Not really. It's rsilvergun. That means there is a lot of thought going into the absolutely wrong conclusion.

Bill Gates, Soros, Zuck, etc. all spent the last 15 years hacking the system. One guy stands up and says "This is BS" and now suddenly Musk is a king? What a joke.

I swear, this religious issue of CO2 being bad has absolutely taken over.

Educate yourself. CO2 is not a leading indicator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You know the CIA had a gun to induce heart attacks back in the 70's right? The 1970's? Yet, you think this is too hard to pull off? If so, you are living in a dream world.

This would be very easy to do for a dedicated and trained individual.

Try to pay attention to what is actually happening everywhere around the world. These agencies have had billions of dollars in funding for decades upon decades. Why did Boeing suddenly divest itself of manufacturing everything in house that was operating perfectly well? Had to spread those Benjamins around a bit more and cause more havoc once Boeing was one of two manufacturing concerns left for jumbo jets. How the fuck was that allowed to happen? Benjamins is how.

Except for the part where there is zero climate "emergency" and it is all a bunch of hysteria driven by a bunch of political BS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is, once again, the biggest crock of shit out there.

Just go to Youtube and listen to actual experts who no longer care about having to find grant money in today's academic world. Search for Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) Updated 4K version and get real information that doesn't have a so called environmentalist agenda baked into it.

From January of 2023. Why is it being shown here now???

The important thing here is "for 80 years." Literally noise in the scale of global climate change.

Look up a graph of what temperatures have been for the last million years. We have been hotter and way colder than we are now. And keep in mind that the rate of change from our proxy samples should also be taken with a small grain of salt as we don't exactly know where the samples were originally formed due to plate tectonics, etc. They are decent, but these are still estimates and they are estimates from from proxies.

The interesting thing from the one million year graph is how strangely consistent the up and down cycle is. It is almost like something triggers once the temperature gets up to 58F then plunges. That seems like way more of an issue than the idea that the temp is going to run away to get too hot.

Now look up temperatures for the last 100 million years. It is colder than it used to be as far as we can tell. Which makes sense as the Sun is getting older, we are slowly moving away from it, etc. Then do 500 million years. You will see, again, that the temperature was way hotter than it is now.

These kinds of things are why so many people hear the panic about "this is the END!!!" and blow it off. Looking at the graphs, the last several thousand years have been by far the most stable temperatures that there have ever been. Ever. Do we know why it was that stable? No. We have lots of ideas but nothing that explains it. Do we know if that stability is simply coming to the end naturally? Nope, we don't know that either. We have fears that we are impacting it, but we don't know it.

So why should we panic and cause mass havoc when temps move a microscopic bit. Looks like the way, way bigger threat is that temperatures are going to plunge in the relatively near future. Now, we might actually cause that through our warming. But based on these graphs, there are a lot of other things going on that seem beyond our abilities to actually impact in any way with current technology.

Seems like a better plan to keep improving our technology and migrate things around as better solutions come up rather than shoving "solutions" down peoples throat which lower standards of living and will 1000% cause a backlash. And probably a pretty nasty one given how tense everyone is these days.

Past performance doesn't guarantee future results....but it is BY FAR the best indicator of what will happen at the macro scale. I didn't predict which jobs would be created and I never said that jobs such as your horse example wouldn't go away. I said the opposite. Today's horse driver will be tomorrow auto mechanic or Uber driver or whatever. But there will be more of them than AI will displace. And if you think that the manufacturing jobs of the 1970s vanished into thin air, you are looking in the wrong place. The US and to a lesser extent European "leadership" simply exported them all away. There are still tons and tons of these jobs. Just not as large of a percentage of them in the West as there used to be since they are now in Asia and South America.

Also, if you think the working class that drove a horse was in any way better off or had more income than what is available today then you need to read more about what life really was like back then. The reason you see so many people with butlers, maids, etc. in black and white movies only 100 year ago is that those people were essentially indentured servants and made pennies for their labor. I was fortunate enough to have 4 great grandparents live well into their 90s. Hearing the real stories about "the good old days" was eye opening. Hollywood never portrayed what life was like, especially for the working class. It may not have been hell on Earth, but you could certainly see it from there.

As for workforce participation rates, that is due in no small part to the rise in the welfare state, not in spite of it. Just look public spending by GDP from 1940. Google/Bing will do their best to hide this data as it doesn't look good but you can find it. It has skyrocketed in recent years. That, combined with the aging population, directly correlates with the declining workforce participation rate.

Lastly, have some faith in humanity. Maybe not in the current leadership, but humanity itself. Things are way better off than what you are constantly being bombarded with from the media and political class. Look up Michael Schellenberger on Youtube. He sheds some interesting lights on things and he is far from being some reactionary Right wing nutjob

Not even close. This kind of fear mongering about "technology is going to take all jobs" has been debunked since 1811 you Luddite...

Technology ALWAYS ends up creating more jobs. The jobs just shift. That’s it. That’s all. And it has been proven over and over and over and over again. Clever people will figure out ways to make AI useful in a new fashion that will spawn job growth. You just can’t see it yet. But it will happen.

Short sighted and hysterical personalities like yourself that are always looking for “the end” because you aren’t comfortable unless you are feeling the rush of drama. Just about any drama will do. Your battle cry of “this time it is different” is pathetic. Common tool sets, factory lines, pneumatic systems, computers, robotic assembly, etc. etc. have all been the harbingers of the end of jobs according to people like you. And they were wrong each and every time.

Prior to 2016 everyone was on this board panicking about how everyone was going to need UBI. Then the unemployment rate plummeted to historic lows after several restrictive regulations were relaxed/removed. Now AI is going to put us all out on the street. Better get the government built up and ready to step in because everyone knows how good the government is at handling people’s wellbeing.

Give it a rest already. Your predictions are ridiculous.

You should have continued to read rather than stopping at that point. Because you literally just piled on to what the ImadeGhostzilla was quoting/saying... The entire point was the the political system is broken due to its isolation as are the educated elites working from their own silos. You are in violent agreement with what was being stated.

There is nothing in this post that I couldn't agree with more. I just wish there were more people posting things that actually take real human thought and actions into account.

Whenever I read something on this forum that is absolutely batshit crazy but pretty well written there is a a 50/50 shot it is from rsilvergun. An NBC ad executive who is a right wing extremist because...wait for it...she stays informed of many different viewpoints. Almost like she wants to know what people are saying in social media to try to pick up on trends like an advertising executive would want to do. That is just right-wing craziness there! Yep, that is the view of the Left these days. Listening, following, or God forbid thinking anything other than sanctioned propaganda “correct think” makes you a right-wing extremist. Such as a career advertising executive at NBC who has been there for years. Notice all the whacked out extremist advertising on NBC lately? I have to protect my friends who don’t have “American Patriot” tattoos written clearly on their faces from even viewing NBC. I encourage them to borrow my safe space instead. Libs of TikTok causing bomb threats??? Like, actually forcing people into behavior? That is incredible. I guess it is a good thing none of your posts encourage behavior of any kind let alone you employing the Dark Side of the Force to cause people to act by reading them. Because otherwise it seems that most of the random violence, street take overs, mass shootings, etc. are coming from people claiming to be from the Left these days. Please keep it up. Your antics in here are mesmerizing.

Oliver Stone, not exactly a right wing source, made a movie a few years ago. You should watch it. The title is "Ukraine on Fire". Pretty much called what was going to happen years in advance and it wasn't because the Ukraine is friendly. It was because the Ukraine was overthrown. Doesn't quite fit the current Western media narrative.

Naw, not even close We actually cook. A lot. Raised 3 kids, cooked on average 6 days a week. 6 burner gas stove in the house. It is fantastic In our other home we have induction because it came with it and doesn't have the plumbing for gas. We have blown through 2 stoves and are on our third. This place only gets used once a month or so. The temperature step ups for induction are huge. Want to just barely boil your water for a real percolator cup of coffee? Well, piss off because it goes from 200 to 225 and nothing in between. I'll grant that is can boil water fast. As long as you only run 1 of the "burners". If you are running 3 or more then prepare to either blow a circuit or wait at a lower setting. If I could run gas to the second home I would in a second.

This is exactly why the problem won't be fixed. And that is why everyone who is concerned about this kind of legislation shoved down our throats is complaining about this crap. Producing more of what we have even with modest improvements aren't going to make the bigger problems go away. When I see this kind of post it just makes me wonder how is it that so few people on this board seem to go anywhere more than a few hours away or tow anything, ever. The best battery tech, even if you were to double the capacity in 5 years, means that you might get 200 miles towing anything. Read the recent Car & Driver, they did a full test of these trucks about a month ago. Best range was 100 miles and that wasn't even fully loaded. It also means that if you travel from CA to Utah or Idaho for a summer trip you will need to plan an extra two days of travel since you simply can't get there and back without needing that extra time to charge up. So let's see, you have a 7 day vacation and now you need 4 days to get somewhere and back vs. 2 in an ICE. 4 days of travel for 3 days of fun vs. 2 days of travel for 5 days of fun. Now that trip probably isn't worth it. Yes, 95% of the time people don't need this extra load carrying capacity or range. But 5% of the time there is zero substitute in an EV. And when you need to make a decision and purposefully give up the 5% of the functionality of a vehicle that often generates 80% of the best times in life you aren't going to do it. And that isn't going to be solved no matter how many more batteries they produce or what they cost. Unless there is an absolutely gigantic leap forward in battery technology that is 10x the capacity of what is available today then nobody is going to want to let the ICE go for at least one vehicle in the family. You can postulate all you want that people will willingly give up the ability to go camping, have an RV, or tow a boat but the people that do these things are simply not going to do it. And when that class of person gets pissed together then things go sideways fast.