Bombing people doesn't really help them.

I see Israel has started its usual tactics of destroying all the civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, in preparation for annexing part of it.

Robots are coming no matter what. There's no accelerating it anymore than it can be. The ruling class, the Epstein class is tired of being dependent on employees and they don't give a rats buttered behind what it costs. The only thing stopping them from automating everything is they haven't quite worked out how to do it yet. Cost is not a factor anymore. They don't want you. They don't want you as a consumer and they especially don't want you as an employee.

The Old Kings had a Divine right. The Epstein class wants that back.

Ai and robots are coming no matter what because the ruling class doesn't like being dependent on us filthy filthy consumers and employees.

They will spend any amount of money to eliminate you from the economy. And we gave them all the money because of sentiments like yours.

I get that you are trolling because it's fun but the thing is they are coming for you and all of us. The sooner you come to terms with that the better.

Assuming you're not ancient Boomer trash. In which case you get to die leaving everybody else to deal with the mess you made. I'm not exactly happy with older Gen x either. They gave us war in Iran along with the help of the boomers...

I have known several people that got upset when minimum wage went up because it made it feel like they were earning less money...

People are dumb. Really dumb.

I've been into working out since I was a child...was born with the obesity gene and have to workout hard to be less of a fatty. Now all the execs are into biohacking, fitness, MMA, etc and won't shut up about it...quoting Huberman, Attia, and everyone else on Rogan. The most obnoxious is Pavel Tsatsouline...if another annoying exec talks to me about kettlebells, I'll fucking throw one at him.

It's fucking depressing...these guys used to see the hope and promise in technology and devices and making the world a better place with our actual skills and making small details of our life better. Now they're more excited by pipe dreams of longevity, flirting with MAHA beliefs, and largely unattainable dreams and wishful thinking of immortality and looking like male models while being tech execs and engineers.

Some of it is personal...I liked not having many coworkers at my gym, my quiet space, that thing that made me a little different...and I don't like being gym-splained by someone 1/4 my size in hallway conversation. But on the bright side, it brings costs down for protein powder and lots of new research into performance enhancing drugs.

That aside, what is additionally depressing about AI, if it actually worked, is they cede their skills to this magic box. Instead of solving their problems, they want the AI to do it for them, like their mommy. But regardless, 8 years ago, we were all trying to build things, with our skills, to make the world a better place. Now most of us are unsure how much longer our jobs will be relevant...and instead of building tangible change with tech, like clever devices, they're escalating to impossible dreams...AGI, eternal youth, drugs that mimic exercise (yeah, there is a promising one being evaluated), and whatever bullshit MAHA fans are pushing.

Is it a coincidence that every AI advocate I know was pitching bitcoin and wouldn't shut up about it 8 years ago? Did they "surrender" their cognitive abilities or never have them in the first place? I work for a large company that has gone all-in on AI. We've used ML models for decades legit reasons in our products for decades. We've given every programmer a generous amount of LLM AI time with all the major vendors. About 10% of the AI users are religious advocates...meaning that they won't shut up about the wonders of AI, but are talking about fictitious AI, not Claude or OpenAI.

AI is now a religion. Instead of being evaluated logically for the pros and cons, it's being evangelized based on pretend promises. The advocates are telling you how AI will bring in a brave new world of a glorious future and they're riding it. Realists, like me, use AI...are happy when it works...but also notice when it fails...which is pretty often. At work, I have to be quiet about it because I'm over 40 now and the advocates tell management that doubters are just dinosaurs who lack the intellectual capacity to embrace LLMs.

My response is, I'm not telling you that Claude writes shit code...the compiler is....because the shit it generated doesn't compile...the runtime exploding because Claude has no fucking clue what it's doing is saying it's shit code. People who use your products say it's shit because it is breaking on them and often quite slow

I've known some of these guys for over a decade, sometimes at past jobs or from school. They were always a bit delusional and optimistic. About half of them are dumb as shit and the other half just suspend reality...imagine the world of tomorrow instead of their deliverables today. The majority fell for the bitcoin bullshit. I don't think that is a coincidence.

From day 1, I knew something wasn't right with bitcoin. It honestly reminded me of EJB. So many were telling me bitcoin and EJB were amazing, but I'd respond with what I thought was the most logical question...OK, so when do I want EJB vs everything else?...or when is bitcoin better than current monetary systems? No one could give me an answer as to when to use one vs the other. They'd tell you how it works...but I don't care about how. That's fun trivia. I care about when...when do I do it this way?...when do I do things the old ways? In both cases, the answer neither...they're both expensive catastrophic solutions looking for a problem that caused huge, tangible damage to the global economy.

If you view AI as a tool that may or may not help you, you're an intelligent rational human being. If it's your religion?...well, you're just like the Scientologists, only with less sexual abuse. At least the Scientologists are getting laid.

Dude the 85th percentile is literally a measure of what 85% of people drive when no signs are posted, based on their vehicles capabilities, road design, weather, and road conditions.

What are you arguing for, 90, 95%, the maximum, no limit? It's unreasonable to have no posted speeds, because half of you assholes just want to drive faster than the person in front of you and will unnecessarily accelerate to pass all the damned time on any twisty hilly road possible. Jesus Christ, you're not getting there any sooner. As soon as you finish passing and reduce your speed when you think the guy you passed can't see you anymore your average speed is no different. If you constantly fight upstream passing every single car, you still only shave seconds off your trip time and deserve every ticket you get.

Use a fucking GPS, just to drive across town even. Flip to whatever screen or setting shows your ETA. Now speed, and watch what it's all for. Fucking idiots.

It's more like the 85th percentile of observed traffic, and other factors are considered. Maybe it's different in some small towns, but not anywhere getting a fancy average speed monitoring system. Haven't you driven over those rubber hose sensor things laid across the road before, that's how they do the traffic study AFAIK.

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It's almost our entire western coast and the single largest economy in the U.S.

Wherever you're from, they're not sending their best, huh.

An alternate theory...they need GLP-1. Say you're James Marsden (Cyclops from X-Men and a TON of other small roles). You're well liked, a familiar face, but not a household name. Your whole thing is being handsome. No one wants James Marsden with a dadbod. If he was a software engineer?...a small gut would be normal and fine at his age. However, he needs to take his shirt off....even if he doesn't?....he doesn't want to risk getting out of shape because the next role may want him hanging out at a beach or doing a nude scene.

He makes a fuckton of money based on looking nice...so perfect hair, plastic surgery on the face, every male beauty treatment under the sun, every performance enhancing drug. Literally millions of dollars are at stake...even if he doesn't need the money, he probably has a small staff: an assistant, a nanny, a housekeeper. He's a small business, not a person.

I'd have no problem taking whatever drug needed to provide for my family and even the people depending on me. GLP-1 drugs are well studied and thusfar, quite safe. I am on one myself...the short-term side effects suuuuuck...but regardless....I don't think most actors are using this as a shortcut. If they can be lean without it, there'e no sense in being miserable with an upset stomach 2 days a week.

However, if they need a bit extra...it makes perfect sense. Top actors are professionals. They are willing to go above and beyond for a role...because if they don't, someone else will.

But regardless, just because some abuse it, doesn't mean it's OK to act with contempt to the drug. People like me do need it to get below 30% bodyfat. I think 30% is below most health major complications, like diabetes and heart disease, but does lead to worse sleep and joint pain. Going from 30 to 15 would make the last 20 years of my life a lot nicer and more productive.

Months? They have been converting some motorway here for *years*. I think we are about 4 years in now, I lost track. It's taken so long that they started out making it a "smart motorway", realized that those things are deathtraps, and now I'm not sure what it's going to end up as.

We have had average speed cameras in kilometre after kilometre of 50 MPH stretches for many years too. Some of them seem to have been forgotten about because there hasn't been any work or cones there for years, and most people speed through at 70.

"Nobody goes there, the line is too long"

Classic

Wait, there's abuse, like waiting at the bottom of a steep hill with a speed reduction. Automating the abuse, to wash hands, like red light cameras printing money for every slightly rolling right turn on red. An officer might be too embarrassed to do in person. Then there's average speed over some distance, and that's ... what?

Unless that's straight up hidden from the public I'm not seeing how it's possibly abusive. And speed limits aren't always abused anyway, come on.

Shitty speed limits are usually shit for a good reason, there's a turn at the bottom of the hill so the speed reduction is placed at the top to give you time. Or my favorite, going through an intersection it reduces from 40 to 30 at the far side, but coming the opposite direction the 40 sign is placed at the far side again, making it asymmetric.. and counter intuitive because there's no 30 sign facing you as you enter.. that part may be abusive. From an engineering pov these all make sense though, the visibility is different on both approaches to the intersection for example. But the cops waiting at the bottom of the hill instead of around the corner, or the cop watching that intersection and farming tickets for driving 40 twenty feet in front of the 40 sign, THOSE are abusive. If those two things were automated they'd get voted out of town as fast as that right turn on red camera was in my small town.

That's why they call it operation Epstein Fury. Also if we can finagle a second 9/11 out of this then I think we can get Trump a third term

Municipalities will just pass laws or constitutional amendments to get around the robot problem. If they have to they will sneak it past voters during a special election or a midterm with a bunch of scary propaganda. If all else really fails and they can't ram it through with the current legislative framework they will just change the laws and/or pack the courts.

America is a borderline lawless country where might makes right and money is all that matters. We are one bad election away from just straight up Soviet style government. We let the top have too much money. The last election Elon Musk didn't like the way it was going and he just casually dropped a quarter billion dollars on his preferred candidate. You just can't deal with that.