No leopards ate this man’s face. I guarantee you, he will suffer no negative consequences for screwing his constituents over. In fact, he will most likely be rewarded for it.

If AI can replace so many people that there aren’t jobs for them all, wouldn’t that also mean AI is producing enough to sustain those people, jobs or not?

Unfortunately, that isn’t what’s happening. AI isn’t “producing” anything that people need to survive. It’s just replacing people. We aren’t seeing any net gains to society that would be able to support so many people no longer being needed in the workforce.

If they were training AI to produce food, build housing or anything that people actually need more of right now, I would say you are absolutely correct to assume that people would be just fine with this transition. But that’s not what they’re using AI for.

Optimistically, AI could and definitely should be used for those things…and the logical conclusion would be to implement a form of UBI so that we can all benefit from this. But do you honestly see that happening?

I don’t. And I think that’s what OP is also seeing. We aren’t ready, as a species, to make that transition yet. There isn’t even the slightest intention on behalf of our current leadership, of providing for an entire population of jobless people. They will ultimately be left to fend for themselves. And as it stands right now, society isn’t equipped to function with that kind of excess population.

I have a very hard time believing that all of a sudden, this clown gives a shit about “debt slaves”. There is no way he’s complaining about us peons having to pay for all this spending.

He sure as fuck didn’t care how his funding cuts were going to affect the peasant class when he was gleefully setting fire to all our social safety nets…so what the hell is he even talking about?

It’s not necessary about their “value” to society. People need to eat in order to survive. That means having a way of supporting themselves. Having no way of supporting themselves means a lot of people are going to die.

I’d say that’s a net negative to society.

And the problem runs deeper than “retraining” or “upskilling”. With the emergence of technologies that replace human workers…there will simply be a massive excess of unemployed workers hitting the market. Period. Skills or not. Where are they going to work, when there are now ten people applying for every available job?

This asshole really needs to resign, if this is how he feels about doing his fucking job. If you want to spend time with your family at the beach so badly…by all means, get the fuck out of office and make room for someone who actually gives a shit.

Which is exactly why things like DEI need to be taught in schools.

If parents are racist…they teach their kids to be racist. And that comes out when they go to school and encounter other kids that their parents have taught them to hate. There is no better place to push back on that, than in the place where they encounter those other kids.

Teachers should not be forced to turn a blind eye to that hate. They should be required to teach kids a better way of interacting with each other, because it solves two major problems at once…

A)…it provides every kid in that school with a safer learning environment.

And B)…it might actually prevent some of those kids from growing up to also teach their kids to be racist, and end the generational learning curve that perpetuates racism in the 1st place.

Lol! What the actual fuck? No.

Not if it’s still running.

He should team up with Andrew Yang. Just a couple of rich boys, fighting against the system. Good times. /s

I honestly don’t understand how these asshats can think that “diversity” doesn’t also include white folks. Or that “equity” doesn’t also include white folks. Or the “inclusion” doesn’t also include white folks.

Teaching kids to respect each other, regardless of their race, religion, sex or gender, is never a bad thing.

(settles back and puts feet up with a giant bowl of popcorn)

And STILL manages to ADD trillions to the national debt.

The entire basis for the Constitution’s Bill of Rights, was to strike a balance between State and Federal power. It is a contract agreed to, by all parties. And contract law is very clear on what happens when one side breaches their contractual obligations.

These threats by Trump constitute a breach of that contract. If the States withholding tax revenue is considered illegal, then so is withholding Federal funding from the States. The State pays for those benefits, through their tax revenue. The Federal government has no right to withhold those benefits, without also voiding the contract that requires payment.

You don’t have to pay for services you did not receive.

How do gorillas, chimpanzees and humans all exist at the same time?

This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.

Compared to the Cybertruck’s design, I don’t think having a LIDAR antenna on top of the car is so bad.

“LIDAR is so lame! Who needs to be able to accurately map their surroundings, when our cars can get confused by a shadow passing across one of their lenses, just like humans do? It’s so much more efficient to be blinded by fog, or low light conditions.”

• Moron Musk, for some reason.

It literally is. He acted through executive orders alone, and .managed to wipe out billions in debt, in several waves. Unfortunately though, those orders were eventually blocked by Republicans, who challenged them in court…but not before millions of Americans had their debts erased.

This is exactly how Biden managed to forgive millions of people’s student loan debts, before Republicans had the chance to stop him in court.

So, they’re limiting judges’ ability to…checks notes…uphold the Constitution in court?