Except AI doesn’t say “Is this it?”

It says, “This is it.”

Without hesitation and while showing you a picture of a dog labeled cat.

You literally are.

Demand doesn’t wane… The demand is just for an affordable entry level EV.

You’re not, OP…

also, feels pretty obvious you haven’t been involved in bidding jobs before - these initial numbers set expectations. If “dad” valued the kid’s talent and time, he would have said, “they’ll give you a number” and/or the message to kid would not have been closed, it would have been open. So instead of, “you’ll do this, thanks bye” it would be a question to kid prior saying, “I know a lot goes into your work, is $500 a good ballpark to give my friend for something like this?”

It’s about expectations and entitlement - you’re essentially my property, so I decided it would be this is indicative of a problem with “dad’s” approach.

If he was serious, your dad seems like a prick that sees you as an appendage that he owns…

This seems as good an opportunity as any to tell him to go fuck himself and learn some boundaries - not sure if you need to hear this, but blood doesn’t get a pass just for being blood. Make ALL the people in your life earn their place there by treating you decently.

He needs a 500 million dollar bond right now…

The files are IN the computer.

Incentive is social praise, respect of your neighbors and personal fulfillment knowing you have a needed skill. When all you’re other needs are met, it could be enough.

I think the main problem here is that a few in this that are thinking 1:1 replacement - I’m not saying the Apple store is going to be fully functional, I’m saying I’ve known and worked with a lot of great engineers that like to solve problems, almost compulsively. If society made sure “the rest was taken care of” so they could do what they did best, they’d put in solid work week each week, help train others, etc.

Also, too many of you are caught up on the 40 hour work week. It’s not needed and in a better structure you’d work less often. I’m realistic, the world won’t get there on my lifetime or maybe ever, but it could work.

This whole detailed dive into silicon aspect specifically is a strawman though, that’s not the point of the discussion.

“But that will make it cost prohibitive to own an SUV!!!”

Yes… Yes it will.

People with the skills show up and collectively make chips, there may be less than produced by typical “blood from a rock” endless growth pacing, but there would at least be enough chips for hospitals, emergency services.

And without the profit motive, the products made would actually be built to last and engineered to be serviceable because there’s actually incentive for them to NOT be disposable.

An exchange of goods and services means you get nothing unless I get something. Maybe OP means everything is given as you take what you need with nothing expected in return.

You grow carrots, you bring them to town once a week. Other lady raises chickens, brings eggs once a week. If you need either you take some. You use the eggs to make cookies, you have extra, you give them away to anyone you see for the day.

First, Facebook isn’t “fine” by any measure - That’s what you call a false premise. Tiktok sees more scrutiny generally, initially because of rightful skepticism of a platform beamed into children’s brains, with partial ownership by the authoritarian government of it’s parent country.

That initial well-founded distrust, along with things like this early on, “TikTok memo directed censorship of users deemed ugly, overweight, or disabled, and banned users for livestreams that criticized governments” were then perpetuated by the lazy, ignorant blind racism from the American far right because they were tools to hate then by people like trump.

P.s. Here’s that article

Just like universal healthcare, these systems only really work to their potential with full participation. If all (commuter cars at least) go electric, the incentive is then there for business/funded science to solve the related problems with generating electricity. We’ve already seen advances in leaps and bounds in recent years, and that’s all with the drag of relatively small participation.

So the answer to your question is that they are currently less beneficial than they could be, but the potential of the platform is clear and superior to internal combustion engines. Emergency rooms triage patients based on severity of injuries - if a patient has a gunshot wound, a broken leg and signs of an early stage cancer, you start with the gunshot wound. People planted firmly in the position you represent with your question (not saying that’s you, OP) are the ones that start to boast that medicine is a failure if the treatment for the gunshot wound doesn’t also cure the cancer - it’s the first and most important step towards the solution in that moment.

I’ve been surprised in recent years how much more smoking has subtly popped back up in media. Most times it’s also not in a way that applies to the plot or illuminates anything you didn’t already know about a character.

Also in sports, things like Nickelodeon getting so involved with the NFL for kids with cartoon recreations of games, etc. They are propping up a new generation of sports hero role models in people like Joe Burrow. For awhile, he’d be celebrating all their victories with trashy cigar parties in the locker room, as like, a kid in his early 20s who just got slimmed by Nickelodeon a few days before?

It’s been pretty odd to see the resurgence in media in the last decade plus.

And just to say it, who owns the wall street journal, boys and girls?

Is “super SEO sites” a catch all term for those 99% filler websites that have a tomato soup recipe (in theory) but actually start out with, “Historical evidence seems to suggest that the tomato was first cultivated in the territory that would eventually become Guam back in 1464…”

I’ve wondered if we had a common reference term for those? I wish it didn’t have a positive connotation though…

It’s really just all held together by such a thin thread isn’t it? The hate has never gone away, it just goes out of style from time to time.

The truth here is so simple and petty… Corporations and the psychopaths who run them saw COVID as a personal sleight, an attack on them personally. Period.

When things started to eventually “Open up” and financial numbers started to recover, it wasn’t enough to just rebound, they had to take revenge on society and get rolling, record profits through gouging, shrinkflation, etc.

Really and truly, this is what happened. Even if they didn’t know what was driving them necessarily, they are such broken narcissists that the motivation was/is, “You took from ME, and there are the severe and prolonged consequences for that”.

100%

I wish it was indifferent and defeated, like the appliances in the Flintstones.

Because fuck you, that’s why.