Sales force among others have given us hard numbers and they would be in deep shit with investors and the SEC if they were lying about that.

I can tell you that if I contact a company I hit a chatbot first and then if that doesn't work I hit a more advanced and more computationally intensive chatbot. I don't know how far up the ladder I would have to do to speak to a person but I suspect it's probably three layers at least.

Also if you're selling something scammy which a lot of sales is about selling things that are scammy then chatbots can often do better because they have absolutely no hesitation and no conscience. Good salesman also have that but there aren't a lot of good salesman so they tend to command a high salary.

I know there are a lot of old farts around here and I can pretty much guarantee some of us started in shitty customer service help desk jobs it just aren't going to exist anymore. You can't work your way up the ladder you're either born into it or you can go fuck yourself. With the exception of the occasional random freak of nature genius that the elites will rise up or just a random kid they pick for fun.

Because Russia can't get proper air superiority. America would have completely bombed the shit out of any country we attacked long before drones could be a factor.

The drones mostly do not take out even Russian planes. I get a notification in my YouTube feed when one of them does because it makes the news. The problem with the drones is that they make it basically impossible to do an occupation.

It should be noted that because of that if Russia ever does take Ukraine they will kill everyone there in a total and complete genocide. I think some of them of course will be shipped off to Siberia and what not for slave labor but everyone else has to die because Russia does not have the ability to occupy Ukraine while the ukrainians are still alive.

The real problem though with America is as our country and empire collapses we're going to start invading other countries just like every other failing empire does. We will start with Canada and Mexico and South America but it won't be long until we move on to Europe and eventually China.

And we absolutely do not care if you have nukes because any country crazy enough to elect Donald Trump twice isn't going to believe nukes are real. If nothing else we will convince ourselves that Trump's golden dome will protect us along with Jesus.

We never finished the first one. The losers were allowed to keep their flags and their guns. Instead of trying to be one big happy country we should have freed all the Africans and enslaved the Southerners, since they love slavery so much. Then we could have them picking fruit right now.

They were talking about unionizing. You're not even allowed to say the word Union anymore in Media. The right wing media just won't allow you to use certain words. Just like they won't allow you to quote Charlie Kirk

Mostly too rich. There are potential problems we don't want to deal with, and will pay to avoid it.

They can probably get local character set equipped key caps from China.

What happened was automation destroyed the blue collar working class and a lot of those guys moved to the right wing out of desperation. Meanwhile the Republican party was coming out them with bigotry and racism and they were primed to accept that because America is frankly a pretty racist country.

The Democrats then went after professionals in the suburbs in order to win national elections but they don't have the money and resources to do that on their own with their working class base broke because they've lost their jobs at the factory to automation.

Basically racism and automation all the real problems. We could sell both but it takes time to fix racism and as for automation that requires wealth redistribution of some kind and the Americans of the '70s through the 90s came out of the Cold war being told that that's the worst thing possible way worse than a genocide or Hitler or whatever other bad things you can think of.

People can and do service their own transmissions, in particular doing a fluid and filter change is generally a pretty easy job. There are also modifications and upgrades to transmissions. You can buy "built" transmissions which include heavy duty parts which can handle larger power, torque, and/or shock loads than stock ones. There are "kits" of aftermarket parts which either address wear over time or even correct design deficiencies like either lazy or excessive engagement of clutches.

What's the measurement? If it's "GDP" then sure, the economy is booming. But GDP is itself meaningless to sustainability, which is the most important thing to measure in anything you hope to keep doing. If you want to keep having an economy, for example, you have to keep having consumers who have money so they can participate in it...

Hardware, yes. But what will you do with it? It's only really good for a few types of task. Where it's GPU-based, as all the Nvidia stuff is, you could use it for lots of different types of tasks. But Services? Energy needs to get a lot cheaper for that to be feasible, because providing services on this hardware is predicated upon using a lot of energy.

A bubble is "a good or fortunate situation that is isolated from reality or unlikely to last". What's good about it, profit for those who are profiting. Why's it isolated from reality, all three of those reasons. Why's it unlikely to last, reality is inexorable, no amount of ignoring it will cause it to change.

One bubble, at least three reasons why it's bubbling. Probably we could identify a bunch more, like nerd fantasy. One of the consequences of techbros being in a position to decide what society does with itself is that they will send us on tech-related wild goose chases.

The goal of making ourselves obsolete is typically self-defeating when we can't even agree to let humans have free time when they don't need to be working.

Been watching the news lately? "Never" is a long time.

C4C destroyed mostly old shitpiles with poor efficiency, so it was effective in reducing hydrocarbon emissions.

I suspect a lot of these machines will go to the third world and get refurb'd into PCs there, so people will benefit anyway. In fact, a significant percentage of them will probably get Windows 11 installed on them using the bypasses...

Microsoft put the same telemetry they put into 10 into 7 and 8 via updates. Some of those were "updates" that included nothing but telemetry, sometimes they bundled the telemetry with actual updates so if you wanted one you had to have the other. There are scripts and other tools to remove those updates, but if you are not using those and you have been doing updates, they all spy on you.

You would need to add at least a couple of 0s for it to even begin to seem reasonable.

Is the world is more complex than your childish understanding of it. Also Trump fucks kids.

In general democrat-run states have better schools. There is however several factors that make it tough for them to be perfect. For one thing there is still a little bit of the old nastiness involved in funding schools through property taxes. And is a little bit of the old white flight and other bits of nastiness.

Now the Democrats could fix a lot of that but they don't generally get supermajorities they get small majorities and here in america, and I get it wherever country you're from you don't understand this, but we set up our system to make it very very hard for regular working people to improve their lives by requiring super majorities for just about everything so that the wealthy land owning elites (corporate nowadays but when the shit was set up they were landowning) could effectively exercise veto power and that the regular rank and file citizens would need a super majority in order to override The veto of the ruling elites.

This means the Republican party can and does sabotage anything the Democrats try to do even in places where the Democrats are technically in charge. Because the word technically is doing a lot of work there.

This is before we talk about the effects of automation and process improvement on middle class jobs and the tax base but I think that's probably a bit over your head.

I don't think you actually want to learn but if you ever do look up a book called The People's History of the United States. You have been lied to your whole life. Also look up newt Gingrich and the contract with America.