Who's going to hire plumbers when everybody is a plumber you ask?

Why other plumbers of course!

It's plumbers all the way down.

There are 24 hours in the day and therefore 1440 minutes in a day. 1/10 of 1% of that is 1.44 minutes or 86 seconds.

For the rest of us I think we're okay but in your a case you might actually be over toileted...

This post is low effort engagement bait. Apple hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. The only questionable choice is that silly touch screen and that's harmless enough. Most of their energy right now is focused on their processors and seeing if they can get in on controlling all of AI and the massive automation push coming from that but that's what every single tech company on the planet is doing.

Nothing to see here just lazy rage bait and that comes from somebody who is not really much of a fan of Apple

Millions of dollars stolen is a tiny fraction of just the money Trump got to sell pardons.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't stop fraud but if all you can come up with is a few million bucks there are much better places to go after fraud. Like how the IRS will go after you for forgetting to include the right paperwork for a deduction but they'll cheerfully let Elon Musk skip paying billions of dollars of taxes he's owing.

This is not an accident. People in power have long since set things up so that they don't have law enforcement against them but you do.

Fascism requires an in group that the law protects but does not bind and an out out group that the law binds but does not protect. If you're reading this you're in the out group

Per week. A relatively minor political forum called white people Twitter does 650 k views and 42k posts per week. The bigger rage bait forums do millions of views and tens of thousands of posts per week.

A lot of those are probably bots but advertisers treat them like they aren't. Data is data.

I guess what I'm saying is rage bait and outrage porn drives a lot more engagement than lawn Care.

Also those kind of subreddits like the lawn Care One require massive amounts of maintenance and moderation to be barely functional. Otherwise they instantly get overwhelmed with garbage.

I don't know about the lawn care one but the video game one's especially the retro video game ones are fucking useless because they are filled with nothing but karma farming posts from bots trying to drive up their numbers so that they can post on the political forums

I listen to them because they're very powerful and they get to make decisions about my life.

I am through pretending people with nearly limitless money don't get to decide how I live my life. I'm tired of coping with how bad things are I want them to either get better or I want them to just end in a global firestorm. But I'm tired of everything just getting worse because people refuse to deal with the shit that's happening and pretend instead that they can just ignore it.

I get it though. Voting is a fucking drag. My ballot this year was full of bullshit designed to trick me into voting for bad things that would hurt me or bad people that would hurt me and it was a good 40 or 50 minutes spent sorting that out. And that's after I had a lot of experience with politics and could quickly find who was tricking me and who was just probably going to line their pockets a little bit without completely fucking me in the ass.

I don't know what you do with that. The first couple of times I had to actually sit down with a ballot and sort out all the lies took a couple hours and even now I've barely got that time in half. On paper it's a couple hours of my life every other year but fuck it's annoying.

But if I want to have my hobbies I don't have a choice. Tech Bros are taking away everything good. I want to go back to being able to afford a fucking video card. And that means I have to deal with politics I can't just pretend guys like Sam Altman can be ignored

Honestly he's probably barely cracking the top 100. There's over 2,000 billionaires on this planet. Sure he's a sociopathic monster but I mean we've got over 2,000 to choose from. And for some reason we give them limitless power and then we pretend that they don't have the limitless power.

He has billions of dollars and nearly limitless power. Whether you care what he thinks about your PC or not he gets to decide whether you get to have a PC or not.

You can't keep letting people have limitless power and then just throw up your hands and say I don't care. You can't live in an alternate universe where they don't exist and where they don't have power over you. And you can't just go somewhere they aren't because virtually all the land capable of sustaining human civilization is full of people already and those people have to listen to Sam Altman and guys like him who have the billions and billions of dollars and limitless power people refuse to take away from them.

Politics affects your hobbies and your life whether you like it or not. I don't care doesn't make that go away. It's just cope.

You're basically ignoring our entire Financial system and how it's built and designed. If any of what you describing is successful in your life then you have a 401k because we heavily encourage them through a combination of tax write-offs and in the case of employers matching contributions as a benefit to attract employees.

You can't just say, just ignore the entire system and live outside of it and be successful outside of the system you're born in. I mean you can but frankly that makes you an insufferable twat. Speaking of which, how are the libertarian primary debates this year?

It won't even slow it down if anything it will accelerate it because in the panic people will vote fascists into power like they always do. Democracy does best during stable times and struggles the most when money and food and shelter are in short supply.

It's one of the things the left wing really doesn't like to think about. Like how the biggest gains in the civil Rights movement happened in the 60s and 70s which happened to coincide with a period of economic prosperity.

It really really pisses off the left wing that people under Financial duress can do nasty evil things without really thinking about it. What the cool kids call the banality of evil.

It's because that fundamentally clashes with the left wings belief that people are ultimately good.

It doesn't really if you understand what's happening. It's not the people are experiencing "economic anxiety" and then becoming fascists. People didn't vote Trump because they were worried about the economy but doing just fine which is frankly what the phrase economic anxiety has come to mean in American politics.

The actual problem is that when people aren't doing well financially and are struggling to feed and shelter themselves they don't react to that by being smart and rational. When human beings are put under pressure we make bad decisions. We fuck up. A lot.. pressure doesn't make diamonds it makes garbage more compact.

It's not that people are becoming evil or even just plain assholes, it's that they're trying to solve the problem and they're fucking up because people don't actually perform well under bad conditions no matter what TV and movies tell you.

And that's the basic problem the left wing and frankly most people have. Too much TV too many books too much anime and video games and you start to believe that shit. It's especially bad for the left wing because they are kind of insufferable and they get really into the whole art imitates life bullshit.

There is a data privacy bill in committee right now in the House. I don't expect we'll see movement on it soon but it's still there.

https://www.congress.gov/event...

Maybe dead internet. But they can't survive this. Reddit is already kinda useless. You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet enough to keep advertisers happy and get enough engagement so that you can mine data and train AI with posts.

They are supposedly going to make it so you can curate your feed better though. I gave up on Reddit because I could not get it to stop giving me rage bait posts. YouTube has the ability to just block them but Reddit doesn't let you do that. I know why it's better for engagement and that's all they care about.

That's the fundamental problem in the internet even more so than AI sloppification. It is heavily optimized to make you angry and keep you angry because that's what keeps you glued to the screen the longest.

Nothing is being traded. There are no physical goods and there is no ownership of any company or products. These are gamblers. I hate that our news media is completely owned by these psychopaths

You're buying something of value and you might be underestimating or overestimating the value of that thing but you're still getting the thing. Specifically you are buying ownership in a company.

That's not gambling. You don't get paid based on the outcome. You get paid based on the relative value of the company.

Now if that system isn't working very well for you no shit, we have been deregulating markets for the last 50 years what the fuck did you expect? But that's not a problem with the underlining system that's you refusing to do the maintenance the system needs to function properly. If you stop changing your car is oil it's going to break down.

Gambling is when you are paid based entirely on whether a predetermined outcome happens or not. That is definitely what gambling is. You do not own anything. So you only get paid if the event happens. And there is a specific event that has to happen for you to be paid. That is gambling.

Even without the context we all know who I'm talking about.

I bring it up because dear God this administration is corrupt and in light of the subject of this comment what the hell was anyone expecting?

I think the real problem is about 25% of the population of any given country or dyed in the wool assholes.

From there all you have to do is push people to enough desperation that their brain stop working right. People under enormous amounts of pressure don't suddenly get better or smarter. They make bad decisions and they make more of them.

Like believing a famous pedophile who bankrupts everything he touches is somehow going to reduce the cost of groceries. Somebody who can think straight knows better than that.