So not really. They're not actually able to completely eliminate government services without ending democracy. Now they are working on the end of democracy but the government services will go away after democracy goes away. Ubi is a backup plan in case they cannot completely eliminate democracy. These are professionals and they leave nothing to chance.

The core of feudalism isn't slavery of one kind or another it's creating a heavily stratified society where each layer has just enough to lose that they don't get together with the lower layer to murder the king.

It will be different because instead of knights beating the shit out of peasants it'll be drones bombing us into the Stone age whenever we get a little uppity. Go look up some pictures of what netanyahu did to Gaza. Or what the KKK did too that black city that was starting to move up in the world. That's what it'll be like. The Epstein class will bomb us back into Oblivion every time we show the slightest signs of becoming a threat.

I don't see how we get away from it because people are too freaked out by basically everything. Whether it's violent video games or trans girls or queers in general or heavy metal music or comic books or whatever the fuck they're doing this time not to mention all the underlining racism.

I mean the Chinese are racist against blacks. I would be shocked if you could find more than 10% of the population of China that had ever even seen a black man but somehow they managed to be racist against them. And by somehow I'm sure that if I looked into it I would find that they were being encouraged to be to keep them frightened and compliant.

There has been some studies on this and basically found that certain people have an overactive few response and a underdeveloped critical thinking response. Training can take care of that but good luck getting the Epstein class to allow that training

Pay attention to who keeps pushing ubi on you and you're going to find a bunch of finance and tech Bros talking about it constantly.

The plan is to eliminate all government services that you use or depend on and replace them with a single check.

No social security no Medicare new universal Health Care if you're not American no food assistance no housing assistance no education no nothing. You get a check and that's it.

Then they suck that check right out of you using their monopolies and we're right back to feudalism.

It's always about going back to feudalism. To kings and queens and gods and emperors. Epstein class is really really upset that previous generations of Epstein class had so much more money and power than they do.

You can't just throw a patch on the current mess of anarcho capitalism. You're going to have to make fundamental changes where you're going to have to get ready to die in world War III. And I think we're going to pick world War 3 because fuck if we're going to let go of that stupid Margaret Thatcher quote...

Yeah I mean that's cool if you have access to those things. As an American yeah okay I've got a fancy cell phone. But honestly that really doesn't make my life any better it's not reallyhaseful for very much. I guess I can take pictures with it which I could do with a regular freaking camera only now I guess I don't have to change film. As for cancer drugs this might be mostly an American thing in the non-impoverished world but yeah we don't have those Cancer drugs here. Or if we do they bankrupt you if you need them.

I addressed food. We have more of it but it's substantially lower quality.

And having watched Russia run roughshod over my country using nothing more than dipshit posts on social media I'm not entirely convinced to the internet was worth it. But it doesn't matter because it's pretty obvious the Epstein class has had enough of us having unfettered access to the internet. In a few years they will ban vpns with classic think of the children bullshit and that's game over for the internet. They'll turn it in the cable TV.

So yeah pretty much everything is worse and the few things that you might find enjoyable a bunch of wealthy psychopaths are in the process of taking away from you and there's absolutely fuck all you can do about it because the people around you are obsessed with nonsense moral panic bullshit and they're going to drag you down with them.

I don't think people realize how brief the period of time when a sizable number of people had access to civilization is and has been. It's pretty obvious the Epstein class has had enough of us though. It's back to feudalism even if it's not all at once

Because there are multiple studies showing the productivity gains are completely canceled out by code review or worse. At some point people are going to start wanting those productivity gains whether they are there or not and they're going to stop putting resources to reviewing the code and it's going to be a mess.

If you listen to what Torvalds says he actually doesn't make AI sound all that impressive. Like he goes down about that guitar pedal software he had it make but points out that it wasn't any better than what he did himself maybe even worse. But if you ignore the results he seems to think it's the bee's knees.

You would if you were a tyrannosaurus Rex, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

That's what I came here to say. The Sun, Sol, is a green star. It emits the most energy in the green spectrum. But our eyes have limited dynamic range; it's emitting more in the entire visible spectrum than our eyes can process, so it looks white (all our cones are saying they're maxed out, that's white) to yellowish (because a lot of the blue spectrum is scattered by the atmosphere).

What if the enjoyment came from being one of the few people who could do it?

That sounds like a good gig, and a great excuse for being away from annoying family members or friends. "Uh, I'd love to but I've got to head back to the prison tonight .. will see if I can hangout more this weekend .. assuming they don't have me on library duty or something".

How can I be down?

We have more food I guess but it's 60% less nutritious. We have more jobs but they are functional unemployment jobs. They aren't even mcjobs anymore, back in the day you could at least afford a shitty studio apartment on a mcjob but with this gig economy shit you can't even do that.

And now we are stuffed full of microplastics that make us hurt and we have a massive automation push coming to tear through the job market or what's left of it.

I think this is going to be the first generation that gets left a world that is substantially worse than the one their parents grew up in.

But once again, there is an element of art to that. The thing you make is going to be your own and not something made in a factory from particle port. Your goal in hand making furniture is not to duplicate something from Ikea because there is no point to that. There is no art or human creativity involved in a decompile. Since your goal is the same thing as the AI, it is like building an Ikea design by hand.

But the point was about decompiling the games, not adding features. A person who enjoyed reverse engineering may not even care about the game itself, much less adding features.

Scamming is a long part of American tradition and culture. We love scamming each other and getting scammed in return.

In fact little known history that John Adams once sent a letter to Jefferson claiming to be a Moroccan prince who need to recover his fortune, just put 2,000 Spanish Dollars on the next boat and he'll send 50,000 back next time.

Well if you do understand, you are being pretty damn unemphatic. Maybe the problem is a lack of empathy.