Imagine caping for that fuckin’ lizard. Couldn’t be me.

ARE. OP is clearly very high right now.

Ha.

This is the only good thing about Apple products. Yes, the only one.

I am.

Thank you Sir or Madam.

I don’t know the name of the practice. But I already do the buy for just 1 month thing when they’ve got something I really wanna watch.

Right now I’m waiting for Bleach to finish so I can get a month of Hulu so I can watch that and the new Futurama.

They don’t deserve a concurrent monthly payment. And I’m happy as hell to deny one to them.

Chrome only exists to download Firefox.

Stagnant wages, weakened unions, at-will employment, low corporate taxes, etc. All Reaganomics. Supply side economics. Basically destroyed the economic powerhouse that won the Cold War. It’s still a goliath, but instead of an immovable industrial bullwark its all debt driven gambling now. Speculation and financialization.

Thank Reagan. He ended the Fairness Doctrine. Which is the only reason Trumpism ever happened.

Nah, we’re gonna balkanize sooner or later. Economy is fucked beyond fucked. (Thank you Reagan) It won’t be able to keep going. Especially not with republicans at the tiller. The end of the US will be the same as every other empire. But with nukes.

We had efficiency answered decades ago during the 70s fuel shortage. Big oil didn’t want to normalize cars like the Vega, Moodymobile, VW Rabbit, later the Geo Metro. They wanted us to burn more oil not less. And that hasn’t changed. Cars don’t need to be designed in wind tunnels.

Which is beyond insane. People are broke.

I just want cheap economy shitboxes back. User serviceable ones. Without an extra half ton of plastic and unnecessary electronics. Bring back wind up windows and normal radios. Vinyl seats. Hell, bench seats. Wind up windows.

Fucking finally.

Now make cars look like cars again. Last 30 years has been a parade of Jellybeans and Electric Shavers.

You know the craziest part? Had king dipshit just used fkin’ cameras LIDAR instead of LIDAR Cameras not only would manufacture had been cheaper, but it would work waaaaaaaay better at the whole self driving part.

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I really hate living in the armpit of history. Too late to see first flight and the moon landing. Too early to travel into space.

I might actually be alive to see AGI happen. At least in its proto-form. Which actually is kinda exciting. Unfortunately its owned and controlled by the most sadistic avaricious capitalists that have ever existed. Meaning it will be used almost exclusively for evil. Killbots and wiping out whole industries worth of jobs. Naturally with no retraining or UBI to float the inevitable victims.

That’s the ideal outcome imo. That instead of just killing us it takes over management of the planet Earth and everything on it. AI Driven Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism baby. Oh yeah.

That said, killing us would be more efficient.

We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.

And that’s fine. We won’t be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.

YT Exec - /rips massive line of coke off Intern’s ass/ - “Remove View Count”

YT Engineer - “But Sir, users will hate that. It will actively make the user experience worse”

YT Exec - “That’s the goddamn point!”