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Comment Re:Finally! (Score -1) 130

Well, I think it is only possible to make this movie now, after a decade and a half of bullshit that has been pushed onto everyone by various pro trans, pro socialist or even pro Marxist movements.

Now that Trump is running (and likely ruining) the place, it is possible to come out with anything I think and who is going after Brooks, what are they going to do, cancel him? :)))

Comment Re:The question is... (Score 2, Insightful) 361

What does *he* envision a hypothetical scenario where AI has taken over an extremely large amount of the labor?

I'll grant that it is an *unlikely* scenario, but should it come to pass that we manage huge reductions in the need for human labor, and large chunks of the population pretty much have to 'stop working' whether they like it or not, what does he imagine the outcome?

Make an argument that AI isn't going to be *that* game changing, sure. But I really dislike the argument that humans don't deserve to get by unless they are somehow needed for work. Everyone do their part, but if there aren't as many parts to be done...

Particularly rich from a spoiled guy who hasn't had to *really* work a day of his life...

Probably for everyone not rich or in a job to service the rich that AI cant do to "die and decrease the surface population"

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

Nonsense, the very act of driving does not mean anything, you bought into this nonsense hook, line and sinker. Government shouldn't have any say over how we live our lives, how we drive on our streets, what apps we use, who we trade with.

The only one single, the only one maybe half reasonable thing for government to do is is protection against foreign attacks, that's it.

Comment Re:Dumb laws (Score -1) 163

You are absolutely correct. It is disgusting to see so many people supporting any government intervention in our lives and this is just more of the same. People are supposed to be these automatons the government wants them to be so that they can be fined more and more often, controlled harder and harsher for normal human behavior, which is under a continuous attack by the goons, who have power and occupy government positions.

Comment Re: If you're not familiar... (Score 4, Informative) 337

First of all itâ(TM)s closer to 10 months of direct active work, teachers usually have faculty weeks before and after the school year, second of all itâ(TM)s really 12 months because most teachers spend most of the summer doing professional development/continuing ed and class prep work, third of all that number is very skewed by a few places where teacher pay happens to be very good, at least after they hot a decent level of seniority, like NYC, the majority of teachers arent making 84k or more. My wife is a HA science teacher btw, Iâ(TM)m a software engineer, she works 3 times as hard as me for 1/3 the pay

Comment hammer ... nail (Score -1) 46

USSR used nuclear bombs all over the place https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... because the money was spent and now they just these bombs, how do they not use them as brute force solutions to every day problems? It seemed like a low effort, high reward way of accomplishing things where otherwise proper engineering and work would be required. It would also somewhat justify the insane expense on the nuclear program outside of the promise of total annihilation.

We moved from Ukraine to Russia, Yakitia in 1985 and lived there for 6 years before going back, We found out that a decade prior a nuclear bomb was blown up underground nearby and it didn't go well, a few thousand people decided to try and walk away from the town towards another town 500km away but they couldn't make it in that winter and came back. Winters there are dark (no Sun at all most of the time, you only see a glimpse of it for a couple of hours) and cold (-50C is normal, sometimes much lower than that).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik....

USSR failed many times on many fronts, today criminal murderous morons want to reinstate it and so we have a war where thousands are dying daily and where the victims are getting blamed by the leaders of the most powerful country in the world for the perpetrators attacking them, that is after the victims gave away their nuclear arsenal to the perpetrators after the leaders of the most powerful country in the world promising that this very thing wouldn't happen, because the most powerful country in the world would prevent and or intervene.

So many failures on so many levels, people all around the world are learning lessons that a nuclear arsenal is a must.

Once many will have their nuclear arsenals, they too will use their nuclear bombs all over the place in futile attempts to reverse flow or rivers and for other similar reasons. Not looking forward to it.

Comment Re:respected...but not missed. (Score 0) 100

You don't nee j2ee, just java itself and a jdk/jvm does the job just fine, this entire crazy stack nonsense, including Spring is garbage not worth using for any purpose where you need clarity, curtness, ease of implementation *and* debugging and maintaining the code. You don't need XML inside your application, it was something forced upon people for the same reasons people later started trading NFTs - the mentality of the sheep, where those, who are selling the idea make all of the money and the rest end up suffering and bleeding.

Java is used by the enterprise, enterprise buys into grandiose promises sold by snake oil salesmen sent by the likes of SAP, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Adobe, VMWare, etc.etc. these guys know how to take enterprise money and you cannot really fight them once they are done with you, likely they have more money than you do. Everyone's service becomes shittier and for stupid reasons out of all of the things that could be blamed, a computer language takes a huge brunt... silly. I like Java for what it is - a great language to code server side business systems.

Comment Re:A trade balance requires an equal population (Score -1) 262

Trade deficit and national debt are absolutely tied together. The debt is growing all the time to 'pay' for the unaffordable welfare state, the trade deficit is deficit financing the consumption that isn't paid by production but instead is paid by debt. The funny thing is that the very people who manufacture your products are also debt financing your consumption, they are buying your Treasuries (Debtories really) with the dollars they receive from you that you provide in exchange for the goods they are selling you. You are borrowing / printing the money used to finance the trade deficit and this borrowing / printing adds to your debt.

Don't expect more than one reply from me in a day, given the moderation I can only leave 1-2 comments a day here, cheers.

Comment Re:A trade balance requires an equal population (Score -1) 262

A permanent trade deficit that requires more and more debt to be printed and sold for the future generations supposedly to pay back (will never happen, the default and inflation will take care of that) is due to a population consuming more than it produces, full stop, period.

When I say a population consumes more than it produces what I mean is this: you can have all of your government offices, government departments, government subsidies, government programs, everything that government does, you can put more than half of your population on various programs, food stamps, welfare, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, whatever. All of those things combined require *more* money than you can generation as an economy. People never vote for someone to reduce spending, spending always grows, government officials get excellent retirement packages, health care paid by the system, etc. This entire thing consumes much more than it is capable of producing.

Sure, you can actually tax everyone much more and maybe you can have a smaller deficit, but actually realize that the demand is so much greater than the supply that probably taxing everybody at 80% won't be enough. Actually *nothing* is *ever* enough.

You can promise everything to everyone, you can even attempt to deliver it. Free food, free housing, free education, free healthcare, free energy, free clothing, free travel, free transportation, free entertainment, free everything. If you do that, there is nobody working, everyone is just getting everything for free, so who is working? Who is producing all of these things, delivering all of these services? That's the imbalance, that's the maximum imbalance taking to 11. But you don't have to take it to 11 to have an impossible imbalance.

Comment Re: Bring back the draft... (Score -1) 283

For sure, the main problem that is holding men back are the policies that the stupid men have been voting for and supporting. It is just that the actual policies are not what you are suggesting.

Men have allowed feminism to raise its head, that is what allowed women to demand the welfare state over the last 100 years, coupled with the pill this created the real problem for the society - single women, supported by the State, which means supported by the income stolen from men. Single women, who believe they can survive without husbands (and they can as long as the State uses its force to steal from men to subsidize the women).

As to private healthcare and private education - every single service must be private, there must not be any services supplied by the force of the government, taking from anyone to subsidize anyone, that's exactly what creates society that cannot function, because eventually the system must consume much more than it can produce. This happens because so many people start using the system for what it is designed - living without producing, while everyone keeps demanding more and more resources towards their own causes.

This creates an absolutely impossible situation, where the State must provide more than the society can produce. This leads to deficits and debt and cannot be resolved ever without the system collapsing on itself and destroying its credit worthiness and currency in the process (this happens already after the system completely destroys productivity, manufacturing due to the cheap money available to private enterprise at the expense of the debt and government support).

In any case, it is stupidity that causes this problem, it is just you cannot recognize the exact details of this stupidity and you offer equally stupid ideas as 'solutions'.

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