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Comment When people no longer work (Score 1) 134

...you invest in the performance of the replacement. If that's AI or whatever.
AI could be better at some things but compared to other AI it's performance is also relative.
Take it another step and you could invest via AI in AI investment algorithms that invest in AI companies.
Humans, as it turns out, are not entirely required.

Comment Does stupidity have consequences? (Score 3, Insightful) 201

This is a question that a lot of US workers seems to be unable to answer.
If you have to choose between a former Attorney General with an odd laugh OR a person convicted of sexual assault with a salesman smile whom do you choose?
I know it's a tough choice because "woke BS is dead" and "they gonna make our kids transexual" and "Hunter Biden's laptop" etc but take a moment and really concentrate here.

Upon closer inspection there are two flawed humans. Flawed because no human is perfect.
...however one of them is a dirty, turn everything to shit, scumbag of a creature and the other is not. Can you tell which?

Comment Bait and switch (Score 3, Informative) 22

You get "Free!" next day deliveries with Prime which sometimes take 2 and rarely 3 days
The delivery price is "Free!" if you don't notice the cost is often included in the item price.
You get Prime video for "Free!" If you do not include the occasional alunskippable 2.5 minutes of ads.
Remember the consumer is everything for Amazon...sorry I mean the consumer used to be everything.

Comment This doesn't make sense! (Score 2) 209

Do tourists not want to help Make America Great Again??
I swear tourism is the greatest scam ever invented to rip Americans off.
Tourists should pay *at least* 300% more on everything to visit the magnificent land of the United Swamps of America.
Once tourists pay their fair share you, the simple and disinfranchised poverty line American will have a great life again. Promise.

Comment Ohhhh cheap online US Shopping (Score 1) 258


As I keep telling my distant republican voting relative, it's the policies that enhance or degrade the economy not the party you vote for.
Example; vote for a party that will enact good policies and the economy will likely do better.
Somehow he always manages to mention Kamala's voice, AOC, Hunter Biden etc.
Anyways Trump has a good business record I'm sure it'll all work out.

Comment Testosterone and other factors (Score 2) 175


While this is by no means anywhere near all factors but when men wear tight undies with overheated balls, when they become obese and less active their testosterone and fertility is affected significantly.
Now if you look at what kind of men most women find "hot" and or "sexy" they are almost universally not obese.
So ouside of the cost of living, the difficulty of raising children, toxic mascuinity, female selectivity etc there's this seriously BIG issue in the US about weight and it affects all levels of society.
So yeah, they are having less sex and the UK is following closely in their footsteps...now Japan is a country of relatively healthy weight people but they are also having less sex for other unhealthy reasons...and you may find that this is similar in countries with high levels of stress.
it's almost as if natural selection is at work. When partners are not promising good genes, when costs are too high to raise kids, when there's too much social stress these are all factors that weigh heavily of just having sex.
Big side step here is procreation but there;s also female education at work. eg smarter women don't like to spread their legs for just any schmo and most women think 75% of men are schmos
In conclusion, if you're a man that wants to have lots of sex but you're broke, fat, old and or stressed I hope for your sake you're really funny because let me tell you, most women do not care for brains.

P.S.
Let's face it, most young healthy men 18-40 can have sex once a day every day for many years. So once a week is kinda lame...but with life, kids etc it's sorta bearable.

Comment Re: Time for some Boomers (Score 1) 149

If they lose their retirement that means they will also have to lean on the younger generations that are already having a serious uphill struggle...
Meanwhile the crypto bros and the financially interested are telling everyone bitcoin is going to be the world reserve currency, it's a store of value and so on.
Doesn't sound like irrational exuberance at all does it? :-)
Funny how all the bitcoin purists haven't noticed it's trading like a commodity. Influenced and manipulated by the deep pocketed institutions...it all works out until it doesn't.
For the time being however the math is simple, if Trump continues down the path of weakening the dollar, commodities trading against the dollar will do well. Including Bitcoin.
It's not magic. It's not the second coming of Natishi SuckMyMoto.
Good luck storing your value in someone else's asset.

Comment Do no despair! (Score 2) 200

With tariffs forcing a massive onshoring of manufacturing you will soon be able to take your $50k student debt and your degree and sit on an assembly line earning minimum wage...and the even better news is you can have two such jobs to work 14-16 hours a day so you can just manage to pay interest and never get out of debt.
As this is not a political post I'll not try to sway you as to what the root cause might be I will let you determine that all by yourself.
I got all my fingers crossed for all Americans and their future...

Comment Re: Ushering a new era (Score 1) 21

Sure but then again I'm after getting the result I imagine. So there a certain amount of control.
If course even without AI some people have down dumber things to their pets... it's a tool. A saw can be used for many things. Same as a hammer or a car.
The real danger are and always have been people. AI is just the next step in speeding up and automating Human error (and therefore learning and success)

Comment Re: Ushering a new era (Score 1) 21

If it can predict how to turn my bread into toast and actually fumbles it's way to completing the task I'm OK with how it got there.
I might actually manage to live eating toast without ever having known how a toaster works.
Now I just imagine my toast and the AI that doesn't know anything and predicts the next step gives me mostly what I imagined.
It doesn't get tired. It doesn't have a shitty attitude. It won't talk to me about how toasters work just to get toast.

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