Jesus Christ are you with that stupid? There are doctors who do exactly that. Lots of them. The problem is that legally every single one of them is committing a federal crime. They're taking great personal risk because they have seen the detriment works. And doctors like to treat people.

Problem isn't finding a doctor problem is that you never know if the government is going to raid them and then hunt down their patients.

Are you a christian? Because you're not behaving like one.

No but that's a incredibly stupid example of Godwin's law so... Also the worst bait I've seen all week. Couldn't you do any better? Maybe mix in some of Natalie Portman's Hot grits?

But the vast majority of us will be stuffed on reservations like the Indians were but without the casinos. Intense bitter poverty.

Then dying of alcoholism. If we would trade the political utility of the drug war to save those alcoholics we could have both, doing away with the whole bunch of other bad things in the bargain. But that's not going to happen so we will just have to take that risk.

At the very least for suicide there are guardrails in place and it takes a little bit of effort to get past them in most chat bots.

And the problem isn't whether there are therapists or not the problem is the therapists are still committing a crime. So if you have a job you often won't be able to take the risk of going to see one.

The man in this article wouldn't give out his name for exactly that reason.

It is extremely fucked up that we force people into high risk situations for political reasons. And it is political reasons. As long as you don't abandon drug users and you provide them with the necessary services legalizing drugs is a far better solution than just tossing people in prison.

Although without nonviolent drug offenders who's going to pick vegetables and take orders in Alabama McDonald's ?

To help with addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The only downside is that normally you would need to be under the supervision of a doctor to get effective treatment. And of course because of the drug wars political utility to right wing governments we can't have that now can we? Thank you Richard Nixon.

So what the chatbot is doing is standing in for the doctor that isn't allowed to do their work. It is still significantly less safe but I suppose it beats dying of alcoholism.

I think you end up with the opposite. People still expect the switch to compete favorably. Especially when they're dropping $500 on the console. So they're going to expect AAA graphics. Maybe not up to the level of the absolute best on the PlayStation 5 but pretty damn close and the weaker hardware means you're going to have to do a lot more work in order to close that gap.

From what I've read the switch 2 is closer to a PS4 pro but still. Even with the ability to occasionally write to bare metal you're going to have a rough time of it.

the Vita had that problem where gamers expectations were pretty high but the cost of meeting those expectations was too much. Nintendo will still make Bank because they always do, their fan base is beyond rabid. But traditionally third parties put out games on the Nintendo platform and take a bath. On the other hand the original switch sold so many units but there was room to make money.

I'm not defending that post. I'm saying you talk like a soviet. Huge difference between the two, but soviets didn't have logic as their strong point. Propaganda and sophistry was the soviet way.

Apple lost its design mojo when they got rid of skeuomorphism as a reactionary movement to Android. Reactionary design always looks derivative. From that point onwards, they've just been copying Android.

Apple still makes the best looking hardware though, haven't lost their design mojo there.

Ignoring the fact that the affordable Care act is right there proving you are wrong all the left wing can do is shit on the centrists. You're all completely fucking useless. Hell worse than useless you do positive harm. A bunch of angry 12-year-olds who refuse to acknowledge reality.

Nina Turner is quite possibly the worst politician in American history. She ran as a Democrat and a primary election and spent the entire election talking about how terrible the people she needed to vote for her were. Absolutely and completely incompetent moron.

But she did say something interesting. She was asked why she only ever attacks the Democrats never the Republicans and she said that it's because the Democrats respond to her. Republicans just ignore her.

That is exactly the response I would expect from a child and it's why we are doomed.

You can use overwhelming propaganda to get any election to 47% and a bit of voter suppression to close that Gap. That's how Donald Trump won the election even though his policies are intensely unpopular. He is still polling at around 46% even though 71 million people are on Medicaid and about to lose access to healthcare and hundreds of rural and suburban hospitals are on track to close...

You do eventually get to a point where the propaganda isn't enough but by then the ruling class have completely eliminated democracy and consolidated their power and anyone that crosses them gets tossed out of window or a cup of tea full polonium like they do in Russia.

The time to stop that was last November but well, overwhelming propaganda and voter suppression won today.

The opposition party is currently seeing their centrists and left wing bickering over minor policy and who gets to be in charge rather than tackling the enormous issue of voter suppression so there is no chance of them winning. The right wing will hold on to Congress after the midterm elections and Trump will get a third term unless he happens to die of old age.

I am open to suggestions on how to stop that but I can't think of any. What needs to happen is the left wing needs to take the same energy they spent attacking the centrist Democrats on Gaza and put it to pushing for action on voter suppression. That would trigger the centrists to act and they do have the power to stop it they just don't like wielding it.

But the left wing is obsessed with the idea of 18 to 24 year olds coming out to vote with 100% turnout so that's all they will talk about besides taking pot shots and crapping all over the centrists.

Basically we are a nation of 12-year-olds. And among 12-year-olds if there's a competition with no rules the evil and nasty 12-year-olds are going to win

Yes. There are tipping points where everything completely goes to shit. It'll be around the time we hit about 10 to 15% permanent unemployment. That starts to trigger feedback loops where lower consumer demand causes businesses to lay people off increasing the unemployment which causes lower consumer demand which causes businesses to lay people off which... You get the idea.

Over time the world's going to basically become a giant prison system. Drones will be used to keep us under control and the ruling class will keep us out of anywhere that has anything of value. They will not allow us to have anything bordering on decent lives or a modern existence because if we could we could build weapons to attack them and take their money and power away.

It's called techno feudalism and I don't see a way to stop it anymore. I'm open to suggestions but it is absolutely the plan the rich have for us and I don't see us doing anything to stop them.

Very soon. That's on top of stuff like how Amazon uses 50% robots in its warehouses and that percentage continues to increase.

We are going to have major social problems when that unemployment hits. There isn't going to be anything for those people to do. Especially the Uber drivers. Uber is pretty much the bottom of employment in america, sub minimum wage in many cases. If you're at that level then it's because there isn't anything else for you.

People always say that there will always just be more jobs but what do you actually have the base that off of? I can tell you that I know history and there was widespread technological unemployment following both industrial revolutions. We didn't actually solve that technological unemployment until after world war II.

I guess we could do world war III only this time we've got nukes.

We could transition from a competitive society to a cooperative one but absolutely nobody except a handful of socialists wants to do that. And I mean a handful. Even among socialists a lot of them don't want to do it

Basically I'm just spitting out problems here without solutions. Happy to hear solutions but all I ever hear is people denying the problem exists.

That works. For a little while anyway.

And those seem to work just fine right? It's something I wouldn't think would ever in a million years work but somehow it seems like it does.

Sure there are going to be gaps. The messaging might not always be real time like we get used to with IMs. But if it's more secure and less traceable I could see there being a market for it.

I mean sure criminals. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is a trillion dollar industry on the back of money laundering. But there are billions of people living in authoritarian regimes that have damn good reasons for wanting secure communications.

I don't really see a business model though.

They are "the same" from the perspective of "ALL AI LOOKS THE SAME." If you want to build one, they are different.

True but that's a pretty simple game gameplay wise. If you're trying to make a fast action game like Mario kart I think it would be much harder to achieve what that game does.

That isn't to take away from those developers accomplishments, the game looks very nice for something two people made. But I don't think those guys could make Mario kart world. And keep in mind Mario kart world has a lot less content than you would expect. It has fewer tracks than the last Sonic the hedgehog kart racer...

It's just a different kind of game entirely. There's a reason triple a games are triple a games. You just have more scope.

You can make a cart racer on an indie budget but you're going to end up with something that while charming doesn't have all the pizzazz of Mario kart. Look up the recent Garfield kart racers as a good example. Fun little games but nobody's going to buy a $500 console for them.