You're not part of that 60%. You had a long successful life, or at least a very short very very successful life.

You represent the top 10% of the economy. The problem is people are bad at math so they don't understand that having a few million bucks in an account and some social security and some kind of pension means that they're in that 10%. Everybody thinks being in the top 10% means you're a Rockefeller.

Good luck with your diagnosis. Cancer sucks.

That's people with full-time jobs and no homes.

We have had 50 years of non-stop automation mostly in factories and we're about to do that same thing to White collar work.

The ruling class are dependent on consumers to maintain their wealth and power and they damn well know it and they damn well don't like it.

Guys like Peter thiel and Elon Musk are hard at work, I mean as hard as any of those fuckers ever work, to create a techno-feudal hellscape where they continue to be God Kings and the rest of us live in the kind of poverty that's 75% of the world lives in today.

I think it's too miserable and unpleasant a thing for anyone around here to be willing to think about. The idea that Civilization does not progress on a line and does not always improve.

The scary thing about it is that unlike when the Roman empire collapses I don't think there's any way out of the techno feudalism that's being planned here.

There are 8 billion people on this planet. Mathematically life is actually worse.

We have more than enough of everything but we also still have a ruling class and without the constant threat of death by starvation you can't really maintain a ruling class.

And because we grew up with a ruling class we don't want to let it go because it was there when we were 12 so it better be there when we're 60 fucking five.

Of course you're also ignoring the fact that our civilization does not need to continue to progress. There's absolutely no reason why things can't go back to just as terrible as they were for 99% instead of one quarter living well.

I think it's safe to say the techno feudal hellscape that guys like Peter thiel are planning for you is going to look a lot like those dark ages you're thinking of. But hey you're an old fart right? You'll be dead before it happens probably. Probably.

If literally anything in your life goes wrong and the intense amounts of stress that modern Life has is probably having a much much larger impact than some computer software.

The effect of stress on intelligence and thinking is extremely well researched and extremely well understood. Human beings aren't meant to be fearing for their lives basically every moment. So having 60% of your population one paycheck away from homelessness is a problem.

But sure let's freak the fuck out about AI.

So you wouldn't say insanely nonsensical things about giving money to the third world in the context of Norway because you wouldn't be trying to shoehorn in the racist ideology you picked up from too much Fox News Grandpa.

Also we have the technology to solve this within a few decades if we just roll out the renewable energy technology we already have. It would create a huge economic boom and tons and tons and tons of great paying jobs.

But Fox News wants to make sure that you don't think for yourself. Or maybe your particular poison is something like oan or newsmax or hell Tim pool and his Russian backers. It's all the same talking points because it all comes from the same handful of billionaire funded think tanks.

It's funny to watch you guys complain about outsourcing all day long and then you outsource thinking to Peter thiel's Network of think tanks.

I think you're underestimating just how much propaganda gets thrown out there by the oil industry and by right wing governments in cahoots with them.

It's not just the people can't see it, you can't see that spoon's worth of plastic in your brain after all.

The problem is that between the overwhelming propaganda and a little bit of voter suppression you can win any election you want for any reason. That's what I learned last November.

You can literally get a guy with 26 credible rape accusations in 34 felony convictions a second term in the White House. How the hell are we supposed to convince people to switch to renewable energy under the circumstances?

We have wind power, solar power and if you live in a functioning civilization that doesn't constantly privatize high risk infrastructure nuclear power (basically if you live in France or Germany, offer not available in the United States)

We are already at the point where renewable energy is cheaper and better than fossil fuels it's just that the fossil fuel industry has hundreds of billions of dollars and is fighting for their lives so the propaganda is off the hook.

I don't remember them having old video games. Remember them getting rid of most of that stuff replacing it with ticket redemption crap. They did at least have the ball pit and jungle gym stuff. From what I understand all that's gone now. It's basically a kiddy casino with just really mean spirited ticket redemption games.

That was never going to work because the whole point of the place was you could go there as a parent and get a few hours of Peace as your kids played on the jungle gym after they blew through their coins.

Also these satellites are direct to phone, where as the early Starlink ones needed a hefty receiver. They are doing their usual thing of targeting the next big tech boom, not the current one. Satellite to phone will probably only really take off once Chinese manufacturers start churning out modems and phones with it.

It will be interesting to compare how well it works too, since Chinese companies, particularly Huawei, are already ahead when it comes to cellular and wireless communication technology.

Fusion is a long shot, at least in our lifetimes. This is proven tech that just needs to scale.

Really this is the best way to make use of fusion power. Take the natural reactor we already orbit, and add some storage to make it available 24/365.

It's not a prequel, it's set around 1000 years after the TOS era. Where Discovery jumped to for season 3.

It looks fine. It's an early teaser trailer that tells us nothing about the plot or characters.

Here we go again. "China is failing, no need to worry", then in a few years time "China stole our future tech and we need more export restrictions until we can invent it ourselves!"

If you look at the speed at which China has developed rocket technology and space tech in general, both privately and with government funded research, it's pretty clear that they are going to be a big deal very soon. They have some geographic disadvantages, but they have huge supply chain and rapid development advantages.

TFA also makes the classic mistake of assuming that the initial launch cadence is how things will remain, when of course it's going to ramp up as confidence in the already deployed satellites builds and the steady stream of work improves the turn-around time on the rockets.

We have got to stop doing this and instead be realistic. We have competition, and competition is usually a good thing if you respond well to it. We are going to have to adapt to a new world where there are vastly more satellites in orbit and where the reach of these private companies, likely backed by governments and with dual civilian and military applications, are greatly extended. Fingers in ears doesn't work, as we have found out time and time again.

It's probably worse in the US, most things related to solar are. In Europe there are loads of really good off the shelf options. Every solar installer will offer you a battery system.

There are many other examples of sports science pushing records though, so even if there is doping it's likely also down to improvements unrelated to that as well. For example, women's sports science was a long way behind the men's up until the 90s, when women started to improve rapidly.

How is the gender and age verification "critical" to retain? Once someones gender and age has been verified, it doesn't need to be re-verified. Or if it does for some reason, they would want new, current data, not data from years ago. Over the span of years it is possible to change your gender, for example.

Same with location data. While it may be necessary to verify that they are, say, in the US when signing up, or when logging in, there is no reasonable justification for retaining their precise GPS coordinates after that check is complete. Even for advertising, they could narrow it down to a general area, or some kind of token.

Even if they ask for opt-in, explicit permission, the use and retention still has to be reasonable. Effort has to be made to reduce the risk and the harm in the event of a breach.