Will tell you that there really isn't any growing demand except for Elon musk's own companies wanting to launch more satellites for satellite internet that itself has pretty much maxed out the number of potential users because there's only so many people who don't have access to wired high-speed internet and can afford $100 a month for high-speed internet...

This is hype and people buying in because they are anticipating a bunch of people who can't get in on SpaceX IPOs and are going to want to just buy something related to space.

YouTuber Patrick Boyle has a pretty good video explaining all of this in detail and explaining why the SpaceX IPO is a giant scam that's going to hit the economy like a truck. Most notably the rules of the NASDAQ were changed to allow all sorts of nasty little shenanigans and because of the size of the IPO it basically forces fund managers to buy into it because of how large a percentage of the NASDAQ it becomes.

I don't even know emotionally or intellectually how to process just how bad all this is going to be when it comes down on our heads. And we all know it always comes down on our heads and not the heads of the billionaire Epstein class assholes who made all this happen...

We all know they are because Trump fired all the people who calculated those numbers because he didn't like them.

I would guess that it's the classic where people who drop out of looking for IT jobs are no longer counted in IT unemployment statistics. There's probably other ugly shenanigans too. Things are so much worse out there than anyone is willing to admit.

I really hate the 90% billionaire owned corporate hellscape of the modern news media. It feels like we're living in North Korea now. That's the level of misinformation you have to wade through. I guess at least so far when the thugs have rounded up American citizens they have at least released them in a few weeks... Which is a sentence I had the write

You would be shocked and appalled to find how evil just about every company on the planet is including and especially the small ones.

We have a hyper competitive system where access to food and shelter are on the line and 60% to 80% of everything humanity produces goes straight to the top before anyone else gets a crack at it. People are not going to be nice about it.

To make way for more money to blow on AI.

The elite and the Epstein class are done with us. They're going to spend all their energy automating us away. And we are going to spend all of our energy pretending they're not doing it.

They don't need us to buy their products when there are no products. This is the end of capitalism. It has served them well but they are done with it. Unlike us they are not emotionally attached to it.

Violence doesn't work for left-wing causes. The left wing is by nature bad at organizing and following orders and those are what you need to make violence work. Sooner or later any left-wing movement that uses violence turns into a right-wing movement when it inevitably gets taken over from inside by the right wingers.

The left wing is good at being right about basically everything but not good at violence. And that's not going to change because people who are right about things aren't good at following orders.

Trump voters gave up friends and family and husbands and wives. It's tough to turn on Trump after giving up that much for the man

They will not receive the phone and they will not get their deposits back. The regulatory agencies that would punish Trump for doing that are run by Trump. I would have a laugh at their expense except it means those same regulatory agencies aren't going to protect anyone else from anything else..

Outside of banning the technology there isn't really a hell of a lot you can do. We are not going to build the capacity because that would require tax dollars from extremely wealthy people and those people run the country so no they're not going to pay for you to have electricity.

Our entire civilization is being slowly dismantled. But how about those trans girls in sports am I right? /s

Several American citizens have been disappeared for several weeks at a time. So far all of them have turned up only slightly worse for wear but it keeps happening and eventually some of them will not turn up or if they do they will have permanent physical damage.

Like I said it's not black and white. If you are teaching children yes you need physical books with paper and you need to give them paper and pens and pencils. This is extremely well documented.

This does not mean that having a screen completely destroys education and that we must burn them all like we used to burn books we didn't like.

And yes I am aware that you're not suggesting we burn screens like we used to burn books. However you're complete unwillingness to recognize any nuance whatsoever will inevitably lead in that direction. Because the lack of nuance is what leads to people burning books.

I'm not criticizing your position I'm criticizing your entire thought process and the American popular consciousness as a whole. In case you're wondering why I don't engage in the specifics of your points that's why.

It doesn't matter if I point out more nuances you won't acknowledge them because you are locked into black and white binary thinking. Which is especially hilarious because that's part of your criticism...

I mean I wish these guys well but you lost. The final straw was when muskrat

Independent journalists were making a living on twitter, okay they were scraping a living by but they were at least able to function his journalists independently and they would periodically break major stories that mattered. You didn't notice because the way the system worked they would do their journalism on the website and it would get picked up by the other news outlets because it had to be since if one of them didn't pick it up somebody would eventually.

Naturally all that got shut down as soon as muskrat took over. Because the point of buying Twitter was to use it as a propaganda Network.

There are people trying to do journalism out there but they don't have a platform. YouTube Will demonetize and Shadow ban you if you do anything against their corporate Masters. You can post all the videos you want they make sure nobody sees them. Like how Patrick Boyle did a good video about the financial ties involved in the Epstein files and it was doing gangbusters and 3 Days later without any notice demonetized and Shadow ban.ed.

You let the 4th estate die. You let religious extremists take over the courts. And you let a pedophile and his sickle fans run the White House and congress. Bad things are going to happen to you now. It can't be stopped.

So you can absolutely learn useful information from a screen. The electric company and sesame Street used phonics to teach inner city kids to read.

The issue is that at the end of the day you do need pen and paper because the motion of it reinforces brain pathways in a weighted screens don't.

You also still want teachers. The electric company and sesame Street did amazing things for students that were getting abandoned. And you can't exactly have a kid in class 24/7 so it's okay to have some screen time and it can be productive and worthwhile and enjoyable.

Again there are nuances. I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Again sex is not binary it is much more complex.

It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.

That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.

Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.

There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.

In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.

My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.

It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.

It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.

But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.

It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.

It's done by whatever schlub worked for the cheapest on weekends in between other work.

The goal of vibe coating, or realistically letting generative AI build software for you out of stolen assets, is to not have to pay somebody who can actually write applications properly.

So it's going to be slap dash. As the saying goes, fast, cheap, good pick two. Or in the case of genai I guess you get cheap at least. For now anyway.

You consented when you spent 50 years voting for pro corporate politicians who dismantled all the consumer protection rules and antitrust laws that made the economy at large functional for working people.

That's when you gave your consent. At The ballot box.

If for some reason you figured out that pro corporate politicians are bad news that's not going to cut it.

your relatives and neighbors did not, and 50 years of letting that slide so you didn't make a scene at Thanksgiving while you're crazy uncle did the exact opposite and we all just rolled our eyes because it's socially acceptable to back the pro corporate guys but not to challenge them means you are still actively consenting to all of this.

At some point you have to ask yourself what you are trading. For some of us it's just a peaceful Thanksgiving or is peaceful as it can be after Uncle Phil gets a few beers in him and starts quoting Fox News. And for Uncle Phils out there it's whatever they are trading in exchange for corporate regulation and consumer protection laws. Usually some silly moral panic.

But until that changes this is where it's at and there is fuck all any of us can do about it. I mean for a brief window I suppose you could install Firefox. Or one of the open source equivalents. But with how age verification and tracking software is becoming mandatory open source software is just going to go away in about 10 years. I guess you could try running it illegally but you won't be able to connect to the internet with it. There will be complex handshakes and all sorts of other tricks and tools to prevent you from doing that.

And odds are you'll continue to make those trades to put the pro corporate guys in office...