It goes with the couch.

20 billion years then we’re all shafted.

Yeah the industry has been in the shit since credit and debit cards. A homeless guy with a chip and pin device to get donations is completely off-message for the brand

Presumably she wasn’t just prepared to ride the beast, she actively wanted to be ruined by it.

She was probably disappointed when the transition happened. She thought she was going to be raw-dogged by the monster.

It isn’t introvertion.

OP said ‘what animal would you be if you were an animal?’

It is insulting to expect everybody to engage in conversation any time some moron expects it.

The respondent, reasonably said ‘I’ll ask chatgpt’ which is a polite way of saying ‘I’m not interested in this shite, Bore off, I’m not eight, leave me alone.’

OP then came online to make a big deal about it, claiming the respondent used chatgpt rather than socialising. Which itself is evidence of OP’s character and evidence as to why one might not want to engage with the boring **** at work.

Wrong. The only thing there is evidence they did is use chatgpt to deflect a fucking boring conversation.

Now please leave me alone. This is all fucking obvious. I am just blocking any respondents to this message in order to avoid timewasting, thanks.

Edit - oh this is an anti-ai sub. OK, so anything done with ai is automatically bad, you have chosen a side and that is that.

:There is much to dislike about ‘ai’ technology - primarily its energy use, but the claims of intelligence is also something reasonable to dislike. There is much more to dislike about the people who own ‘ai’ and the uses they want to put it to, but that is neo-liberal capitalism you should be angry at, not ‘ai’. This sub is misguided at best. Block it is.

I know what socialising is, thanks.

I also know that chatgpt can be better than an asinine conversation with people I work with.

Data centers have become a major economic development battleground for many states, even though they provide relatively few jobs and consume massive amounts of resources.

But someone gets paid. Just like in developing world countries, it’s kickbacks for officials.

I’m happy to be shown I am wrong, but in the meantime let’s call it what it is, and isn’t. It isn’t economic development, it is wealth extraction.

‘If you were an animal what animal would you be?’ is hardly Conan/Dave Letterman level chat fun though, is it?

1. I’d probably choose chatgpt over that kind of conversation with colleagues.

2. Imagine Conan or Dave using ‘if you were an animal what animal would you be?’ as an opening gambit with a guest.

‘I’ll vote for people who support genocide if they will pass a little bit less publicly owned infrastructure into the hands of private capital’ is a pathetic position to take.

It absolutely is not worthy of respect.

Clearly this premise, upon which your further exchanges are based, is complete bullshit.

You are a troll, presumably one for whom any response is a win. It gives you a little dopamine hit.

What a pathetic place to get to. There are a million ways to get a dopamine hit less pathetic than this, including all of the major addictive drugs.

Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…

Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’

1. US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.

2. America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.

An office-friendly version of this would greatly improve my well-being so productivity at work.

‘He’ (the US) owe it in large part to the world, who were forced to buy us debt in order to buy oil. China is the biggest holder of US debt iirc.

The US’s voluntary withdrawal from the post ww2 economic order (from which it profited greatly) has absolutely hastened and cemented this process of ‘dedollarisation’.

This debt is coming due, the strength of the dollar has already dropped greatly, US interest rates will rise. The US dollar will be cheap enough to compete with India and China to be the world’s factory (a major part of Trump’s election campaign and success).

It won’t happen all at once as the world will look to manage America’s decline while trying to maintain as stable a transition as possible.

But please be aware, this debt is going to come due and it has absolutely been hastened by Americans voting for Trump a second time. Fore warned is forearmed. Good luck.

I’ll build my own cooling and temperature monitoring system

I bunged mine in the fridge, just drill a hole out of the side for the cables then use rubber sealant.

It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves ‘Democrats’ v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can’t afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.

Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.

None of it really matters all that much to me, at this point. But I am pretty sure that humankind having some sort of potentially achievable long term goal, and crucially (when it comes to trying to stop climate change) tries to fight a battle that isn’t already lost, is the only way forward.

Maybe the long term fight we can still win is ‘Can we do enough to keep the possibility that humans might become extinct over the coming centuries off the table at 2100’.

All of the references you have ascribed to me are wrong.

I have not stated that I am pro or anti anything.

When presented with a fact that doesn’t match the reality that an individual has (co-)constructed they have to reject the fact, because they can’t reject reality. When they can’t reject the fact the change it - as you have here. When they can’t do that they diminish the fact by attacking the individual; (again, as you have here, by insinuating that I am ‘kinda sus’).

Other than that, whatever. Forewarned is forearmed but of course feel free to ignore — it doesn’t affect me either way. Good luck.

Undoubtedly the world is dedollarising, at which point the US’s deficit falls due. Currently any country that buys US debt pays US defence spending. The US has reneged on its obligations in terms of supporting democratic countries, so this stops.

What do Americans think a trillion dollar defence bill, $200 billion on a modern day SS is going to do to the US economy when the world walks away? And be clear, this process is happening.

For the rest of the world it is about managing a belligerent and unreliable US in the interim period in terms of stability so this process will not happen all at once. Maybe China would dump its holding of US debt in a war situation, but ideally this will not happen.

Without the rest of the world supporting the dollar as reserve currency the US is looking at something like a Soviet Union scale collapse.

The EU openly indicating their intention to abandon swift and the WTO, the price of the dollar are clear signs that what has been happening quietly is now being openly declared. A second vote for Trump can’t be written of as an error.

So yeah, that is how it is going.

America thinks it can run deficits to fund this sort of shit, and billionaire tax breaks. And it expects the world to buy US debt, in dollars, that the US prints, to at least partially pay for it.

Not only that, but Trump seems to not only expects this post ww2 economic order to continue, he seems to think this is going to happen while it not only withdraws military support to many of the people who financed the US’s post war prosperity in this manner, but while he is actively supporting those people’s enemies. Lol.

Under Trump the US is definitely heading for an economic collapse on the order of the collapse of the Soviet Union. When it happens, and how quickly is anybody’s guess, but the post WW2 economic order (from which the US greatly benefited) is definitely, irrevocably done.

Debt is coming due.