FPS don't teach you shit about real life combat. I have no problem believing that soldiers play video games and justify that by saying "it's training", I certainly did play video games when I was in the military, but it doesn't change that the excuse of training is complete bullshit.
You forgot left-wing extremism and feminism in your list. You won't have the/. of your youth if you also don't exclude those extremist, intolerant, and hateful groups.
Please, leave your imagination aside, and stick to science. Even the worst case scenario won't make the Earth uninhabitable for humans. Not even close. As you mentioned, the biggest problem with climate is the sea level rising, but it won't disrupt us much, other than having to invest in sea walls. The second-biggest problem will be several countries will have to invest in desalination plants and irrigation systems. Climate change will end up costing us money, but it will never be the catastrophe that people like you want it to be.
It's not even about political beliefs anymore. It's about emotions, and more specifically virtue signaling. And it's not only with Americans, it's with most people living in Western societies, particularly white people. "Hello, I live in the West, I'm white, let me virtue signal."
I now live in Canada, but I still have my French citizenship. I still have my European passport. I still can vote in French and European elections. So let me speak as a European...
The EU won't survive. Brexit made matters worse. First, the EU will now have to find a way to compensate for the $13 billion net annual income coming from the UK. So either the EU will have to give less to Eastern countries, which would mean Eastern countries won't see the point in staying in the EU (particular in this post-migrant era), or it would mean even more money from Western European countries, which apart from Germany, will hurt their economy.
But more importantly, since the economic catastrophe that Brussels predicted for the UK didn't happen, and obviously won't happen, it means the doom and gloom argument for staying in the EU won't scare anyone anymore.
Having said that, you are right about one thing, censoring content like the EU is trying to do is hurting them badly. It is certainly one of the reasons for the rise of "far-right" political parties everywhere in Europe. Censoring ideas doesn't work, and the fact the EU is trying to play this game is a proof the it is becoming desperate.
Oh, and nudity doesn't have much to do with freedom of expression. What freedom of expression must protect is the expression of ideas (even those you don't like), and there's not much idea in a nipple.
That's why we have managers, so they can distribute tasks to each person. The one who is doing the coding does not need to "collaborate", he only needs to do his task. Of course, the problem is most managers now have absolutely no clue what to do, so they just let employees try to organize themselves, that is they let coders do the manager's job.
You just repeated the nonsensical argument of the industry. I do think the "overrated" mod was appropriate.
Is it possible that a repair shop would install a Trojan horse on one of their customers' devices? I guess. Is it probable? No. Believe it or not, but not every technician is a criminal who wants to empty your bank account and then flee the country.
Do you also believe company should forbid people to change their hard drive and to reinstall the OS on their computer because they would end up being "controlled like a puppet?"
I'm not American, I live in Canada, and I certainly admit posting a lot of comments on social networks during the last US election. Worse, a lot of prominent Canadian figures made comment after comment on social networks about both Trump and Clinton. I'm sure Canadians posted more than 200,000 tweets. So why not accuse Canada of interfering with the US elections?
Maybe Facebook should get back to baby pictures, but then YouTube should get back to cat videos. Both platforms are against the free expression of ideas, and both are trying to influence politics. To me, allowing big corporations to control ideas and politics is part of fascism.
What is worrying is that jobs still available require more and more qualifications... qualifications that a lot of people can't get because of a lack of intellectual abilities. I live in Quebec. Here, there are about 53% of the adult population (between 18 and 65) who doesn't reach level 3 in literacy. What will those people be able to do in a modern society where automation is everywhere?
Now it's true that in the case of Quebec we have a lot of immigrants. And thanks to our socialist policies, many of therm never cared to learn either French or English. So that explains in part this very high number of people who can't reach the minimum level of literacy. Still, it doesn't change that those 53% of people between 18 and 65 must have access to low qualification jobs, or they won't be able to get a job at all.
The article is about the 2018 list, not the 1968 list. 50 years ago, the US was the most innovative country on the planet. No other country could be compared to the US. But since the 80s, the US is clearly falling behind. What made the US such a great country started to die during the 80s. I'm not American, so I'm not qualified to state exactly what went wrong, but it's clear the US need a political party who truly believes in "MAGA" (not just a president with very limited power).
I specifically said waiters will not get replaced. What I said is that people working in the kitchen, the one you don't see, are the ones who will be replaced.
If there was no automation, then I would agree with you. I would not say "huge boon", but I would agree increasing the minimum wage would benefit retail.
But automation has become so cheap that it is now an option that can be applied to almost every minimum wage job, including jobs in restaurants. Waiters won't be replaced, but automation will hit kitchen employees.
If people who will lose their minimum wage jobs because of automation can find another one, then maybe restaurants will see a bit of an increase in revenue (certainly not a "huge boon"), but that's a very big if. To me, the most probable consequence of raising the minimum wage will be an increase in automation, which will result in an increase in unemployment, which will result in a decrease of revenue for retail and restaurants.
I believe the only thing that could create a significant increase in restaurants is Universal Basic Income. So instead of increasing the minimum wage, let's create a Universal Basic Income of $100 per month.
From what I've seen, most customers seem to accept them. In the case of the Dollarama I go from time to time, I'd say customers don't have much of a choice anyway. It's either waiting in line for the one remaining cashier (there were four cashiers before), or going to one of the eight automatic cashiers. Of course, the machines Dollarama installed accept cash, including coins.
If I look at the Maxi (a grocery store) near where I live, the technology was slow to be adopted by customers, but it's now been two years and they are now a significant number of people who got used to them. Maxi also advertises an "all tellers open" time, but as soon as there is some waiting, which happens even when all tellers are open, people with few items go to the automatic cashiers if they are available.
I'd say the store where automatic cashiers are the least popular is Walmart. The machines they installed don't accept cash and, because of the lack of space, they are not practical for anyone with more than a few items.
For stores where people buy a lot of items, I'm guessing the real change will be when the technology is integrated directly into the shopping carts.
Some dollar stores (Dollarama in Quebec) have now replaced most of their cashiers with automatic cashiers, and those stores are really not in the B2B market. Between online shopping and machines, there won't be many retail employees 15 years from now.
Worse, self-driving cars will probably kill most of the remaining retail stores anyway. People will order their milk and bread online, a robot in a warehouse will put it in the delivery car, and the customer will get it at his door. Walmart killed a lot of retail stores, Amazon will kill what's left.
Reading comprehension is a lot more about intelligence (as in "g factor") than education, and even the best school system can't raise the intelligence of a person. Practicing reading regularly will make someone a bit better at reading comprehension, but not by much.
Talk about not having a clue. Iran is supporting the Syrian regime and considers Russia as an ally. It's either Turkey (although Putin said it wasn't them), Saudi Arabia, Israel or the US.
When I was born, there was 3.5 billion people on this planet. Now there is about 7.5 billion people. Because of technological progress, we could all live a great life. Unfortunately, "selfish" people decided to have children.
Because I decided to never have children, even if I'd drive a hummer and never cared about recycling, I would still be less "selfish" than people who chose to have children.
Since there are no laws forbidding people to create their own jobs (as in being self-employed), someone offering you a job is not mandatory at all. As for anti-discrimination laws, they are anti-liberty, anti-competition, and they have no valid reason to exist other than some bullshit ideologies.
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FPS don't teach you shit about real life combat. I have no problem believing that soldiers play video games and justify that by saying "it's training", I certainly did play video games when I was in the military, but it doesn't change that the excuse of training is complete bullshit.
You forgot left-wing extremism and feminism in your list. You won't have the /. of your youth if you also don't exclude those extremist, intolerant, and hateful groups.
Please, leave your imagination aside, and stick to science. Even the worst case scenario won't make the Earth uninhabitable for humans. Not even close. As you mentioned, the biggest problem with climate is the sea level rising, but it won't disrupt us much, other than having to invest in sea walls. The second-biggest problem will be several countries will have to invest in desalination plants and irrigation systems. Climate change will end up costing us money, but it will never be the catastrophe that people like you want it to be.
It's not even about political beliefs anymore. It's about emotions, and more specifically virtue signaling. And it's not only with Americans, it's with most people living in Western societies, particularly white people. "Hello, I live in the West, I'm white, let me virtue signal."
What is funny is that those you call "neo-Nazi" also consider themselves as "the resistance" (as they try to fight neo-Marxism).
I now live in Canada, but I still have my French citizenship. I still have my European passport. I still can vote in French and European elections. So let me speak as a European...
The EU won't survive. Brexit made matters worse. First, the EU will now have to find a way to compensate for the $13 billion net annual income coming from the UK. So either the EU will have to give less to Eastern countries, which would mean Eastern countries won't see the point in staying in the EU (particular in this post-migrant era), or it would mean even more money from Western European countries, which apart from Germany, will hurt their economy.
But more importantly, since the economic catastrophe that Brussels predicted for the UK didn't happen, and obviously won't happen, it means the doom and gloom argument for staying in the EU won't scare anyone anymore.
Having said that, you are right about one thing, censoring content like the EU is trying to do is hurting them badly. It is certainly one of the reasons for the rise of "far-right" political parties everywhere in Europe. Censoring ideas doesn't work, and the fact the EU is trying to play this game is a proof the it is becoming desperate.
Oh, and nudity doesn't have much to do with freedom of expression. What freedom of expression must protect is the expression of ideas (even those you don't like), and there's not much idea in a nipple.
That's why we have managers, so they can distribute tasks to each person. The one who is doing the coding does not need to "collaborate", he only needs to do his task. Of course, the problem is most managers now have absolutely no clue what to do, so they just let employees try to organize themselves, that is they let coders do the manager's job.
You just repeated the nonsensical argument of the industry. I do think the "overrated" mod was appropriate.
Is it possible that a repair shop would install a Trojan horse on one of their customers' devices? I guess. Is it probable? No. Believe it or not, but not every technician is a criminal who wants to empty your bank account and then flee the country.
Do you also believe company should forbid people to change their hard drive and to reinstall the OS on their computer because they would end up being "controlled like a puppet?"
I'm not American, I live in Canada, and I certainly admit posting a lot of comments on social networks during the last US election. Worse, a lot of prominent Canadian figures made comment after comment on social networks about both Trump and Clinton. I'm sure Canadians posted more than 200,000 tweets. So why not accuse Canada of interfering with the US elections?
Since anal probes are aliens #1 pastime, I'd say they are rapists!
More seriously, I'm tired of people like you who use any opportunity possible to push their political agenda. Get a fucking life.
Maybe Facebook should get back to baby pictures, but then YouTube should get back to cat videos. Both platforms are against the free expression of ideas, and both are trying to influence politics. To me, allowing big corporations to control ideas and politics is part of fascism.
What is worrying is that jobs still available require more and more qualifications... qualifications that a lot of people can't get because of a lack of intellectual abilities. I live in Quebec. Here, there are about 53% of the adult population (between 18 and 65) who doesn't reach level 3 in literacy. What will those people be able to do in a modern society where automation is everywhere?
Now it's true that in the case of Quebec we have a lot of immigrants. And thanks to our socialist policies, many of therm never cared to learn either French or English. So that explains in part this very high number of people who can't reach the minimum level of literacy. Still, it doesn't change that those 53% of people between 18 and 65 must have access to low qualification jobs, or they won't be able to get a job at all.
That's what is worrying.
The article is about the 2018 list, not the 1968 list. 50 years ago, the US was the most innovative country on the planet. No other country could be compared to the US. But since the 80s, the US is clearly falling behind. What made the US such a great country started to die during the 80s. I'm not American, so I'm not qualified to state exactly what went wrong, but it's clear the US need a political party who truly believes in "MAGA" (not just a president with very limited power).
I specifically said waiters will not get replaced. What I said is that people working in the kitchen, the one you don't see, are the ones who will be replaced.
If there was no automation, then I would agree with you. I would not say "huge boon", but I would agree increasing the minimum wage would benefit retail.
But automation has become so cheap that it is now an option that can be applied to almost every minimum wage job, including jobs in restaurants. Waiters won't be replaced, but automation will hit kitchen employees.
If people who will lose their minimum wage jobs because of automation can find another one, then maybe restaurants will see a bit of an increase in revenue (certainly not a "huge boon"), but that's a very big if. To me, the most probable consequence of raising the minimum wage will be an increase in automation, which will result in an increase in unemployment, which will result in a decrease of revenue for retail and restaurants.
I believe the only thing that could create a significant increase in restaurants is Universal Basic Income. So instead of increasing the minimum wage, let's create a Universal Basic Income of $100 per month.
From what I've seen, most customers seem to accept them. In the case of the Dollarama I go from time to time, I'd say customers don't have much of a choice anyway. It's either waiting in line for the one remaining cashier (there were four cashiers before), or going to one of the eight automatic cashiers. Of course, the machines Dollarama installed accept cash, including coins.
If I look at the Maxi (a grocery store) near where I live, the technology was slow to be adopted by customers, but it's now been two years and they are now a significant number of people who got used to them. Maxi also advertises an "all tellers open" time, but as soon as there is some waiting, which happens even when all tellers are open, people with few items go to the automatic cashiers if they are available.
I'd say the store where automatic cashiers are the least popular is Walmart. The machines they installed don't accept cash and, because of the lack of space, they are not practical for anyone with more than a few items.
For stores where people buy a lot of items, I'm guessing the real change will be when the technology is integrated directly into the shopping carts.
When society gets to that point, Universal Basic Income will be implemented to avoid civil war.
Some dollar stores (Dollarama in Quebec) have now replaced most of their cashiers with automatic cashiers, and those stores are really not in the B2B market. Between online shopping and machines, there won't be many retail employees 15 years from now.
Worse, self-driving cars will probably kill most of the remaining retail stores anyway. People will order their milk and bread online, a robot in a warehouse will put it in the delivery car, and the customer will get it at his door. Walmart killed a lot of retail stores, Amazon will kill what's left.
What makes you think that a human's reading comprehension skill is anything more than some kind of "lookup" skill?
Reading comprehension is a lot more about intelligence (as in "g factor") than education, and even the best school system can't raise the intelligence of a person. Practicing reading regularly will make someone a bit better at reading comprehension, but not by much.
Talk about not having a clue. Iran is supporting the Syrian regime and considers Russia as an ally. It's either Turkey (although Putin said it wasn't them), Saudi Arabia, Israel or the US.
I never said "thank you" to an ATM, but there are times when I insulted them.
Ido is indeed better than Esperanto, but it's still not good enough.
When I was born, there was 3.5 billion people on this planet. Now there is about 7.5 billion people. Because of technological progress, we could all live a great life. Unfortunately, "selfish" people decided to have children.
Because I decided to never have children, even if I'd drive a hummer and never cared about recycling, I would still be less "selfish" than people who chose to have children.
Since there are no laws forbidding people to create their own jobs (as in being self-employed), someone offering you a job is not mandatory at all. As for anti-discrimination laws, they are anti-liberty, anti-competition, and they have no valid reason to exist other than some bullshit ideologies.