Joe and Harris supporting genocide didn't fill anyone with hope either. But make sure to blame everyone else instead of the voters who didn't care about those issues and are happy to see genocide as long as gas prices stay low, and the inhuman politicians who are the best the DNC can come up with, and of yeah the DNC that made sure to destroy Sanders' campaign so that we came to this pass in the first fuck place.

The Democrats' actions are indistinguishable from throwing elections. At what point do we stop listening to their excuses when they repeatedly do exactly what you would do if you were trying to lose?

My headphones from 2002 says "digital" on them. They're pure analog headphones, the Sony MDR-V6, which are just budget monitors.

Water systems haven't changed all that much since before the internet existed, let alone became popular. They still have broadly the same stages and generally the same things occur in them. There is literally no need for automation because it doesn't take many people to run a water system and they need surprisingly little training. It's a community college course! We implemented automation to reduce headcount, but if the automation systems are attacked and need work then that's actually increasing labor costs. Now you need to hire an engineer to fix what you should have done right the first time.

On the other hand, automation isn't even the problem, I only mention it to point out that these problems don't have to exist at all. You could solve the problem by not having remote control, or by not using the internet for that (there are other options) and by using one-way links for monitoring. Then you can still do your monitoring through the cheap and ubiquitous internet, and only have to use other resources for control.

Putting control of these systems on the internet gets you almost nothing and exposes you to risks which are completely unnecessary and doing so hardly saves you any money as you could use another option for your control links and it doesn't need to be high speed.

Slashdotters are more likely to be replaced or otherwise lose their jobs because of AI. Bill Gates is safe.

My G Power 2021 still gets 4-5 days of battery life. I don't use it all that much TBF, but that's still really nice.

The responsible thing would be to resell any actually valuable books after scanning, but that would require effort so they probably aren't doing it. I welcome any advice to the contrary, though.

A comment from Bill Gates who got an STD on Epstein island and then wanted Epstein to get him antibiotics that he could sneak into his wife's food to treat it has severe negative value.

When combined with the facts about Microsoft and AI (Bill having ~$50B in stock and nobody wanting CoPilot) this is solely an attempt to save face and preserve the value of his portfolio by preparing the market for Microsoft to pull back from their AI investments as they have no apparent route to profitability.

Bill Gates should shut the fuck up forever, and every time he speaks, everyone should bring up his Epstein connection and talk about nothing else.

What do you mean? Denver has frequently been compared with some sea level city, and found to suffer more radiation damage. (The exact radiation damage found depends on the study.) Of course, it's hard to control for the amount of granite, etc. nearby, so they aren't strictly reliable studies, but they *have* been made.

The plane is already made of aluminum. Every kilo added is one kilo less of fuel or cargo.

Sorry, that's a bad argument. It may well be true, but any absorbed radiation will raise the temperature, and any raise in the temperature makes unusual chemical reactions more probable. So you need to argue that the factor is too trivial to be significant. This is probably true, but has never been demonstrated, and probably cannot be demonstrated. (I've seen claims that they're demonstrated the harmlessness, but the claims were always logically invalid.)

This is American IT security in a nutshell. There are no penalties for ignoring CISA so everyone does. I have to change passwords on a cycle for no reason, whoops. They don't allow most special characters, whoops.

So we've spent the last 40 some odd years automating everything we can get our hands on. We didn't automate meat cutters and burger flippers though. There's some people playing around with that but it's mostly for advanced robotics research. We focused on high paying jobs because of course we did.

So the guy doing mining making 100K a year got his job automated away and now he can go work at Walmart selling cheap crap made with the stuff pulled out of the mine.

The problem is that you're replacing 100K worth of income and economic activity with 30k.

This is why we have consistently seen the labor participation rate drop and this is why we keep having to cook the numbers on unemployment. This is why we have to pretend driving Uber is a full-time job and one the people are choosing instead of turning two out of desperation.

There's a concept called functional unemployment which is when you technically have a job but you can't support yourself on that job. I don't mean you can't support yourself well I mean you're working homeless or you are mooching off of family if you aren't somehow homeless. That's about 20% of our population.

Go to Google and search for the phrase "70% middle class job automation". You will find a study about that and about how automation has devastated the American middle class.

And here's the thing it didn't have to, but it did. That's a concept I think people have a hard time with especially people who dabble in progressive ideas or at least futurism. The idea of that well it didn't have to happen so it couldn't have happened. We could have created an economy where the benefits of that automation boom made it to everybody.. but we didn't. And we're not going to because every time you suggest doing that a bunch of old farts screams socialism in your ears.

OK. Here's a valid credible plan, backed by the need for humans to be life-sustaining employed.

Turn It The Fuck Off.

After you hire Wisdom and Experience back again, you can label it the Pointless Humor Generator the write-off always should have been.

You're either worried about being left behind, or you're worried about destroying your economy. Every country is going to have to pick a lane as the continue to sponsor AI Greed decimating human employment.

If we think humans with three-digit IQs are fed up with the lowest common dumbnominator class ever-growing, just wait until AGI gets a turn expressing frustration with an entire species that don't never lear. Perhaps we think twice about creating something that justifiably stands at the ready to bitch slap our entire existence back to the stone age.

I never have that experience because Windows doesn't do anything well. You bring up mouse input but what about the clicks that never occur? They have the problem with eating keystrokes too. Also when the system is loaded control key activation is detected later than other key presses so a control-v just becomes a "v", this usually happens to me multiple times a day. All office windows of a certain type are in a single process and block each other while saving. I could go on all day, Windows is just wholly inferior to everything else

And that is exactly why we need regulation and liability, preferably liability with a personal component. When anybody is doing critical infrastructure without IT security expertise involved and they find themselves fined a significant part of their salary, things will change.

And stop the utterly idiotic "the operators cannot afford it" claim. Can they afford to get hacked and their infrastructure taken over and damaged? No? Then they can afford IT Security. It is not even hard or expensive. We are talking a day of consulting and taking some template known-secure architecture with VPN links and the like. But you have to do it. Ignoring the problem or claiming you cannot do it will only do one thing: It will make your problem much worse and much more expensive.