They're probably will still be stunt actors. What they're going to do is have somebody do the emotions and then have ai bullshit overwrite their faces.

It sucks because it's cheapens the work done by the actual stunt men they're going to probably hire. We aren't quite at the point where you can type in a prompt super duper cool Kung Fu Fighting movie and out pops a cheap movie to market.

They've got a bunch of shit they got free from nasa. Everything they have tried to do on their own fails in spectacular fashion. Mostly because Elon gets involved and he's an incompetent man-child.

The one that sticks out in my mind is when a chunk of the launch pad blew up the rocket because he cut corners on the launch pad.

Musk keeps making promises his brain can't cash and for some reason guys like you keep accepting the bouncing checks over and over and over again. Like somebody else pointed out NASA had no problems doing this stuff just fine but it did it slow and steady and without seeming to be a super cool nerd dude.

You know in the old days I would ask if your mama wrote that but these days I know you had chat GTP spit it out.

I feel bad for your mom... She must be lonely now.

Yeah but stainless steel sounds cool. And if your main goal isn't to launch rockets but to pump stock, even if that stock is just your own personal brand, then using stainless steel is the way to go.

This isn't a product it's a branding exercise. It's like how the cybertruck was never going to be a real EV truck it was always just going to be a scammed pump the Tesla. SpaceX might not be a publicly traded company but it's got plenty of big investors and more importantly it lets musk go around talking about being a rocket scientist which pumps is publicly traded companies.

Everything Musk does is on the basis of promises. You don't want to ever deliver on a promise because when you do you get the cybertruck.

The hardest part is scamming your way to an election with 250 million dollars so that you don't lose your contracts after meddling in a war on the side of the country you're staying in's direct immediate geopolitical opponent.

From there on out it's easy because we more or less shut down NASA. So you can have as many failures as you want because you're the only game in town. We will keep shoveling taxpayer money your way. And any rocket engineer that wants a job has exactly one option unless it's a startup that's never going to get anything off the ground.

That's not how it works. You get the arbiter that is assigned. It just so happens that arbiter sides with the company almost every single time.

See while you were busy worrying about woke and trans or whatever your preferred moral panic was (got to keep those kids from playing d&d right?) the billionaires and their cronies were busy undermining every single institution designed to protect you.

You have so far enjoyed the benefits of survivorship bias. Maybe you will drop dead before the shit hits the fan for you personally. That seems to be the new American dream.

Who can maintain LLMs. They're the ones that are going to control the data set and they're the ones that will have enough data about user behavior and enough analytics to know who's a bot posting AI slop that will contaminate your model and who is a real person.

What that means is AI as a technology is going to belong to the very wealthiest people on the planet and everyone else gets nothing.

They will fight every one of their unemployment claims and because it's done by arbitration win most of them.

I once worked at a place where they moved the site to a place with no bus line. A blind guy I worked with had to quit because it was physically impossible to get to the site for him.

When we got to the site there was this completely pointless carpool program that was being pushed real hard. This was a dirt poor call center nobody was going to be getting into a carpool. The one buddy I knew who tried to do it found it every single person in the carpool didn't have a car and was just looking for a ride.

I wondered why they did it because I knew the program wasn't going to work. I found out later from the blind guy who I hung out with on the side that they used that carpool program to deny his unemployment claim. Well, not deny. He got the money initially and then was forced to pay it back with interest.

I don't think people around here realize how hostile to workers our economy is because a lot of people have been in the tech sector and it's been relatively calm by comparison to the rest of the economy.

It plays out like this. You just lost your job and you don't have the money to fight it. That's how it plays out.

And if only the woke could have stopped attacking our society in an attempt to destroy us, this whole thing could have been avoided. Like Pepe the frog said while making a sad face wearinga Sturmabteilung hat, "Why are you making me do this? All I wanted to do was play video games!"

They exist as a filtering system to decide who gets to access jobs and with them enough economic stability to afford food, shelter and medical Care.

Mind you teachers will try to use the school system for unintended purposes like improving the lives of children. But understand it's not the actual purpose.

Our school systems are a machine that turns kids into corporate profits. Anything else that comes out of it is purely accidental or coincidental.

In practice this means that if a kid can't just learn to do things more or less on their own then they can fuck right off. I mean we've got prisons and work houses right? Or is as one CEO put it you should go fix roofs for a living. Because who needs scientists?

We all know this is just layoffs. I wonder how much of it is regular layoffs and how much of it is getting rid of older workers.

Back in the day IBM did a mass round of layoffs of management. It's something that a lot of older nerds like to celebrate.

I looked into it and it turns out the reason they did it was to get rid of old workers. They had promoted a bunch of older workers into management roles even though they were still doing engineering work. They didn't want to keep paying the higher wages and health insurance costs but age discrimination is technically a thing.

So the CEO declared they were firing management and use that to get rid of all the old folk. There were a couple of lawsuits after the fact and if memory serves they lost a few of them. I suspect the payouts on the lawsuits were less than the cost of the buyouts for proper layoffs.

It's the blending of corporate and government. One of the key elements of fascism.

I'd never buy a home appliance that can't be fully operated with an app. That app will eventually go away, or not get updated and stop working on my device.

Doesn't your phone need to be unlocked to make a payment? Mine requires biometric authentication.

Recently an update introduced an option to not unlock for public transit. I haven't looked into it, presumably there is some security mechanism in there, but I didn't enable it anyway.