I’m very concerned about this.

But I’m even more concerned that the jobs that AI kills are jobs that no one gets trained to do, and that no one will know how to do them when the computers stop working.

People are not looking at you when you’re using the urinal.

Sit to pee and press the tip with a paper towel.

CBS is not a news organization.

CBS is not a news agency.

Literally EVERYTHING developed in the United States was innovated by an employee and then the value of that innovation was stolen by their employer.

The United States doesn’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to claiming to innovate. The people who do the actual innovation aren’t mentioned and barely get paid enough money to live.

China literally claims to be a communist country. Well, what’s that mean? It means that when knowledge is known, it’s fair game for the country to use in order to make things better for everyone in the country.

The United States, on the other hand, has the ability to produce enough medication for literally every person who needs it, but creates laws so that businesses can control the production of drugs in order to make as much money as possible regardless of however many people die in the US from not getting the medicines they need.

Make it make sense.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with how VPNs work, but it’s basically like a computer in the other country is sharing its internet connection with you.

So let’s imagine that things are reversed, and you’re a VPN provider in the United States and you’re sharing your internet connection with some computers in another country, like Saudi Arabia, for example.

And just to be clear, you conduct no business in Saudi Arabia. You’re just sharing your internet connection with people from there. You don’t have any associates in Saudi Arabia, and you have no intention of ever going to Saudi Arabia.

And let’s say that Saudi Arabia passed a law that said VPN providers had to block some kind of content, like maybe banning all access to content about your favorite band.

How is this going to affect the VPN service you provide to the other computers?

I mean, the optics of this externally are:

1. Massive warmongering country which doesn’t invest in educating, feeding, or providing safety or healthcare for its citizens and doesn’t invest in its own infrastructure decides to switch to a limited supply of energy that makes people unhealthy and tries to deny said energy to other countries in order to harm and literally torture them, versus

2. Much more massive country with a history of innovating and pulling a billion people out of poverty(and not just the standard of that first country, but actually the more massive country’s much higher standard for poverty), which is doing a lot to invest in educating, feeding, and providing safety and healthcare for its own systems and investing massively in its own infrastructure and is quickly switching to solar and other renewable forms of energy and is quickly using dedesertification to try to stop and reverse the spread of deserts and turn them back into forests and vegetation, and is providing energy to a country that said first country is trying to deprive.

The optics look really bad for the first country.

Loops

I wish every content creator would post on both TikTok AND Loops, because Loops could definitely replace TikTok. It has a really solid basis and a lot of potential(although I wish I didn’t have to pause before scrolling off of a video).

I am really glad to see someone mention Loops, and if I could choose to view someone’s content on Loops instead of TikTok, I would.

Edit: Oh, and https://loops.video/ if anyone is wondering what we’re talking about.

Cool story bro.

Wow, it almost sounds like the US “Libertarian” Party has always been a fascist party aimed at supporting no liberties except the liberty of the powerful to take liberties away from the weak.

WHO’D HAVE THUNK IT?

No it’s not.

I stopped using Facebook years ago.

Before there were viable alternatives.

The idea that you need Facebook because there aren’t significant alternatives is just not true.

1. STOP.

2. USING.

3. FACEBOOK.

Don’t you mean “Moon America”?

Man, how disrespectful of you. Use its real name.

Hmmm…

Sounds like people might be better off if there was a different constitution.

Well that’s not correct.

Engineers are great at developing a product.

But having someone at the end who’s using the product and insisting on consistency because he’s anal-retentive and a pain in the ass will mean the product is consistent with the evaluator’s goals.

macOS used to have a lot of underlying features that worked consistently no matter which app you were using, and Apple destroyed that.

Either Jobs was having an effect, or it’s a damned strange coincidence that the severe reduction in consistency in macOS started just at the point that he died.

MacOS was so much better when Steve Jobs was in charge.

Tim Cook REALLY made it worse. Steve Jobs made sure the user experience was generally good, although admittedly there were many times when he was pigheaded. On a personal level, Steve Jobs was a terrible person, but he made the operating system very good and very consistent.

And Tim Cook didn’t care about any of that, and macOS is now SUPER inconsistent and much less user friendly. It’s still better than Windows, but MAN is it so so so much worse.

Or we can acknowledge that the idea of freedom of speech is incompatible with the idea that billionaires can exist and own media.

Except he tried to falsify vote totals in 2020, and we know this for a fact.

And he tried to overthrow the government in 2021, and we all literally saw this on television.

And he’s trying to falsify vote totals in 2026.

And people are pretending that it’s perfectly reasonable to know all of those things and to still claim that we know with certainty that in 2024 he just sat by and didn’t try to do anything to falsify the data.

In the middle of multiple documented instances of him doing so.