BashfulBob [none/use name]

John Henry versus the Machine but it’s you against an army of auto-dialers

Of course the fucking comments section is swallowing that line uncritically

Good chance its just Fed-to-Fed communication. So much of the internet is just saturated with manufactured consent.

AI is really the last gasp of the USA in terms of trying to outpace the crisis of capitalism

People said this in 2020 during COVID and 2008 with the housing bust.

The US can outpace the collapse because it controls an international currency that commands trade markets. That’s why we can just keep buying more widgets forever, for the next widget milling project to make fake economic activity.

The real thing that will kill the American economy is a collapse in the price of fossil fuels. But I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one.

Or maybe we’ll just move on to the Next Thing, like we did after the VR and Crypto markets flopped.

So long as you can print new cash faster than bag holders can go bankrupt, we can keep running this thing forever.

If anyone important gets caught holding a bag, bailout and move on.

We can fairly easily build a space station around Mars.

Alright. Let me know where you’re at in a week.

What is a solar panel if not a very tiny contribution to a Dyson Sphere future?

Me, an alien, staring at Earth: “Listen, it’s a nice fantasy, but there’s no way anything can survive on that planet with the enormous amounts of corrosive and deadly oxygen. Also, the barometric pressure is way too low to support a colony. And don’t get me started on the solar radiation. You know what alpha rays do to our skin.”

Idk if I’d call this a particularly trustworthy news source. It feels extremely click-baity.

Having a real “Hard Times Make Strong People” moment in China right now.