What “global backlash”?

Just another day of headline gore. Anything to get you to click past the headline.

Planned Obsolescence, baby! You don’t make money running the Panopticon if your clients aren’t constantly paying 10x the asking price to endlessly repair and replace your shitty TEMU knock-off surveillance kits.

The contradictions in the US are crazy.

We’re living in this enormous Panopticon - a massive digital fishbowl - for tracking and harassing and arresting lawful citizens. But you can kidnap an Olympics announcer’s mom, live on camera, and no one can find you. No one can catch you. Even as Ring runs “Find My Dog With AI” commercials during the Super Bowl.

The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting.

You don’t need to wait to play games that came out thirty years ago.

Plenty of young people are into retro gaming.

most youths don’t like drinking wine

Then they can wait six years between sips of AAA piss, I suppose.

My friends with kids don’t seem to have any problem picking up Sonic, Pokemon, or Guantlet. One’s even picked up Eldin Ring.

They don’t have the nostalgia

You don’t need nostalgia to enjoy nice things.

How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story?

You can just play the original, though.

Same with any of these franchises. The newer titles are hit or miss, but the old games have aged like wine.

This won’t work. You’ll just start getting texts from his brother, his cousin, his roommate, and his boss, all asking you for money.

It’s weird to talk about “a wealth of opportunities to learn” without asking about opportunities to benefit from the knowledge.

Like, the number one reason Americans learn Japanese is to… watch anime, play Japanese video games, and consume other Japanese culture. Virtually no one is getting an economic benefit out of it.

Same with a lot of technical skills - why am I learning how to build a raspberry pi server if not to improve my home media center? Or learning to cook or bake or grill, if not to enjoy a nice meal? Why learn home repair if not to make your house a little nicer?

For the handful of people who want to turn this into a career or a business? Cool. Good luck.

But just because the sky is the limit doesn’t mean that’s what you need to aim for.

The winners will be the middle men selling fixes for the fixes.

explosive allegations

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Oh well, anyway, GOP is trying to overhaul the nation’s voting laws again and the Dems haven’t stopped them. But this is exciting news, too

Where is the lie?

The GOP voted to take away the rights from almost every married woman in the country

No, they didn’t. This isn’t going to be enforced in heavily Republican districts where women are loyal conservative voters.

Please don’t confuse actual technological progress with markets.

Consumer goods are delivered through market distributions for nearly every post-industrial society on earth.

The government could distribute widgets, but it doesn’t.

Modern infrastructure is not built by markets.

Construction crews, materials purveyors, architects, electricians/plumbers… All come through the market system. That’s why Americans have to turn to Spain or Japan every time they float the idea of expanding HSR. That’s why only two companies in the world build civilian airliners. That’s why our telecom network is an oligopoly.

Whut?

Teqball’s a lot of fun.

Well… maybe not.

I do think we’re running into a problem of net in exceeding net out with modern tech and finance companies. They’ve surpassed the point at which they can generate meaningful amounts of profit because they’ve cartelized all the major profit centers.

But the idea that there’s nothing left to improve, nothing left to repair, and no one left to consumerize… no, obviously not. The market system isn’t failing. It is being failed by business leaders that no longer want to do the hard work of management, innovation, and improvement.

Look outside the US and you can find everything from massive overhauls in modern infrastructure to breakthroughs in manufacturing and miniaturization to exciting modernization in entertainment and sports. Within the US, though, its just slop.

Or they’re in a hurry and didn’t realize the door was ajar when they left the vehicle.

Pretty normal for this to happen at the airport, especially when you’re carrying a bunch of bags, juggling kids, etc. Normally, its not a big deal, because the cabbie will pop out and close the door if they get the alert. But here, there’s no remote way to close the door and no way to signal the rider that it didn’t close completely.

human is dumb for specifically choosing to be a piece of shit for NOT closing the car door.

Depending on what I’m doing, I periodically have to double back and re-close a door if I didn’t close it hard enough. Modern cars have built in alarms specifically to alert drivers when a door latch isn’t secured. You don’t have to be a piece of shit to fail to notice that a door is ajar.

I mean, pretty famously, we didn’t. Bad communication between agencies and poor airport security paved the way for 9/11. But given our intention of defunding just about every other federal agency, DHS’s domino was going to get knocked down eventually.

What’s more frustrating is that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is effectively bankrolling CBP and ICE indefinitely. So we’re going to defund the bureaucratic administration while pumping billions of dollars into a Presidential paramilitary force.

Overall, more than 90% of the Department of Homeland Security’s 272,000 employees would continue working during a lapse, according to the agency’s September shutdown plan covering the first five days of an impasse. More than 93% of ICE and CBP workers would remain on the job.

Only about 44,500 staffers would continue to be paid through other appropriations, according to the shutdown plan. However, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said last fall that 70,000 law enforcement personnel, including in CBP, ICE and other divisions, would receive their paychecks.

So we’re putting the middle-management on furlough while the goons with the guns just get to run around snatching people, beating them, disappearing them, and executing them. And this is what we’re going to call a “shutdown”.

Need a car to get to the airport, because my city doesn’t have mass transit.

If the only cars in my area are Waymos, do I just skip my flight?

Humans know how to close a car door.

The future is clocking in for another 12 hour shift at the “making minor adjustments to the super intelligent AI dick sucking factory” so you can afford to eat the bugs and live in the pod