Electricity costs, water usage, noise pollution. Data centers come in asking for fat tax breaks claiming they will bring jobs- more and more people are saying no thanks.

There is also the question of rebalancing. When illegal immigrants are no longer in the labor market, wages rise, because supply has dropped. In addition, cost of living tends to go down because the demand for housing and other goods also drops. There is more to this equation than the propaganda about Americans, not wanting certain jobs.

Italy and South Korea come to mind as well.

We are indeed.

A small number are US citizens. The vast majority are here illegally. https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/...

We're about 15% of the way there. At least 20 million people are in our country illegally. At least 2.5m have left voluntarily.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/10/thanks-president-trump-and-secretary-noem-more-25-million-illegal-aliens-left-us

I was unaware Biden was involved. Weird.

Trump: elected at least twice.

Throughout history, your two options when dealing with government is to unmake a thing or hand it over. There is no future where you get to keep it.

DO NOT give automation access to it.
 
There's a reason every nuclear weapon on the planet requires two people to turn two separate keys at the same time, after validating two messages from two other humans.

It is not happening, and it is good that it is. And you should celebrate it, and why are you so obsessed with it. This rhetoric tactic does not address the core problem that men are not women, and autogynophilia is real.

Is AI just a better challenger, or is it a new type of challenger? I think two things are both true. It is a new and perhaps better challenger, and in some ways it is no different. The core challenge remains: turn ideas into software reality. Coding is a small part of that, and while AI may do a better and better job of handling pieces than most India firms, it falls flat in complex, novel, or uncertain situations- which describes pretty much every corporate IT project.

Corporate welfare is a massive problem in America- both at for profit and nonprofit companies. We need to get the money out of politics, starting with handouts to big organizations of all types.

â¦now stealing from itself. I blame the perverse incentives and totalitarian government structure. When the Chinese throw off their retched leaders, real honesty and business can be done.

...story at 11.

Seriously though, we seem to be flatlining with what agentic AI can handle. The new models are...fine. They are marginally better than the last, but replacement level? No. Not in software dev, not in legal, not in medical, not in anything. Useful yes, replacement no.