It's still a new code base and one that can access hardware so it's understandable that people would be nervous.

At the very least it should probably be something that has to be enabled in settings. And maybe it does I haven't looked into it. There are too many examples of security vulnerabilities that can bypass permissions. That's what the grandparents is worried about

From an immediate switch is billionaires want to be in control of the energy supply so they are slowing the transition in order to make sure that they control the solar farms and the wind farms and you have to go to them to get electricity still just like you did when they controlled the coal mines and the oil wells. This is acceptable because the alternative is to make energy production publicly owned and people really really really really hate public utilities and the concept of just having something that we all benefit from. It doesn't feel Fair because they can't own it.

Also it's hard to explain to people that just because you won't let Elon Musk own the electric grid doesn't mean somebody is going to snatch your car and your toothbrush... It's really hard to get people to grasp any level of nuance. It doesn't help that 60% of them read at the level of a 12-year-old...

Being put in the theaters. They did this with the Star wars 3D cartoon back in the day. The one with a young ahsoka.

Basically it's streaming content they're putting in the theaters. It wasn't so bad when they did it with Ahsoka because they made kind of a fun event and did stuff like got the guys who dress up as Stormtroopers to show up at movie theaters. This one seems kind of cheap like they're not putting anything behind it... It feels like the windows millennium of Star wars releases where they just wanted something in the theaters so the public doesn't forget that Star wars exists and that you can see it in movie theaters.

It adds daylight hours to the time of day that people would be likely to be shopping. That was a heavily implied by what I said and I just kind of figured you could understand that without me saying that sentence in that blunt a fashion but well, here we are.

The problem with this country is the majority reads at about the level of a 12 year old. 6th grade that is. This is a fact you can look it up. Even pretty well educated people often read at the level of a 12-year-old.

So you have to be insanely blunt with them and that's tough to do when you're someone who reads at say freshman college level.

For unionization when you've already fired 1/3 of the entire industry. At a certain point you're running it so a bare bones staff that the threat of layoffs no longer really exists unless the company is just completely shutting down. And you can't really offshore anything that you haven't already offshored because at some point you need people to make art that resonates with the locals.

You don't have a lot of managers that don't do anything. You basically have three types of managers. The first are Union busters. They are just there to keep the employees in line and are useful to the company not you. They aren't getting in your way because they are incompetent it's because they need to make sure you don't unionize.

After that you have accountants you also have to do your HR paperwork.

And finally there are line workers who have been promoted into management in order to give them or work for about the same pay.

It's extremely unlikely Tesla fired their Union busters they kind of need those guys to keep pay down. And the same goes for their managing accountants.

That means they more than likely lost some folks who do actual work and wound up with a manager title.

Or even their 30s sitting around for hours on end challenging voter registrations and signatures. That takes a retiree. And older people lean towards the Republican party because they're fucking obsessed with Ronald Reagan and the feeling like they were winning that they had back in the '80s.

I called it like I sees it and I sees it like it is. If you don't like how old people are fucking everything up then try to get old people to stop fucking everything up. I can't do it.

The reason we have daylight savings time is because brick and mortar stores like the extra daylight hours because people shop more when there is light out. Every time there is a serious attempt to eliminate daylight savings time they just splash out a little bit of cash and shut it down. Doesn't even take that much cash since this is mostly local politics or best state level

Voting for right wing candidates is what prevents us from solving this problem. That and vulnerabilities in human cognition used by psychopaths to become God Kings.

Theology is a thing because several secular democracies in the world are quickly collapsing into theocratic dictatorships.

This is a problem for the future existence of the human race because the religious extremists being put in charge are completely insane and genuinely believe God will protect them and give them dominion over the Earth.

This means that when they inevitably start massive wars due to their incompetence and collapsing empires they will turn to nuclear weapons as a solution.

The reason theology is a problem is that their theology is nationalistic supremacy. They believe they are God's chosen people and protected by and elevated by God. So like a kid who believes they can fly because of Superman they're going to believe they can start a nuclear war that they can win.

Now the reason is ties into ai and job destroying automation in general is that people under heavy pressure and duress don't make good decisions. They are likely to turn to right-wing demagogues because they're going to offer simple solutions to confused and frightened people. More importantly they're going to offer solutions that don't run contrary to the cognitive vulnerabilities those people have. Specifically that whole crap about how angry it makes people when somebody gets to stay home playing Xbox and they have to go to work.

That's how it all ties together. Automation collapses our social systems, we are not capable of building new social systems because of cognitive vulnerabilities and issues, so we turned the right wing theocratic lunatics because they offer solutions that we can understand and it fit in with our cognition. Those right wing lunatics believe they are protected by God and start a nuclear war and you get the rest.

It's a multi-step process and I think that's why you're having a tough time following it from its beginning to its conclusion. It requires dozens of systems designed to prevented to fail and break down which they have.

I've said it before and I will say it again, every single system designed to protect you needed to break to get us to this point and they did.

Neither of which are expected to turn a profit. Meanwhile here where I am SpaceX is losing money hand over fist, claims to be an AI company not a rocket company, has pretty much maxed out all the markets they have available and has set up a structure where all of our 401ks and if you happen to have one of pension are going to get stuck with non-voting shares of the stuff because NASDAQ changed the rules and immediately added the stock to the top 100 in exchange for fat sacks of cash that will flow in from the fees of the IPO.

I don't invest in unicorn farts. Or at least I didn't use to now I have to.

They are coming for your 401k and you might be a sophisticated investor but they have teams of people whose job is 24/7 to grip you out of your money and you have to rest and work your day job. The question isn't are they going to get around to robbing you it's will you die before they do or will voters come to their senses and start regulating this shit.

Kept that thing running barely for 10 years. It was marginally cheaper than trying to buy a new car and I was really broke. A combination of medical problems in the family and the 2008 market crash hit me like a truck and right after that my kid hit College.

The thing is it needed constant maintenance and that maintenance cost a lot. If I had had just a little bit more money at the time there is no reason or way I would put up with that and it was a huge waste of time and effort on my part.

What I'm saying is sometimes there is a damn good reason to replace mechanical things. Almost as if there's a reason NASA abandoned a lot of the reusable tech...

I'm sure this is fine though. It's not like SpaceX is constantly moving money around between other companies Elon Musk owns or like that's not legal because it disadvantages to shareholders of the other companies or like the rules for Nasdaq were changed for the SpaceX IPO so that it can be immediately added to the NASDAQ top 100 forcing institutional shareholders to buy it...

This is fine. This is fine.

You can't just give people money. Pay attention to the people who are telling you to do UBI. None of these people are your friends and they are limitlessly greedy and all want to be trillionaires they're not just going to give you free money. You should be already suspecting some of the thing based on the kind of people who keep talking about UBI.. The problem isn't complicated. If I give you money but I own all the businesses where you have to shop I can just raise my prices until I get all that money right back. Then I can cut all the other government services and all the other regulations and then tell voters that your intense poverty and inability to feed and clothe yourself is your own damn fault because we gave you UBI. Now if there was competition that would lower prices but there is none because while you are distracted by Ubi as a possible solution they were busy taking over the courts and eliminating all antitrust law enforcement. So any attempt to compete with their businesses just gets crushed exactly the way it was in the 1900s before we had antitrust law. Google chesterton's fence.

The only way out of this is to have a society that lets people who are effectively useless due to automation have food and shelter and healthcare and transportation and entertainment and it all has to be at least pretty nice. No you can't just shove them all into ghettos like we do with Palestine.

The problem is that doesn't feel fair or right. Why does your ass have to get up at 6:00 in the morning and drag your ass into work. It's especially bad because the people who are going to get to stay home and play Xbox get to do that specifically because they are unskilled, stupid and useless.

And no we can't just make them all plumbers. Even if we somehow started building infrastructure again via the government like we used to we just don't need that many fucking plumbers or electricians or whatever. At best if we transformed our electrical grid and our transportation's Network we might buy 10 or 20 years before the automation wave devours us.

So realistically this is what's going to happen. You're going to keep voting for right wing candidates until we are a fascist world because it's unfair that you have to go to work and somebody else doesn't. Sooner or later you're going to have a huge population of the dispossessed and they're going to put a religious lunatic in charge of the nuclear arsenals which will be fully functional and maintained because we will have poured a bunch of money into doing that as part of a big nationalistic push like fascist Nations do.

And then the religious lunatics in charge of the theocracy that your votes created are going to launch nukes with the full expectation that a combination of their golden dome and their God will protect them. It will not. And then that's it no more human race.

This is the answer to the Fermi paradox. Species cannot overcome the feeling of unfairness and we develop nuclear weapons before we get over that.

I'm open to alternatives but I do not see a way around this fundamental Gap in human cognition.

We have an oligarchy with a veto against the ruling elite if 60% of the population disagrees with them.

Last election there were millions of coordinated illegal challenges to voter signatures and registrations done at a county level. This prevented millions of Americans from voting. Little old ladies and little men going through lists of voters and preventing them from voting with the full knowledge that while you can answer a challenge to your signature or registration you have to drag your ass down to the courthouse on a weekday and that is by design. Never mind the 7-hour wait times to vote in swing States.

There's a dozen other little things that were done.

Democracy doesn't die in big cool events. It's killed by a thousand cuts for a bitter old men and women and a handful of mean middle-aged men trying to move up the ladder of the oligarchy by taking control of local election positions.

What the hell did Trump do this time that he needs a distraction from? The Iran War made us pretty much forget about Epstein Island so that's out. Whatever he did it must be monumentally boneheaded...

There used to be this thing called competition that kept prices down. I know it sounds crazy but we had that.