These laws are being passed everywhere. They are template laws. A large and powerful group, funded by billionaires like Peter thiel, is pushing for this. So the same laws are being passed in every state. Classic think of the children bullshit means they even pass in California and New York.

The real problem I think is that at the end of the day most voters are not going to prioritize privacy over social issues and moral panics.

So if you get behind somebody that supports privacy rights that's all well and good but there's a guy running against that politician who is running on ooga booga gay people or scary or your kids are going to be turned into trans drag queens or Mortal Kombat is going to turn them into frothing lunatics or whatever the hell the current moral panic is.

What you need is people who don't give a flying rat's ass how other people live their lives as long as it doesn't affect them so that we can all focus on actual issues that affect our economic security and our privacy.

The trouble is that well, good fucking luck with that. If I could wave a magic wand and give everybody a hundred IQ points that would solve that but I don't have said magic wand. And there is a huge anti-intellectualism push with a strong attack on higher education AKA college going on right now. So people are not likely to get smarter.

The problem with those integrated graphics is if they are any good intel only ever puts them onto the really expensive chips.

It makes it completely pointless because you're getting at best the performance of a RX 2050 in a $1,200 laptop. You could easily find a laptop at the same price point with discrete graphics and a low end integrated graphic solution on die for when you want to save power.

As an example if I want an arc 140v based laptop it's going to set me back at least $1,100 and I can get an RTX 4050 based laptop for the same price or even a bit cheaper if I'm willing to compromise on the CPU bit and the 4050 absolutely spanks the 140v.

This isn't an Intel specific problem. You run it at the same problem with amd's 780 m integrated graphics.

I know there are use cases where it makes sense but if you're just looking to play some games on a laptop or do video editing supported by a GPU the integrated graphics aren't worth it when you can easily track down laptop with discrete graphics that way outperform the integrated.

On the plus side if you just gets stuck with a laptop at random you might get lucky and get the better integrated graphics. Like if your parents buy you something for school

Again you're just trying to bait a conversation to get away from discussing the actual problem which is that our ruling class is destroying capitalism.

It's just so fucking bizarre. I don't understand why you protect billionaires. Are they actually paying you to do this shit or are you this fucking stupid that you spend your free time protecting Bill Gates and Elon Musk so they can take your money in your property?

Anyway better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food after the billionaires take everything you own. And make sure you have a dry option picked out as a backup because I doubt somebody like you is going to be able to afford anything as luxurious as Fancy feast.

To this day that is on my cell phone providers bill. It sounds like a tax doesn't it? It's not it's just money in the pocket of my cell phone provider with a line item designed to look like a tax so you'll get angry and blame the government.

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to trick Americans into believing government bad so that ultra wealthy sleaze balls like Elon Musk can suck down hundreds of billions of dollars of our money directly from the government.

And when you see people looking at those sleaze balls they always do the same thing they demand we cut the government even more! Which of course means we cut services to them while increasing services and subsidies to the sleaze balls.

It turns out that no matter how much you don't like being told what to do because you never grew out of that phase back when you were 12 you can't just do away with the government.

What you can do is refuse to take part in the government so that somebody else gets all the government and you get nothing.

Anyone who uses the phrase very wealthy leftist is just trolling your ass. There is no such thing as a very wealthy leftist. A left winger will stop bothering to accumulate wealth long before they become a billionaire.

It's the kind of disingenuous bullshit that is designed to derail conversations like the one I'm having here where I'm bringing up the point that the 6,000 or so billionaires on the planet are planning on destroying capitalism.

Honestly I like to bring it up just because it's fun to shock people with that realization. Not saying that it isn't happening it absolutely is but the idea that capitalism could be destroyed by something other than a socialist Utopia is so far outside your average persons thinking that it can be amusing to see people's reactions.

That said as much as I would like our civilization to do something about that coming dystopia I can't see us being emotionally or intellectually capable of doing it.

It's the Dick Cheney effect. Where somebody does something so fucking crazy nobody can believe it's happening. A tactic pioneered by Dick Cheney. People would report on what that fucker did and you would see people reading the report from a reliable news source thinking that can't be possible because people wouldn't let him do that would they?

It's like how people wonder why the Jewish people didn't fight back against the Nazis without actually knowing the history and that they did fight back and they instantly lost because a handful of dudes with guns can't beat a standing police force let alone a standing military.

It's like cosmic horror it's just so far beyond what human beings are capable of grasping that they just kind of pretend it's not a thing or they go a little crazy like I have.

If they start using generative ai and they get people used to comic books written by AI it's only a matter of time before the market is flooded with those comics.

It's become painfully obvious that the courts are not going to side with copyright holders with regards to generative AI.

Several court rulings have already ruled that it's all fair use because of reasons. The argument is usually that the tokens stored in the database are sufficiently different than the actual content.

Regardless of how you might personally feel about that that's how the courts are ruling and we don't really have much say in it. American voters especially have too many other more pressing issues like windmills killing birds or trans girls playing high school sports to think about anything economic...

So for DC it is absolutely critical that they maintain actual artists and writers and make sure that people who consume their content come to them for those artists and writers.

The top 1% have had approximately 50 trillion with a t dollars moved into their pockets in the last 40 years. They can basically splash money everywhere and anywhere at the slightest whim because they've taken so much from you. It is the single largest wealth transfer in human history.

As for how it inflated modern ai, AKA machine learning and llms, has the potential to replace trillions of dollars of human labor every year. Whoever controls that becomes a God among men.

The elites are thinking about a post capitalist future. But not the puppies and kittens socialist happy future that hippies think of. What they're thinking of is a world without money because they own absolutely everything and commerce doesn't happen anymore because they are simply the ones who decide who gets anything.

It's called techno feudalism and I'm really surprised how few nerds here have heard of it.

I think it's really hard for us Americans especially to grasp because it involves the death of capitalism and we have been explicitly taught to think of capitalism as the only form of organizing the distribution of goods and services. A lot of us know vague notions of Communism or socialism but what the top 1% are planning doesn't map to any of the systems that we have been taught. It's entirely new and I don't even think I've seen a book right about the kind of dystopia they are planning

Coconuts are boob shaped so it's okay to call it coconut milk.

But if she has that kind of allergy then correct me if I'm wrong but even small amounts can trigger it. Meaning you pretty much have to check everything for the phrase about being processed on equipment that process is tree nuts...

I think the bigger issue isn't the whole plant-based thing but that we let companies get away with fine print that's easy to miss. And when we make the print bigger so that we can accommodate folks like your daughter a whole bunch of goons come out of the woodwork to complain about it.

The crash is going to collapse the stock market and when that happens companies will do Mass layoffs to get quick cash for stock BuyBacks to pump their stock.

A lot of us are not going to survive that. Even if you think you're a critical you're not.

I'm on a prescription antihistamine and my drugs get delivered and they just kind of stopped. I sometimes forget to take it so I had a little extra so I hadn't noticed immediately.

So I go in and see my doctor and it turns out the rep who makes sure the doctor is re-upping everybody's prescriptions got fired. In fact the company that makes the drug fired everybody in their sales staff.

What the fucking hell kind of thing is that? That's what you're up against. It literally does not matter if you are bringing in actual money for your company and are absolutely critical they are just stupid and crazy and they will just start firing people like crazy whether they need them or not.

Once Wall Street it starts the firings nobody is safe. And if you're a small business owner good luck keeping your clients in that chaos.

It's big news because the insurers aren't even willing to take the premiums. Normally they take your money and they don't pay out. But that only works for working stiffs like you and me. When it comes to a trillion dollar corporation you can bet your ass the insurance company is going to get stuck paying out if they trigger the policy.

The crash that's coming is going to hurt. It's going to make 2008 look like the .com boom.

I don't think anyone has realized the scale of our fuck up yet. Better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food that you're going to live off of. And better have a dry option has a backup.

That's my preferred version of that story. Alexander the Great captures a pirate and he's getting ready to kill him and the pirate says what I do with three ships you do with a thousand so it's okay.

So far the judges that have looked at it have ruled in favor of the AI companies saying that it's transformative.

Of course you can bet your ass if you or I stored millions of terabytes of copyrighted material in a modified database in order to produce derivative works we'd be in prison right and with a sentence now longer than most murderers.

But these are trillion dollar companies so they get a pass.

Every manager I have had has had line work duties in addition to management. And management basically meant keeping track of my time cards and filling out a bunch of paperwork so that reports could be built for the CEO and CFO.

Basically they were doing double duty the entire time.

What I see a lot of is companies that promote people into management roles for small raises with large increases in pay and then as those people get older they fire them all with the excuse that they are cutting management when in actuality it's just good old fashioned age discrimination.

I think IBM began the process back in the late seventies and early '80s and I've noticed a lot of old farts like to celebrate it without knowing what the fuck was going on there.

Remember that actual management was invented for the purposes of Union busting. Seriously look it up and maybe learn a little American history while you're at it.

After factory automation basically decimated unions combined with Ronnie raygun you didn't really need management like that anymore so they were gradually converted into line workers that you can fire without cause and get away with it.