Not at all. Kind of a clinical thrill observing a OCD psycho that can't stop responding. Say something bad about Trump! I know you want to! C'mon, he's awful isn't he? How can he continue just going along every day, blissfully unaware of your rage?

It's almost like you're inconsequential? That has to hurt.

See? There I am again!

(waves)

Hi, psycho! I'm right here. You should think about me some more. Mmmmm. Obsessivey.

Not even slightly.
Here's the comment chain again:

  DrMrLordX asked for actual examples where these satellites have improved yields or lowered costs.
The snarky AC answer was "are you living in a different reality than most people?"
And I questioned the point of that reply, when the op had literally just asked for examples.

Ad hominems - implying the question was 'insane', I guess? - are generally the first sign that someone is arguing dishonestly.

How does that even faintly imply I'm asking for evidence myself?

This has always been my point.

Climate change bullshit is sucking all the air out of the room, while fretting over prognostications with error bars off the chart that threaten to - maybe - make the world richest cultures slightly-less-rich in a century is nothing compared to ACTUAL poisons being dumped around the world today.

We need to first stop shitting where we live. I genuinely DGAF about 2 deg C in a century.

Who said anything like that?

You're malfunctioning hilariously. Love how I live in your head for free.

For asking for facts instead of suppositions and speculation?

Jesus Christ you're dishonest.

Tsia

A very nice ideal, certainly.

Look at it from the clothing sellers' point of view - particularly of high fashion: do you think they are going to sell more or less of their clothing if potential buyers can see themselves in those garments? Or are most buyers going to look at themselves, realize they're not model-beautiful or -proportioned, and decide "well if I'm going to look dumpy and average anyway, I might as well just buy some cheap stuff from Target"?

They're in the business of SELLING CLOTHES. At the higher ends a lot of that has to do with fantasy, not reality.

Personally, I don't think AI will solve everything nor do what I've postulated as a what-if.

But I absolutely see why people are chasing it with big dollars. There's a huge POTENTIAL (and I'd say a low likelihood.)

Did you need me to reply or did you just want to keep projecting strawmen of what I think and believe? You can just have the convo with yourself, I'm sure I'll be appropriately evil, etc.

So very, very many lies.

"Just "come here legally" - it's so simple" it really IS that simple. Why didn't they do it that way, again?

""being in the US illegally" is only a civil offense." and? As I said, Illegal.

"your entire economy is built around the existence of these people" - yeah, we probably shouldn't have let them flow in like water, eh?

"who subsidize your government paying taxes on services they're legally barred from collecting" so they pay income tax?

"creating vastly more wealth than they're paid (which then goes back into your economy, because economies are not zero-sum games)" - of which what, 80% flows to their home countries?

"They're also disinflationary, lowering the costs of goods and services" Ah yes, the famous Adam Smith maxim of "more demand = lower prices"

"tend to work in fields that have chronic massive labour shortages (ag, food processing, construction, etc - there's generally a huge labour deficit there)." again, chicken and egg.

"look at what happened to inflation the world over in the years following the COVID pandemic" not sure if you're disingenuous or just stupid. The US gov't vomited "quantitative easing" cash for 2 years. That caused inflation, the 'slashing of production'?

"II the (up to) 3 million a year let in by Mr Biden's open-Democrat-voter, er, -border policy,
That conspiracy theory is (A) illegal, and (B) logistically unfounded.
Illegal immigrants cannot vote (ad nauseum)"
Surely Democrats had a reason for leaving the borders open and functionally unguarded for years? Simultaneously pushing in every state they control to make sure illegals get things like drivers licenses. Oh and - 100% resisting at every turn the requirement to provide ID to vote. Why?
Funny how those things line up to point to what, again?

"Lastly, the "three million per year" number is itself mythical."
https://usafacts.org/articles/...
From 250k per mo mid 2021 to nearly 400k/mo end 2023.
And yes it's "encounters" in the same sense "illegals" are redefined to "undocumented".
Not to mention, it's ALL inferred - you know we don't have a list of the people who AREN'T CAUGHT, right?

Ah, so 'defending people you don't like' as long as they're the people *you* like?

Not at all intellectually incoherent!

That the court later fixed it is indeed laudable. (Thanks to a conservative majority, let's note)

That the GOVERNMENT believed it was perfectly reasonable as a 'first move' is precisely what I'm getting at.