Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

For anyone interested, there are multitudes of videos on YouTube showing commie blocks and why they are bad, so don’t feel bad for focusing on work.

Anyone interested can find the information with an easy search.

Indeed. There is a hierarchy.

Commie blocks are better than tents.

But proper social housing is better than commie blocks.

And proper social housing mixed with middle class owner-occupied housing in the same neighborhoods and even within the same buildings is the best.

Literally Auschwitz. The pictures are the same.

It also shows, they want the hostages dead. No way the hostages survive if Hamas starves to death.

MAGAts in Montana just love Mercury poisoning. They fully endorse Trump’s actions. So I think the goal is primarily to get them their Mercury fix.

/s

That’s how they always do it.

It’s usually terrorism, sometimes treason. But there is always an unproven accusation of some heinous crime, which is why most people will just accept it, because “it only affects the criminals”. And it is also how they motivate their henchmen to do the dirty work.

Communists and Jews in Nazi-Germany were accused of causing millions of Germans to die in WW1 and of causing poverty in the depression through exploitation. And this is why the Nazi henchmen worked diligently to get rid of the Jews, because they had lost family members in WW1 and lived through Depression poverty and they wanted to help their country become great again by getting rid of all the undesirables.

Of course, I totally agree with that

You also need the Senate, not just the president.

But Republican senators have abdicated their duties and voters have not replaced them.

That’s why we have this mess.

If that email needs to go to a client or stakeholder, then our culture won’t accept just the prompt.

Where it really shines is translation, transcription and coding.

Programmers can easily double their productivity and increase the quality of their code, tests and documentation while reducing bugs.

Translation is basically perfect. Human translators aren’t needed. At most they can review, but it’s basically errorless, so they won’t really change the outcome.

Transcribing meetings also works very well. No typos or grammar errors, only sometimes issues with acronyms and technical terms, but those are easy to spot and correct.

I am not convinced it would, TBH.

If people don’t want to buy the cars, then the production line will eventually have to stop, permanently. And you get zero compensation for lost revenue.

If a production line is hit and has to close, then insurance will compensate part of the damage and after a few days or weeks you can be up and running again.

It is definitely here to stay, but the hype of AGI being just around the corner is definitely not believable. And a lot of the billions being invested in AI will never return a profit.

AI is already a commodity. People will be paying $10/month at max for general AI. Whether Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Llama, ChatGPT, copilot or Deepseek. People will just have one cheap plan that covers anything an ordinary person would need. Most people might even limit themselves to free plans supported by advertisements.

These companies aren’t going to be able to extract revenues in the $20-$100/month from the general population, which is what they need to recoup their investments.

Specialized implementations for law firms, medical field, etc will be able to charge more per seat, but their user base will be small. And even they will face stiff competition.

I do believe AI can mostly solve quite a few of the problems of an aging society, by making the smaller pool of workers significantly more productive. But it will not be able to fully replace humans any time soon.

It’s kinda like email or the web. You can make money using these technologies, but by itself it’s not a big money maker.

I’m talking about long-term non-US centric policy.

I don’t mean to imply that this is a priority for the short term in the US.

If vandalism continues, then this will easily be the death of Tesla.

Nobody will want to buy a Tesla when an equivalent Mercedes has half the insurance rate.

Boycotts also hurt Tesla, but vandalism will be their death.

Nothing in this world is free. The US tax rate isn’t high. The issue is, you don’t get a good value back.

You can’t have strong unions without money for unions.

Organizing people costs money.

Union dues tend to be in the $10-50 per month range, while unions easily increase wages by hundreds a month through collective bargaining.

Most of the unions costs are fixed, so if everyone is a member the average due can easily be on the lower end ($10-20).

If you have a problem with that, then that’s exactly why you don’t have strong unions.

Yep, Project 2025 wasn’t exaggerated at all. We all knew this would happen.

But I’m gonna blame Biden, Harris and AIPAC for blowing up the liberal-progressive coalition and alienating working class Americans with high inflation.

How do you lose 6 million voters from 2020 to 2024. That’s just insane.

Half of them went to Trump, the other half stayed home.

Madness

Also, a lot of people, myself included, make it a point to go to the bathroom before swimming.

And I don’t usually consume food or drinks until I am (almost) done with swimming. A four hour stretch of just recreational swimming and chilling is easy without food or drink.

I fully agree.

Also, one thing that Unions always have trouble with is that there is no individual benefit to joining a union, only a cost, so you get a prisoners dilemma type situation.

Even in Scandinavian countries, union membership is on the decline.

Personally, I think the solution should be that union dues are paid by a small tax, making it ‘free’ to join a union. And the unions can provide free benefits to their members, such as legal advice and representation. This will make it attractive to join a union.

People forget that all the people the Nazi’s put in camps were also criminals. According to Nazi propaganda, they were responsible for the deaths of millions of Germans in WW1, for impoverishing hardworking Germans in the Great Depression and for terrorism in resistance to the Nazi regime.

No regime ever has admitted to locking up an innocent person. No dictator has ever said “Yeah, I put innocent people in jail”.

This is why we have separation of powers. The executive branch has zero authority to call anyone a criminal. Only the independent court system has that authority.

Yeah, I agree.

On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.

And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.

That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.

Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.