Inflation really is a bitch!

I've always felt the people that live in DC were really just residents of Maryland. They should get to vote for Maryland senators, maybe DC would get a house of reps person at most but that would really just be a Maryland house of reps person. I've never really understood why it isn't that way.

And the DNC still couldn't find a candidate to beat the worst possible candidate the USA has ever ran for president. I mean, fuck, you lost to Trump, Twice. Talk about failure to read the room.

Everything is political because progressives makes everything a test of loyalty/subservience to their dogma.

See how easy that is?

We are not any less anti-copyright so much as anti-AI. Copyright isn't going to leave us all in the poor house. You don't need to consume copyright materials. AI on the other hand could very well leave us all worse off, especially given how we operate society. All the gains from AI will surely be used against the people and not for the people.

In theory, AI could liberate us all. Copyright can never do that for us.

In practice, your post is 100% spot on.

Why are you being a sycophant for these copyright folks?

It is pretty entertaining watching copyright folks fight with AI folks though. It's almost hard to say who I want to win. In a more fair and sustainable world, I would push for AI but since we don't spread out the gains of society, I'm inclined to back the copyright folks since not accessing their content isn't that big a deal, but AI could very well eventually put us out of a job.

I realize it's all relative, but if you take your $30,000 at 6% for 5 years you are roughly looking at a $676.17. That's not precisely cheap.

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They won't delete the data, just hold it hostage until they pay up. Given these people are already "I love with their AI boyfriend/girlfriend" they'll pay whatever. SMH

I'd be extremely concerned if I was India. This kind of thing also happens in other regions of the world. Mexico is also concerned about the Colorado Rivers throughput by the time it reaches them. Ethiopia has a large dam project as well and Egypt and Sudan are quite concerned for the exact same reasons.

A subset of liberals most certainly do want us to stop eating meat for both ethical and environmental issues. They are perfectly happy trying to force this issue.

The exact same thing can be said about EV adoption.

So I didn't invent anything.

Obviously not all liberals feel this way but they'll still vote for those candidates all the same. It's no different then a conservative that doesn't like Trump but still voted for him anyway. The end result is the same.

Given the ever increasing price of beef, this is soon to be a self correcting problem. Between tariffs on Brazil and the New World Screwworm Fly that is devastating to cattle, beef prices are sure to continue to climb. People will be forced to more chicken and pork as a result.

Producing all your own food is a second job and it likely won't save you any money. As you allude to, you will likely be eating better quality food but are unlikely to be saving any money. You also need the land to do this with, which most people don't.

I'm not saying people shouldn't have gardens, etc, but industry scale really does make things more efficient, likely at the cost of quality.

Without all the industrial scale, we wouldn't have most of what we do. Before Big Ag took over farming, a lot more people were farming. By using industry of scale, we now produce more food then we need with fewer people then ever. This quite literally frees up that human labor to go do anything else.

200 years ago, most people were farmers and they were poor and one bad winter from death.

That's the benefit of industry of scale.