Oh yeah, now instead of just getting the license plate and putting out a BOLO, they just killed a 1 year old.

That's because our country was sold a long time ago. The Heritage assholes and Ronny Rayguns took their victory lap 45 years ago.

Obedience and tolerance to the intolerable were beaten into anyone younger than that, and all they had to do was give the 1980s Americans an ever revolving target of innocent minorities to be the vessel of their contempt.

Now there is nothing left to strip from the economy and the billionaires are now desperately looking for another place to loot, and there is nothing left. Thanks to globalism, they already ate the planet.

If we don't find a new way forward, capitalism is going to eat itself and us along with it.

In my opinion, Marx was right about the abolition of private ownership. Ownership is a social contract, and social contracts can change. A lot of wealth disparities come from this system of land ownership that promotes inefficient use of prime real estate through perverse incentives. And an entrenched class of landed gentry will always push a country towards autocracy.

I don't think they are going to have a choice in the end.

Except that isn't the direct energy conversion of a unit of energy. I'm talking basing the economy off of an objective scientific standard.

The petrodollar isn't a good example because it just mandates that oil be traded for in USD, meaning it forced the demand for USD, but the dollar isn't a direct conversion for a unit of oil.

My basis is that electricity (or power in the physics sense) is the currency of reality. Energy states configures matter and govern how it behaves. On an economic level, the entire process of pulling ore from the ground, refining it, and turning it into a finished good requires equipment, which is another sub process requiring some material and energy cost, and energy to run the process. Since we have entered an age where information can be easily gathered via sensors, and processed so quickly, we can transfer to an economy that uses energy as currency directly. Especially as humans are further and further removed from the labor process via technology.

I've been thinking about what comes after, and I think an energy based economy is the future.

Using watts as a currency, since any action in reality requires energy to change it's state. Biological or otherwise.

Covering everyone's basic needs and then distributing the surpluses of energy to people to engage in commerce, research, recreation, etc.

It removes the speculative nature of money, which is a side effect of the abstraction from reality that money is.

I, uh, think we might actually have to do the 2nd amendment thing, folks.

Gotcha-

sudo rm -rf /

The rats are jumping ship, the end must be soon.

That is a policy decision. In places like Saudi Arabia, gas is cheaper than water.

Norway, correctly, invested more into public transit and EVs, and high gas prices encourage that.

I don't care if they are against capitalism, I'm not simping for authoritarians.

Because the US is the largest exporter of petroleum products in the world.

Here a neat fact: Palo Verde, a nuclear power station in Arizona that generates so much power that it is the 2nd largest power plant in the United States is cooled entitrely by the treated waste water from Phoenix.

This is to illustrate that Data centers can be designed to be environmentally friendly, its just the greedy corpo pigshit that demands they suck drinking water out of water tables to power AI that nobody wants.

There is no "AI wave". Machine learning can he incredibly powerful when used properly, and is being used to process scientific and medical data in pursuit of improving humanity's understanding of reality around us.

But that is not what Microslop is pushing. LLMs that exist to chew up RAM, water, and electricity to shit out slop and generate suicidal tendencies in children.

They aren't trying to make copilot useful, they are trying and failing to make it profitable, just like every other LLM.

When the justice system refuses to function, other methods of maintaining order inevitability fill its gap.

That's really what's on America's mind. The Hagia Sophia.

I got a better bill idea.

The Trump-Epstein act: which mandates the death penalty for pedophiles.

The interesting pattern I have seen with this type of parent, is that they often behave more like a cruel older sibling, bullying their child. They have a teenager's mentality and often a child's fear of accountability.

The unfortunate children that have to struggle with this kind of "support structure" grow up to be hyper independent, to the point that it becomes a socialization problem, or become a wreck just like their parent.

It always baffled me how people could become their child's first bully. Like, how are you going to bring someone into existence itself just to fuckin torture them?

Ah yes, the square/rectangle incongruence emerges again