All hail Goldfishius!

It’s also important to remember U-3 is a rate, not a count. Labor force participation is closer to a count, but has to use calculated values over longer periods, making it more of a rough estimate.

Supposedly it’s because there are a lot of them in the Bible, and since they use it as a training source, the AI just leans into them.

Once you’re in power you can rationalize/justify their loss against the greater good that your leadership has brought to the people. There are concrete examples of human progress to defend. If there are significant counter examples, then it’s you that’s the problem to be dealt with, just like any other.

I could make the hard choices if needed, once there. Because at that point it’s about what is the greater good. Even if you really can’t say for certain, someone making a bad call is most often better than no one making a decision.

The problem is that in order to become a benevolent dictator, you have to chose to hurt people that don’t matter to the greater good, or very likely are important to the well being of the population. With the only justification being that maybe by consolidating power you can make the world a better place. And there is just no way to square that circle other than violent narcissism.

I could BE a benevolent dictator, I could never BECOME a benevolent dictator. The process of getting there would exclude me, because I would reject the power structure needed to form the dictatorship in the first place.

There will be an activity called an election. It won’t be free, or fair, or allow everyone to vote. The simplest method would be restricting voting locations to those deemed ‘safe from insurrection’ aka counties that voted for Trump.

Insurrection is grounds to declare martial law, remove those in power, and halt elections. He has to push hard enough to force people to fight back.

No, for rubbing up against.

Because other humans will pay for the feel of genuine humans.

Just think what a company could do with a full motor control interface to their workers. The worker themselves could be asleep or in a virtual world and not have to worry about all that pesky work.

Same situation with cybernetic implants. The rich would have infinite eidetic memory and computation power built into their skull. The poor would be forced to have muscle implants if they wanted a job, or worse, much much worse.

I’d much rather have a US electric car company that actually made affordable cars. But seeing as that’s not an option, we may as well get some for ourselves.

I grab my go bag and step outside to wait for the fire trucks. Lived on a boat for years, so i always keep a waterproof go bag handy.

Sounds like time for some very extensive road work to get started. Might have to pause for winter with the road closed, but you wouldn’t want to get it wrong that close to a military base.

The way you do that is by winning the primary. If progressive candidates can’t win the primary, they can’t win the general. That’s what makes a candidate like Zohran in NY so important. At the end of the day though, if a progressive fails to take a seat, then a corporate dem is still better than any Nazi.

Absolutely vote for whatever your personal issue is in the primary. Make your voice heard and let the candidates know about it.

Come general election, you vote against the Nazi. I don’t give a fuck if the Dem doesn’t like your issue, I’ll even donate to change their mind, but damn well show up and vote for them.

On the one hand maximizing design for material conservation also tends to increase costs, creating shortages.

On the other hand ignoring the externalities of production leads to environmental costs causing collapse.

In the gripping hand is our ability to create and manage an economic and political system capable of deciding where that balance is.

The expense of a delivering the nuke is negligible in comparison to the cost and effort of building a nuke. So much so, that large rocks are more economical than building a nuke at this point.

Use a bigger rock. I might change the cost by hundreds of millions, and still be less than the billions in development and production for a nuke.