Capitalism is like any other vice.
In moderation it’s fine, often even beneficial.
But if it’s the sole focus you’re fucked. We’re not responsible cocaine users who want to stay up dancing every other weekend, we’re full blown crackheads on capitalism.
The AI corps building the datacenters pretty much all have blank checks and want to be the biggest.
So the other corps that make chips, will always focus on what’s most profitable, which is what the AI centers use.
For it to be “worth it” to produce any consumer level tech, they have to raise the price to justify not just making the AI chips
So it’s not a conspiracy that’s raising prices, it’s capitalism working as intended, and to fix it would have to fix the focus on profits and replace it with fulfilling needs of the people. Which is pretty much the opposite of capitalism…
Non-human bots now account for 56.5% of internet traffic
Traffic, not content…
But still, we’re getting there
“We are a brave country. Ahmed al-Ahmed represents the best of our country. We will not allow this country to be divided. That is what the terrorists seek. We will unite. We will embrace each other, and we’ll get through this,” Albanese added.
I mean, cocaine isn’t safe for the body either, but try telling that to a big breasted stripper while she’s punching you in the face with double D’s.
Lots of people make risky decisions…
But in this case it’s pretty safe. Ruptures are so common the filling is just as inert as the membrane.
I would imagine that any artificial thing (including implants) could last forever when left undisturbed for any given length of time
Then you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how things happen, and an oversized confidence in modern caskets.
Not to mention what seems to be a complete lack of understanding what “artificial” means
But they’ll rupture and leak…
Like, they’re not even a “lifetime” thing, go 20 years and you’re risking it. Most are recommended to be replaced after a decade, maybe 15 years. Which isn’t that long for a major surgery and why they’re almost always insured.
I knew a stripper back in the day that would basically beat people up with them, because if it ruptured she got new ones free, and if they didn’t rupture soon, they’d last long enough she’d have to pay for new ones out of pocket…
Because they’re not a permanent thing.
What?
I mean, obviously bones rot, but you think silicone implants last forever?
Besides telecoms not following their own generational requirements that they made up for themselves…
A big issue is that each new one always seem so much better, because no one else is on it.
Once adaption happens and people move to it, it free up the prior one and cuts down on the advantage.
We wouldn’t even need to do that…
Money is an abstract concept that would fundamentally change in a post scarcity world.
If enough people said money doesn’t matter, the number tied to bank accounts stop mattering.
Musk could have 50 trillion dollars, but those dollars are only worth what we agree they are. We could just say their worth zero and Musk doesn’t have rights to anything he “owns”. It’s literally that easy.
The wealthy don’t abide by the social contract, yet you’re so stuck on it you don’t understand the only thing binding us to the parts the wealthy exploit, is ourselves and we can just fucking stop.
It’s because it’s centralized with an absolute authority.
They might not control the pope now, but if they do they control all Catholic priests.
It’s full circle back to “a centralized system is the most easily corrupted”. Just like this “new EU”. Even if the far right doesn’t control it from day 1, they want it centralized because that makes it easier to take over eventually.
At a joint news conference on Sunday, Col Perez said investigators did not think the person detained was the same person identified in CCTV footage of the suspect that was released on the day of the attack. The BBC has chosen to stop naming the person who has now been released.
In the footage, the suspect can be seen walking away from the scene wearing all black clothing.
Following the release of the footage, FBI director Kash Patel had said that a person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island in the early hours of Sunday morning based on a lead from Providence Police.
Col Perez had then confirmed that officers were not looking for anyone else and were working with prosecutors to collect evidence.
Sooooo…
They don’t have any evidence, but they’ve already made up their minds this person is guilty and they aren’t looking for any other suspects?!
How the fuck are we gonna get to post scarcity when a couple thousand individuals are hoarding all the wealth?
We could live in a post scarcity society right now, hell, we could be decades deep in it by now.
But regardless of when we get there, before we do we’ll have to claw all the wealth from the gluttonous human personifications of dragons first.
It’s not just gonna happen some day, because all the wealthiest humans are fighting against it. So we need to actually fight for it
Yep, centralization isn’t a good thing.
If you read the article long enough, they go mask off and eventually admit the movement has two major factions: “centrists” and outright racists who want a white Christian empire.
Seems everyone supporting this wants it as a vehicle to move the EU to the right, which is why they want it centralized. It’s easier to buy off one leader than 27 different ones at the same time.
Don’t have to get very far to get to the part where it’s far right douches trying to slow walk people to racism…
Indeed, federalists are far from being a politically homogenous group. Several meme warriors told me that there is an ideological battle ongoing in the dank recesses of federalist Reddit subgroups and chatrooms between broadly centrist people who believe in boosting the power of existing Brussels institutions, and far-right people who hate Brussels but nonetheless want Europe to assert itself on the world stage. The big divider is identity politics and migration policy: far-right groups tend to envision Europe as a culturally and ethnically homogenous “empire” — read, white and Christian, preferably Catholic — that keeps foreigners out.
Saying “only white Christians are European, and everyone else shouldn’t be here” is not, and has never been, just “identity politics”.
It sounds like neoliberals and racists are both fighting over who gets to be called “center right”…
atoms/molecules
Two completely different things, on a molecular level that could just be stored potential energy. Like when a mousetrap is set or not, it doesn’t change it’s weight.
That’s how splitting atoms make atomic bombs there’s potential energy holding shit together, and we poke one to make it release which cause a giant chain reaction which adds up. Even then the “lost” mass is just blown up. I don’t think used my lease fuel gets substantially lighter for example.
Or to rephrase it: does a knife/scissors/etc just split something or does it remove something?
So, solids aren’t really solid. Like, at an atomic level no two molecules are actually touching. Think of it like a magnet floating above another.
What you cut it with matters too, something insanely sharp like a medical grade obsidian blade wieled with skill is so sharp, it’s just going to separate the molecules. And remove very little material.
Try to cut a piece of paper in half with a baseball bat, and lot of material won’t be attached to either of the two biggest pieces. Because it’s a big blunt object.
From a different comment in this thread:
The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.
Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?
They’re fear mongering
An Aegis missle can knock it down tho…
They cost 4.7 mil a pop, which isn’t much to the US military. And don’t even need launched by the carrier, it’d be launched by ships between the middle and the carrier.
Apparently China claims they have hypersonic rockets made out of concrete for the low low price of 99k each, but that’s not exactly believable. Especially since they’re claiming 99k and not 100k. I mean, even that they’re using “round” US dollars.
That’s pretty common propaganda to claim something is cheaper and more widely available than it really is. It’s why we split our uranium into two bombs in WW2. Because a country might use all of it at once as a bluff. But only idiot would make just two and then use them both days apart. It made it look like we could have a bunch. Not enough to keep up the pace, but how many? 5, 12?
It was more psychological warfare than anything. So is China claiming these are so cheap and mass producible when if that was true we’d see the same cost savings in commercial spaces.
No other country would be able to compete
And there’s room for some capitalism before that point…
Like, UBI with stores where you pay for goods is still capitalism to some degree, if capital is involved at all, that’s capitalism.