (with all the expected problems).

If you're desperate for capital-F Freedom, I hear Somalia is pretty lawless. You can go set up a compound and fiefdom there.

Clouds will depend on the frequency.

X-Ray lasers are extremely difficult but they exist. Stepping down from extremely difficult to merely difficult may have some merit.

Whether it's worth the cost will be interesting. Microsats is curious - geostationary would be an easier place to start without the steering complexity.

An interesting project for sure.

Remember when they ported VAX/VMS to PC architecture and put a Windows 3 GUI on top?

That evolved.

"Watch this space."

> pay the Chinese to host our fucking military servers

no, but that's literally what they were doing.

DC doesn't run a serious country.

https://slashdot.org/story/25/...

I could see that. But if we get that kind of social collapse no-one is going to care what the tech bros think. The 'haves' will discover that their bodyguards have a lot more power than a geek does in a post-collapse world.

Interesting. I had noticed the enshitification of Youtube ads with AI junk recently, but that just goes along with the general enshitification of Youtube with AI videos.

> It doesn't matter whether any of it works because they will make it work.

It doesn't work and they don't have magic to make it work. To the extent it does work, it's mostly automating away jobs which could have been automated away long ago but have been kept around for political reasons.

Sure, they can sack people and claim that AI will magically do what they used to do, but that just causes an Enshitification Cascade which leads to nothing working any more. And then we get social collapse.

Hmm....only up to about $4 or so here where I live in the New Orleans area...maybe a bit more...I bought at Costco yesterday and didn't really look that close at the pump, but was in the $4 range...

How about we just nuke the Congo?

yeah, people have been calling out specific trades on Twitter for months.

This is just an excuse for the Establishment's AI Control Grid.

"We must completely destroy your Liberty for your Safety."

People better wake up fast.