What was that? That thing you were oh-so-fond of saying to coal miners who protested the loss of their jobs (sorry, "jerbs") to green transformation? You know, the thing about buggy whip manufacturers, progress changing societal structure, how the society does not owe anyone their jobs (sorry, "jerbs") when they are no longer needed, and how they should "just retrain" to be rooftop solar installers?

Whaaaa? That was only fun because you thought only those f-ing rednecks, hillbillies, trupmptards and other deplorables would get to hear that speech, not politically correct Californian libs?

Well, now you get to stand in front of the mirror and repeat the same exact speech. Allow me to offer to play the world's smallest violin in background for you as you do that. Might help you psych up to "just retrain" as a rooftop solar installer. Surely your humungous lib brain can handle that.

Yeah. Have the neoKeynesian morons print some more money and you might become one too.

Oh it absolutely is centrally planned, or misplanned rather. Who do you think prints the deluge of money that ends up on the stock market, pumping bubbles? Fairies? No, it's neoKeynesian morons at the FED. Who in their idiotic rush to "stimulate the economy" never once stop to think WHERE all the money they print ends up going AFTER it spins the gears of economy once or twice, tops.

Well, let me tell you where it goes. It pretty much immediately ends up with someone who does NOT live a hand-to-mouth lifestyle, and who will be looking to invest it, rather than spend it. And pretty much every investment instrument you can think of already shows signs of overinvestment. Bond rates, what is happening with gold prices, crypto. And stock.

If you just pump deluge of freshly printed money into stock market you get bubbles, period, it's that f-ing simple. And make no mistake, if it wasn't AI or blockchain, it'd be VR, pharma peddling their newest snake oil, newest hip startup with charismatic CEO. All that money pressure will pump SOMETHING. Where else do you think that money can go?

"Intrinsic value", lol, such a quaint concept of leftist economy :DDDD

Q: What's the "intrinsic worth" of gold?
Hint: we have enough of it stored in vaults worldwide to cover industrial use for 500 years.
A: 1% of its current value, tops. The 99% of its value is from you hoping some fool down the line will buy your tulips at an even bigger price.

Q: What's the "intrinsic worth" of Nvidia stock?
Hint: Its "real value" i.e. dividend ratio is 0.02%, which means if you expect 5% earnings on an investment, it's overpriced by a factor of 250 (no, not 250%, 250 without the %),
A: Which means 99.6% of its value is you hoping some fool down the line will buy your tulips at an even bigger price.

Now the big one:

Q: What's the "intrinsic worth" of one dollar bill?
Hint: You know, leftists with their quaint theories always say how the federal government is the source of dollar's purchasing power, because FED demands them in taxes. In actual, you know, real reality, you think Chinese govt hold dollars in reserve for their ability to make FED tax goons go away? How many dollar transactions are made to pay taxes as a % of total dollar transactions?
A: OK, CBA to look up actual numbers, but my bet is 1% again. The rest of one dollar bill's value is you hoping some fool down the line will give you nice stuff for your tulips.

OK, so you think there is a qualitative rather than quantitative difference between assets whose "intrinsic value" is 1% and 0%?

We've had deflationary investment instruments (precious metals, real estate, art) since times immemorial. And yet, somehow the world keeps spinning. And people who think that 1% deflation will make me not buy a hamburger today, because in *gasp* *only 70 years* I could have two for the same money are idiots.

Oh, very easy. Because the people who acted irresponsibly and the people who collect taxes are the same people, i.e. the federal government, so why they'd they do anything other than making taxpayers pay more?

You see, when neoKeynesian morons keep printing money to "stimulate the economy" they don't ever think where that deluge of money ends up going AFTER that one or two rounds of spending. Well, turns out, it pretty soon lands in hands of someone who does NOT live a hand-to-mouth lifestyle, and will be looking to invest it, rather than spend it. And right now, as we can see by the prices of gold, crypto, bond interest rates, stock market bubbles - people are DESPERATE looking for investment opportunities.

And what we're seeing is the effects of this nice pipeline, where the FED produces the deluge of money, it spins the economy once or twice, but in the end has pretty much nowhere else to go other than the stock market, pumping various bubbles. And make no mistake, if it wasn't AI it'd be something else, Web5.0, Virtual Reality, whichever pharma has the newest GLP1 agonist, literal tulips. All that pressure will pump SOMETHING, doesn't matter what.

But I'm sure the neoKeynesian morons who caused all of this already have some narrative on how it's all "cus of dem dam weeevil capitalist pigdogs".

Yeah, try stuffing a battery in your luggage as you go on board a plane, and you'll learn exactly how "safe" they really are. Please also make sure to do a video of you telling that exact lecture to airport security, gonna be fun watching what they'll do with you. Also, quite funny how you switched topic from car battery packs to cellphone batteries. Yes, they represent exactly the same level of danger, same amount of energy stored, etc etc etc.

LOL, what? In case you didn't know, Ryanair isn't a US-based big tech company. The EU will let them do whatever shit they please, maaaaybe conditioned on letting the EU bureaucrats also have access to whatever that app will snoop on you.

That's the whole point, it doesn't "impact such a small number of people", i.e. the five people on the planet who even know about the format. It impacts *every user* of ffmpeg, who at this point can receive maliciously crafted email with video in this format, their email client will go "yo, ffmpeg, do you know what that attachment is?" "I sure do, let me generate a thumbnail of that video for you!" and congrats, your account is now rooted, no matter whether you care or know about 1995 consoles or not. And I'm sure you have your email configured not to show thumbnails, and you have never ever clicked on any remotely suspicious link, but same can't be said about the proverbial granny.

LOL, what? "Bad actors are essentially couching feature requests as security problems"? Do you seriously think that Google cares about the ability to securely play videos from 1995 console as part of their.... I dunno, evil plan to take over the world or something? Hint: they don't give a shit about that "feature".

What *is* important, is that if Google could find this vulnerability, so could any *actual* bad actor, I mean it's not like there isn't a ton of publicly available LLM code analysis tools, and then, send your granny an email containing a "LOLOL funny cat video, OMG AWESOME just click here" in this format, she'll click it (or even not click it, her file manager or email client will use ffmpeg to generate a preview icon of the file), and end up with a key sniffer installed that'll transmit her bank account password to who-knows-whom.

And if ffmpeg devs find themselves with too limited resources to *securely* support 1995 console video format, fine - but then, the right solution is to rip it out. And absolutely NOT to knowingly put your userbase at risk just so they can brag about all the exotic formats they support, while spouting slogans about "CVE slop".

"Encourage consumption"? But I thought the planet is burning, Gaia is crying, and evil capitalism-driven rampant consumption is causing all of that? It's quite funny how you leftists switch the tune on whether consumptionism is desirable depending on whether we're discussing the planet or moronic Keynesian "economics".

You're not "remedying" anything, you're inflicting brand new evils on people whoose only fault is that they share a skin color with some evil people who lived centuries before they were even born, in some moronic attempt to "even the score" or something, or I dunno, punish them for sins of people who lived before they were even born, which only perpetuates the spiral of racial hatred.

But you knew that perfectly well.

What will happen? If people are stupid enough to buy it, we will run out of paper to print the money. But hey! At least people will learn proper large number terminology - like quadrillion, octillion, etc. - they will use them in daily lives, when buying bread.

No, the idiotic measure you're suggesting says that relocating emissions to China while doing zilch to reduce them is the right way to save the environment. No, it's not. And it's precisely thanks to morons like you that for the last few decades all the "environmental" spending went towards relocating production to China rather than making it, you know, actually cleaner.

You mean atheists are different?