Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person

Yes the rest of the world needs to move around equipment and trailers. And they can do it without obscene trucks like this lol.

What makes America so incompetent that they need a truck like this to do it?

Agriculture went from employing the majority of the populace to 2%. We found jobs for everyone.

Sure, over the course of like 200 years. Can you not see how that is fundamentally different?

There are many professions that have immense latent demand that people simply cannot afford

“Afford” is doing a lot of work in your sentence. How do you think people are going to be able to afford more? Workers aren’t going to be making more money, and the workers who enter these professions are going to be making a lot less money.

Labor force participation is a better metric here

No, it really isn’t.
Labour force participation rate is “how many working age people want a job” even if they’re unemployed.
Unemployment rate tells you “how much of the labour force can get a job” which is what we actually care about. Can you get a job if you want one. More people need jobs (as you have shown) but fewer percentage of those people are able to get jobs (as I’ve shown).\

The automation that AI is promising (but not necessarily delivering) is fundamentally different than the automation that came before.

Remember; the luddites were right but their industry was small enough that the displaced labour could be absorbed by other industries.

Not only is AI affecting almost every artistic and white-collar industry, but the cap-ex barrier to entry is way lower than for any other automation effort in the past. No need to buy expensive machines, or create whole new production lines just to test it out. Computers used to take up an entire room to do the work of a handful of people. If you can increase productivity but there is no associated increase in demand, then what you get is layoffs.

The amount of workers that this has the potential to displace far outstrips the industry/economy/society’s ability to replace with “new careers” (that we’ve yet to see materialize). And I challenge your assertion that automation has resulted in increased demand for human labour, do we significantly less unemployment on average? Over the last 70 years (in the USA for ex) unemployment has been trending up.

What we have seen is a total gutting of employee bargaining power.

Any source of profound hope can be used as a tool for hate by the hateful, but religion has served very important community functions that we haven’t really replaced as we move to atheism, to our own detriment.

I’ve found some of Britt Hartley’s videos on the topic of secular spiritualism (gag at the term) kind of eye opening (and easy to consume) as an atheist myself. This part is this video in particular was great

I mean, religion is human made, so we didn’t just come along.

But more importantly is can be both of these things at once, a salve for your existential anxiety and a tool to whip people into a mindless frenzy; nearly any source of profound hope can be used thusly

I think religion is the salve of anxiety.
People have anxiety about death and their purpose, and religion relieves that anxiety

Back when I put eggs directly into boiling water, and then ice bath, this didn’t happen.

But I’ve found it’s easier to get a perfect egg by putting them in cold water, bringing it to a boil, then taking it off the heat for ~10m.
Unfortunately this always seems to result in shells sticking

An addendum to 4:
We could be one of the first, so life is unusually sparse during this period of time.

The universe is old, but it takes a lot to build up the components needed for life as we know it. The first two generations of stars wouldn’t have created the exotic materials in quantitie we needed to seed a world with the requirements for life.
And life couldn’t have realistically happened much faster in a 3rd generation system than it did in our system.
There are some very old 3rd Gen stars, but it’s less common and iirc they’re not close to us.

Tldr
This is early phases, life is going to get more common over the next few billion years.

Oh get over yourself

Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.

Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.

I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

I won’t understand what you mean 😌

Like… Per capita, or total?

None of those really “feel like” the things they’re replacing. I don’t really even think that should be the goal. They occupy the same space, though, and the infographic would look stupid if it showed all the options in some category, so they just picked a popular proprietary/centralized one, and a popular federated alternative in the same category. In this case discord is a popular chat app, and the most popular federa chat app afaict is matrix.

Is now a paid feature?
Was playback over 2x (through the official app) ever supported for free?

News 2: electric Boogaloo

I had to read it a few times, I initially made the same mistake as you. It’s all there but I’m not used to carefully reading all the text on a silly post lol

It’s illegal to hire people or refuse to hire people based on political beliefs or affiliation, so you’re not gonna have companies that only employ Trump supporters or employ no Trump supporters. Politics is considered a protected group wrt employment law in the USA and many countries.

But how would it actually work?
It’s not like it’s difficult to gauge employee sentiment about ICE. If your employees are strongly against it, then you simply don’t enter the competition for ICE contracts, or you choose to not renew the contracts when they expire.

I like your way, learning as an adult.

But if you were to hypothetically teach a child, then binary would be easier, and they eventually would memorize the positions.

Although realistically by the time they need their second hand, they probably don’t need to be counting on their fingers anymore. And I don’t think either of these systems is especially helpful for higher math, unless you’re multiplying or dividing by a power of 2. Maybe? I forget my 2s compliment operations now.

They only have to make an example of a few to discourage the rest.

The only real safety is with the instances hosted and run in locations difficult for American companies to pursue legal action