In our society, if you don’t have a job, you die. A shit job is better than no job and standing up for your rights could lose you your job. The solution is unionizing, but unionizing is very difficult and dangerous because 1. Unions have been heavily propaganized against and 2. Bosses will do a bunch of illegal stuff to prevent unions.

Unions are becoming more popular as conditions worsen, but the capitalist owners are fighting harder than ever to prevent the growing unionization.

Sorry, in case it wasn’t clear, I do agree with you. I just didn’t want to write all that out and instead reverted to the very easy statement previously mentioned.

Betting markets bad!

With this, Republicans have a much better shot at winning the governor’s seat. Democrats love chasing those marginal victories and are perfectly happy losing to fascism if it prevents winning with progressive policies.

You think we live in a completely rational society that operates off market fundamentals like “supply and demand”? That is like planning a road trip assuming you’ll drive on a frictionless flat plane in a vacuum.

If supply and demand were truly adhered to, Boeing airplanes would be out of business after their doors falling off mid flight became widely knwon. Tesla would be out of business since their cars break when going into a carwash. Several banks would be out of business after gambling on housing speculation.

The idea that we live in a self regulating society that operates off The Invisible Hand is pure fantasy. Capitalism picks winners and losers all the time while making excuses swallowed by rubes like you.

Machine learning is a monkey bashing keys on a typewriter. Improvements will result in a better typewriter, so the monkey will more often hit the good keys instead of the bad ones, but it won’t result in a smarter monkey. It will still be random because probability is inherent to the technology, which means that AI will never be trustworthy. Would you ever trust a calculator that sometimes says 1+1=3? Even if it only did that 1% of the time?

You aren’t wrong about GenAI replacing jobs though, because there are people willing to use faulty, untrustworthy tools. Your manager, people in the C-suite, Business Idiots who have no idea what the the job actually needs to function properly are being tricked into thinking that chat boxes will let them cut operational costs without incurring any significant consequences.

It doesn’t really matter how good or not AI is; the reason jobs are being cut is because Business Idiots with more money than sense fire people based on vibes. This has been a known problem since the 1980’s when Jack Welch destroyed GE through his idiotic “Rank and Yank” strategy. His foolish business practices made a lot of money in the short term, which is why he is lauded as the CEO of the Century, even though those same business practices destroyed one of the greatest American companies in a handful of years.

Capital flight is a myth. Wealthy people do business in liberal cities because that’s where all the talent is. Liberal cities are where all the talent is because those places use taxes to improve the quality of life. Wealthy businesses do not attract talented workers; talented workers atteact wealthy businesses.

When NY fought against Amazon getting a sweetheart deal to build a warehouse, bootlickers came out of the woodwork to claim it was a great idea. That NY needed to offer Amazon tax breaks and grants because it would create jobs.

Progressives told Amazon to eat shit. Amazon has continued to beg to be allowed to do business in NY. They are negotiating with the current mayor Mamdani because it’s fuckin NYC, of course they wanna do business there.

Went for the midnight release of Death Stranding. I wasn’t really interested in the game, but Hideo Kojima was there signing games, so I went and got his signature and a picture.

It’s not really my type of game and I never finished it, but I love Kojima and I’m happy I got the signature.

Mahan is being supported by Silicon Valley tech billionaires. That should disqualify him immediately. He’s a big supporter of AI and wants to put AI into healthcare and education. He talks a lot about building housing, but it’s all public-private partnerships that have historically been free money for developers instead of solving the problem. He talks about addressing homelessness, but he’s moved money away from the solution, which is government affordable housing, and into temporary interim housing, which is a short term bandaid.

Yes, a pencil can do a whole bunch of different. things. GenAI cannot do things. It has no purpose. Pencils were made to write stuff. GenAI was made to ???. It is a technology in search of a problem to address. A niche to fill. It has no purpose as it stands, yet it is supposedly the most important thing ever to the point where the rich and wealthy are losing their minds investing into it on the vague hopes that it’ll do something. They’ve even got our government in on it; the US economy is being dangerously propped up by this industry that doesn’t solve any problems or fulfill any purpose. All the things it does are novelties and even then, it does those things poorly and unreliably.

Tools at home improvement stores were made to fulfill a specific purpose. GenAI still does not have a purpose it fulfills despite having hundreds of billions of dollars invested, not to mention all the other resources it’s sucking up.

An intern probably would not go on a mass deletion spree. Also, an intern doesn’t eat a billion gpus.

I hope you are not seriously advocating using the lying machine for therapy. You would get more value talking to a finger puppet.

You aren’t wrong that putting money into the economy raises inflation. However, the inflation from SNAP disbursements is inconsequential compared to stuff like putting tariffs on everything or allowing corpos to raise prices out of pure greed. There’s really no point in examining SNAP’s effect on inflation when there are much more consequential concerns to focus on.

Everytime it’s brought up, Republicans shoot it down. The GOP made this bed, so now they gotta lie in it.

Team Airbud is just mad the opposing team got their own dog now. Dems tried to get dogs banned from playing, but when all the legal channels to instill fairness have been blocked, you gotta train up your own dunking dogs.

Kamala Harris did not lose because of those qualities. She lost because she ran as a diet Republican, going for a marginal victory.

Doing an interview with an LLM trained on a real person feels like libel.

I too wish that laws still mattered. Thankfully, they still matter a little bit, so there’s still a chance for us to turn things around.

You can’t post about what doesn’t exist. For positive posts about the Democrats to exist, the Democrats first need to do something positive.