SpaceX did the same thing. Basically you take a massively overvalued company with no path to profitability at the levels required for the evaluation or in the case of anthropic or it all and then you use your status as a member of the Epstein class to get put into one of the major indexes like NASDAQ so we are all forced to buy it with our 401ks unless we want to manually take over stock selection which if we were going to do that we wouldn't be employees or workers would be day traders...

What's frustrating is how many people do not realize they're about to lose everything. The Epstein class has had enough with you having nice things. They're going to take everything from you.

honestly I could give a rat's ass if morons want to sell their possessions and give them to psychopathic tech bro and finance bro imbeciles but they're dragging me into it too and I can't stop them.

It's like How at Jones Town it turned out a lot of people didn't want to commit suicide and they used guns and violence to force them to drink the Kool-Aid or just lied to them about the Kool-Aid being poisoned.

And yeah I know it was flavor aid. You're still drinking it you fucking morons... And you're still making me drink it at the barrel of a gun.

Seriously that's a level of creepy weirdo that I can't even begin to imagine. I think that might be what keeps some of the nerds around here on the Elon Musk train. They think he's like them because well this is a website for nerds and some of us, myself included, are kind of weird and creepy. But they don't understand the difference between being harmless weird and creepy and Elon Musk or JD Vance weird and creepy.

It's the difference between awkwardly hitting on girls and actively using abuser tactics...

But most of the people around here haven't figured that out yet. Fuck some of them still think Elon Musk is on their side. You have to speak to people where they're at and not where you need them to be.

Who refused to date him and then turn that into a multi-billion dollar empire. Yeah he was always a psychopath.

By the Epstein class and they rather like social media so they're not going to allow a movie that criticizes it to get all that much promotion or legs.

On the other hand I heard Ukraine hit Russia's data centers taking their bot networks offline. So at least for the next few days this website should be slightly less stupid.

He has made a career of taking what other smarter people say and repackaging it and selling it to people.

That said this is just wrong and he's probably getting paid to say it.

Police in Europe are completely different. They're trained differently and they are treated differently. They are also used for different purposes. Policing in America is primarily a way for us to enforce social order. Not legal order social order. That is much less of a thing in Europe. They don't have that massive underclass that used to be slaves and that many people are trying to turn back into slaves. After decades and decades of wars they kind of seem to have given up on that.

So in America we heavily militarize our police and we do things like use them to shut down occupy Wall Street. If you're going to do stuff like that with your cops they need to be kind of dumb because at the end of the day the police are members of the working class too. Also we turned training police into a racket where well connected political insiders get paid a ton of money to do pseudo-military training. Fun fact Motorola doesn't make processors anymore really or much of anything they're just sucking down massive government contracts for training cops. Go look into cop City.

It's not a question of manpower we spend billions on police. It's a question of what the purpose of police are in a country. It's the difference between well-educated and well-treated employees who exist to de-escalate situations and violent thugs that exist to beat the shit out of protesters. It's just a question of who the police are for. Are they for you? Or are they for the Epstein class.

Ask yourself what happens if your house gets broken into or if your car gets stolen and how useful the police are to you. I think you'll know the answer when it comes to who the police are really for

I do hate imbeciles that put massive high power lights on their vehicles and then angled them up right into my eyes. Or they spend 10 grand on a shitty lift kit to do the same... It is definitely not safe.

But this probably means more police interactions and more excuses for the cops to pull people over and every single time police interact with the public that's an opportunity for somebody to get murdered. So I get nervous when I see changes to stuff like this.

I mean the correct solution to the problem is to stop letting cops murder people and get away with it but we ain't going to do that and I'm not going to pretend that we are.

America is good coming up to solutions to problems that shouldn't exist in the first place though so let's see...

We had a variety of reasons for it but for most of the people allowing it it came down to the fact that they thought that they would be able to have democracy and a say in government and the country but people they disagree with would not.

It turns out democracy is All or nothing. You don't get to allow voter suppression and gerrymandering and all sorts of other nasty stuff just to get what you want. And we know who's been allowing all of that we don't need to pretend.

So yeah you're going to have 24/7 surveillance of everything, you are going to lose VPN access and you are gradually going to become unable to afford your hobbies but you might die before the worst of that

I think folks could turn it around still but I don't think a nation of 12-year-olds has the emotional fortitude to pull that off. Nobody likes being told what they're doing is wrong especially after 50 or 60 years of doing it.

It doesn't matter what your hobby is they fuck it up. These are the same fuckers we have to thank for video game prices shooting through the roof thanks to ram.

It's not going to just go away. It's not going to go away unless you get rid of the Epstein class. That means you need to change how you vote. You can't just keep posting on Old fumes from Ronald Reagan slogans anymore.

But I can tell you right now that wages in the IT industry have dropped massively. The question is have they dropped more than other jobs but that completely ignores the fact that every single line of work is under assault by the Epstein class. It's gotten so bad that they are going after doctors.

I'm sure you've noticed how many doctors are running for political office that's not an accident that is a response to private equity moving in on their territory and cutting their wages

It does not matter what you do for a living or how poorly you live there is no amount of wealth or property you can own that is low enough to make the Epstein class happy. They want everything so that you are forced to treat them like gods because they control your access to food and water and the things you need to just be alive and so they are literally deciding who lives and who dies and you will fall over backwards to please them and to glorify them like someone worshiping a god.

on not knowing what functional unemployment is. The Epstein class thanks you for your service. Remember ignorance is strength!

Yeah I know that. And they will reorganize on paper and apply and everything will be as it is today except somebody will have to do some extra paperwork. A few Indians will be shuffled around because in the confusion some of them will get sent back to their country and replaced by different indians. None of them will be replaced by Americans.

The Republican party is lying to you and you can't possibly not know that.

It's frustrating because the Democrat party while they don't lie to you they sit there and tell you to just suck it the fuck down and absolutely nobody is protecting our jobs.

But if I'm given the choice between the Republican fascists lying to me and the Democrats at least telling me the truth I guess I'll settle for the Democrats. If nothing else they don't start pointless wars. If Al Gore had been in office back in the day we'd have 7 to 10 trillion dollars of extra cash on hand and if Trump wasn't president the national debt would be another 10 trillion lower. Literally half the national debt is the Republicans running up the credit card for absolutely nothing... I mean except lining their own pockets.

There's basically two ways this plays out. First the Epstein class wins. If that happens we become a techno feudal hellscape and you'll have a about 50 to 60,000 people at the top and then everyone else will be living in abject poverty at the level of medieval times. Disease and starvation will wipe most of them out and keep the numbers down.

The other less likely possibility is that we go with a cooperative global civilization. You know that cookie spooky socialism crap. If that happens you will quickly see the population not just stop growing but shrink. People who aren't desperately trying to crank out babies without access to birth control so they can use them as cheap labor to replace machines that don't exist just don't have a lot of kids. When you take away the economic incentive it turns out the birth rates drop faster than even the projections your citing.

Either way the reason we have this huge population boom is because we were in a very bizarre and unique situation where we had just enough technology that a primitive culture that squeezes out babies left and right wasn't dropping dead constantly from war and disease and general lack of medical Care. That's not sustainable and it's not going to last. The Epstein class won't allow it. So we either get rid of the Epstein class which does not seem to be on the table or we let them turn us into something worse than serfs

That means one quarter of working adults cannot support themselves. That's about 40 million people. So yeah we don't need to bring more people into this country we have plenty of people. Nobody is going to convince me that all 40 million of those people are too stupid to be trained on the tasks H1Bs do.

And I could care less about innovation in this country. All that means is who owns the patents and it's not going to be me owning the patents so why the fuck would I care? I still have to pay the license fees one way or another.

I like how we're supposed to be nationalistic when it's convenient for the Epstein class and globalist when it's convenient for the Epstein class but we can't do either of them when it's good for us.