Allowing us to drive much longer. Once self-driving cars are common and assuming our wider civilization doesn't collapse for a laundry list of reasons then insurance companies are going to make it prohibitively expensive for you to be able to take your car off self-driving mode.

A self-driving car will follow every rule to the letter and it will refuse to speed.

I do wonder if you will see higher speed limits though. Most speed limits are set intentionally low with the understanding that everyone is going to go 10 mph over.

Hell I had to do a long drive today and it been a while since I did a really long one so I was driving slower than usual to be careful but found I was still 10 over while people were passing me on the freeway

Like you.

I don't normally directly insult people but you are either extremely stupid, extremely evil or both.

I'm going to lose here now because I'm going to explain and as God man Reagan told us if you're explaining you are losing, praise be to Reagan praise be to Trump.

So the person question collected data from various sources and summarize them into reports. These reports would periodically need to be corrected because the underlying data was less than perfect because in a country of 340 million people believe it or not it's hard to get a read on what individuals are doing.

This is all extremely well known and well understood. The data was not bad and the data was extremely consistent. That meant that businesses could make good decisions using the data because although it often needed correction for accuracy the amounts being corrected by and when they would be corrected were extremely consistent.

However that consistency is going to consistently show the economy tanking come October because that's when the effects of Trump's national sales tax hit us like the list of an angry fat smelly God who has senility and a bruise on his and because he's on the verge of dying and being kept alive by hundreds of millions of dollars worth of medical science...

October is special because that is approximately when the stocks of things companies bought to get through until Trump gave up on his trade war and national sales tax run out.


Except he's not president because guys like you willingly consume right-wing extremist propaganda and spout bullshit you know nothing about that you picked up off of oan or Fox News or whatever rat hole on YouTube you found those talking points, assuming you're not just a bot because there is somebody running bots on this forum. Although they're pretty amateurish so I can't quite tell if you are or aren't.

By the way I'm not really addressing you. I'm addressing people fooled by you in the believing those talking points.

Do those people I say, kiss your retirements goodbye. All that money you have saved up and all that value in your house and equity and everything. All of it is going to get taken away.

We have 2,000 people in this country close enough to being trillionaires that if they can just get their hand grubby little hands on some more money they can be trillionaires.

But the economy isn't growing fast enough for that to work.

What that means is the only way they can get what they want before they age out and die is by taking it from YOU.

If you numbnuts want to sell your property and give the money to Trump you go ahead but stop dragging me into it.

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

Russia is way past "partisan gap". They tried that. Didn't work. The left wing didn't bite.

You can get sales figures for bookstores from their SEC filings. a quick Google shows library traffic is easy to find too and it's been declining. I don't think I need to remind everyone to State a bookstores in America.

Don't think it's that it was them being lazy I think it's that the stuff you are talking about is already known so they wanted to do a proper survey.

There is nothing wrong with a self-reporting survey as long as your data set is large enough and representative enough. I haven't read the study though so not sure how good this one is. But again given what we know about the state of bookstores and libraries it's likely to be correct.

When Tim pool got outed as a Russian asset. Tucker Carlson too but I mean at that point we already knew it was just getting formalized.

And there were a couple dozen other popular right wing YouTubers and pundits who got caught taking hundreds of thousands of dollars directly from Russia State media without disclosing it.

I'm not really calling out right wing hypocrisy because the right wing is completely incapable of the emotions of shame and self-awareness that are associated with hypocrisy.

I mostly just wanted to remind everyone that right wing media is a Russian state-owned operation and if you are consuming it you are consuming media that is an enemy of your country. Might as well just boot up some old Soviet TV at that point.

Every time I see a flood of press attacking the Democrat party I can be sure the Republican party just did something especially nasty.

The hard part is there is so much nastiness right now I can't pick one. There's the fake Epstein file release where they just released a bunch of files everyone already had and acted like everything is good. There is the attempts to distract from the big beautiful bill by renaming it. There is Trump's rapidly declining health and clear signs of senality that even our news media can't sane wash ..

And things are moving so fast it's possible I missed something.

Especially kids. My kid had orders of magnitude more homework than I did. And when they went to college it was just nuts.

businesses don't want to train and they have deep pockets so they went to the government and they took over the school boards and they changed things. They basically added a ton of on the job style training to college education.

They didn't want to pay for that at the high school level so they just heaped on tons of homework.

I've said this before but when my kid was in high school it was not uncommon for me to get up to go piss at midnight and find them still doing homework. Parents complained and in their senior year it backed off a little bit but just a little bit.

That's one of the defining aspects of my life. Big business and Rich assholes will make my life a fuck of a lot worse and me and everybody complains and they back off a little but when they're done we're worse off because we never get back what we lost.

They specialize in two things. Doxing gay and trans people and trying to encourage them to commit suicide. So it's absolutely not going to fly having a kiwi farms user hand out their actual identity.

This is one of those cases where the worst sort of person is doing something that needs to be done. But for kiwi farms I have genuine mixed emotions because they are hiding behind anonymity to commit actual crimes.

I suppose it's possible they cleaned up their act a little bit because they were taken offline when even the cdns who run the white supremacists wouldn't touch them because of the legal liability. But either way that's the whole point of going to kiwi farms so I'm not sure what else they would do.

4chan has problems but there is at least a community there that aren't just cruel psychopaths. Honestly if the owner wasn't such an ass wipe I think the form would be pretty nice.

They promoted line workers to management, kept them doing line work, and now they're old enough they want to fire them but didn't want to get sued for age discrimination.

They learned the trick from IBM

They're systematically taking control of all available information sources.

Elevenity billion dollars a year. Or one half the cost of a Trump Golden thrown (praise Trump)

But I read enough to get the gist. Deforestation means higher temps and that means people who can't afford ac get sick and die.

The numbers are probably correct. It wouldn't be hard to compare great strokes from before the deforestation to now.

Heck, parts of India are going to be unlivable soon.

Just one of those vending machine businesses. About as simple as a business can get.

What they found was that it would work well initially but every single time it would eventually just go crazy. Usually around the time that it needed to keep track of what had to be ordered for restocking after a period of time sometimes when new machines had to be put in new locations.

Eventually it would start hallucinating and not just screwing up the orders or the accounting but just going absolutely ape shit and refusing to do the work.

I suspect a general purpose llm is going to have a lot more problems than one built for purpose. But on the other hand llms are very expensive to run so the companies want general purpose ones so that they can have a lot of different customers.

There does still seem to be a pretty big hit on a lot of entry-level work though. Customer service especially. I know that companies I do business with have started using AI chatbots to replace their first level of support. Hilariously when you contact them you first hit a very basic chatbot and then if that doesn't work they escalate you to a more advanced chat bot. I don't know how many levels you need to get to a person since the fancy chat bots work for basic tasks like returns.

And linking to a article that just says what your original post said but in a long form doesn't make it true.

Government spending is extremely productive.

When we build roads or do research that turns into new products with government money that produces more goods and services which reduces inflation.

The reason our country can feed 340 million people on top of a good chunk of the rest of the world is because government funded research increased crop yields.

That translates to cheaper groceries and therefore less inflation.

And that is just one example of many.

But like Ronald Reagan said when you're explaining you're losing so here I am losing.

There is one thing the government did that spiked inflation. We gave out trillions of dollars to the 1%. They use that money to buy up competitors and naturally once there were fewer competitors they jacked up prices.

In the Press they called it greenflation. Basically all of the power that businesses had stored up in the form of Monopoly they used after covid to recover the profits they missed out on during the economic collapse.

And because Americans will not hold corporations accountable they could get away with it.

But again I'm explaining.... Meanwhile you are confidently asserting.

What if Trump and heritage foundation goons propping him up let them collapse so they can use stable coins to create a new banking system for themselves and only themselves?

Sure that's probably not going to work but those people are crazy and stupid. So they might try anyway.

I keep saying this but folks need to understand that every single system designed to protect you has failed. All of them.