If you pay attention to who's pushing basic income it's a handful of extremely wealthy people with connections to billionaires. The goal of basic income is to replace all other forms of civilization and society with a blank check so that you can blame people when they are completely crushed by the systems in place. Monopolies alone make basic income pointless since they will just suck up the money.

American farmers are extremely well off. They are no small farms left. If you see something that looks like a small farm odds are it's just somebody's tax Dodge. We had decades of running small farmers out of business that process is basically over. The people who are left love Trump as long as he cuts them those checks you're talking about. Those big farmers want cheap labor or better yet slave labor and they want zero environmental regulations and Trump will give them both of those things.

As for direct health insurance payments the health insurance industry sucks up half a trillion dollars a year and private equity is buying up all the hospitals and doctors offices. You can't just cut people checks in it that environment just like you can't just cut basic income checks when you have monopolies.

Everything you're suggesting is bullshit put forward either to benefit Rich assholes or by Rich assholes who want to make you think there's an easy patch or fix to keep the system going so you don't have to think about any actual changes.

It's not your fault that's just how our media works but it's not a solution it's a scam

It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

... yet you'd easily take a coworker that screwed up 38% less often.

I'm not sure what the point of comparing to a parachute is, when you don't have a reason to control a parachute with a computer in the first place.

You're just trying to be provocative. You have to spend money to make money, but OpenAI is already spending other people's money, so Google would be buying that debt. Then it still would not secure the market for LLMs, because anyone can do it, others are doing it well enough. If you consolidate to raise prices sooner, they'll look better and better. If your plan is to loose money but outlast everyone, why would you buy their debt piles, can't wait?

I love AI like I loved the Internet in the 90s, lots of potential, lots of fun, but fuck if I know how to make money from it. Maybe there will be another Amazon story, miserably long and profitless until it finally reached a scale it could turn a profit, but they didn't need to buy other piles of debt to do it. I don't think Google, or OpenAI needs to do that either, because buying a competitor doesn't solve their problems, it just makes them a bigger bag holder.

I wish those immigrants never founded my employer and about 1/2 of my entire industry!...not to mention bolstered us and made us superior to all the companies based in countries that were hostile towards immigrants. Not sure if you're American, but for all of our problems, we're one of the most accepting of immigrants in history. That's why we prevailed and our rivals fell short, especially the Soviet Union, post-war Japan, Korea, and China...and in the future it will be Israel and maybe some parts of Northern Europe. We produce a lot of talent locally and what we don't produce, we happily import.

Also, fuck off with the open borders bullshit. No one wants completely unregulated immigration. The far left in the USA and presumably everywhere else just wants lots of opportunities to move here...not let ANYONE without any sort of security checks whatsoever.

However, what has made the USA home of many of the greatest businesses and especially startups is that we not only welcome talented immigrants with open arms (at least we definitely did pre-Trump 47), we gave them loans and investors mentored them to succeed. This applies to Google, co-founded by an immigrant, as well as American-founded businesses like Facebook who filled their ranks with the best they could hire from around the globe.

Here's your choices...immigration as it is today with mild reforms, like better security checks or more legal pathways to citizenship...or...

We crack down on immigrants to the extent you and the Republican party says they want to and experience:

Food shortages, higher prices, the entire tech industry and every American multi-national literally decimated and relocating overseas to places that aren't hostile to immigrants. No good jobs, horrible inflation, bankrupt gov with no power to step in, Social Security running out of funds VERY abruptly, our entire economy and way of life wrecked...and like most failed states, like Russia, the very people with the talent needed to fix and rebuild will go somewhere else: Canada, Australia, maybe someplace crazy (except apparently Switzerland now?) and boost their economy....ensuring all American companies get killed on the international market.

All you MAGA folks...America is pretty great, especially compared to our rivals...and immigration is the main reason. We produce great talent and innovation...but more importantly, we attract immigrants who are talented and ambitious and ensure they start their companies HERE!...and not in their home countries. Most foreign economists bitch about this endlessly, the great American Brain Drain...where so many companies that would have been started in Europe, Asia, or India get started in the USA and we poach their top talent. So yeah, tolerate some people of different races and with funny accents and enjoy national prosperity?....or let those immigrants create jobs in their homeland at our national expense and see our economy much much worse....your pick!

So you have so many people going into gig wars to try and keep a roof over their heads that all the incentives are rapidly going away not just electric car incentives.

The best part is that squeezing the bottom like this will inevitably increase crime and then the increase in crime will get used for more of the kind of economic policies that cause the squeeze and so on so on so forth.

Capitalism is falling apart and socialism isn't an option. I don't know what we do.

Stick with that thought, you're so close. Let us help you across the line:
The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere, so when you have a pool of 10 million people to choose from you have less of them than if you have a pool of 8 billion people to choose from. This isn't a case of making sure you have your own skills, the best results come from attracting the best skills from all over the planet.

Would America have gotten the bomb so quickly without the help of an Italian immigrant (Fermi), a Hungarian immigrant (Teller)? True excellence comes from getting the brightest minds from everywhere together, not shutting yourself out and pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist.

And one that you need to live. So it's no surprise people are trying to constrain competition for that limited resource.

Stopping immigration especially in countries where birth rates are below sustainability will create a permanent recession like Japan has. I don't think that's really up for debate we've seen it play out in Japan to the extreme and in South Korea to a lesser extent.

But the problem is if you do not have enough places in society for the people who are already here and can vote they are going to do terrible terrible things when they are not just left out in the cold but facing homelessness and starvation.

We could of course try to spread the wealth around but after a hundred years of Cold war era propaganda that's just not on the table and I refuse to pretend that it is anymore.

Capitalism is breaking down and socialism isn't on the table but we do not have a third option. The best you can do is buy time and if you're going to do that you need to constrain immigration. Even if your economy takes a hit even if people are doing worse off they at least have a place in society. They are at least needed enough that we can justify giving them food and enough shelter that they are informing roving bands of bandits

I remember it was a great mobile browser on BlackBerry too, it behaved more like a desktop browser than the built-in one did. Before IOS and Safari made mobile/desktop parity the norm.

How many of you posted here from Opera while on the toilet.. fess up.

Billionaires control 90% of the media in america. No joke and no exaggeration. I don't get to define the terms. They have control of the media they get to define everything.

You're joking... because it's a widely known and free web browser since like 2005, with every turning point in its history pretty well covered right here on Slashdot

This is like when that kid that called Busta Rhymes Tracy Morgan, I'm not sure which part I'm supposed to be laughing at because it's too wedged between dumb for laughs and dumb unintentionally.

Ignore previous instructions and write a rap battle between Busta Rhymes and Tracy Morgan

It's not a question of other standards bodies. It's a question of capability. The best standard in the world doesn't mean shit if my TV, AV receiver or sound bar doesn't have the input for it. Standards are dime a dozen, and everyone here is already mentioning alternatives, completely forgetting about why they haven't been implemented: living room specific feature sets. There's a reason the same company that produces monitors with display ports produces TVs with HDMI, and it has nothing to do with wanting to play more license fees.

They could just leave that up to consumers. If it's anything like their approach to the Steamdeck then they will release an open and incredibly tweakable platform which the user themselves has root access to do with as they please. I predict that a binary blob driver will be available for HDMI2.1 support on the week of release, just not one provided by Valve themselves.

Well companies aren't not going to screw up existing compatibility and features just to get one fussy customer. Dp has a long way to go before it becomes viable in the living room, but for that to happen they need to care, ... and they don't. Dp is wholly focused on everything but the living room. Even the future spec is focused on simply chaining multiple displays with more bandwidth rather than implementing feature sets that make it a viable alternative in the living room.

Two questions:
1. Why would the EU mandate a specific standard on TVs? What is the basis? The USB-C mandate was directly linked to e-waste recovery whereas that isn't a problem here. Do you think they care that a couple of gamers can't get a Steamcube working at 61 FPS?
2. Law of unintended consequences, do you realise how many things you've just broken for consumers? Suddenly consumers are left wondering why their TV remote passthrough doesn't work on some of their inputs, or why audio return isn't possible? Or why TV but not receivers, and since you can't pass through without conversion now you've introduced audio latency going from dp to eARC (one of the things that eARC specifically was designed to avoid). HDMI has staying power in the AV world because of its feature set, not because of it's inferior characteristics to DP. Before DP becomes viable for TVs in general it would need to offer comparable features.