Every day, it’s some new way ta grift at the expense of the American people.

It’s sad how many people apparently failed high school civics.

Tariffs are designed to increase prices of foreign goods in order to reduce external economic advantage and encourage buying American. The problem is that Trump’s tariffs are indescriminate and completely ignore the fact that certain things just aren’t produced in the US, increasing prices on things where there is no American made alternative. So, ya know, a tax hike disguised as a way to harm other countries for all the rubes.

Try explaining this to literally anyone who thinks the tariffs are a good idea. Trump loves the uneducated.

I remember the days wyen every product was required ta have a price tag on it to avoid similar situations long before AI. You’d see a label in the aisle, then get charged a different price at the register.

Wanna bet they try that move again next? Using facial recognition and buying habits, upcharge the customer when they get to the register based on high confidence that the customer isn’t paying close attention.

Does anyone think the FAA went way overboard with the airspace shutdown on purpose? It makes me think they were intentionally drawing attention to the situation.

Here’s my take: Like google, stackoverflow, and so on, AI is yet another tool in your toolbox. It can’t replace humans yet, and in fact it’s a ways off from that if you ask me. Not that it won’t eventually be able to do it, but it can’t yet. You said yourself, there are still elements that the AI just can’t do yet.

I like that I can say “hey AI, here’s what I need” and have it generate what I would consider a good framework to start from. It helps me eliminate the boring, time consuming stuff that I could easily do on my own. Your value comes in that other 20% now. The stuff that requires higher level understanding.

A big problem is that AI is creating technical debt in the form of deep understanding and expertise. You have the benefit of years of experience. You are the guru now.

There have also been analyses into the volume of traffic used at rest vs. the amount used during pretty much anything else including conversations with digital assistants. Those found that there wasn’t enough data being transferred for it to be voice recordings.*

*I don’t remember where I read this. I’m just one guy on the intternet. Quesion the veracity of my comment.

I could only get a quarter way through this article before feeling true exsistential dread

Hit them where it hurts - their pocketbooks. Corporations do not care if you march around in the streets. They don’t care if you say mean things about them. What they do care about is a decline in profits.

If enough people stop shopping in these places, and it makes any noticible change in ther profits, they’ll start lobbying for politicians to do something about it. You can’t reach your elected officials in any meaningful way. Target and other major corporations can.

I swear I could feel my own mental health declining

Yep. That’s the point of Facebook now: Get angry. Keep scrolling. Hate your neighbors and not your rulers. Consume. Come back when you need another angerboner.