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  • If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

    I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

    Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

    But if it works…

    Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.





  • Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

    No, it wouldn’t.

    I think search engines didn’t work with it;

    No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

    Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

    So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

    But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea


  • does it not then have the potential to water down enough districts to make them swing districts,

    That’s how gerrymandering always works…

    You want to get every district to where you’d barely win, and jam all the extra people who would vote against you into as few districts as possible that they will definitely win.

    The obvious danger is if you gerrymander too much, and a wave shows up, you could potentially lose everything because you no longer have any “safe” districts.

    I’ve been saying since the beginning that we’re better off letting them do all this redistricting ASAP, that way we can start the groundwork to win enough of those close districts to take the whole state government


  • You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

    There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

    To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

    Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

    https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

    Very few of those green states are for electricity

    And if you just meant:

    Non profit = good

    Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

    And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest




  • Meanwhile, vehicles for model year 2031 will apparently be $925 cheaper than otherwise.

    That would be if prices were set on what it costs to produce, and not set to maximize profits…

    We see it with EV discounts too, if people will pay 60k for an EV and the government knocks 5k off with a tax credit, they price the EV at 65k and corporations are essentially given tax payer money as a bonus because when the EV rebates go away, they drop the price.




  • Good luck…

    Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

    There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

    The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

    Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.






  • Americans don’t recognize the ICC when US military are the defandents…

    The United States signed the 1999 Rome Statute but it never ratified the treaty, taking the position that the International Criminal Court (ICC) lacks fundamental checks and balances.[1] The American Service-Members’ Protection Act of 2002 further limited US involvement with the ICC. The ICC reserves the right of states to prosecute war crimes, and the ICC can only proceed with prosecution of crimes when states do not have willingness or effective and reliable processes to investigate for themselves.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

    It’s like with Netenyahu, someone has to comply and arrest them and take them to court, even then it’s debatable if the court would hold them for trial.