Easy peasy. Just broadcast some old looped FOX news footage of Portland and declare a National Emergency until Antifa is defeated. And since Antifa does not exist as an organization, there will never be any election.

There is nothing wrong with...

Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter.[3] We can change the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: There is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... MAGA MAGA.

You are not getting your real $$$ back... ever.

Here is a full report (link to PDF) about the criminal crypto compounds of SE Asia.

Asia is currently the leader in Cryptocurrency adoption. And the Trump administration wants the US to be the world leader in cryptocurrency. What does that tell us?

Yup. The criminal gang prison complexes are only growing larger with the growth of the "exchange your real $$$ for our fake money" cryptocurrency industry.

Yes, this is among the crimes that Cryptocurrency enables: lies and torture inside the scam compounds of southeast Asia.

And Crypto crime is a large corporate industry of fraud and pig butchering. That now uses stablecoins. Because stablecoins work as well as any other non-money to trick the marks.

their train. Woo Woo.

We got your real $$$. We got your real $$$.

No thank you.

Apparently, many potential customers do not want money that is not real money.

Learn about how the Crypto industry works: Number Go Up!

What's worse about this is that AI does not need to ever need reach "General Intelligence" to reach this outcome. Robots at the level of a WayMo self-driving car are all that is needed. And those are getting cheaper to produce everyday.

The math is easy: Let's say a robot has $100K cost, with $100K maintenance cost over a 10 year life. That's a $20K/year robot.

Will any human here work for only $20K a year?

An aside: rsilvergun, Have you noticed that your Score:5 posts are reduced to -1 shortly after they no longer current? There appears to be a "cleanup squad" that is trying to wipe out the "thoughtful history" on Slashdot. This is in addition to the "anonymous cowards" that re-post distorted versions of other authors posts.

That still does not work reliably.

Is it fixable?

So far it appears not to be...

Of course, part of the issue is that the definition of "what is AI" is purposely vague and flexible marketing....

This poem is historic and it was written by a German Lutheran pastor who lived it under the Nazi's during their rise to power and WWII.

It is about the arrest and imprisonment or killing of various subgroups and how the other subgroups ignored the rounding up of others until the Nazis' came for them not realizing that EVERYONE is in a subgroup.

The poem is displayed prominently at multiple Holocaust Museums around the world.

And their usefulness is fading with each passing day. Back just after WW2 this game was well known:

Don't be a sucker.

This poem is named "First they came" is about the Holocaust and how the Nazi's came for and arrested various subgroups until no one was safe from them including members of the so called master race.

Yes, it does sound like exactly what Trump is doing. Just change the subgroups.

The author, Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was initially an anti-Communist, anti-semite and supported Adolf Hitler. But when Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler.

The Trump version begins:

First they came for the Hispanics.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Hispanic.

Then they came for the late night comedians.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a late night comedian.

Then they came for the imaginary Antifa.
And I did not speak out.
Because I was not a Antifa.

How does this version end?

Hmmm. So do you really think that oligarchs and corporate leaders will keep truck drivers (who can and do also steal) that are in oligarch reality non-player characters (NPCs) anyway? Versus deploying enough automated systems to protect their cargo from thieves. Of course, that would be after some small changes in law that allow robot or automated defenses to be lethal which will be easy. After all currently, private guard services can use lethal force, so "more discerning reliable robot systems (it was on the brochure :-)" will also. This will be sold as reducing fatalities compared to human guard error rates.

If the military is allowed to use lethal weapons controlled by AI against human opponents, we can be almost certain that industry will be also.

BTW. Are you telling everyone that "a Star Trek" economy which is not completely defined in the various series and movies is better than our current one?

Not true. Self-driving semis are on the way

That's the old economic model. Robots and AI eliminate the need for human workers. And China, with "dark factories," is ahead of the US in this innovation also. But almost any on-shoring of US manufacturing will use the same techniques. Our oligarchs do not want to hire people, if they can avoid it.

And robots do not require Artificial General Intelligence to be better than human workers. They work 24/7 and only need electricity, programming and maintenance.

Book Suggestion: The New York Times Bestseller Separation of Church & Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

The Premise: Christian Nationalists, Fundamentalists, and Evangelicals are not followers of Christ's actual teachings.

This book is a toolbox that arms everyone else against their far less than accurate rhetoric.

The author John Fugelsang is much better in a debate than Charlie Kirk ever was. It's too bad they'll never debate.

No. But they are pointing to it as one new added cause.

There are a lot of things that cause dementia. Like head injuries in football, which has only been around 150 years. Or motorcycles, automobiles, basically this is another vector on top of brain injury which is part of the human experience.

But reducing dementia by determining causes and reducing exposure should always be goal. Shouldn't it?