Keep in mind when you hear me say that I am explicitly talking about the air pollution (I can't call it smog because by the technical definition of the word it is not and that will be used to derail the conversation) which I am forced to breathe everyday I live in a city.

And no I don't get to not live in a city I'm a it worker and that means I live where the work is and that's in a city.

There are multiple studies you can easily find using the internet that are peer reviewed but clearly show that tire particulates is a enormous problem. Also that it is much much more then exhaust.

Now when it comes to climate change tire particulate is not the major problem it's all the energy spent manufacturing carbon and etc.

But that is way too nuanced a conversation for the internet so we're all going to just have to keep breathing bits of tire.

Especially the inflation we have seen over the last 10 years which is almost entirely driven by large corporations exercising the Monopoly Powers they have built up over the last 50 years in the absence of any antitrust regulation?

The governments go out of their way to stop inflation. Now mind you they do this by using high interest rates to trigger Mass layoffs but you can hardly suggest that inflation is a tax when governments do everything in their power to keep it low.

It honestly just sounds like you're conflating the two things because they're both things you don't like.

For me I have nothing against taxes as long as I'm getting good value for my money but I haven't been because people get obsessed with hating taxes and let right wing politicians Rob them blind.

So how do you explain people who drink ONE beer and call it good? It would be really hard to get drunk on one beer, even with supersizing.

Now you two stop fighting or I'll come over there and make you both drink our beer.

Oh yeah, well how do you explain this:

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Check and meet libtardo.

I mean, for now anyway....

I am just saying that failing empires have a bad habit of expanding their borders in order to loot other countries so they can keep their coffers full as the incompetent and corrupt boobs running the country empty them...

I noticed nobody else in the world helped us Americans out when Russia was attacking our elections with crazy amounts of propaganda.

Your ruling classes are hoping that as America falls they will rise.

That would work if America wasn't so crazy that we would invade countries at the drop of a hat.

if they can't find enough Americans that's literally what H1-B is for.

It doesn't matter if there are jobs if there aren't jobs you can do.

Plenty of people hiring diesel mechanics. None of us here can physically do that work. It's brutal, and you can't do it for very long before it physically catches up with you and you have to go work something else.

and if we had a functioning civilization we'd have nuke too, but well....

e.g. there's little or no reason for us to accept those deaths anymore, let along the trillions in externalized costs from the oil industry. We didn't fight $7t in middle east wars for "freedom".

And no, it's not a dog whistle. A dog whistle is when you say something that communicates to a specific group something you do not want the wider audience to be aware of. The fact that poor communities are more likely to live in polluted areas is just facts. You not liking facts doesn't make them not facts...

Much or the corporate world is trying to push us into a weird perversion of communism. It has all the downsides of regular Communism but in addition you don't even theoretically own things due to being part of the collective society, only corporations actually own things. It's a wealthy exclusive club and you ain't in it.

That kind of nasty little comment is why our species will soon be at war with nukes.

I'm sure a big brained boy like you though will be just fine. Nothing bad ever happens in your life ever. You are certainly not going to spend the final years of your life homeless after a billionaire swindles you out of your property. Not a big brain boy like you... And you certainly wouldn't continuously repeat a right-wing talking point from the 1980s for your entire adult life. Again big brain boy.

Buggy whip is a thought terminating cliche. It's something you use so you don't have to think about what happens.

The two are not remotely alike because people who stopped making buggy whips could go make cars.

In this case everything's getting automated. There are just fewer jobs.

This has happened before when automation outpaced job creation. In particular during the second industrial revolution leading up to world war I and II.

It is not a coincidence that we had widespread technological unemployment leading into two world wars.

If you have more people than you have work and you have a society where if you don't work you don't eat you now have millions of people who need to die.

They are not going to just die by slow starvation. You can do that to a lot of people but they need to be in the out group so generally you can only do that too extremely poor countries particularly the ones in places like Africa.

In developed countries when that starts happening a dictator comes around and organizes those people and starts a big war.

That's just what happens historically. It's something that has happened for millennia we just don't really think of it in those terms. We like to romanticize the old wars. We don't like to think about them just being over who gets to have enough food to live.

Also we actually have enough food for everyone now and we have since the mid to late seventies so it's no longer deciding who gets limited resources of food and water it's deciding who gets the limited resource of work.

The real problem is we are going to have a divide between people who have absolutely no work to do and people who we still need to work.

And there is going to be a big war involving those two groups. With a handful of extremely wealthy men at the top profiting from our misery and our inability to let anyone do anything besides work

A lot of over 50s here who are going to find that they are completely unemployable. Uber these days pays below minimum wage.

I guess we can all just go be plumbers right? Just like learn to code. Anyone here old enough to remember when biotech was what we were all going to be doing after the factories started automating?

Isn't freaking the hell out right now. The head of the US military is a Neo-Nazi with an iron cross Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest who was selected explicitly because he would not rule out ordering the military to fire on US citizens

meanwhile Trump is literally doing every single thing the Nazis did right before they went after the Jews.

Seriously what the actual fuck?

So basically everybody knows motherboard manufacturer is push the chips harder than they're supposed to. The solution to that is you give them stats that are below what they can actually do and then you let enthusiasts overclock it and regular folks just don't care.

Nvidia and Intel both do that. They leave quite a bit of headroom for manufacturers to either run things out of spec or cheap out on electrical components.

A huge part of the problems AMD has on their video cards for example is manufacturers pushed too many volts into the core. If you look at forums the fix for stability 90% of the time is undervolt the chip..

What I'm saying is AMD if you know they're going to do it and you can't stop them then just run the damn part below spec and let them bring it back up to normal.