Divided we beg.

There is no such thing as today's unions. That's a talking point from the Epstein class. Unions are unions and unions are nothing more than workers organizing together because by yourself you just get squished like a bug next to Bill Gates or Elon Musk.

You are not nor will you ever be a member of the club.

I don't think it should be hard to get in A in a 100 level English course. The course isn't there to teach you the finer nuances of literature and the language it's there to establish a baseline and make sure you are at it.

From there if you want to make the course work more advanced than make the course work more advanced and put that in the goddamn syllabus. Do not set an arbitrary limit to the number of people who can score the highest because if you got five As to hand out and six folks who can do A grade work you're just throwing somebody under the bus and blaming it on grade inflation.

If you cannot design a course that becomes challenging for your top students that's either because you're not trying or because you're not always supposed to be pushing people to their absolute limits no matter what '80s movies tell you.

The goal of a school, even a college, isn't necessarily to create the best of the best and discard everything else it's to raise the overall level of civilization as a whole. As soon as you lose sight of that all you're really doing is creating useful corporate drones to enrich the Epstein class.

The job market for new hires is going to shit because we're in a recession and can't acknowledge that reality for reasons that absolutely nobody can guess...

So this becomes an arbitrary way for employers to pick an employee.

And yeah I would be pretty pissed off if I did the work exactly correctly and still got a B because there were only five slots for As and there were six people in my class doing A grade work.

Also oftentimes there isn't enough slots in the 300 level and 400 level courses and very small GPA differences can be used to decide who gets one of those slots. So having your grades basically be assigned arbitrarily is pretty fucked up.

If we weren't all stabbing each other left and right crabs in a bucket style I think it would be less of an issue but well, we are.

That's the only protests that matter. Unionize. Anything else is useless.

All keeping the straight closed does is drastically increase the price of everything hurting consumers and people who work for a living. It doesn't create more jobs and it doesn't slow the deployment of AI. If anything the energy crunch and the food shortages caused by missed planting seasons due to shortages of fertilizer means fewer jobs.

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I have said it before and I will say it again, if the Private industry refuses to make the economy go the government should step in and do it. If Private industry will not hire then we have to organize together and form organizations that will hire. That organization is called government. It's the name of the organization that isn't private and is composed of basically everyone.

You can't just keep saying that everything we would try to do that might slightly inconvenience a rich asshole can't be done because they will just make things worse for us.

That is technically true however it's only true because we refuse to take away the power that comes from their billions and billions of dollars.

I mean we are literally about to give all of space to Elon Musk for fucks sake. You would think that would be pissing nerds off more but it's not.

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.

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...

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.

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

Keep in mind there are dozens of other visa and immigration programs that we all just kind of lump under H1B as people who are getting replaced by cheap foreign labor.

If H1B was the only high skilled worker program then it's only about 60,000 people a year and it wouldn't really have much effect. But it's one of dozens of programs to bring in cheap labor.

The frustrating thing is as I pointed out on another comment without influx of immigrants we're going to go into a massive recession just like Japan did for the exact same reason and it's basically a permanent recession. However when those immigrants come here they take a limited number of slots in our society where someone is allowed to be a functioning adult. So you're basically trading social stability for economic recession.

If our economy did wealth redistribution so that the money generated by those immigrants didn't just line the pockets of a handful of Epstein class members this wouldn't be an issue but well, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Assuming our civilization survives the AI apocalypse, and I don't mean kill a robots I mean huge amounts of automation creating massive unemployment and leading to conflict in war, then it's a problem we're going to have to deal with anyway though because the entire planet has plummeting birth rates because we demand women into the workforce and women in the workforce don't crank out babies so it's going to be a problem we have to deal with someday but like I said, right now the solution seems to be to give religious lunatics the launch codes for nukes and let the Epstein class members hide out in there bunkers while we kill each other