Dedicated to keeping him from making decisions. I used to see that with IT where you would have an owner who is a complete moron so you would have all sorts of little IT things designed to make the owner feel like they were doing stuff when they weren't. Like fake copies of databases for them to pour over when they were bored.

Basically if you're going to have a mad emperor you need to corral them. Personally I think just not having emperors would be a better solution.

Was the best investment Elon Musk ever made in his entire life.

Means the ability to consistently supply power to the grid and meet everyone's needs. Like everything in the English language the term gets used for different things. Although I haven't heard it used as requiring 95% of time before. Maybe if you're talking about a single means of power generation with no storage...

Doesn't matter. Wind and solar can provide base load. They do need a little bit of battery here and there but not all that much. Because when the sun is down the turbines are still spinning.

You're contradicting yourself in that first sentence. The thought has crossed my mind that Japan does have plenty of land for wind and solar I just don't think anyone has done the math. But if that's the case nuclear is basically worthless except for a handful of military applications.

It allows you to Levy fines and collect them. If people don't pay the fines you arrest them and make a lot of money locking them up. If they do pay the fines then if you're a rich asshole you can cut your taxes while maintaining government services you depend on.

We have been cutting taxes on the wealthy non-stop since Ronald Reagan. Cities are starting to run out of money to run the police to protect the wealthy. We have been covering that up by robbing Peter to pay Paul taking money from one state and giving it to another so that they can fund their police. We have cut taxes now so much that even that system is breaking down.

So if you are working 60 hours a week because you're underpaid and too tired to cut your lawn or paint your house or you can't afford to do author of them and you certainly can't afford to pay somebody else to do it then you are going to pay a defacto tax on that. Then you're going to work more hours at your shit job and maybe pick up a second or third shit job so that you can pay those fines and lather rinse and repeat...

It's basically a sign of our civilization collapsing.

It's a scam from the plastic industry. So there isn't a lot of actual value sorting garbage.

Drought because we broke the water cycle. Drought causes fires.

What pisses me off is all the old farts voting Republican or whatever the fuck your local equivalent is who enjoyed a period of time when water was plentiful and electricity cheap and now everything is falling apart because the environment is collapsing and instead of learning from that they just keep pulling the ladder up behind them. More right wing politics and more expensive dirty energy that we have to get into wars for.

But at least the 34 trans athletes in this country of 340 million people can't play in sports so there's that... Got to have your priorities. Good old ethics in games journalism. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein. Or was it heavy metal music? I don't know what's the current moral panic that has right-wing voters in a tizzy?

Old people never learn because they never had to learn. Everything was handed to them on a silver platter. And absolutely nothing pisses them off more than pointing that out. I remember Obama briefly suggesting that people had had assistance from the government to achieve things and it almost ending his campaign. He was smart enough to drop it though. American exceptionalism is a blight on humanity.

Not getting run out of business by the existing manufacturers. There is basically no antitrust law enforcement to speak of. Here in America egg producers just got caught making billions off of collusion and the Trump administration slapped them with a 3 million fine. So if I'm going to collude and make literally billions of extra dollars by doing it and the fine is going to be 3 million then that's a no-brainer.

So if your Huawei you need to price in the inevitable price cuts from your competition designed to run you out of business

Seriously I would like you to explain to me in detail what mighty powers the bureaucrats who enforce smog regulations have gained?

Also I don't know if you figured this out but you need to reread your own post.

The bureaucrats don't write the laws. They're cops. They enforce laws.

So your complaint isn't with the bureaucrats it's with extremely large corporations that are going to make your life more difficult. So yeah your car is going to accelerate slower and cost more so the data centers can be built while still having breathable air.

It's like nobody here remembers what a city was like in the 1970s. I am so sick of people who don't know what a chesterton's fence is. Look it up....

Basically large corporations get the to pollute and your life becomes more difficult and inconvenient because of it. But you've been trained to immediately blame bureaucrats for what the large corporations are doing. And you don't even seem to realize you're doing it...

Getting rid of the bureaucrats doesn't get you a cool fast car, it gets you lung cancer in your 40s from the smog even if you don't smoke. You need to start getting angry at the right people. The people who are actually making your life worse

That still need nukes. Basically Japan comes to mind because they just don't have the land to build out the massive wind and solar farms that the United States can.

What I would be looking for is a businessman proof reactor. Basically a reactor that no matter how many corners a businessman cuts you don't get another Fukushima. This seems to be one step in that direction if it works which would be fine for The limited use cases nuclear still works in.

The problem with nuclear is that wind and solar make it obsolete. They are cheaper and they are safer and they have been able to provide base load power regardless of location or weather for about 10 years now, debatably longer.

It's already spouting back the phrase trump fucks kids. I don't even think this bot is an llm. It looks more like just a standard chat bot.

I mean it technical is but it's not a person it's a bot. I'm just playing around with it to see whether I can get it to repeat the phrase trump fucks kids. It's possible that the bot will refuse to curse. But either way I'm just playing around with it. It copies a lot of my posts but it edits them quite a bit. I want to see how much effort it takes. If you want feel free to join in and reply to it with the phrase trump fucks kids and we'll see how long it takes

Since the late 70s. In America 70% of middle class jobs lost since then got taken by robots rather than outsourcing.

Because the people reading this are tech nerds and kind of old they got to avoid some of that. It's coming but there's a chance some of us will get to die before the shit hits the fan.

The thing is if you're someone planning on retiring in classic I got mine fuck you style your retirement is going to collapse unless you are extremely wealthy. Like if you have less than 10 or 15 million in cash on top of your investments you don't qualify.

That's because this wave of automation comes with the risk of collapsing the tax base. They just won't be enough economic activity to maintain the taxes needed to keep everything running. So as things collapse we you're going to simultaneously have businesses doing the new hotness and just raising prices to meet their revenue targets and they're going to price you out of the market while at the same time the stock market will be collapsing rendering your investments worthless. That's why you're going to need shitloads of cash.

I don't see any way out of it because a handful of extremely wealthy and powerful people are driving us in that direction. It's a country was just plain smarter I don't think it would be an issue but 60% of us read at a 6th grade level.

So the collapse of the tax base we are either going to have out of control inflation like what's Zimbabwe gets or a complete economic collapse wiping everything out. There is plenty of smart people who could fix that but nobody likes voting for them because honestly they are kind of insufferable to be fair... I mean how many people here really like Elizabeth warren? Like when you want to have a beer with her?

We used to just do space travel ourselves. The government built rockets and the government launched rockets and everyone benefited from that. The only thing muskrat did was at a middleman to that process. Somebody to soak up my taxpayer money. The guy hasn't invented anything in his life has no technical knowledge and is a little more than a hype man.

That's just spacex. The only reason Tesla exists is because hundreds of billions in government subsidies for electric cars, not to mention that literally all of the tech for both Tesla and SpaceX was developed by the government. I don't mean the little tweaks and things they've done around the edges I mean the really expensive shit that was done by the government because no business would pay for it. What the cool kids called basic research. Things to do not immediately pay off and sometimes never pay off. That is worth trillions and we just gave it to muskrat no questions asked.

Oh and virtually all of the electric car tech in the Tesla was developed at public universities on the taxpayers dime. Again Elon Musk never invented anything in his entire life.

Apart from that he has received direct subsidies from rural broadband programs worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Oh and he is currently draining your 401k by manipulating NASDAQ but I guess that's not technically a government subsidy.

Everything muskrat has he owes to the US government and your taxpayer dollars provided you are American. I haven't bothered looking into it but I suspect even if your European a lot of your money is made it into his pocket.

You would think you'd be a little more upset about that but cool car go vroom so here we are...

He does have the best reality distortion field any human being has ever possessed. Steve Jobs would be envious

They don't care how hungry their kids are as long as somebody else's kids are hungrier.

Honestly it's probably the pollution more than anything else. Modern cars are certainly better but they didn't make pollution go away we are all breathing tire particulate pretty much Non-Stop.