Cars ought to be seen as a special case for people with mobility issues, not the norm for personal transportation.

Not even that. They’ve bought a lot more storage, memory and GPUs than they have datawarehouses with power to install them in.

The comments from Las Vegas are about the same. It ran a lot better when the mob was in charge. Now the corps are “optimizing revenue” everything into ruin.

The encryption currently used to keep your information confidential and secure

Meanwhile data is leaked all the time, taken by doge or just given to palantir for processing.

“But new jobs will be created,” they say.

Have you looked at entry jobs these days? Those new jobs are going to require 5 years of experience for something that didn’'t exist 6 months ago.

Let’s make one side too hot and the other side too cold. Everybody happy!

I’m reading that headline as: Major electronics company explains why self driving cars and home robots will be unaffordable.

Looks more like an illustration of gentrification.

The guy is used to failing upward and has now reached the highest position. There is no failing upward from being POTUS.

Just a few days ago they were indeed talking about giving tokens as bonus.

Unless you’re such a sourpuss that you piss vinegar, don’t bother.

A straw man argument

A lot also depends on what the society does. If it’s only resource extraction, you give people a pick axe and whip them until they start digging. If you want people to do science and engineering, you have to take care of people or you’ll have subpar results.

humanity generally progresses to better moral values

Because those with bad morals just don’t last as long. Rebellion and corruption bring them down sooner or later.

The TV will only use of for ads and enshittification updated.

Yes, some great “pride and accomplishment” vibes. Anothergreat slapnouncement for another slupdate from good ol’ microslop. Just fought with their onedrive not wanting to work because the installed onedrive is too new, and somehow forgetting my account when opening a shared document, functionality not present in the web version, … So much just getting in the way with doing the task you need to do.

So like the reality distortion filter from Inside Out.

I like that you can build a global energy grid with superconductor. Power Europe at night with the solar panels in Australia, that kind of thing.

Then do a military stimulation and assume all American tech had a kill switch triggered. See how far you get.

They’re not going to admit billions were spent for nothing. That’s a good way to get fired. Better to double down until some other excuse appears, like a war causing an economic crash, blame all problems with AI on that and get a promotion.