Comment Re:Elites took 90 jets (or yachts) to Bezos' Weddi (Score 1) 215
It's an especially good time to meta-moderate..
And meta-moderation has indeed been accomplished.
It's an especially good time to meta-moderate..
And meta-moderation has indeed been accomplished.
And that fuckstick is currently sitting at +4.
This site truly is moderated by morons.
And now he's Score:0 so perhaps not all moderators are morons.
Windows is Getting Rid of the Blue Screen of Death After 40 Years
Don't worry...they're keeping the crashes.
I work for myself, I have 3 companies to run, who is going to give me a 4 day work week and what would that look like?
You own your own companies and you make your own choices. If you want to give yourself a 4 day work week, knock yourself out. Full stop.
That being said, you totally misstate Bernie's point. Bernie is pointing out a logical inconsistency and what he considers to be an inequity. He is suggesting that the benefits of improvements to technology should be more equitable, not unilaterally granted to the owners of the business while only the detrimental affects on labor, wages and employment fall to the workers.
But if as you say you are a person who runs three companies I presume you already know that.
AI Ethics Pioneer Calls Artificial General Intelligence 'Just Vibes and Snake Oil'
This is exactly what ChatGPT told me when evaluating the mission statements of most companies listed on NASDAQ.
Shit, you're telling me the air quality was even worse here during the 60s?
Air pollution was WAY worse in the 1960s. Incomprehensibly worse. I was unable to breathe deeply without pain in the lungs and involuntary coughing, and my eyes were constantly red and stinging from the insanely high levels of nitrogen dioxide in the air. There was a photochemical smog layer so thick that you couldn't see the hillsides of the Angeles National Forest to the east. It was miserable. We moved out of L.A. County in 1968. When I visited a friend's home in Pasadena in the late 1970s it was worse still...after a nice lunch at his home I could barely breathe. I couldn't take the pollution and rather than spend the night as planned I had to drive home.
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peace time, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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