Politics Please say rock bottom is getting close

I’m being polite by not putting this in the AI art thread.

 

Decarbonization and adoption of nuclear energy are the solutions here.

Using less energy was never an option. Even curbing energy use long term was never a realistic option.

We have to embrace AI. If we don't we'll just fall behind other countries who do.

 

Oh stop this bullshit. You sound like Saruman.

 

There is no bright side. There is no getting to have it both ways anymore. We can’t capitalism our way out of the problem we capitalismed out way into. Nobody is coming to save us. AI is a cul-de-sac, and mealy mouthed half solutions to the problems it causes WHILE PROVIDING NO BENEFITS TO HUMANITY are pathetic. Fucking centrist bullshit.

 

There is no doubt in my mind that AI will be capable of providing significant benefits to humanity.

This is not a race we want to fall behind in.

 

I see no reasonable alternative. We can make plenty of clean energy. We just need to choose to do it.

 

Billionaires want AI to work because AI will never unionize. They don’t want us to have good lives; they want us working in the fields. Human slaves for human tasks, AI for everything else. I for one am not going to roll over and accept this fate. I don’t want my kids to live in that world.

 

AI controlled bots will eliminate the need for most people in the fields. And those who do need to be in the fields won't be have hard work to do...

 

Family owned farms are gone anyway. No family can afford thousands of acres to compete with the mega farms that we already have.

Any family that already has that will very easily be able to afford AI bots. These are people who buy $250,000 combines every year. Adding a $250 Nvidia AI computer is nothing.

The government makes tax incentives to cover all of this.

I would fully support a change in our culture that brings permaculture into cities and neighborhoods. So that our cities and neighborhoods could then grow much of their own food.

There are solutions to these problems. I don't think restricting AI is one of those solutions. I think restricting AI would be a huge mistake. We will benefit far more from AI by leading than we'd benefit if we try to restrict it.

Not only that, we have a huge shortage of farmers. The average age of most farmers is over 60 now. Their kids don't want to run these farms. They're going to end up selling to a mega corporation no matter what we do. The farms we have now aren't like Green acres. They are large corporations.

 

God we’re fucked

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/02/net-neutrality-fcc-sixth-circuit-strike-down/

Net Neutrality is dead. Again.

 

Texas State legislature just repealed requirement for vehicle safety inspections. All four sponsors say they are "pro life". They said drivers can do their own inspection of their vehicles.

Texas has some of the worst most unsafe roads in the country.

Although inspections are ending, motorists will continue to be charged inspection fee.

 

Insanity. This should have been front and center for Dems. Congress should have cemented net neutrality as law. Both Obama and Biden administrations failed us. Democrats MUST do better.
Democrats NEED to focus on:
Reversing Citizens United
Net Neutrality codified (including fiber internet to every home in the America while making it illegal for any company to offer both the pipe and the internet service)
Universal Education to public institutions
Universal Healthcare

Beyond that, protect individual rights.

Just focus on those things and win, IMO. Everything else will take care of itself.

 

Part of the drop in polio cases around that time can be explained by the advances in wastewater treatment and the increase in communities actually obtaining a wastewater treatment facility. Polio is a waterborne disease. Prior to the existence of treatment plants, sewage that did not go into septic tanks or outhouses went into streams and rivers. The federal government got its head out of its asses in 1948, and by 1960 more than 50% of American municipalities had treatment systems. I'm sure that went a long way to reducing infections, but it was the vaccine that eliminated it. Sorry for the pedantic history lesson.......

 

True. But I'm not sure if that's a possibility during a bird flu outbreak...

 

We call them "leaders" for a reason...