And even if you didn't want AI, you're getting it anyways.

The consolidation of corporations has placed almost the entire tech industry under a tiny number of people, a tech oligarchy. They decide what consumers must accept, rather than the market working it out through demand.

exploiting the labor of others is very scalable.

Boomer is not ok

It's like flies to shit.

I renamed all my git branches from "master" to "main" primarily because doing so upsets a certain type.

As a consumer, my response will be to use my smartphone for twice as many years. Or to buy a lower end one if the one I have breaks.

I feel like they left this one out of Idiocracy, but it would have fit the theme perfectly.

you have 4 kW, someone else has 0 kW. On average 1200-1500 Watts is pretty fair rough estimate for AC, and it worked out to a nice round number of homes which is rhetorically desirable.

I don't save money with solar panels (and whole house battery), but not relying on PG&E and being able to instantly disconnect myself from the grid is a flexibility I've been happy to pay for.

And we probably won't replace semi trucks with EVs very quickly. For two reasons I can think of:
First, the lack of charging infrastructure and grid capacity that could handle a 1.2MW charger for a significant number of trucks at say a typical truck stop.
The second is that there's depreciation built into the industry. So most owners will want to squeeze the useful life out of their fleet before replacing them.

Inertia will keep them from going down significantly. As it takes energy to change orbits, up or down, your velocity is what establishes the orbit. Collisions tend to make the debris orbits more eccentric.

It's like 1000 homes all had their air conditioner running at the same time. It's a lot, but it's not terrible if you don't need to scale the number of trucks you can charge at once.

Aid is part of a soft power strategy. A strategy the Trump administration has worked to dismantle since his previous administration. He only understands power through use of force.

This impacts virtually everyone, indirectly.

The software you wrote, that you don't fully understand well enough to debug when it misbehaves. Why do you assume it amplifies cognition? Seems like it amplifies stupidity, or more generously it amplifies errors. Common errors found in forum posts on the Internet over the last 50 years. Maybe don't train an LLM on people posting confidently the most unhinged or ridiculous things. All we did was teach AI how to speak with certainty on topics that it has the barest knowledge of.