Because we’re smart as fuck by comparison. Like have you ever seen even a fully grown deer playing Minecraft? A 5 year old can human can play Minecraft. Don’t see no horses doing potential differential equations, heck even a pretty immature human can be taught integration. You should see fish trying to assemble iPhones, they absolutely shite at it.

There’s a Welsh lady Alex Jones too. She’s much nicer.

Are you a mechanic?

Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it’s due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.

The vroom vroom noises are good too.

Interestingly I’ve a relative who used to be a car salesman and still gets invited to dealer events occasionally - he was telling me about an electric he got to test a year or so back, it had a simulated gear shift/gear knob setup. He said people were loving it.

Never have I witnessed power over big pharma like when they start to run ads claiming the NHS in the UK are not paying enough so people are dying (I’m paraphrasing here, but honestly it’s not a million miles off).

It sounded pretty childish/desperate and the ads dried up quick.

I agree it wasn’t singlehanded, but he does seem to have opened the floodgates somewhat. I’m not super pro capitalist either fwiw. I’m down with a system that is functionally successful. With appropriate controls capitalism does seem to be a functional and successful system. However the controls are not being used, they’re not being updated to reflect modernity and benefitting workers is not incentivised.

Tearing everything down isn’t necessarily the solution to that. First off we need a system that works and then we need a pathway to that system. We also need it to be implemented and in a way that doesn’t result in millions worse off or suffering worse than they are.

I’m all up for AI replacing makework jobs (or just getting rid of them). What do we do with the people who are out of work? UBI is probably a start, but who or what in any major country is pushing for this and is in a position to implement it?

As an example raising the employers national insurance contribution in the UK brings out cries of “oh this is unfair on companies” for companies that are making billions in profit, giving money away will have some people in fits (people this would directly benefit).

Quality of life focused improvements would be nice. I don’t think I’ve any solutions, maybe salary sacrifice socialism - government competition for some things where they can offer efficiencies or benefits. Government offer me a package, I can pay xyz extra out of my wages and there’s a government run hello fresh or mobile network or broadband supplier or mortgage scheme or house repair scheme. I’m free to source my own or to use the government one. It sets a baseline and ot can run on very fine margins. It’s probably full of flaws but it’s the best I’ve got.

In terms of successful economic systems I feel they’ve gotten there by evolution rather than revolution - but I’ll also happily admit I’m no economist.

On the other points I think we’re there or thereabouts on the same page. There’s a great behind the bastards series on Jack Welch Part 1 and part 2

It was pretty revelatory for me as to why everything feels like it’s going down the pan. I’m not a “the past was better” type in general - but in this specific instance I definitely am. Feels like the social contract isn’t being held up by both sides. The reason the US got so good at stuff was investment in people, now it’s mostly a quick grift and memories are short. People are genuinely convinced this is the way it’s always been - I was the same until I listened to those episodes.

Hard to see a way back, CEOs are judged on stock price and will get turfed if they try and do the things they need to be doing to make this better (not defending CEOs here - pointing out there’s no incentive for change).

I could rant and it’s getting late, but what’s the real tangible feasible pathway we start working towards?

Well, see, I thought I’d read the article and I got as far as the graph expecting to see a drop-off - what it actually shows is fewer people think things are on the wrong track than in January. As a whole they think it’s getting better.

Centuries?

The thing is revolution hardly ever works. Step one, make capitalism better. It used to be better, it has gotten worse. You can thank Jack Welsh for that.

Once we’re no longer playing find the glitch to improve the stock price and we start building value things will improve. Then we can keep on fucking improving until shit is good.

I don’t see what this has to do with anything. It’s a super specific scenario, should I wear a helmet around all day because I wear one to protect my head on a bike?

It’s kinda like my google ethos, Google are already spying on me, I might as well use their phone and then Samsung aren’t spying on me as well.

I’m not sure if you’re saying this a good thing or a bad thing?

Don’t know how legal it is for govt usage, but people have been uploading photos to Meta for more than a decade at this point, directly associating their image with their identity.

I’m not trying to belittle the contribution of Valve or Proton or anything, completely agree it’s a massive contributor. There’s also a lot of work done by a lot of people to get us to that point (and tbh I flipped a long time ago and did more console gaming, so I kinda see it from the opposite perspective - proton has brought back PC gaming for me rather than allowing me to break free of windows.)

Not everything is vidjagames

I like you

Amazing how many names here I recognise! I doubt I’ve personally made a super significant impression outside a few arguments 😂

Can confirm, have had mythical beast in house for a couple of decades at this point. Doesn’t do any harm so long as we keep some coins taped to the wall nearby, protects the place otherwise.