Indeed, and I’d argue most of actual useful industry exists outside the west at this point.

UBI is the wrong solution in general in my opinion. The proper approach is to have universal basic services. People should have access to all the basic needs provided unconditionally. I think it will be interesting to see how China will handle automation as it will definitively show whether it is moving towards communism or not. In a capitalist society, rapid automation would mean mass unemployment and economic strife. However, in a socialist society automation can simply translate into having a shorter work week.

more info here https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1204781

If you read the article, you’ll see that these are being used in combination with traditional automation. The advantage of humanoid robots is versatility and ability to work in spaces designed for humans. As a side note, I always find it amusing how people always assume that nobody bothered to think of these obvious arguments before going ahead and building these robots.

This indeed would be a big problem in a capitalist society where people have to work for the sake of working.

The only good Russia is one that’s Balakanized and exploited by western oligarchs.

There’s some truth to that, but realistically speaking I think the window of opportunity on that has closed now. The US has lost every one of their own war games against China in South China Sea. So, if China decided to take military action there’s little the US can do short of starting a nuclear war.

TSMC doesn’t care about preserving anything. The chips being made in Taiwan is their ace card in getting western support. If they ever started making cutting edge fabs elsewhere then their importance to the west would fizzle.

A reminder that wordle started life as a free, vanilla javascript website with no DRM and not owned by the NYT, you can download and run it as a single self contained HTML file from there https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/local_wordle

welcome to the real world child

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

Nah, it’s the same kind of genocide on both tracks, but one track allows liberals to pretend to have morals.

Ah yes, 99% Hitler is obviously a reasonable choice. 🤡

The fact that you don’t understand how utterly imbecilic this argument is means there’s no point having a discussion with you.

The argument basically comes down to you being fine with genocide as long as it doesn’t affect you personally.

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That’s why PSL exists.

That’s right, liberals just want a genocide to be done with a certain level of decorum that allows them to ignore what’s actually happening.

That’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Your whole argument would be like a German in 1930s saying they just have to vote for the nazis because that’s the only option on the table. If you don’t see the absurdity of that then you’re beyond all hope.

Voting for Kamala is a vote for genocide plain and simple. You can do as much sophistry here as you want, but it’s not going to change that simple fact. A better option is obviously to vote for a party like PSL that is not supporting genocide, but again you don’t actually care. You’re fine with genocide being conducted in your name as long as you’re not affected. That’s the truth. You know it and I know it.

Like I said, as long as people being genocided are far away it’s fine. As long as you don’t have to look at the horrors, or be personally affected by them. Shallow self interest doesn’t impress me.