And it's going to result in permanent unemployment. It's debatable how much but we're not ever going to see full employment ever again. Not with this much automation.

To be thoroughly honest we are cooking the books using sub minimum wage gig work to pretend that we aren't already well below full employment. I don't know South Korea's numbers but here in America there is only one good job for every five americans. A good job here being defined as paying enough that you can afford a modest house, reliable transportation, healthcare and to save for retirement when you're too old to physically work anymore. No extravagant luxuries per se. But what people used to call a working class living. Basically 50 years and you get to die in peace.

That kind of living is only available to one in five Americans.

We're going to have to do something and I suspect that something is going to be world War 3. It's not a coincidence that world War II kicked off when unemployment hit 25%..

I have seen multiple people who got forced to come back into the office complaining about coworkers that work from home or get to go home and finish their day out. Instead of those people demanding work from home for themselves they demand the people around them also are forced to come into the office. Even though the extra traffic on the streets makes their commute worse and means that they don't get the nicest parking spots.

But if it's one thing I've seen over and over and over again it's that for the sake of feeling like it's all fair people cheerfully stab themselves in the back. The animalistic urge for fairness is easily exploitable. Gets us all into a nice little crabs in a bucket situation.

Meanwhile Elon Musk is getting ready to do a massive stock scam worth almost 2 trillion dollars and it's going to get dumped in all our retirement plans at some point.

If you're not watching his channel you probably should be.

So the CEO of GameStop gets a huge payout if he can make the company worth $100 billion dollars on paper. The debt is completely irrelevant it just has to be a market cap of $100 billion dollars.

Being the oh so clever boy he is he decided to try and achieve that by using a leveraged buyout to purchase a much larger company and call it GameStop so that on paper he would go from a 11 billion dollar company to a 66 billion dollar company. Basically getting him halfway to his goal and then all he has to do is find a couple more oversized companies to buy with their own debt and blam he gets a multi-billion dollar payout.

Of course all the companies involved here would collapse under the debt load and all the employees would lose their jobs and the community loses the services from those companies but that's a you problem not a him problem.

We put grifters, crooks and pirates in charge of basically everything. And every time anyone suggests taking away their power everyone screams socialism and government bad and blah blah blah until we all have to go back to our jobs.

You can't give this much power to this few people and have a functioning system or society but about 45% of the world wants it this way and then about 6% don't get to say in anything because of voter suppression and the remaining 49% don't matter because of winner take off first past the post voting.

It's a little better if you are in a parliamentary system but most of them at the end of the day have some form of winner take all voting which is prone to the same problems. And the few small countries that don't have that are prone to systemic attacks from the billionaires in the larger countries that do have exploitable voting systems.

I honestly don't know solution to any of this. I really do think we're going to collapse the economy and eventually hand the nuclear launch codes to a bunch of religious lunatics and then it's going to be game over for all of us. It's possible a few billionaires will survive an island bunkers but it's also possible that their air filtration systems won't work and they will die down there. I won't be around to find out though. I'm not smart enough to be one of the handful of engineers they keep around and I'm not sexy enough to be one of their sex slaves and I'm not violent enough to be one of the thugs to keep the other two groups in line for the billionaires. So there really isn't a place for me in the society that they want to create.

And again I don't see how we stop it because well, people are just so fucking stupid...

This is dumping it on the next administration. If that happens to be a trump administration that's fine because Trump can get more bribes. It's not going to be a Vance administration since well, there is no way in hell anyone but Trump is going to get a republican elected in 2028. Nobody else has his cult of personality that can give people to forget that they can't afford to drive to work this week...

There is a shitload of extraordinarily nasty things in the big beautiful bill that are going to hit like a truck after the midterms. Hundreds of billions of dollars of cuts to Medicare and medicaid. I want to be clear that's both Medicare and Medicaid. The Medicare cuts are trickier and nastier because they need to be round about so that people can pretend they aren't happening but they are still there. And the Medicaid cuts are going to basically devastate rural hospitals. There's a slew of other cuts and problems that were done to make room for billionaire tax cuts.

All of this is scheduled to hit after the midterms because that way you've already voted Republican by then like the sucker you are.

There's an old saying, what the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. Low information voters who have no idea they are about to lose their health care or that their grandparents or parents are about to lose Health Care are in for a world of hurt but right now they're cheerfully humming along telling pollsters that they approve of the job Donald Trump is doing.

Oh and Donald Trump and Republican party are once again mobilizing poll watchers and voter suppressors in Mass. There is a little article about it over on MSNBC but they're not exactly spending a lot of time talking about it. For some reason the Democrats can't seem to understand that voter suppression at the county level is a huge problem... Meanwhile the Republican party can easily use it to stop 5 to 7% of Democrats from voting. And that's before the racist gerrymandering that just got legalized

For every Republican yucking it up because this sounds great remember the less Democrat voting power there is the less they need you to vote for them. As always it's a big club and you ain't in it.

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

It means you have a much less stressful job.

We know what ages people. It's over work. And it appears that once you get past 32 hours that's qualifies as over work, let alone the 50 or 60 the average American is doing right now. Just a reminder that Americans now work more hours than the Japanese...

Somebody that is putting in 50 or 60 hours a week on top of kids or something isn't going to a museum or even the library. They are lying on the couch exhausted maybe watching TV or maybe even too exhausted to do that.

Incidentally this is why actors tend to age so well. Less stress and more sleep and rest mean you age less. It's also why being president of the United States tends to age people. Because the job involves constant work and long hours and enormous stress. I mean unless you're the current guy. The job doesn't seem to be aging him in the slightest. I mean not anymore than he already is...

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

To take a hike and the billionaire backing it just built it anyway and told the town to go fuck themselves.

You can't have billionaires and sovereignty. You can't have that much power in the hands of one person and pretend that you don't have to do what they tell you to do.

I mean I guess you can pretend. But at the end of the day when they say jump you're going to say how high on the way up.

I don't need 1000 miles. 600 (unencumbered) is definitely sufficient, and 500 might be okay. The thing is that I'll lose half to 2/3 of that range when towing my camp trailer, and that's not even considering that I'm typically towing it up into the mountains, gaining ~5000 vertical feet. I also need minimum 12k pounds of towing capacity and I'd like a little headroom, so call it 16k, and the bed payload has to be able to take at least 2000 pounds, because that's how much the trailer puts on the fifth-wheel hitch.

I'm anxiously awaiting an EV pickup that can do this. I'd love to have essentially unllimited electricity to buffer cloudy days (I have 1 kW of solar panels on the trailer and on sunny days they generate way more than enough, but consecutive cloudy days can leave be difficult).

3/4 ton and 1-ton gas and diesel pickups typically have oversized fuel tanks that provide about 600 miles of range, because that's what you actually need when you start hauling or towing significant loads. I don't think an EV pickup needs to have more range, but it needs to be comparable, and to be able to tow and haul comparable loads.

I'm not anti-EV by any means. I bought my first EV in 2011, and have had electric cars ever since. Trucks are a different sort of problem, though.

That's getting there, though I'd like to see some driving tests with a good-sized fifth wheel at highway speeds. The towing capacity is probably okay, though it provides very little headroom for when I'm towing both my camp trailer (~8k) and my boat (~3.5k), which I actually do several times each summer. But I think the payload capacity is too small to tow the trailer, which puts about 2000 points on the truck.

Yeah what scares me about that is it's clearly automatic bots making those picks on the stock market and it really shouldn't be something that can move stock prices that much. I can see a few idiots running bots maybe even a few of the rich assholes doing it but not enough to take a dying shoe store and bump its stock to 127 million.

That's a sign of a fundamentally unsound system that's going to come crashing down soon.

I wouldn't care but every time it crashes it comes down on my head. The entire system is designed to wreck my finances and anyone's finances when they work for a living and leave the top 10% untouched.

It used to be the top 20% was untouched but that number gets smaller every year. Heck it's possible that only the top four or five percent is going to come out unscathed this time around

Genies are fun and good. The djinn are generally malevolent spirits seeking to take advantage of people's greed and gullibility.

Somebody did some math on one of the mega data centers they want to build in Utah and it's the equivalent of dropping 23 atomic bombs in terms of heat output. It's going to basically destroy the local environment.

There's another case of locals telling the data center no and the billionaire funding it just started building it and told them go fuck yourself I'm in charge here.

And there's another data center that guzzled down 30 million gallons of water without telling anyone and now the community has groundwater shortages and might even have serious structural stability issues that come from taking out too much water too fast.

All of this so that a handful of Epstein class members don't have to pay wages.

Because make no mistake that is what this is about. It's about replacing people with machines so the people at the top don't have to pay those of us at the bottom.

I remember when you could add crypto to the name of your company and your stock would shoot up because bots were buying any stock with a crypto in the name. AI has the same bullshit going on.

It sounds like he's just doing basically like a Google search for a news topic. Using Twitter chat as the source to determine what the highest ranking search result is. To limit the amount of searching he's doing and to get attention he's focusing on news stories discussing AI.

There is absolutely nothing new here he's just trying to use an algorithm to pick up popular news stories and display them on his website. And he is limiting the type of news stories to ones that discuss AI.

It sounds like a big thing until you actually stop and think about it. It's still just a shitty aggregator just an automated shitty aggregator...

It's not going to go anywhere as far as people using it but throwing the words AI here and there might get some clueless investors to give him some money. But man this reeks of desperation