Yes. You end up with a military dictatorship or rarely something better. Given the amount of military folk who love the idea behind Starship Troopers, i wouldn’t bet on the latter.

I sometimes think “man, it must be nice to be rich.”

But then I look at these assholes benefitting from it, and I wonder if they can experience joy at all.

They don’t want you to read about anarchy, socialism or communism because of the systems themselves.

They really don’t want you to learn the truth of capitalism.

Im still out of the loop, what did he do?

Part of me wonders now if the Great Depression and 08’ Recession were engineered.

Banks failed, but the wealthiest Americans stayed the wealthiest.

WELL

at least I have an EV now?

Safety from what Langley? What are the cameras keeping us safe from?

There’s nothing unexpected here so far. You’re causing yourself unnecessary anxiety 🙃.

With trend data or data over time, if you look at a small period of time, the only knowledge you get is limited to that period of time.

If we look at that small period of time where it behaves differently, we can say an event, independent of other events, caused the change. If we look at historical data, we can likely see that similar events caused similar changes. If we then take the data of the event itself, say the average temperature of the El Niño, and compare it to historical El Niños, we will likely see it is a worse El Niño, and maybe see that they have been worsening over time as well. That becomes evidence of climate change too.

Even those don’t mean it’s straight for rock bottom.

A tipping point means a point of no return. It will never improve beyond that point. Extent of ice won’t show you that. Otherwise when the extent is at its lowest in March, it would never come back.

Yep. I didn’t mean to imply something wasn’t happening, but that something isn’t what OP pointed at, and that something is evidence of climate change.

People need to learn that its a slow decline. It’s disastrous, but it looks like worsening wildfires each year. More tornados in Iowa and Minnesota. Lower crop yields. Beaches getting smaller by inches, ocean front property values declining and insurance rates increasing. More intense variations in weather and more difficultly forecasting.

No. This is a sharper momentary dip. Sort of expected with climate change.

If you look at the summer months for 2025, (January and February for the southern hemisphere) you can see ice sheet area declined far more rapidly rapidly than 2026 did.

Rates of change, particularly ones that are of more recent data, can be very misleading. Now if the same rate of change continued through the end of August, then it would definitely be anomalous.

Climate change does not make immediate impacts like this. Climate change makes the trend of the WHOLE line lower, and more volatile. Notice that 2025 and 2026 lines are at the lower end of the graph.

One (ugly) way to understand this chart better would be the area under the curve for a given year. As 2026 isnt over yet, you cant do this reliably beyond the most recent data point.

The “big” thing then would be if the result for each year was successively lower.

Kmmorpgs hold a special place in my heart though. One of spite and hatred.

RF Online, may it rest in the memory I had of it as a teenager, was my first foray into it. There was a brief window of time where the Grind excited me. There were no in game purchases. Of course there was a subscription. I killed two graphics cards and a CPU on it because I had it running 24/7. Then they nerfed the drops. Then they nerfed defences. Then they buffed the bosses so that only guilds with an extraordinary amount of players and wealth could beat them, THEN they made the game free to play and the 3-faction Chip Wars was never fun again.

I would have been better off in Japan. My salary is kept “competitive” at my employer, and I HATE changing jobs (and its far too risky to with a kid, and id probably have to move anyway which is a deal killer).

The upside is that (so far) I have a pension.

I disagree. They read science fiction and think “well, that wont happen in the real world.”

The data centers aren’t for common man LLMs.

They’re for the police state.

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines, believing it would free them. Instead, it allowed other men with machines to enslave them.” (Paraphrased quote from Dune)

I think people are rightfully referring to mass surveillance system cameras as Flock cameras.

Even if the company folds, the cameras will still be operated. It doesnt matter what the brand is that makes em.

It matters people know what they are.

What’s mindfuckingly frustrating is that EVERYONE (but the rich ass financial types) see it coming. And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WE CAN DO to prevent or prepare for it.

Interesting. I didnt know that. Good i hate the app

Me looking at my 2023 Polestar 2 LRDM:

“It’s ok. They can’t hurt you. You parked next to a 240i and you felt superior remember?”

Im pretty sure Bitlocker isn’t the issue but I didn’t clear the TPM anyway.