Yeah this is classic line go up. We need limitless productivity increases in order to keep the ruling class of billionaires satiate it because if we ever stop feeding their maw they will devour Us in an instant.

Nobody really likes to think about the cosmic horror that is the billionaire class and they are insatiable appetite for limitless wealth or how we are all mandated to keep feeding it.

We need to be reducing productivity not increasing it.

We are very much a society where if you don't work you don't eat.

Over the past 50 years we have eliminated 70% of middle class jobs using automation. Mostly high paying factory jobs but there's plenty others out there.

And we are about to do the AI apocalypse. It's basically a third industrial revolution that's about to hit.

One of the problems is people want to think black and white. Either ai and automation is going to replace all the jobs or it's going to replace none of the jobs.

The middle ground is scary though.

People do not automate extremely low-paying jobs. So yes you can still find a guy in India making satellite dishes by hand because he's paid just enough to buy today's food so he can do tomorrow's work.

The problem is we are going to automate the higher paying jobs first. Because of course we are.

Those high-paying jobs are what drive the economy. Go look up how much of the spending in America is from Rich boomers with good paying jobs the leftover from before wages started to collapse. Try taking those older workers on the old pay scale out of the average wages and see how little Americans actually make.

We have entire industries that will collapse because the high paying workers that maintain and support them with purchases aren't going to exist anymore.

You can't go be a plumber when there aren't any engineers to hire you to fix their pipes because they're busy working on engineering.

We could of course do the whole fully automated luxury gay space communism except we aren't fully automated yet.

We still need some people to work the real problem is we've got some people who are completely useless. We just don't need them to work anymore in anything that they are capable of doing. Not willing,, capable.

So if anything we need less productivity so that we can have more jobs and more make work to keep things going.

The problem is nobody wants to pay for that make work and everyone wants to hoard and grab all the money and power for themselves.

But only a few thousand people can get away with that. So like crabs in a bucket we are all going to be eating alive by those few thousand people.

Too long didn't read, you're going to lose your house in about 6 years to somebody that wants to be the first trillionaire. And human psychology will prevent you from doing anything about it

I am very confident that millions people will not go along with it and that millions of others will, and the latter will all be at risk

Wouldn’t it be nice to see some trolling the other way: the Mail, GB News, Reform, the EDL, Tate, etc — all of them should be feasible to concern-troll under this legislation.

It’s picked right back up again. Sure, growth isn’t smooth, and there are phases of higher and lower growth, but the growth trajectory remains very clear outside NA

That is true but there's a difference between tv series and movies. Many actors never cross those worlds. Chris Hemsworth was very much an up and comer in the movie world when he entered as a superhero having done only minor supporting roles before then. Thor was his breakout role.

If you're not paying attention then sure. The actual number is they've rebooted after one movie once.

The 1994 was unreleased.
The 2005 movie had a sequel.
The 2015 movie - is the one that only survived one so far.
And now we're here.

Lately? Zero times. The last reboot was in 2013 with Man of Steel. The most recent superman film is not an origin story.

Nope, it's a tiny handful. All the superhero movies combined over the last decade make up 0.1% of movies released over that time in the USA alone. There's 2 superhero movies on right now. Whoop de fucking do. At my local cinema this one actually kicked Superman out of the prime screen. We have 15 screens at my local cinema pretty much playing something constantly. You don't need to go into Cinema 9 to see Fantastic Four. You could go to see the thriller playing in Cinema 12, or the Comdey in Cinema 5, or see any one of the 20 other films that are currently listed as playing at the cinema.

It hasn't been slim pickings at all. There's hundreds of films out there released constantly, yet you seem to know only of the one which you (a nerd, let's face it you're here on Slashdot) gets targeted advertisement for ... and would you guess what the Venn Diagram of nerds and superheros looks like?

Seriously turn off the TV, turn off your PC, and go out see a movie. There's plenty for you, not slim pickings in the slightest. Heck if you get really stuck stay at home and fire up Disney+. They conveniently put all their super hero films in one category which allows you to skip over it and what the literal countless hours of content that would suit you instead. You want action? Go seek out action. A new action movie staring Charlese Theron was released only 2 weeks ago, can you even name it? I'm guessing no, since you're too busy looking up stories on superhero movies to complain on.

Stop blaming people who release things for your inability to go look at the things you want.

Not really. Lots of people put videos / blog posts of the work they do online. His entire youtube channel is full of posts of him just fucking around. I doubt he thinks its special.

Exactly this. I am absolutely certain that lots of people in the UK are now going to have their details stolen and abused, and the harms will be compounded by the embarrassment of having to admit that it was for the purposes of watching porn. I mean, sharing passport details with some dodgy porn website based overseas is the exact opposite of Online Safety, but you'll get scant sympathy from politicians, you may end up having a very difficult conversation with your partner, and you will never get the press on your side with a DailyMailSadFace article bc there's wanking involved.

The Online Safety Act is much broader, for sure, and catches a lot more types of material. But I'm sure the proponents are pleased that the most memorable thing that's caught is something that people are often embarrassed to admit using.

1. That wasn't what the OP was referring to
2. That wasn't monitoring social media, it was acting on reports from the public
3. That wasn't about "challenging the government narrative", it was about breaching public health rules in the same way that curling one out on the pavement will get you in trouble

What the OP was referring to was this news report. I don't think this is confirmed yet, however.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art....
"An elite police unit is being set up to monitor social media posts for anti-migrant material as part of efforts to prevent possible riots, according to The Sunday Telegraph. It says details of the National Internet Intelligence Investigations team emerged in a letter to MPs from policing minister Dame Diana Johnson. But the plan been criticised by opposition politicians and free speech campaigners - with Big Brother Watch telling the paper that resources should be put into physical policing rather than what it calls 'Orwellian units.' "

We have guy that's nominally a king but lacks most kingly powers. You have a guy that's nominally a president and not a king, but is being given free rei(g)n to act as a king with literal sanctioned impunity by your Supreme Court. Our government has more effective checks on its power than yours does.

Are turning to Linux and proton because the compatibility with Windows 11 has gotten so bad for older games

Is watching the, don't tell me how to raise my child, crowd screaming for shit like this.

I didn't particularly care if my kid looked at internet porn and they turned out just fine. I also sat them down and made sure they understood how to handle sex so I didn't have to worry about grandchildren coming out of nowhere.

That's how I raised my kid and I don't particularly like my government butting in on that. Never mind the hundreds of other reasons not to allow the government to directly censor the internet this way.

I mean but our entire civilization is collapsing so... What pisses me off is that all it took was scaring a handful of midwesterners with the prospect of their kids turning queer and the threat of them getting fired from their jobs if they drink a few too many beers and drop an n-bomb in public... Two incredibly stupid moral panics and that's it it's over.

I mean we got a lot of mileage out of Mortal Kombat and heavy metal music but damn, compare to that modern mortal panics are crazy