Oh there's plenty of other reasons. Trump is gradually building a private army for his own personal use. Assuming that the Democrats don't win in 2026 and 2028 it will probably become entrenched and it's likely that'll be the end of our democracy.

Young men will lose billions on it. Billions they don't have to lose. It will put them in a increasingly desperate situation when we are already putting them in a desperate situation because we have automated away the jobs they traditionally do.

Short-term crime will go up. Long term those young men will be organized into gestapos and secret police and pointed at you with guns.

Whatever else you think about ICE you need to realize that from Donald Trump's perspective they are his personal army at his beck and call. Now that is currently not true but there is work being done to fix that...

If you don't understand why that's a bad situation for you to be in I'm not sure what to tell you. But what I am trying to get across is that you can't just abandon large swaths of the population to be exploited. No matter how many guns you stockpile sooner or later you're going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

Something that was initially impractical because it couldn't be used at scale but that advances in technology elsewhere suddenly made it useful for ton of applications.

Technology is not a one-way Street it's a complicated mess of back roads and by roads.

We have a lot of major disasters we are ignoring. Climate change, boomers dying and taking all the money with them causing a collapse in disposable income spending, AI taking all the water and electricity, fascism, etc etc etc.

But just for fun let's add another on the pile. Specifically we are running out of basic research.

Basic research is stuff you do that is not immediately profitable but is extremely expensive. For centuries we didn't do that and we called that time to dark ages.

The merchant class combined with world wars caused us to start doing some basic research funded by the government. A shitload of money was made and for a very brief period of time private industries like Bell labs were doing some basic research. It wasn't profitable enough so they stopped.

Billionaires want to be trillionaires so the government can no longer do basic research because all that money got turned into tax cuts and subsidies for the upcoming ultra Epstein class. This all happened to me mid to late 1980s and was finished by the late 1990s.

So we have been over 20 years without a serious push into basic research. But it's a pipeline. Basic research done today won't pay off for 20 or 30 years maybe longer.

This means that we are using up a resource most people don't even understand exists because it's way too complicated a topic to discuss.

I don't know exactly when the well will run dry but based on what I've read we're not too far off from it. We're going to start seeing advances slow and we have been relying on those advances to stay ahead of the rapacious Epstein class devouring money. Basically productivity has been rising so much that no matter how hungry they are they can't gobble up everything. But without those absolutely enormous productivity gains from all that basic research paying off after 20 or 30 years or more... Well it's going to bring everything screeching to a halt at exactly the same time everything else is going to shit.

And as usual people will blame the Democrats or whatever the local equivalent non-fascist party is and then shit's going to get real fun. What the Chinese call interesting times.

I mentioned it on another thread but I wish I had died before it all started to happen. There was this very brief period of time the baby boomers enjoyed when as long as you were reasonably white or lucky enough to be born in one of the nicer parts of America you made out pretty damn good. Those times are over.

Into groups useful for large corporations owned by the Epstein class. They aren't there for you to learn and if you do that's a happy accident and the Herculean efforts of a teacher trying to go against the system.

This is partially why the cost of education per student is skyrocketing.

In the past it was really easy to sort the kids. It was basically two groups the ones who were teaching themselves and only needed a minimum amount of oversight, what we used to call academically inclined, and everybody else who was on their way to the factories and going to be taught just enough reading and math to be useful over there.

The factories are full of robots now so there's nothing for the second group of kids to do. What we've been trying to do at Great expense is actually teach those kids enough that they might be able to land a job and if we can't do that we can at least keep them out of the job market for a little while while we try to figure out what the fuck we're going to do with tens of millions of people who have no reason to be alive besides inherent limitless value of human life (I'll wait for everybody to stop laughing)

If you ever pay attention to Rich schools notice how expensive they are. That's not because of the marble in the walkways or the edible food in the cafeteria it's the small class sizes, large number of books and lots of paper for writing and lots of extra programs for things like the humanities and music where kids can learn critical thinking skills even if they don't just naturally have them.

If you look at how rich people teach their kids they don't do any of this experimental bullshit and they don't give them Chromebooks they use the same techniques we hammered out from about 1910 through about 1970. All the experimentation is done on the poor kids.

The point is you have too many people and nothing to do with them. We're running out of work and we are a society where if you don't work you don't eat.

AI breaks this entire system even faster than the factory automation did. It doesn't just expose the cracks it Rams a crowbar in between them and then uses a machine to pull them apart. Students can bypass the sorting mechanism designed to decide who is and isn't worthy of the attentions of the 1%. The teachers for their part are dumbfounded because they haven't ever quite come to terms with the fact that our education system does not serve the students it serves big business...

Sooner or later something has to give and I just kind of wish I had died before the shit hit the fan

There's nothing else worthwhile to say on this thread. We all know this is corruption and gambling.

Because people post the videos on social media.

Less RAM.

The much hyped light on the back only comes on when you talk to AI or get a phone call from someone on your favourite contacts list, that's it. It's not even a 2017 era notification light.

The cameras got a mild upgrade, but still aren't on a par with what Chinese vendors are offering at a lower price.

Even the free AI subscription was cut from 12 to 6 months.

And yet any idiot didn't buy a button hole camera. This really started when smart glasses came on the market, particularly the Meta ones.

By the way, there is an Android app that detects smart glasses near you: https://play.google.com/store/...

Better antenna and thus better range, but that's more than offset by the fact that Google crippled their Find My Device network.

Google made the default setting on Android to only locate items that are picked up by multiple devices, and away from the user's home. So basically only in busy areas like airports or city centres. There is an option to opt in to reporting everywhere with a single ping, but I imagine the take-up is extremely low and you are reliant on someone having opted in if your device goes missing.

There's an open source app that lets you use Samsung tags on any Android phone. I suggest getting those as they will probably be on sale soon. Their network works as well as Apple's.

Recycling is effective when done right. While we do need to stop putting more microplastics into the environment, being able to remove them will be very useful because there are already vast quantities there. The key will be doing it cheaply.

Better or cheaper than not putting it there in the first place. When you see stuff like this it's greenwashing. Like how recycling does basically fuck all but we all get told as kids to do it because the plastic industry pays to have you told that bullshit.

I heard that there were plans to build a new accelerator in Japan, and that CERN was getting upgrades. Maybe now those will be designed with replicating this in mind.

Keep in mind though that this is Europe. Here if they make an automated decision, they have to explain it on request.

Most likely explanation is that some bot switched to using a Linux user agent for HTTPS requests, and it took Cloudflare a day to notice and correctly categorize it as non-human.

That said Microsoft is rightly concerned that the enshittification of Windows and AI making it easier for users to switch is helping Linux make gains on the desktop. Hopefully they react by deshittifying Windows now.

1. Extremely reliable. Figure high 90s.

2. Generally you do not need a measles shot again for your entire life but it is possible for the effects to decrease depending on the individual. So it's still a good idea to get tested.

Given the number of idiots skipping their measles shots it's probably not a bad idea to get tested for antibodies. And if you're at a high risk area where herd immunity is breaking down due to right-wing politics it's probably best to just get the shot and booster and call it a day.