https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2FJ8xzcBdc
My friend's daughter loves this song, I call it "The welfare song".
"If I take a guy home with me tonight, it's none of your business!"
Yeah, none of my business until you come to my door (or the parliament) with your hand outstretched and some sob story about some loser you met at the bar.
Is this what it feels like getting old?
My friend's daughter loves this song, I call it "The welfare song".
"If I take a guy home with me tonight, it's none of your business!"
Yeah, none of my business until you come to my door (or the parliament) with your hand outstretched and some sob story about some loser you met at the bar.
Is this what it feels like getting old?
They did the same to gen x and millennials. "Please go back to being good little slaves who die at your desk."
I can relate to all that, the thing I can't find any way to wrap my head around without being condescending is the gender stuff.
"I might walk, talk, act, think, and be entirely indistinguishable from a young woman, but no I'm actually a nonbinary trans!" No you're not. You're binary af. Ffs...
"I might walk, talk, act, think, and be entirely indistinguishable from a young woman, but no I'm actually a nonbinary trans!" No you're not. You're binary af. Ffs...
It'd be like juicero -- overly complicated tech tech thing at the end of a normal but expensive and inefficient supply chain.
The most terrifying part is when you realize you're going to die soon, and nobody cares about your pop figure collection. That's when they start looking at other people's children and start trying to indoctrinate them desperately.
Nobody told my generation that they are going to be old far longer than they're going to be young. It's an important lesson because realizing that people might be less likely to squander their youth assuming it'll last forever.
I made 2 chapters in a book I wrote to my son warning about exactly that because people my age seemed to think they'd always be 20.
I made 2 chapters in a book I wrote to my son warning about exactly that because people my age seemed to think they'd always be 20.
The road is out ahead and nobody wants to hit the brakes and let go of the accelerator. One group wants to hit the gas, the other wants to remove the brakes. Both think it'll get them to their destination faster, but instead both options will just send us off the cliff faster.
UK bonds going basically no-bid. Japanese bonds going basically no-bid. It's only a matter of time until American bonds go no-bid. At that time, QE will be reintroduced, and inflation will be here to stay.
Leftists have attacked me for advocating for balanced budgets. They called me an idiot for saying interest rates can go up. They called me insane for thinking that no matter who was in charge they'd lose all their fancy social programs if the country was paying all its tax dollars into debt maintenance. Both sides of the political spectrum scoffed at me for calling for increased taxes and decreased spending.
Well... Just you wait. We haven't seen anything yet.
Leftists have attacked me for advocating for balanced budgets. They called me an idiot for saying interest rates can go up. They called me insane for thinking that no matter who was in charge they'd lose all their fancy social programs if the country was paying all its tax dollars into debt maintenance. Both sides of the political spectrum scoffed at me for calling for increased taxes and decreased spending.
Well... Just you wait. We haven't seen anything yet.
If the west continues its cultural suicide, its political power will be so little that they won't even bother lying anymore. It's only because the west finds slavery distasteful and was incredibly powerful that it's illegal everywhere.
In between my prediction of legalized slavery and your prediction of the end of all work, bet mine happens first.
There's been quite a few industrial revolutions since the first one. Many people believe we are in the fourth one.
The lesson we should have learned by now is that many promises of industrial revolutions are tempered by reality and practicality. It turns out that radium water was never going to make you healthier. You shouldn't fill your house with asbestos. You shouldn't have the kids roll in ddt. Most people shouldn't own a plane and if they do they won't keep it in their garage. There are industrial robots but other than roombas personal robots aren't even a pipe dream. Electrification did not bring enlightenment to the masses. Television didn't make everyone incredibly educated. The airplane did not end all war. The invention of atomic energy did not end all energy problems on earth. By default phone calls are voice only. Brutalist buildings didn't create utopian communities in the hallways.
I could go on forever. Reality doesn't work this way. Will certain jobs go away? Of course. I'm not sure there'll still be human cashiers in most stores by the time I die. I'm pretty sure there'll be human security guards though. Human cops, human therapists, human entertainers, and plenty of African slaves harvesting our cocoa.
In fact, it western society continues it's suicide, legal slavery is likely to return in Asia and Africa in the next century since abhoring slavery is a western value imposed upon the rest of the world.
The lesson we should have learned by now is that many promises of industrial revolutions are tempered by reality and practicality. It turns out that radium water was never going to make you healthier. You shouldn't fill your house with asbestos. You shouldn't have the kids roll in ddt. Most people shouldn't own a plane and if they do they won't keep it in their garage. There are industrial robots but other than roombas personal robots aren't even a pipe dream. Electrification did not bring enlightenment to the masses. Television didn't make everyone incredibly educated. The airplane did not end all war. The invention of atomic energy did not end all energy problems on earth. By default phone calls are voice only. Brutalist buildings didn't create utopian communities in the hallways.
I could go on forever. Reality doesn't work this way. Will certain jobs go away? Of course. I'm not sure there'll still be human cashiers in most stores by the time I die. I'm pretty sure there'll be human security guards though. Human cops, human therapists, human entertainers, and plenty of African slaves harvesting our cocoa.
In fact, it western society continues it's suicide, legal slavery is likely to return in Asia and Africa in the next century since abhoring slavery is a western value imposed upon the rest of the world.
I'm not saying it as a cope, I'm saying it as a shutdown of a basic misunderstanding of such technology.
Especially happens when you start dealing with programmers who think that because something is easy on their screen it's easy in real life.
I have spent more than my share of time chasing the promises of some salesman who says "all you need to do is put in a hundred billion hours giving us every single little piece of data on a thing and we'll be able to magically do everyone's job for them" just to have it not work because reality is more complicated than a computer program, and the human brain, even a dumb human brain, does a lot more than we give it credit for.
You have absolutely no idea how much time and effort is wasted on the false promises of high technology. The problem is eventually someone somewhere actually has to do something, and when rubber meets road, all the promises actually have to turn out to be true, and that's extremely rare.
Especially happens when you start dealing with programmers who think that because something is easy on their screen it's easy in real life.
I have spent more than my share of time chasing the promises of some salesman who says "all you need to do is put in a hundred billion hours giving us every single little piece of data on a thing and we'll be able to magically do everyone's job for them" just to have it not work because reality is more complicated than a computer program, and the human brain, even a dumb human brain, does a lot more than we give it credit for.
You have absolutely no idea how much time and effort is wasted on the false promises of high technology. The problem is eventually someone somewhere actually has to do something, and when rubber meets road, all the promises actually have to turn out to be true, and that's extremely rare.
There's a lot of folks who think that automation is going to end all jobs, it's usually people who don't actually realize how much is involved with automating a job. "Behold! We have eliminated an operator! All it took was a small army of engineers, electricians, millwrights, instrument technicians, automation specialists, and dozens of supply chains are absolutely have to remain open for it all to keep working!"
You can stand there showing the "totally autonomous" thing when the investors, politicians, and media are around to sell the thing, but once those guys are ushered away the reality sets in of just how much manpower it takes to keep an unmanned thing running.
You can stand there showing the "totally autonomous" thing when the investors, politicians, and media are around to sell the thing, but once those guys are ushered away the reality sets in of just how much manpower it takes to keep an unmanned thing running.
https://www.process-one.net/blog/matrix-protocol-added-to-ejabberd/
That's pretty massive. It's just for business users now, but eventually it'll come to the open source product. At that point, I might have to migrate my matrix stuff to xmpp...
That's pretty massive. It's just for business users now, but eventually it'll come to the open source product. At that point, I might have to migrate my matrix stuff to xmpp...
Bankruptcy is a nice thing created for individuals in debt. Such a thing does not exist for nations, really. There are debt refinances, or debt restructuring if countries can come to an agreement with debtholders, but sovereign debt tends to be something that doesn't go away as easily as bankruptcy.
Canada had a sovereign debt crisis in the 90s where their bonds eventually just went no-bid. They simply couldn't sell the bonds, there were no buyers. In order to solve its problems, it had to cut spending and increase taxes to reduce costs and raise revenues. That's the right thing to do around the world, and it's going to become mandatory, but it takes courage and will and right now all the politicians want to pretend they can be all things to all people.
Canada had a sovereign debt crisis in the 90s where their bonds eventually just went no-bid. They simply couldn't sell the bonds, there were no buyers. In order to solve its problems, it had to cut spending and increase taxes to reduce costs and raise revenues. That's the right thing to do around the world, and it's going to become mandatory, but it takes courage and will and right now all the politicians want to pretend they can be all things to all people.
It'll be fiiiiine. When have we ever gone full steam ahead on a technology with unknown ramifications and there turned out to be negative ramifications?
That's right, never. Technology is only ever good and anyone who disagrees is just a neo-luddite.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some lead paint infused with DDT and asbestos to spray in my child's room.
That's right, never. Technology is only ever good and anyone who disagrees is just a neo-luddite.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some lead paint infused with DDT and asbestos to spray in my child's room.
I figure one of two things will happen: Either we have hundreds of sovereign debt crises like what we've started to see in the UK as all kinds of countries that have been telling their people it's a good thing to rack up national deficits so massive they can never be balanced and national debts so massive they pose an existential threat to the governments if interest rates rise, or we have even worse inflation down the line because governments give up on trying to control inflation so they can continue QE and keep printing money to keep the game going damn the consequences.
Either way the common man loses. The former has destroyed empires, but the latter has created dictatorships that caused the greatest evil ever known by man.
Either way the common man loses. The former has destroyed empires, but the latter has created dictatorships that caused the greatest evil ever known by man.