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Comment Re: Leaving. Billionaires or billionaires' money? (Score 1) 94

I can explain; the theory is that we want a deadbeat tenant who pays nothing in rent versus an absentee tenant who pays their rent.

If I canâ(TM)t look at Elon Musk every day prancing around with a cheese hat and pretending to understand rockets I donâ(TM)t know what Iâ(TM)d do.

Comment Re: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also re (Score 1) 240

Thereâ(TM)s a YouTube contributor named âoeVaushâ who highlighted an email about the cost of painting a road to make a pedestrian crossing. Just painting some white stripes at an intersection. Actual cost of materials and labor to just do it; $320. But to do it officially? $1.4 million.

America is cooked. The worker and the paint supplier will fight over that $320, and all the parasites of our rent seeking system over a million. We could not build a bridge or a damn today without a billion.

We are cooked.

When society resets, you can build the entire Panama Canal for three roasted poodles and a couple pigeons.

Comment Re: whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also re (Score 1) 240

âoeWeâ didnâ(TM)t decide anything. The ignorance as supported the good ideas suppressed.

All our problems were caused on purpose and maximized profits and made us dependent.

Our energy infrastructure is to have control. Our healthcare expensive. Our housing. Everything is about wealth extraction and the âoegovernment out of our businessâ never affects the complexity or cost. It just means monopolies with barriers to entry.

We have global warming because of the petro dollar.

This is all about wealth extraction. Itâ(TM)s all about a cabal of degenerates who want to guarantee their own supremacy. Any solutions that donâ(TM)t take care of the Black Rocks, the Rothschilds and the Carlysle Group are doomed to be co-opted. Is the Sierra Club promoting timeshares yet?

Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 240

Letâ(TM)s recognize the auto mechanics who now have to work on impossible systems that list as requiring 4 hours to fix but take 16.

The truck drivers who have a long boring task and will be replaced soon.

The people who distribute our food. No glory.

The medical professionals who squeezed through an expensive gauntlet that restricted numbers and now are burnt out and need an accounting degree and an air traffic controller to efficiently coordinate the 200 patients they need to help in a day.

There are so many paths and they all suck.

Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 240

I have to admit Iâ(TM)m a discouraged worker. My resume looks like you wanted to win every and all BINGO competitions.

Normal people invest in things that give them a reward. Not pick up a skill because one day it will be useful.

Other people who have more ability to learn than endure boredom get a lot of skills.

But the 5 year humiliation ritual that is fishing for jobs with bots and companies that pretend to hire and have 30 minute interactive systems to extract your data and waste your time are too much of a gauntlet.

I could actually build a heat to light converter easier than I can convince someone in HR that Iâ(TM)m a good worker.

If I had a living wage I could hire someone to do the tasks I donâ(TM)t have the bandwidth to do. Itâ(TM)s called specialization. Apparently only rich shits think their huge minds are valuable and need others to do the simple tasks. Like Elon has the engineers solve the simple âoebuild a robotâ work and he has the glorious âoehey, letâ(TM)s build a robot.â

Anyway, I just have to vent. The super smart people who could solve the worlds problems if given the support know what Iâ(TM)m talking about. Other people who can be motivated to work harder through fear â" they wonâ(TM)t get it. The more the dire consequences involved, the less likely I am to do it.

TL;DR. We built a specialized codependent society and outsourced the boring parts and didnâ(TM)t appreciate them and now it costs too much to get it back.

Comment Re: Oh well (Score 1) 240

Theyâ(TM)ll have to import skilled labor from a country that subsidizes education.

Wait, the Norwegians arenâ(TM)t coming, best we can do is Pakistan?

Someone call ICE so they donâ(TM)tâ" oh damn. Okay, is there another country we can import skilled labor from that we donâ(TM)t have to invest in our people?

Comment Re: Not a fan of it but glad they won (Score 2) 83

Itâ(TM)s not a âoefreeâ country though. There are limits on everything. One person owns a thing and you canâ(TM)t touch it without permission.

We might have a lot of choices, within a confined area like what shampoo to buy from three different holding companies that might mean itâ(TM)s actually two. But we canâ(TM)t just take that shampoo without buying it.

We also have a duty to society; or we can watch it fall apart, which is what we are doing.

The prediction market is gambling, and thereâ(TM)s no protection at all against rigging. For instance; someone bet a good deal of money that Trump would bless Allah on Easter Sunday. What are the chances they had access to the script going to the teleprompter? Weâ(TM)ve actually had military strikes and peace deals predicted.

Somehow, they made something worse than gambling in a casino and gladiators spectacles and we can bet on life and death now.

And itâ(TM)s like decriminalizing dangerous drugs. It can make things better but only if itâ(TM)s not commercialized and easily accessible. If there are support systems to help with addiction. If there is opportunity for people to live happy lives.

When there is no hope, addiction gets worse. And thereâ(TM)s nothing better to improve profits and numbers of butts in pews than a crumbling hopeless society.

We can incrementally improve but easy access online gambling that favors inside information is the wrong direction. Iâ(TM)d rather trade this freedom for free college education.

Comment I agree with Apple. (Score 1) 17

Being able to create a run time app in another app is a huge security hole.

I remember back in the day when Flash was not designed for object oriented coding I could interpret text as code objects. So basically, I could do anything. And due to the nature of browsers at the time, I had to learn to check for a variable in a browser window to make sure I wasnâ(TM)t running code after a window was closed. Meaning; I had access to every window of a browser until the app itself was exited.

I did not abuse my power but i could have done a lot of abuse.

Comment Re: The reason digital labels are bad for America (Score 1) 194

I expect targeted surge pricing. Like plane tickets will go up in price if they know you searched before, or if you mentioned a wedding or if someone close to you is also buying a ticket.

And the it might get so random as to base prices on willingness to pay. Already this is happening with delivery services and taxis.

And then it might be; late at night, last store open and they can raise the price of baby formula because they know you are out.

And then it might be that you said something in social media that suggested we raise taxes on the wealthy. So you end up paying more at the grocery store.

Once an AI agent can be assigned to track and connect each customer to a profile, the profit potentials are endless.

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