I appreciate your well thought-out post and everything, but what the hell does that have to do with TRUMP and the RUSSIANS? Can't we just talk about that All The Time, like CNN?
"it was likely that increased automation would create new, better jobs, so employment and wages would eventually return to their previous levels"
Too fucking bad about that 'eventually' part - it ain't gonna happen this time because now *thinking* is being outsourced to machines. And in any field where automation is introduced the competition for the remaining, disappearing jobs become cutthroat, with often only the most ruthless gaining/retaining work. But of course, now these remaining workers are under the gun and susceptible to abuse by employers (or else they get replaced faster). Not to mention wage depression.
This whole automation thing is not going to end well. Or we'll end up with massive taxes levied on companies unless they hire people for phoney-baloney, meaningless, makework jobs (adult daycare, essentially) - jobs that will pay the absolute minimum, with no chance for advancement.
The fact that it'd take centuries to achieve means that progress would be impossible to measure effectively so everyone would just have to believe that "improvement" was happening.
If we have to go in one direction with CO2 concentration it should be up, not down. Like temperature, which is preferable: warmer or colder?
There is never much focus on the benefits, only the (potential) downsides.
These and other aspects of the whole neverending crisis-mongering convinces me that it's a money and power grab.
The cute graphic of their automated system at their website is nice but we all know that it's really thousands of H-1B workers with foreign masters degrees doing all the work in a hidden basement. And you know what the guy who invented the robot arm first used it for/testing it with? Pussy grabbing!
They can't balance budgets, reduce violent crime in notoriously bad areas, stop economic decline but love to posture and pose about SavingThePlanet while spending Other People's Money. What's wrong with this picture?
"CO2 and temperature have NOT moved in unison. In fact, during the Jurassic, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere plummeted while temperatures rose. The same thing disparity occurred in the Eocene. It is therefore not possible to demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between CO2 and temperature over the long-term history. Carbon is not the enemy. It is actually the reason that we are alive.”
It's all about the headlines, flash messaging. The public (who are treated as 5th graders by media and marketeers/spinners/manipulators) knows Moore's Law = Magic Technology Something, so just transpose 'Moore's Law' into the Climate Arena as a solution to a problem and wait for the government dollars to flow in in response to public pressure.
Yes, this story is odd... almost if the "scandal" is ginned-up so as to generate Yet Another Story Of Workplace Sexism And Why Something MUST BE DONE NOW (And BTW, Trump Grabs Pussies).
It's just one more "Raising Awareness Moment" rammed into the eyeballs of the reader. Or a attempt to threaten a lawsuit and then settle.
Younger people are usually cheaper and easier to fool and push around. We've outsourced thinking, experience and knowledge to the machine. There's no going back. Welcome to the permanent "Leisure Class" except with no money. We're boned.
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"giving voice to millions of idiots..."
...who now can find validation, affirmation and encouragement for literally any delusional thinking they may have.
How many people are conflating Critical Theory with critical thinking?
I appreciate your well thought-out post and everything, but what the hell does that have to do with TRUMP and the RUSSIANS? Can't we just talk about that All The Time, like CNN?
"it was likely that increased automation would create new, better jobs, so employment and wages would eventually return to their previous levels"
Too fucking bad about that 'eventually' part - it ain't gonna happen this time because now *thinking* is being outsourced to machines. And in any field where automation is introduced the competition for the remaining, disappearing jobs become cutthroat, with often only the most ruthless gaining/retaining work. But of course, now these remaining workers are under the gun and susceptible to abuse by employers (or else they get replaced faster). Not to mention wage depression.
This whole automation thing is not going to end well. Or we'll end up with massive taxes levied on companies unless they hire people for phoney-baloney, meaningless, makework jobs (adult daycare, essentially) - jobs that will pay the absolute minimum, with no chance for advancement.
Bye-bye middle class.
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The fact that it'd take centuries to achieve means that progress would be impossible to measure effectively so everyone would just have to believe that "improvement" was happening.
If we have to go in one direction with CO2 concentration it should be up, not down. Like temperature, which is preferable: warmer or colder?
There is never much focus on the benefits, only the (potential) downsides.
These and other aspects of the whole neverending crisis-mongering convinces me that it's a money and power grab.
But are there boobs?
The cute graphic of their automated system at their website is nice but we all know that it's really thousands of H-1B workers with foreign masters degrees doing all the work in a hidden basement. And you know what the guy who invented the robot arm first used it for/testing it with? Pussy grabbing!
"we must halve carbon dioxide emissions every decade"
At what CO2 PPM do plants and vegetation begin shutting down - 200PPM? We are supposedly at 400PPM now.
They can't balance budgets, reduce violent crime in notoriously bad areas, stop economic decline but love to posture and pose about SavingThePlanet while spending Other People's Money. What's wrong with this picture?
"CO2 and temperature have NOT moved in unison. In fact, during the Jurassic, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere plummeted while temperatures rose. The same thing disparity occurred in the Eocene. It is therefore not possible to demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between CO2 and temperature over the long-term history. Carbon is not the enemy. It is actually the reason that we are alive.”
25+ years of failed, hysterical environmental doomsaying and you're calling skeptics names? Get out of politics, it's rotting your brain.
It's all about the headlines, flash messaging. The public (who are treated as 5th graders by media and marketeers/spinners/manipulators) knows Moore's Law = Magic Technology Something, so just transpose 'Moore's Law' into the Climate Arena as a solution to a problem and wait for the government dollars to flow in in response to public pressure.
Yabbut, we need equal representation in desirable jobs, not in hole-diggers, shit picker-uppers, elephant nose cleaners and HRMs.
Yes, this story is odd... almost if the "scandal" is ginned-up so as to generate Yet Another Story Of Workplace Sexism And Why Something MUST BE DONE NOW (And BTW, Trump Grabs Pussies).
It's just one more "Raising Awareness Moment" rammed into the eyeballs of the reader. Or a attempt to threaten a lawsuit and then settle.
How about they enable multiple tab rows first?
Computers is making us stupids.
"about $2,000 more in disposable income each month"
That's, like, almost 5 new MacBook Pros every year! If you don't count all the adaptors you'd need.
So they're replacing one system of tubes with another system of tubes?
"Owners were able to unlock the remaining 15 kWh through a software update".
What'd happen if it was hacked - explosions? Fires? Crashes?
"automation will, in the long-term, improve society and help humans live better lives"
"When one door closes, another one opens". If you die in the long hallway between the doors, that's YOUR problem.
Enjoy the decline!
Younger people are usually cheaper and easier to fool and push around. We've outsourced thinking, experience and knowledge to the machine. There's no going back. Welcome to the permanent "Leisure Class" except with no money. We're boned.
Why is the grid unstable - from all the subsidized, planet-saving, unpredictable "green" energy sources being added?
You may now commence the name-calling.
The story is about Canada; different there?
Caused by teachers' unions or school administrative types?