Are bickering like children in public. At a certain point you take the gun away from the children. That gun is the stupid amount of money that they have.

You don't have to take the gun away from the child but you don't get to complain when the kids shoots you.

In this case the metaphor means they are going to load your 401K with bogus crap stock that's going to collapse and you're going to be working until you drop dead.

You can only think in terms of individuals owning individual property for individual reasons. That's where you're broken. You probably picked it up from old Cold War propaganda. If you're not in your 60s you're acting like you are...

United States has gobs and gobs and gobs of land and we have these things called power lines where we can have the power generated in one place and used in another. We could easily build massive wind and solar farms that would be quiet, no matter how many times orange people tell you don't kill birds, and could give you all the electricity you could ever want for so little money that it's effectively free because the economic output from that much cheap electricity far exceeds the cost of the taxes needed to maintain it.

That's the other thing I can't seem to get folks with your line of thinking to understand. Yes it is free. If I do something to cost me $100 and I make $1,000 because of it that's free. The laws of thermodynamics don't apply in A system that isn't closed.

And that is the other problem with your thinking that is being exploited by people who want to steal your property. Rich people who want to steal your property. You're thinking in terms of black and white and simple straightforward cause and effect and results. You've been encouraged to think like this. By the aforementioned Cold War propaganda.

I've seen a lot of different figures thrown around but it's definitely under 20 million in total. Wildly successful game, no Wall Street doubling the budget so they can pocket 20 or 30 million dollars off of somebody else's work.

The problem here is we have parasites who have taken over our economy. Grifters like Elon Musk. The scale of the grift has gotten too big. Kleptocracy combined with kekistocracy. It's not sustainable. You can't have a trillionaire who is never invented anything in his life and has a team of people at each of his businesses whose job is to prevent him from making decisions. That kind of incompetence is basically Nero burning Rome.

At some point we are either going to have everything collapse after everything is taken away from us and our property is stolen or we're going to put adults in charge again. Boring annoying frustrating adults.

It's a holdover from the 60s. It was one part of a much broader movement that included a shitload of effort fighting voter suppression.

The current tactic for the corporations and the Epstein class is to just prevent just enough people from voting to get whatever the hell they want.

Because of winner take off first past the post voting all they have to do is get 51% of the vote and they can have anyone they want running the show and it doesn't matter what you think or what you want.

About 30% of any given country is batshit insane. There are studies showing why basically it's overactive fear responses. Another 15% can easily be confused by propaganda. From there you just need 7 hour wait times to vote, periodically arresting people on minor drug charges and taking away their rights, and a small army of old people with nothing better to do challenging signatures and registrations illegally. Blammo you're at 51%.

So politically it literally does not matter what you do or all you're dumb little protests. But shit those protests are fun aren't they?

I see this from the left wing all the time. They throw a block party and they call it a protest and they act like they've actually accomplished something. Remember those new Kings protests? The only thing anyone remembers from those is they got to work late that day....

It's the difference between professionals and hobbyists. The people in this article are just hobbyists having fun. So they are completely ineffective because they're using tactics from the 1960s that are opposition adapted to in the 1970s.

What's frustrating is the sheer number of people especially around here who somehow think they're in the in group. Everybody keeps forgetting, it's a big club but you ain't in it

Go on YouTube and technology connections has a good video explaining in detail why a very modest amount of wind and solar can supply energy to all of our needs. Maybe not the rapacious needs of AI slop generators designed to eliminate all of our jobs. But everything that good decent people want.

A very tiny handful of people have had enough of you having access to civilization. They are not content to be unfathomably wealthy. They want to be elevated to the kind of godhood that the Japanese emperor and the Pharaohs experienced. It's not about money it's about power.

Those people never went away we just stopped letting them take over our lives and take all of our property. We are in the process of taking all of our property and giving it back to them for stupid reasons.

Games are succeeding. Games are selling millions of copies but that's not enough to keep the suits happy. It's enough to keep everybody who makes the games very comfortable employed but it's not enough to make the line go up.

The problem we have here is a bunch of ghouls are sucking 50 to 70% out of the economy before anyone else gets a crack at anything. So things don't have to be successful they have to be wildly incredibly mind-bogglingly successful so that they can line the pockets of the Epstein class while leaving just enough left over that you and me can survive

Microsoft fired all the engine programmers except one guy for id. This means that if you need a advanced engine and you don't have the money to build it yourself the only option is going to ever be unreal. It is painfully obvious Microsoft should not have been allowed to buy id software because of the effect on the engine market. But here we are.

The blue haired college girls were never coming for your games. Gamer gate was always bullshit cooked up by Jeffrey Epstein. The people coming for your games are the finance bros and the AI Bros who made buying game hardware cost three times as much.

The splicing isn't the problem rather companies are letting people block ads if they put the work in.

Google could definitely win that arms race if they wanted to. They have vastly more resources after all. But at the same time I don't think they want to risk losing the users. Or worse have them go to a competitor.

That's probably the real issue. There is still the possibility of competition however remote.

The Bonanza of free training data is over and done with. Sites are locking down and blocking scraping bots. They have to or they get overwhelmed by the cost of the traffic.

That means only the big platform holders are going to be able to keep their models fed and current.

So facebook, microsoft, maybe Apple and that's about it. In the past I would include Twitter but I think it's mostly politics bots and pussy pics in bio posts.

AI is a technology that by its very nature becomes a monopoly.

Everything is automated so we don't get any job creation and all the money just goes up to the top anyway. What the fuck do I care if it's a Chinese billionaire getting all the money or an American billionaire and getting all the money?

It's 2026 is there anyone naive enough to believe that there's some magical world where jobs come back? Half of people under 30 are living with their parents and no it's not because of cell phones and avocado toast...

Y'all need to read up on the Indian rubber company or any one of the thousands of companies involved in colonialism.

Or Jesus fucking Christ Coke has death squads. And the stuff that the del Monte fruit company did would give you nightmares.

I don't like Facebook because they are driving my country to fascism but they've got a long way to go.

On the other hand they did help Elon Musk kill 8 million kids so there is that.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

The phrase you're looking for is "BAU, functioning as designed"

When the money from that all just goes up to the top. It doesn't really make any difference which country is selling us to crap because we still have to buy it and all the profit from it goes straight to the top.

So the problem we have is yeah immigrants generate a lot of wealth but nobody's really seeing any of it except the 0.1%. hell we don't even get the benefits of the taxes they pay because those just get turned into tax cuts for billionaires. Or I guess now trillionaires.

I get this a lot with my fellow lefties in the political spectrum where they are all rah rah rah socialism right until it comes time to discuss the practical impacts of immigration. Then all of the sudden they're talking about how it's important to make the line go up.

The more radical ones Will just tell you that they want to do away with the concept of countries all together and I mean fine whatever I'm all for that Star Trek shit but you have to tell me how you're actually going to do it. Because right now we came a few steps away from building Auschwitz in Florida and it was only because of the sheer incompetence of the people trying to do it that it didn't happen.

They are going to keep trying. That's one of the things about nazis. And these people are nazis. Nazis never give up. And they are laser focused on achieving their goals. They aren't hobbyists they're deadly serious professionals. Even if they're incredibly incompetent professionals they still take their work seriously in a way most of us don't when it comes to politics.

They aren't even capable of that. They can do what Lane assist has been doing for 10 or 20 years. As soon as they are in a situation where Lane assist isn't enough they get handed off to remote control.

Eventually these companies are going to be expected to turn a profit and the only way to do that is going to be having the remote control 100% overseas by people paid slave labor wages. Imagine the worst idiotic stereotypes about bad New York City cab drivers but make them real and have it done by wire over the internet across the globe. That's what we've got in store for our transportation Network.

You got Google you can look up what I wrote and confirm it. They admitted exactly what I said. Which is that they periodically remote control the cars. They did try to weasel their way out of it. Which is also what you're doing. Why?

Not them I know why they tried to weasel out of admitting that their cars aren't actually self-driving. What do you get out of that?

We have a huge amount of our economy being propped up by investment scams for technology that doesn't work. A lot of that is so that these overvalued companies can be stuffed into our 401K savings. SpaceX is going to wipe at least 2 trillion dollars of value off all of our retirement savings. Google wants in on that action because that money doesn't disappear it leaves our pockets and goes into the pockets of the billionaires now becoming trillionaires...

I'm just saying that maybe now would be a good time to call these companies out on their bullshit and get some regulations in place before we all wake up one day to find that our savings are gone and we're 70 and we're expected to go back to work full time or eat cat food on the streets