The more I read from Ed Zitron the more that the AI craze looks like the NFT bubble.
I thought this was something most people knew or assumed - the AI craze started right after NFTs peaked and imploded, so it seemed obvious all involved businesses just pivoted to that to justify past investments and continue taking money from investors.
As long as the ship’s starbucks is still running and the monster vending machines stat stocked, the sailors can stomach eating cardboard
Such graft should also be expected in an endeavor as expansive as this - the MIC and 5 different private space flight companies that dominate the industry in America right now, for example. If they’re accounting for that in their healthcare cost estimations, then they should do the same here.
I forget what the estimate on paying for universal Healthcare was, but I think I saw 200 billion from Biden’s speeches.
This is so much more resource intensive, magnitudes more demanding of logistics, and has infinitely greater points of failure that would lead to disaster and we’re doing that for 20 billion?
Incredible, emphasis on the in- prefix.
Me when I deny I’m in a death cult
Woooooo culture war marketing campaigns for everyone 
My brother in Christ, the conservative brain worms are already here and they didn’t need to understand English to get them
Another big issue, which is a bit more insidious, is drive for cost reduction. Language learning apps and AI aren’t great for gaining fluency, but it is cheaper, which drives down the price for language teachers and assistants. This drives down the price for “native” English teachers, which wouldn’t be so bad on its own, but that cost reduction effect is amplified for non-native English speakers - Japan takes a lot of English speakers from the Phillipines, for example, and pays them damn near NOTHING.
Speaking of gross imperialist hiring practices in Japan, I know of a few manufacturing companies which hire immigrant labor abroad. The pay is bad enough, but since this immigrant labor is usually contracted through a scouting company, a percentage of all their paychecks is going to these leeches. Not only that, but these same companies I’m aware of only hire Japanese descendants in poor countries, namely Brazil. Additionally, if these descendants are more than 3rd or 4th gen descendants, they will not be hired.
“we must secure happy hour for the future of the treatler race”
Dog ate my homework ahh excuse
It’s 2016. James Comey is in the news for performatively opposing Trump.
It’s 2025. James Comey is in the news for performatively opposing Trump (I think, I don’t care why he’s being indicted tbh).
Not scared enough to change policy tho.
Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes
My only criticism of the Al Aqsa flood is that there was no Al Aqsa flood 2
The character Infernus from the hit yet-to-be-officially-realeased game Deadlock has a line he says when he ults that is ringing through my head for some reason right now