You can not look purely at income without looking at the cost of living. If income goes up by 5% but the cost of living has gone up by 20%, sure, people are earning more money, but effectively are less wealthy. No numbers are required to understand that concept, and for those who live in places with a higher population density, that trend of "wage increases go up MUCH more slowly than the cost of living increases".

That is why people say the economy is doing poorly right now, because the cost of living really has gone up by over 7%, but wages have gone up by what, 3% in the past year? Pay attention to the NET income, not gross, and you would see that the vast majority of people have had our net income go down.

One thing to remember is the idea of self correction. When a user starts using those words/phrases, that indicates that the AI has done something wrong in many cases, so this will "flag" the interactions, either to see why the user wasn't happy with what the AI did, or, the AI could use it itself to spend extra effort to correct whatever mistake was made that has frustrated the user.

It's similar to dealing with people, they make mistakes, but there are SOME people who almost need to be cursed at before they will actually pay attention.

Bernie wasn't running out there to pay a 0-5% income tax rate and advocating for lower tax rates on the wealthy. Responsible people who have money SUPPORT the idea of higher tax rates on those who make over $4 million per year.

The big problem with Tesla and SpaceX at this point is Elon Musk. Seriously, many people who were looking to buy a Tesla immediately became anti-Tesla with Musk and that abortion known as DOGE, as well as the obvious conflicts of interest and how it cost more money than was saved(because Musk only did it for his own profits and as a way to steal information from things like Social Security). SpaceX I wouldn't bet against right now, but all second guessing about Tesla and SpaceX would be gone if Musk were removed from the picture.

There is a difference between sea water and water we can drink. Now, if they would do something, like building desalinization plants and then pump the water around the country to places that need it, we could actually even reclaim the desert over time if done the right way. The problem is that we have very short-sighted politicians who only think in terms of 1-6 years, instead of thinking 20+ years out. It's like all the idiot executives out there that will go out of their way to save $0.10 cents per hour per employee, not realizing that it will cost the company $1000 extra per year per employee from the side effects. When short term profits are more important than long profits, that is when you know the company is going to crash as soon as a decent competitor shows up.

I was thinking the same thing, The Island really is what they are promoting here, without saying that the clones are actually alive and not "brainless".

It is a lot easier to make things stable when you only make two or three models, compared to the thousands of combinations of components in the "PC" arena.

There is a basic concept at play, if a single innocent person gets abused by government because of a broken procedure or process, that is far far worse than if a few people who are guilty are released(as long as those incorrectly released are not dangerous criminals themselves). You would rather see one bad person cause 20 innocent people to go to jail though, as long as it's not YOU or someone from your family who are incorrectly or unfairly thrown in jail.

This also applies to what is going on with ICE in the USA, you don't care that innocent CITIZENS are being killed by ICE, because you are a racist and you have no problem when ICE assaults "brown" people.

I support the police(generally), because the police in most places are not above the law themselves, and if a police officer deprives others of their rights, they will potentially lose their job. ICE isn't held to the standards of the police though, and as a result, needs to be shut down until the fascists currently in control in Washington are out of power and tried for their violations of the US Constitution and protecting criminals.

How about we starve the makers of golf ball so Trump won't be able to play golf every weekend once the supply runs out?

Truth Social is a refuge for uneducated MAGA where they can't even tell the difference between the truth and an outright lie.

Trump can't even stop himself from shitting his pants, let alone an actual trend in what people look for and want to use.

Trump wants to be Putins gay lover from how Trump acts, including doing EVERYTHING possible to destroy the USA.

They have been given breathing room, you see it with all of the Trump supporters around the USA not being in prison for their support of the Jan 6th insurrection.

The subsidies for buying an EV are gone now, due to Trump and his dislike of ANYTHING done by Obama or Biden. The loss of a $7500 subsidy on EVs would make many people decide not to go that route and to stick to a normal hybrid. We also have VERY high electric costs due to politicians being paid off by the oil industry, where even though we have domestic oil production, somehow, we pay the global price of oil for stuff that comes from government owned land. Trump is being paid off by EVERYONE, it's no secret, so he probably got bribed by one special interest or another, or maybe under orders of Putin.

People want Android to be free, but then, those who profit off of Android should somehow not have to pay in some way, shape, or form? A device maker like Samsung, is in the position where it's less expensive to just include the Google suite of apps than to play the game of releasing Android without the Google apps, but without the apps, then shouldn't Google get SOMETHING for the work that goes into new versions of Android? It's not realistic to expect phones to come as just an electronic device and for the public to treat it like Linux and install their own OS on it, configure it, adjust settings, install this and that application for what they want, and then figure out why things don't work due to some manufacturing defect.

So, developers want the free platform that they didn't create, but that isn't being subsidized in some way by government(s). Why would any corporation put in the resources without there being SOME payoff, especially when Europe keeps trying to find new ways to slap a lawsuit to get billions of dollars in "fines" from the company?