The reason we have daylight savings time is because brick and mortar stores like the extra daylight hours because people shop more when there is light out. Every time there is a serious attempt to eliminate daylight savings time they just splash out a little bit of cash and shut it down. Doesn't even take that much cash since this is mostly local politics or best state level

Voting for right wing candidates is what prevents us from solving this problem. That and vulnerabilities in human cognition used by psychopaths to become God Kings.

Theology is a thing because several secular democracies in the world are quickly collapsing into theocratic dictatorships.

This is a problem for the future existence of the human race because the religious extremists being put in charge are completely insane and genuinely believe God will protect them and give them dominion over the Earth.

This means that when they inevitably start massive wars due to their incompetence and collapsing empires they will turn to nuclear weapons as a solution.

The reason theology is a problem is that their theology is nationalistic supremacy. They believe they are God's chosen people and protected by and elevated by God. So like a kid who believes they can fly because of Superman they're going to believe they can start a nuclear war that they can win.

Now the reason is ties into ai and job destroying automation in general is that people under heavy pressure and duress don't make good decisions. They are likely to turn to right-wing demagogues because they're going to offer simple solutions to confused and frightened people. More importantly they're going to offer solutions that don't run contrary to the cognitive vulnerabilities those people have. Specifically that whole crap about how angry it makes people when somebody gets to stay home playing Xbox and they have to go to work.

That's how it all ties together. Automation collapses our social systems, we are not capable of building new social systems because of cognitive vulnerabilities and issues, so we turned the right wing theocratic lunatics because they offer solutions that we can understand and it fit in with our cognition. Those right wing lunatics believe they are protected by God and start a nuclear war and you get the rest.

It's a multi-step process and I think that's why you're having a tough time following it from its beginning to its conclusion. It requires dozens of systems designed to prevented to fail and break down which they have.

I've said it before and I will say it again, every single system designed to protect you needed to break to get us to this point and they did.

Neither of which are expected to turn a profit. Meanwhile here where I am SpaceX is losing money hand over fist, claims to be an AI company not a rocket company, has pretty much maxed out all the markets they have available and has set up a structure where all of our 401ks and if you happen to have one of pension are going to get stuck with non-voting shares of the stuff because NASDAQ changed the rules and immediately added the stock to the top 100 in exchange for fat sacks of cash that will flow in from the fees of the IPO.

I don't invest in unicorn farts. Or at least I didn't use to now I have to.

They are coming for your 401k and you might be a sophisticated investor but they have teams of people whose job is 24/7 to grip you out of your money and you have to rest and work your day job. The question isn't are they going to get around to robbing you it's will you die before they do or will voters come to their senses and start regulating this shit.

Kept that thing running barely for 10 years. It was marginally cheaper than trying to buy a new car and I was really broke. A combination of medical problems in the family and the 2008 market crash hit me like a truck and right after that my kid hit College.

The thing is it needed constant maintenance and that maintenance cost a lot. If I had had just a little bit more money at the time there is no reason or way I would put up with that and it was a huge waste of time and effort on my part.

What I'm saying is sometimes there is a damn good reason to replace mechanical things. Almost as if there's a reason NASA abandoned a lot of the reusable tech...

I'm sure this is fine though. It's not like SpaceX is constantly moving money around between other companies Elon Musk owns or like that's not legal because it disadvantages to shareholders of the other companies or like the rules for Nasdaq were changed for the SpaceX IPO so that it can be immediately added to the NASDAQ top 100 forcing institutional shareholders to buy it...

This is fine. This is fine.

...all bugs are shallow. Enough eyeballs and 10 years apparently. Open source proving its worth once again.

You can't just give people money. Pay attention to the people who are telling you to do UBI. None of these people are your friends and they are limitlessly greedy and all want to be trillionaires they're not just going to give you free money. You should be already suspecting some of the thing based on the kind of people who keep talking about UBI.. The problem isn't complicated. If I give you money but I own all the businesses where you have to shop I can just raise my prices until I get all that money right back. Then I can cut all the other government services and all the other regulations and then tell voters that your intense poverty and inability to feed and clothe yourself is your own damn fault because we gave you UBI. Now if there was competition that would lower prices but there is none because while you are distracted by Ubi as a possible solution they were busy taking over the courts and eliminating all antitrust law enforcement. So any attempt to compete with their businesses just gets crushed exactly the way it was in the 1900s before we had antitrust law. Google chesterton's fence.

The only way out of this is to have a society that lets people who are effectively useless due to automation have food and shelter and healthcare and transportation and entertainment and it all has to be at least pretty nice. No you can't just shove them all into ghettos like we do with Palestine.

The problem is that doesn't feel fair or right. Why does your ass have to get up at 6:00 in the morning and drag your ass into work. It's especially bad because the people who are going to get to stay home and play Xbox get to do that specifically because they are unskilled, stupid and useless.

And no we can't just make them all plumbers. Even if we somehow started building infrastructure again via the government like we used to we just don't need that many fucking plumbers or electricians or whatever. At best if we transformed our electrical grid and our transportation's Network we might buy 10 or 20 years before the automation wave devours us.

So realistically this is what's going to happen. You're going to keep voting for right wing candidates until we are a fascist world because it's unfair that you have to go to work and somebody else doesn't. Sooner or later you're going to have a huge population of the dispossessed and they're going to put a religious lunatic in charge of the nuclear arsenals which will be fully functional and maintained because we will have poured a bunch of money into doing that as part of a big nationalistic push like fascist Nations do.

And then the religious lunatics in charge of the theocracy that your votes created are going to launch nukes with the full expectation that a combination of their golden dome and their God will protect them. It will not. And then that's it no more human race.

This is the answer to the Fermi paradox. Species cannot overcome the feeling of unfairness and we develop nuclear weapons before we get over that.

I'm open to alternatives but I do not see a way around this fundamental Gap in human cognition.

We have an oligarchy with a veto against the ruling elite if 60% of the population disagrees with them.

Last election there were millions of coordinated illegal challenges to voter signatures and registrations done at a county level. This prevented millions of Americans from voting. Little old ladies and little men going through lists of voters and preventing them from voting with the full knowledge that while you can answer a challenge to your signature or registration you have to drag your ass down to the courthouse on a weekday and that is by design. Never mind the 7-hour wait times to vote in swing States.

There's a dozen other little things that were done.

Democracy doesn't die in big cool events. It's killed by a thousand cuts for a bitter old men and women and a handful of mean middle-aged men trying to move up the ladder of the oligarchy by taking control of local election positions.

What the hell did Trump do this time that he needs a distraction from? The Iran War made us pretty much forget about Epstein Island so that's out. Whatever he did it must be monumentally boneheaded...

There used to be this thing called competition that kept prices down. I know it sounds crazy but we had that.

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.

You think SuperKendall bought one? I doubt it, but maybe his dad did for him.

"Hopefully they take notice when his incompetence becomes relevant to their lives."

His personal enrichment is their lives.

...and yet still better than the Cybertruck conversion rate, a vehicle that plenty here claimed would be the greatest thing ever. Not sure which is worse, but then Elon Musk is the Donald Trump of Silicon Valley.

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