These are just Banks. There's no cryptocurrency involved here otherwise the ledgers would be permanent and untraceable and they wouldn't have been able to just seize the money.

The reason they were able to get the money back is because they are getting it back from centralized authorities who control the asset. You might as well just put your money in a bank unless of course you are laundering it because of crime. Which is the real product crypto provides.

Might also be fishing for brides...

The main risk with AI is that we're going to hit a tipping point where there isn't enough people employed to keep our society functional anymore.

Basically the tax base collapses, government spending goes with it and that creates a ripple effect where not enough money is moving in the economy companies start doing layoffs which reduces the amount of money moving in the economy so more layoffs and so on so and so forth.

As an added bonus to collapse of the tax base means that there won't be enough money to find police and fire departments and subsidize hospitals in rural communities.

We can't keep automating all the jobs away in world where if you don't work you don't eat. And no matter how many bullets you stockpile you're going to run out of ammo before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

Maybe Google rolled something out to you that I haven't seen yet but Google search is still there for me below the AI summary.

This is classic bundling of two unrelated products. No matter what Google says search is not ai and even the dumbest judge on the planet knows that.

We have let right wing extremists completely dismantle our court system so fuck only knows what's going to happen but any legitimate and sensible Court would simply declare this an antitrust law enforcement and tell Google to knock it the fuck off or they're going to split their company in the smaller sub companies.

I don't think we're going to see that though even with the Democrats in charge they have so many fires to put out from the last 2 years and honestly we never recovered from covid because we only got two years of Democrats in charge before voters inevitably put Republicans back in charge during the 2022 midterms.

People always complain about Washington gridlock and then every couple of years they send a Democrat president a republican Congress and the Republican Congress spends 2 years sabotaging everything the Democrat tries to do the help. Then the Democrat loses the presidency and if we're really unlucky like we were this last time the Republicans briefly take Congress.

And frankly we all saw how that went. No matter how big of Republican you are you have to know on some level they screwed you over. If nothing else when you fill up your gas tank. Or when you buy groceries. Or when you pay for healthcare. Or when you read about one of the wars going on. Or...

Yes I have been watching Colombo but without the governorship and the AG and the secretary of state which is appointed in Texas the Republicans won't be able to do the voters suppression they need to hold the Senate through the next election.

Every Republican in Texas right now is desperately trying to figure out how they're going to hold on to their seats in 2028 when they are forced to run on Donald Trump's shit covered coattails. They can't distance themselves from Trump because Republican primary voters will punish them and end their political careers if they try to and Trump will encourage that. So they just have to go down with the ship and they're trying to figure out how they can be the rats that escape.

This means that for the next two years the Democrats have a shitload of leverage because at the end of the day the cheating that Ken Paxton did as the attorney general isn't going to be helping Republicans anymore and without that all those Californians that were moved to Texas to avoid California labor law are going to vote blue finally because they don't have to wait in line 6 hours just to find out their registration was invalidated.

Republicans in the Senate will of course sabotage the entire State as much as they can in order to blame the fallout on the democrats. They've been doing that since the mid-90s when newt Gingrich developed the tactic. He called it the contract with America.

But when it comes to Data centers if those Republicans keep selling out they can't just quietly sell out because the Democrats in the lower chamber are going to force them on record. Then they're going to get slaughtered in 2028 when Trump drags the entire Republican party down with him.

The big problem is neither of these states have the water or electricity needed for these data centers and the only way they can get it is to either pollute local communities to the point where it's extremely noticeable to the locals and hits the press hard when people start getting cancer in a few years or they can just quadruple everybody's water and electricity bills.

They've been doing both of those things for years now. There are communities that have no water pressure because the local data center is just taking all the water. And everybody's power bills are going up 10 and 20 and 30%.

It's just to noticeable. They can't cover it up with a bunch of Elon musk's money to buy ads.

So the way it works is this. If you have a privately run airport paid for by public dollars that you're multi-million dollar private jet lands on the failure mode is for a dozen highly skilled air control experts to make the necessary corrections in real time.

If you're a regular sclob like you and me the failure mode is whichever afterlife your particular religion or lack thereof prescribes.

The cool thing about civilization collapsing is it doesn't collapse all at once it comes apart slowly and in pieces.

Both States just turned blue and a big part of that besides orange pedophile screwing up the economy is the Republicans welcoming data centers.

How the hell is Arizona supposed to have all these data centers given the Colorado River is cutting off water to it. Remembered data centers don't have to use all that water but they do anyway because it's slightly cheaper and then they lie about how much water they use in public.

And that's before we talk about the electricity usage. Texas' is grid can't take it. It's another reason the Republican party lost and the state turned blue. When you want shit fixed you elect a Democrat when you want to fun spectacle you go with the Republican and hope it's your neighbor that gets fired during the inevitable recession. It's been that way since the '90s when newt Gingrich started that contract with America bullshit.

Against the living impaired.

So there's no contradiction. Your reading shit into places it doesn't exist. Like the meme about that little bitch eating a cracker like she owns the place...

What I'm talking about here is an intractable problem. Like how automation is devouring jobs faster than our society can adapt and we're about to have a shitload of unemployable people but we're not willing to just let them sit around all day. It's a problem that nobody has a solution too

That's why you're getting angry at me. I'm stating the problem bluntly and you don't have a solution either.

Also as a libertarian what right do you have to Levy taxes? Taxation is theft after all.

Honestly I doubt the two are related. Nintendo has always made good money off their back catalog and it's hardly a surprise that they want preservation. The catch is that like how Disney has their vault Nintendo wants to drip feed it out.

One of the things that worries these companies is that if there's too much out there and too many games it's going to become impossible to heavily monetize their games like they want to. If you're being charitable to the companies that may even become difficult to be profitable at the scale they need to be at, although blood sucking large shareholders are a constant problem there since it drives companies to be unreasonably profitable or get slaughtered for parts by private equity...

Public ownership sounds great until you realize that it's not really public ownership it's a handful of people that own everything and they let us give them some of our money for a while... And if we are really lucky we can make money selling a little piece of the company they let us pretend to own to somebody else who's going to pretend to own it. But good luck exercising any of that ownership...

AI is going to fuck up gaming in so many ways and this is one of them.

Basically you can take a little bit of AI code and somebody else's project from when they did the hard stuff and combine the two and the AI will take the work that person did for a single project and generalize it so that it can be applied to basically any game in existence.

This means that you get stuff like bloodborne being ported to PC which is harmless enough because it's an old game but then the code from that can be adopted and patched and updated by AI to the point where script kiddies can make PS5 games run on PC natively...

Whatever else you think about the topic there's no way Sony and Nintendo and Microsoft can let that slide. Never mind what Adobe is eventually going to do.

The first thing will probably be to do something think of the children bullshit to ban local AI instances. I'm sure they'll say something about pedophilia or guns or something. And honestly they probably will find some gun toting pedos just like how Ronald Reagan used Willie Horton to win an election. Fun fact the guy's name isn't Willie it's William.

I don't know what the fuck you do about any of this but we are going to have to figure out some kind of Middle ground between every single console game can be pirated with ease on your PC and none of us were allowed to own hobbyist PCS anymore.

I mean we don't have to the corporations can just take our toys away. Although the last election shows they're not 110% in charge of everything. I mean they spent like $2 billion dollars trying to get the Republican party here in America elected and surprisingly that didn't work. Christ Mississippi elected a black man to the senate for the first time since before reconstruction...

Clearly the internet should move to Slashcode. It was a mistake to use anything else. Screw Unicode!

We do not spill the blood of Kings

A sitting US president is a pedo. Nobody cares

He got fired because he was likely to keep leaking secrets because guys like this who can't keep it in their pants keep doing it.