It's about lowering the skill ceiling so that they can pay substantially less. If there are productivity gains that's just a bonus.

The goal here for AI is to eliminate wages. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Remember good enough is always good enough especially when monopolies exist and we refuse to vote for politicians that will enforce antitrust law because we're busy freaking out about whatever Petty moral panic or culture War bullshit the boob tube tells us to today

You could do battery swaps for NEVs in a scheme where you didn't own a battery at all, and instead just subscribed to one. You could also do it for heavy diesel truck equivalents, as big diesels typically have the fuel tanks hanging on the outside of the frame where they're nice and accessible anyway. But it doesn't make any sense for the vehicles in between that, i.e. the bulk of them...

And Donald Trump keeps fucking kids but hey what are you going to do right?

What did you think I was actually going to treat a comment is stupid as yours with the slightest bit of respect?

If you are too soul searingly stupid to use Google long enough to find the damage billionaires are doing to your life then frankly I do not know how it is that you've gotten this far without being eaten alive by puppies.

MATE is outdated (but good for resource constrained systems) and GNOME is dumbed down and hard to get good results from, you need a whole bunch of add-ins just to get where KDE is. KDE was very bad in the past, but it's really come quite a long way. GNOME was really quite good in the past, but it's really gone the wrong way. I'm not against having a simple mode but I don't want oversimplification to infest everything.

The words you are typing? You literally wrote go on amazon. Read that again. Slowly. Go. On. Amazon.

Just the fact that I need to explain to you that Amazon has a practical Monopoly on online shopping and online marketplaces...

And they didn't get there by accident. They went around buying up potential competitors.

Just because somebody in China can dump their goods on Amazon after giving Amazon a large cut of their profits doesn't mean you have competition and I cannot believe I have to explain this.

Christ it's no wonder we elected a pedophile rapist felon to be president. Twice..

You're replying to an llm. It's just somebody training a chatbot off my comments. Also Trump fucks kids. I say that with full understanding that the llm has already picked up on the fact that Trump fucks kids and has been repeating it which is fucking hilarious.

Dude once the report was made you didn't need flock to track them regular police work could easily do that.

It doesn't even make it easier it's not hard at all for the cops to find somebody without a 24/7 surveillance state.

So you need to ask yourself why they have you ready to give up your rights and your privacy without a second thought because if you even gave it a second thought you'd have realized regular police work could have found the guy with ease.

They got you. You need to take a step back and figure out how they got you.

Well, that is the Big Lie (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBig_lie) being pushes by law enforcement and Law&Order politicians, isn't it? Claiming harsher sentences, more surveillance and more police and police powers would actually improve safety. The reality is they do not.

If you let the police make your laws, then one day you will wake up in a police-state.

Seriously. If you do not actually look at what you buy before doing it, you will get shafted at least on part of your purchases. That insight is as old as humanity. I see some are still ignorant regarding that issue.

We will find out.

I don't know about "nowadays": seeing how the "scapegoat" tradition is mentioned in Leviticus, the scheme has been used for at least 2500 years (if you agree with current estimates of Leviticus being written around 500 BC), and probably much longer.

On the contrary, I'd say the scheme isn't as popular today, at least in America. The current administration doesn't bother loading a goat with the sins of the community and punishing or sacrificing the goat instead of the sinners anymore. They just deny the sins exist, or blame the opposition; I'm sure this change is popular among goats, but I don't personally believe it's an improvement.

The shooting suspect was found because someone reported them. If you just have the slightest touch point with news you know that but here they are just fucking lying to me.

Short-term if you want to shut down flock in your area do a bunch of freedom of information requests for the information. After about a year when it becomes clear that you can get information about the coming and goings of your local politicians and in particular which Republicans are frequency the gay bars (it's all of them but they don't like it when there's proof) then your city will cancel all the contracts.

Eventually they will find a way around that.

I keep saying this but if privacy and rights and freedom have any importance to you whatsoever you need to take the culture War bullshit that you've been trading your rights for and let it Go. This does mean you need to learn the difference between culture War bullshit and actual civil rights.

Otherwise every time an election comes around a bunch of propaganda will get blasted into your eyeballs and you will be so freaked out by whatever the hell the news media is telling you to be freaked out about that you will race to vote for people that will put flock cameras everywhere and monitor everything you do say or think...

Ordinarily competition would prevent this kind of nasty rent seeking because there would be competitors that would sell viable products without the nastiness

Billionaires have dominated our economy and they do not like capitalism. They do not like it one bit.

So you have a lot of trust and duopolis and monopolies. You have six or seven companies that make basically everything you buy except a handful of silly artisanal crap.

Under Joe Biden in America Lina Khan was working on multiple antitrust cases and we would have seen some of the effects in biden's second term if he got one. Same if Harris had won.

Capitalism like any game requires a referee and we let Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump convince us to fire the referee.

Why are we even trying to secure stuff? With hiring processes this extremely broken we could just hand them everything directly.

The problem is most coders were not actually experts before AI. They will be even worse now.