Comment Re:Marvel (Score 2, Informative) 103
Deadpool & Wolverine was pretty great, and that's Marvel.
That's legacy Fox, with the Marvel label slapped on. The original Deadpool would never have gotten made inside of Disney proper.
Deadpool & Wolverine was pretty great, and that's Marvel.
That's legacy Fox, with the Marvel label slapped on. The original Deadpool would never have gotten made inside of Disney proper.
You can thank Trump
From the article:
"U.S. public companies have cut their white-collar workforces by 3.5% over the past three years"
I'm sorry, who was President during that time?
These are permanent structural changes, a long time in coming. Predicted by many and blown off by many more.
I started predicting a near future of software-induced permanent structural unemployment ~15 years ago on this and other discussion platforms, only to be deluged with "but, but... buggy whip manufacturers!!!!!!"
It's inevitable. It's not that there won't be any work. It's that there won't be enough work 8 billion humans are capable of doing or reskilling to within their lifespan, and the wages for the remaining unskilled labor will collapse below survivability.
The problem with a "knowledge economy" is that automation can basically take over 95 percent of it. You need a balance of services and manufacturing and agriculture, and the first world knowledge economies have been outsourcing the later two to cheaper third world countries and teaching their youth that getting their hands dirty is beneath them. Anytime someone brings up plumbing or welding or some construction work, there's a group here that always responds with "Back-breaking! No! Undignified!".
Fine. So starve then. You're not getting your UBI or a lifetime welfare state. So I suggest you learn a skill that can't be replaced with a glorified Google script, or hope your parents have saved enough money to support you on their couch while you protest the indignities of spreading drywall or operating a backhoe.
Amazing to see that soulless ghoul Blake Lively use this issue as an opportunity to sneak in unsolicited commentary about her false accusation case
She's not going to date you dude, give up already
Shut up, Ryan.
On most news sites these days it's difficult to claw your way through all the ads to get to the paywall, and on the off chance you make it through that it's literally just the same blurb that every other site has.
Just about any newspaper or news network site now is either paywalled, or a defacto browser hijacker that floods you with pop-ups, videos, and subscription requests as soon as you enter.
525 cpm, 105 wpm.
I learned to type back in the day playing Sierra On-Line games, and through the Almeida method. Quiet Aunt Zelda. Willy Sits Exams. Every Dad Cares. Run From Vicky To Get Betty. Young Harry Never Uses Joe's Money. Oh Lloyd Stop. Please.
Thirty some odd years later and I still remember the little mnemonics from a single viewing of the Almeida video.
What happens when some orange lunatic pulls all the funding for food banks?
Oh FFS. Food banks are locally run, staffed, and financed.
I don't give a fuck who's responsibility it is to feed those children
I don't believe you.
I would gladly give my $24 to make sure that we don't end up with tens of thousands of starving children and a drug-resistant HIV variant if it's all the same to you.
Who's stopping you from writing a check?
Don't give me this bullshit about how it's not our responsibility.
It's not our responsibility.
It's pure evil and you sound like a fucking asshole.
I'll just have to learn to live with the knowledge that you disapprove.
Gee whatever will we do without spies ^H^H^H^H^H^H students flying drones over our naval facilities and taking patents and trade secrets back home.
Replace the word "students" with "tourists and investors" and you will have your answer.
More to the point I think you will find those students were only a tiny fraction of the students, the rest were cash cows for the US universities who will now take their money elsewhere.
Except that the cash is drying up anyway, per the article source. And it was inevitable that enrollment would slow down as soon as China ramped up their higher education system enough to provide for their own needs. That's been their M.O. in every other sector of their economy: get Western help until self-sufficient, then kick the West out to protect their own markets. Education is no different from factories in this case.
The overall labor participation percentage in 1950 was 59%. Now it's 62%.
Every generation laments the up and coming generation as hopelessly stupid and lazy.
In 1950, most women were married and stay-at-home moms, with the female labor participation rate at just over 30%. Most men did the working. We have a vastly different social situation now. The women's labor rate is now 57%. Men are now under 67%. In the year you citied, 1950, men had an 86% participation rate. The male rate has been steadily dropping since the 60's. So there's definitely been a change in attitudes and work ethic since the 50's.
they revolt, and kill the bastards that have the money.
Such revolutions always end up with the revolutionaries killing the very people they were supposedly fighting for. Ask the French how that turned out for them.
Make an argument that AI isn't going to be *that* game changing, sure. But I really dislike the argument that humans don't deserve to get by unless they are somehow needed for work.
That's not the argument. The argument is that simply giving people money all their lives with no requirements for work in return will make them permanently dependent on others. Worse, they'll come to have a sense of entitlement that their neighbor owes them a living. The West has always prospered with the worth ethic: He who does not work, shall not eat.
So, if AI takes that work away to an extent that will truly leave masses of people permanently unemployed? Then better a Butlerian Jihad than Behavioral Sink.
When work and purpose is taken away from Man, he rots.
So, we need to ask ourselves do we as Americans point the finger and say shame on them not my problem OR do we as humans go we need to help our fellow man.
Americans would have no problem temporarily helping a nation that had a crop failure one year, or had food supplies destroyed by a hostile force. What they have a problem with is permanently taking responsibility for feeding that nation, when that nation is more than capable of feeding itself. And that became the problem with USAID. It became a permanent burden, often with the expectation that US tax dollars were always going to show up to do the job that the native people and their governments should be doing themselves.
I also suspect that much of USAID wasn't for humanitarian purposes as much as it was for buying influence abroad, under the guise of humanitarianism. One of the primary objections to cutting the USAID budget at places like the Brookings Institution and CSIS is that if the US stops paying foreign food and medicine bills, then China will step in and play sugar daddy. Well, good. Let China drain their coffers then. As far as I'm concerned, that's not a bug, that's a feature.
Helping the less fortunate is a form of human decency.
The people of the United States are exceedingly generous in giving their money to charities, foreign and domestic. Americans sent almost 30 billion dollars abroad to foreign recipients in 2023. Americans pretty much have decency covered. But this isn't about decency. It's about responsibility.
So, I ask again: who is responsible for feeding those children abroad? The implication of the parent post is that the responsibility is squarely on US taxpayers, and not the parents of those children or their own governments.
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. -- Errol Flynn Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. -- Errol Flynn