AmericanEconomicThinkTank

Man? Lmao this isn’t the lucky chance of single person.

This is decades worth of work by thousands upon thousands to bring about political change and opportunities for their varying ideologies, albeit central around profiteering, control, and unitary power.

Not even nearly the end of their work either.

I like a challenge as much as the next guy but damn is it disheartening at times.

What did anyone expect anything different?

I’ve been lucky enough to see the real deal in deposition layering testing and research for chip making. From clean-room methods stricter than bio and radiological test lab standards to seeing the wafers with a shimmer even more gorgeous than diamonds to me. It’s so far beyond

We just ain’t going to manage to make that a nation-wide mainstay. We might be able to have started to approach the technical side of things if investments and education were started in the early 90s, but our culture just isn’t up to snuff to keep it going. So much of a society’s culture bleeds into business, and damn do they have it locked down where it needs to be.

I’ll always be a major proponent of voting. I make it a priority to try and work the polls when I can.

But damn, does voting with your wallet work every time. From civil rights to free speech, it just works.

So you know, the next obvious step is to really kick them in the balls and outright replace their businesses on the free market. Bit harder a step but the real ultimate irony would be a resurgence of local communities stepping up utilitization of rebroadcast stations to better inform their populations and improve overall broadcast standards by ensuring proper “free market discourse” as they so often put it.

You know, from a policy and leadership standpoint I can sort of enjoy the process behind working to combat racially prejudiced policy, adopting new and better cultural shifts in existing organizations, being able to foster real appreciation for the American ethos of appreciation of our neighbors, the real melting pot our society is.

Being able to meet someone where they are and enrich their lives through real exposure of different ideas, these their beliefs, and work with them to bring themselves into the modern world is an honestly wonderful experience. One of my favorite memories was a student I had helped to learn half a decades worth of missing reading skills. Young man went from constantly belligerent to anyone and everything around him, slowly to being self confident, more open with people around him, and just be himself. Sure, not the universal experience with the ignorant, can’t teach and old dog new tricks and all that.

But this shit? It’s just so deeply demonstrative of a small man.

Oh the ag. collapse could be, at the very least, interesting.

Bad enough that the lions share of the industry will need major handouts, or more likely that farm after farm will be bought out for land-lease to former owners, and then given handouts to offset purchase price. But, the midwest corporate cash crop farms have been fighting tooth and nail against soil conservation methods just to squeeze a few extra bucks out.

I so hope we don’t end up getting into another dust bowl.

I’d highly recommend folks look at keeping up a community garden or two if possible, or helping out at one if not.

What’s the old metrics?

Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.

The Department of Defense War hasn’t passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.

Of course they’re going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It’s the only thing they’re actually able to do, and barely competently at that.

Modern internet for you.

It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.

Best part: the better names in the alt os and device scenes don’t sell in us markets.

Unless you do the legwork of flashing your own device, most of us are out of luck.

I just love a good market stranglehold.

Eh.

Whats the harm in a little nuclear war here and there?

Maybe a small nuclear winter will offset all this global warming hullabaloo, keep things balanced.

I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.

Nope, language models by inherent nature, xannot be used to calculate. Sure theoretically you could have input parsed, with proper training, to find specific variables, input those to a database and have that data mathematically transformed back into language data.

No LLMs do actual math, they only produce the most likely output to a given input based on trained data. If I input: What is 1 plus 1?

Then given the model, most likely has trained repetition on an answer to follow that being 1 + 1 = 2, that will be the output. If it was trained on data that was 1 + 1 = 5, then that would be the output.

Pick pretty much any forum.

Ah. So business as usual then I take it.

:(

I can understand why he’d like the concept, he can’t think for himself afterall.

Lovely.

Only makes sense. I doubt all those suckers and loosers could know what to do without him.

Trump’s a real war-hero after all. He’s prevented 9 wars this year alone. Just look him, you don’t a well rounded build like his without some serious work.

Cash in pocket doesn’t seem to be a very bonkers reason to me.

Wrong? Sure. Foolish? Absolutely. Short-sighted? No doubt.

But bonkers? Who wouldn’t sell their fellow man out for a few extra bucks? Hell, a nice new RV sure sounds nice, maybe a vacation to go along with it.

Not even the first time he’s talked about these things, really seems to love the idea, Space-age Technology and all that. Wonder if it’s along the same thinking all these ultra-rich autocrats have, only last month or so Putin and Xi were talking life extension.

Hope deep down, somewhere a part of them knowe they’re wasting their lives on petty nonsense.