I heard the next model, the Tesla SS, with innovative features like doing Nazi salutes out the windows to indicate is going to be a huge hit.

The seeds of this started in the George Bush era and earlier.

The compliant press that cheer led the Iraq war.

The formation of an oligarchy that hugely influenced economic policy.

The attacks on experts, scientists and general modern science.

The vicious attacks on liberals and anybody else who opposed them.

The infiltration of far-right Christians into the highest levels of government and the military.

Consolidation in markets has led to high prices, poor service, poor competition and bloated oligopolies.

Governments should be intervening to break up these oligopolies but have been captured by these vested interests.

Who is this picture of? She looks familiar.

Is she a movie star?

I really miss the BBS forums.

I made a load of friends on those.

When I quit reddit, it occurred to me that after 10 years, I hadn’t made a single friend there.

Now many of these remaining BBS forums have a constant battle against bots.

Dead internet theory is becoming true.

Bots talking to bots will be 90% of the internet.

I think 90% of the AI investments really have no commercial viability and are being developed to suck up clueless venture capital.

I’m older than 30.

Probably played one of your games.

Super curious here.

What game did you make?

Yeah, the constant negative circlejerking on Lemmy is getting pretty tiresome.

More competition is better.

I pay $79 AUD for 250Mb download / 20Mb upload.

This makes so much sense.

I always thought, surely their higher ups must know this is utter garbage?

They do but it’s just to scam investors.

Sail the high seas.

I really miss the early internet.

Sherman did nothing wrong.

There may not be any need for that.

The United States, China, etc. all have trade policies that are fundamentally unsustainable and result in persistent trade imbalances.

This causes all sorts of poor economic outcomes for large sectors of those countries. For example, an anaemic household sector in China and over investments in housing, huge private and public sector deficits in the United States, etc.

In the free market world of Adam Smith and comparative advantage, persistent trade imbalances should not exist.

Over the medium to long term, imports are meant to pay for exports.

If there are persistent trade imbalances, it means there is persistent under consumption (China) or over consumption (United States).

Note: This is not just limited to these countries.

At some point, there is going to be an economic crisis because it can’t continue forever.

Most “AI” I have seen are basically fancy iterations of autocomplete.

Never saw that but that is hilarious.

What is not discussed in the West is all the spyware that Israeli companies are selling to authoritarian countries.

It was pretty obvious, mate.

Writing war and peace doesn’t change that.