This isn't even a complicated nuance and I spelled it out clearly. Two words. Unfettered capitalism.

What you are describing is not unfettered anarco capitalism. Yes UK employees do have some more protections than American employees. Probably not enough. Definitely not enough because there's a lot of poverty in the United Kingdom.

The article is literally about putting hard regulations on capitalism in an effort to keep it functional. That's how it's related. The school system has failed you if you couldn't figure that out...

We didn't decide we didn't want to be nuclear. We decided we didn't want gubmint Telling us what to do and that means little or no regulation. And you can't have safe nuclear power plants and a weak regulatory environment. You can't keep electing Republicans or whatever your local equivalent is and expect to have nuclear power plants that can be run safely. We all know this we just don't like to talk about it because it's not polite to talk about partisan politics.

It's causing asthma and other health problems for anyone nearby.

If a data center moves in you're basically cooked. Noise, air pollution will mess you up. And they're lying about how much water they use.

Yeah I know I was taking a dig against the orange pedophile and the idiots that voted for him.

Take away Data centers of course but do that and build out wind and solar and we could have free energy for everyone in the country. No power bills whatsoever you could not possibly use enough electricity at your house. The only things we would have to meter are r businesses

But there is an entire world of billionaires who won't let that happen and an entire world of people currently freaking out about Democrats mandating gender transition helping those billionaires.

It's like Trump said, ask not what your billionaire pedophile cabal can do for you but what you can do for your billionaire pedophile cabal.

I still don't know what you do with all the people we are going to have without jobs. With all the automation coming we are just not going to have enough work for the people we have. And people do not like it when other people are staying home playing Xbox and they're dragging their asses into work. I don't have a solution for that mess

it's birds were real

Civilization will completely collapse and 98% of us will be thrown back into the Stone age occasionally bombed by drones so that we don't get to technologically advanced and become uppity. The complete total collapse of advanced mechanized civilization in favor of techno feudal hellscape will really help the environment since only about 1% of the population will have access to modern technology.

Or at least that's the plan. The election in America might throw a temporary wrench in that. Really need to stop all that uppity-ness.

We don't let people advertise lies and I don't see any reason why we should let people actively trick people into hurting themselves when we know what they're doing and they know what they're doing.

If you have a mentally vulnerable population you don't let companies exploit them. And you don't go booga booga free will to make it okay that companies are exploiting them.

Even if you're too mean spirited or borderline psychopath that you don't care what happens to those people you still have to live in the world they live in.

It's the same reason we ban gambling. We know it affects people's brains in a certain way and we know that companies will exploit that to ruin people for profit. You cannot pretend that neurodivergence isn't the thing and that everybody is a cool clear rational actor all the time. Sometimes the legal system has to acknowledge reality.

Here's where you tell me how your spherical cows can have a perfect libertarian system. Go ahead I'm all ears. I am not in fact a perfectly spherical cow

Yep and that guy Vivek ramaswamy made his fortune with fraud based on a drug regarding it.

When I was a kid and I'm using the term loosely here Ross Perot was running in the presidential election and I was pretty fucking stupid back then and the way the media portrayed him I figured he must be an oil Baron or a factory magnet. It turned out he cashed welfare checks for a living.

There's an old saying, never ask a Man how he made his first million.

Nonsense. Lex Luthor is too intelligent and not corrupt enough to get MAGA votes.

And I commit a crime that results in a large number of suicides then I'm pretty sure I would be in prison. But companies do this shit all day long and they face a potential fine.

It's not an accident that when you and me break the law a guy with a gun shows up but when they break the law some meek underfunded bureaucrats show up... It's a completely different system

I have to add unfettered as a qualifier because of the wise trolls just yell communist at you over and over and over again.

You do not have enough information to function in a capitalist society. You do not know for example if your employer is going to fire you next week. None of us do and they go out of their way to hide that information from us.

When you pick what profession you're going to go into you don't know if there's a multi trillion dollar conglomerate in the process of automating it. I had a next-door neighbor, hardcore Republican and I'm sure if she's still alive she's MAGA as fuck.

She retrained for at least three jobs that were in the process of being offshored and automated. Every time it happened she had no idea it was coming because even though the people making sure that the job she was retraining for, often in her own expense, was in the process of being eliminated they were also busy advertising how they were all these jobs for her to take. She did everything right in capitalism and repeatedly got fucked over because she did not have enough information.

The entire premise of capitalism is that we are all rational actors making proper decisions. Ignoring the fact that we very obviously aren't rational actors and that even if you are a rational actor you are surrounded by people who aren't, you cannot make the decisions capitalism demands you make with the information capitalism makes available to you.

This is why you end up with either socialism or fascism. Simply put the kind of anarcho capitalism that is popular with 12-year-old boys who've read too much Ayn Rand doesn't work and is fundamentally broken.

Because of the ridiculously bad design the slightest fender bender means they get totaled by Insurance because it's too difficult and expensive to fix them. You will probably see them occasionally at car shows as an oddity like a kind of Nazi DeLorean but other than that it won't be like how you can still see PT cruisers as being driven daily by people.

What I like best about the cybertruck is that it's the first thing Elon Musk designed rather than just paying somebody to do it for him and it was an unmitigated disaster. It really shows that the people in charge of our daily lives are completely incompetent boobs who shouldn't be let near safety scissors let alone the levers of power. I want to say Elon is a member of the Epstein class but he was so weird they told him no. I guess technically he's at least financially one of them...

I would expect with the repeated national security risks Elon Musk has caused by meddling in wars the Democrats are going to start curtailing him and in 2029 he's going to lose all his government contracts. Not because of some partisan divide, I'm a Democrat and I wish my party would act in a partisan way with regards to shit like this we don't, but because he is a legitimate national security risk.

I could care less about the CPU and GPU power. There are people who game on their phones playing fairly sophisticated stuff and they want high frame rates because they play multiplayer. You can play stuff like fortnite and player unknown battlegrounds if you're really want to and somehow the kids have learned how to play those sort of games with touch controls.

The reason I want the newer chipset is it comes with the newer modem and the newer modem does a much better job maintaining signal.

I want good battery life because I have shitty signal in my area and that means the modem is overworked and runs the battery down.

So I have a real concrete and valid reason for wanting the better phone. If you took the modem from the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 or above and put it in a slower chipset I'd cheerfully go for that. My old Media tech phone had plenty of horsepower but the modem was crap and I couldn't send or receive text messages without going outside. People couldn't hear me on calls either

It's just a PR charm offensive and we know it we're not this fucking stupid.

The one thing that this midterm proved is that you can't piss on me and tell me it's raining. Money in politics has its limit.

Republicans used billionaire Epstein class cash to outspend Democrats 4 to 1. It was probably worth it because they kept the GOP from losing all 35 of those Senate seats. If they hadn't spent those billions and if they hadn't done all the voter suppression then I suspect the Democrats would have enough votes to impeach and convict and remove Trump and then Vance and then put their own guy in the White House.

Even with all that the Democrats still have enough votes to pass reconciliation bills and dare Trump to veto them. So they will be able to restore funding to the affordable Care act and Medicaid and Medicare.

I had a dad of a buddy of mine who is obviously on Medicare because I'm old and if one of my buddies is got a living father he's old as fuck and the dad here had some knee surgery and had to pay 5K out of pocket even though he's got Medicare and some benefits from a pension because he's old enough that pensions were thing.

The point is the Republicans gutted Medicare and the old people seems to have noticed. Not so much that they would vote Democrat of course perish the thought but it looks like they stayed home at least. And honestly if you're so fucking clueless that you vote Republican in 2026 staying home is a good step in the right direction and I applaud you for it.

Because of overwhelming nepotism in their education system. I've been wondering for years why the engineers coming from India were so mediocre or frankly terrible and that explained it. The way you get jobs is by getting into certain schools and the way you get into certain schools is by being born too certain families or having certain friends.

That means you don't need a lot of ability because nepotism carries you. It's just important to be a nepo baby. Your actual skills are completely irrelevant.

The national protests brought it to my attention and explained the situation.

I bring it up because it doesn't surprise me that their engineers would want and need $10,000 a month of AI to do coding they ought to be able to do on their own. They don't actually know how to do their jobs.

Eventually when more of these data centers come online we might see the costs drop for businesses so that they can start replacing actual engineers who could do the work with incompetent boobs who can't string together to sentences. You will of course need a secondary AI to write the prompts but if you're willing to impoverish the entire planet it's doable.

And the Epstein class would do anything to avoid paying wages. They hate you and they hate the fact that they have to pay you anything. It doesn't matter if AI costs more at least in the long term freedom from employees and consumers is worth any price