Interesting decision to take if you truly believed in his innocence
Most of every bad philosophical idea of the last 300 years. Ultimately traces its intellectual heritage to enlightenment philosophers. While they didn’t directly create ‘Woke’ or any of the assorted other philosophical deadends that have caused so much grief and bloodshed. They however did lay the philosophical and moral groundwork that made them all possible.
It’s not sins that can be laid solely at the feet of degenerate Frenchmen.
It’s less AI on its own. It’s more of a series of factors. AI is only one of them. It’s just at the moment, with all the anger over data centers, it is a convenient boogeyman the Corporate Manager class can get the peons to blame all their problems on. Instead of acknowledging the plethora of complex factors and the areas where their own ineptitude contributed.
The Boomers as one example commanded one of the largest shares of Capital in the investment markets. The Boomers are now either moving into retiring en-mass. Or are several years into retirement or more. Meaning vast sums are moving into safer investments. Meaning there’s less available capital for riskier investments into businesses. And some industries relied heavily on investors to keep their heads above water and people on staff. Without periodic infusions of investor bucks. They need to cut weight.
There’s also been a lot of market consolidation, over expansion and buyouts that realistically should not have happened over the past few decades. But the ease with which excess Capital could be accessed by Businesses made some firms far too ambitious.
American Businesses also grew addicted to Globalization and outsourcing everything. Even today they maybe laying off Americans and telling us one thing. While turning around and hiring foreigners for pennies on the dollar and allowing them to telecommute from whatever Mumbai Slum they’re living in. It doesn’t help that Indians once they work their way into management often tend to only hire Indians.
A lot of places also just way overhired during COVID. So they’re shedding weight.
College Degrees and some certifications also don’t mean much outside of specific niches anymore. As far too many have them and some colleges will pass them out to anyone with a pulse who can show up mostly on time. For decades a Degree was the accepted credential substitute for the competency testing Companies and Government agencies were no longer allowed to do. When everyone has one. And the act of having is no longer a guarantee of basic grasp of fundamentals. Their worth correspondingly plummets. And attention turns to the older generations who’ve already proven themselves. As opposed to the young up and comers who could very well be mouth breathing retards.
That’s just a few of the many factors playing into things. AI is only part of it.
It’s less strictly issues with small town infrastructure. Though that’s a factor.
It’s more people are running face first into the fact that State and Local Governments across the country did absolutely nothing to maintain or update civic infrastructure. Upgrades that should have been done as just a natural course of the aging of the systems and growth of towns. Just didn’t happen. As funds were pilfered for any number of other projects or just good old fashioned corruption.
Power stations weren’t built. Pumps and pipes weren’t replaced. Transmission lines weren’t strung. Transformers for new substations weren’t ordered.
It’ll make for a nice change of pace if nothing else. Diseases and Wars are old news.
At the very least the memes should be mildly amusing.
Statistically speaking. It’s not implausible given what is currently widely accepted public knowledge about space and the universe at any rate. That being each star is much like our sun and orbited by a variety of other planets. Simple statistic probability would indicate the existence of multiple other worlds much like earth.
Whether what’s public knowledge is true at any rate. Is a bit of a different although related topic.
So at least 4 types according to this dude. Lizard People, Basically Sci-Fi Scandinavians, Bug people which may or may not resemble Xenomorphs, and the ever present and classic Grays.
Though other alleged Whistleblowers and alleged victims of abduction have also claimed multiple other types are out there. But they don’t regularly interact with humans for one reason or another.
Exact reasoning of course varying by claimants/Whistleblower.
It’s becoming more of a broader social and societal wide dysfunction. The problems with the legal system are downstream of that.
We’re at a society wide impasse. Everyone agrees things as they currently stand are unacceptable. But people are paralyzed into indecision as they’re worried about the consequences of what doing something could potentially mean. For either the country at large and or themselves personally.
For the most part there is no practical consequences if they get caught. In most jurisdictions It’s a mild inconvenience at best. You’ve got the crapholes that let them out because DEI and liberal Judges feel bad. Then you’ve got a lot of places that have frankly more criminal and social problems that are more pressing as the country grows increasingly dysfunctional and social order breaks down as space is limited in the prisons.
Even when caught they can often get ordered to pay for whatever they’ve stolen if it can’t be recovered. But often enough there’s no mechanism in place to actually force them to pay.
That and Liability and Legalese favor the Shoplifters. Loss Prevention can’t physically touch them. Outside of extremely narrowly defined circumstances. And even then they’re still liable to lose their jobs even if it’s found to meet those narrow circumstances.
Contracted Private Security has more room legally. But even then it’s liable to turn into a legal circus. As Courts have found in favor of shoplifters repeatedly. Who’ve argued everything from false arrest to being physically assaulted by Security.
Most of the country is unironically held hostage by the bottom 10% of the country. But we can’t do anything about the bottom 10%. Because people are afraid of finally doing something being used as justification to infringe on the Constitution. Though a fair few people who claim to be worried about the Constitution. Are more so worried about any potential solution inconveniencing them personally more than anything. Or alternatively they make money off of the bottom 10%.
So people Cope post about things not having to be this way. Shooting thieves. Or the good old days where they tried someone in the morning and had them strung up by the afternoon. Or cope about other solutions that would be implausible with American culture. Without actual doing anything. Because they’re afraid of the potential consequences of what doing something might actually entail.
Personally I feel like bringing back physical punishments. Might be useful. Start Breaking Fingers for example. If it keeps happening work your way up to a Hand. That or maybe Branding with a hot Iron. Right across the face. It’s somewhat Medieval and brutal. But clearly what we’re doing stopped working. So perhaps it’s time to return to the drawing board.
Solar Panels aren’t good investments in a country known for clouds, fog, and rain. Fancy that.
If I had to guess at a likely future. The bulk of D’Amaros and Walden’s tenure as Co-executives. Is likely going to be stemming the bleeding and cleaning up Iger and Cos mess.
With whoever succeeds them as the Corporate Leaders. Going to be the people who are going to oversee any revival if anything of the sort is possible.
D’Amaro inherited a dumpster fire and Empire in decline from Iger and company. About the only thing he’s got left to play at the moment to try and salvage the Company. Is leaning heavily on people’s nostalgia and pleasant childhood memories of old Disney animations.
As Iger and company pretty thoroughly trashed and poisoned most of their newer IP.
All the companies looking to save a nickel by employing the illegals and fly by night trucking outfits just got vibe checked.
‘Death of Culture’.
Hardly. The American Cultural scene has been stagnant if not Dead for decades. In large part owing to the ideological allies of the author of the article. Fallon is largely symptomatic of the stagnation and decline that started back in the 60s-70s.
Not that there was much worth preserving in the culture I presume he’s talking about. Which was ultimately the Liberalism/general leftism that’s prevailed culturally since the 60-70s. Though I’d guess the author is feeling afraid as there’s some indication the cultural scene is gradually starting to revive. In such a fashion that doesn’t endlessly reinforce his ideology and ideas as being the only socially acceptable ‘moral’ ones.
But God forbid the Chuds have Hot Women in their Videogames and White People aren’t forced to endlessly view media that tells them they’re evil for existing.
The pricing model for Gas and Energy and the broader international economy at large is largely one based on speculation and what things might happen.
Partly why a War half way across the world can send stocks and Businesses in countries completely unaffiliated with the conflict plummeting.
For the curious.
A oversimplified explanation of The Rapid Dragon concept. It is essentially yeeting pallets of Cruise Missiles out the back of a Cargo Plane. At which point a trigger system activates them and they launch to strike targets.
Essentially Americas Logistics Transport Capacity now has dual purpose Strategic Bomber capability.
The real irony is how many of the students booing her probably used AI to do one or more assignments.
But yeah. Praising AI to College Grads concerned about whether or not they’ll be able to find jobs. Is rather tone deaf.
The stuff imported by ship primarily came from the Gulf States. As well as Iran. The Iran batches in particular are important as Iran sold to them at discounted rates.
So even if it is restored. If it’s restored at non-discounted rates. It’s still an economic blow to them. They previously also had operations going in Venezuela. Though the Yoinking put an end to that.
An inordinate amount of issues in the U.S and world as a broader whole. Ultimately stem from the fact that no politically party has been able to decisively gain an upper hand politically in the U.S for a prolonged period for well over a century. They trade off power every few years. And spend the entirety of their time undoing what the previous incumbents managed. Thusly we make no forward progress at all.
That’s not competition. That’s stagnation with a couple extra steps.
Goldman Sachs, Citi, Blackstone, Black Rock, Master Card, Visa: Financial
Apple, Meta, Tesla, Qualcomm: Computing/Tech
Space X, Boeing, GE Aerospace: Defense/Space/Aerospace
Micron, Coherent: Electronic Industr
Illumina: Medical Industry
Cargill: Food Industry
Only one on that list that is exceptional odd/strange to have at high level talks is Illumina. From what I’ve been able to find. The Company while medical in nature specializes in Genetics and Genetic Sequencing. So why would the expertise of the CEO of a genetics company be needed for talks that are likely going to trend towards broader economic/political subjects? Unless there’s an additional issue on the docket outside the obvious political/economic tensions.
One of the prevailing theories surrounding one of the real reasons behind the Iran War. Was it was to put a check on the Chinese and trip up their technology development without a direct Military Confrontation. As China got almost a quarter of their oil from Iran at a massive discount.
Blocking that flow. And then reenabling it not at Sweetheart prices sets back both their tech sector and broader economy. The AI arms race is ultimately real. The first people to develop the AI terminators get a major advantage Militarily. We’ve both been taking shots at each others tech sector and seeking to undermine each other without directly contending confrontation.
While the news has largely been focused on Iran. It went largely unnoticed we signed a new Defense Agreement with Indonesia. Aside from all the normal stuff such as training, modernization, and basing rights. We also got unrestricted access to Indonesian Airspace.
The Strait of Malacca also passes through Indonesian territory. Which carries a lot of trade both to and from China. Meaning they have yet another major artery under threat.
Japan has also steadily been rearming and loosening Constitutional restrictions on its Military and Defense Industry. Likely at the explicit behest of the United States. They’re also standing up a new Intelligence Service. Whose purpose is almost explicitly to counter Chinese influence.
There’s likely going to be a lot of things discussed at this meeting.
Depending on the State. Law Enforcement in some U.S States are likely rocking more Armored vehicles than some European Military’s have in active service.
That’s not even considering the privately owned and operated ones. As both normal people and Private Security Firms are likely also rocking their own Armored Vehicles.
Unrelated. But they should really modernize and bring some of the Classic Models of American Police Cars. Crown Vic’s, Chevy Caprice etc. Maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking. But there was just some classic Americana with them.
Everything needing sleek and angular lines is just getting old.
From a strictly oversimplified Geopolitical sense. The people who have Nukes don’t get fucked with. It’s not rocket science. You don’t a degree to understand that.
Though with the modern tangled web of international relations. NGOs, Secret Societies, and competing interests. Things are never as straightforward as they appear and everyone is lying through their teeth to someone.
Likely the reason why we are having this current conversation and not dealing with an actively nuclear armed Iran. Is because someone benefited more from the perceived threat. Rather than the actual threat.
Something many classically trained and amateur analysts and ‘experts’ rarely ever mention. Either because they’re paid not to. Or because they themselves don’t actually know.
And we’ll have Op-Ed’s from Construction Companies complaining about not being able to find any help inside a week.