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I know of younger climate scientists who are - beyond the economic reasons - giving up on the idea of having children. That to bring children into today’s world is to doom them to a brutal and early death in the latter half of this century.

Many of them are even calling themselves “climate pathologists”, in that they are documenting the death of the planetary climate as we know it. And more importantly, the death of a climate in which humanity can survive in.

I have seen some of this pre-published data that they are working on. Take the most nightmarish projections spouted by the media, and those are the best-case scenarios. That the future that they are seeing in the data they are collecting makes civilization unlikely past the 2050s, and human existence itself largely unlikely past 2100.

Collapse is increasingly looking to be terminal in nature.

There are many, many other jobs where you can openly display your religions and no-one will give a shit.

So a government job prevents you from doing so. Boo hoo. Find a different job, then. Religion isn’t a “disability” that needs protecting other than demonstrating a wholesale lack of effective bullshit detection skills.

I wish the people who did this were known so that we could make their ignorance Internet famous.

Still works perfectly fine under Old Reddit. Was refreshing the page and browsing it just this morning.

Normal people can somewhat cushion themselves from any severe crash.

Debt itself is not the problem. Lots of debt is actually fine - inflationary effects can and will whittle that debt away, assuming you are still servicing it.

No, the real issue comes down to single-family homes on arable land. If your home is debt-free and completely paid off, there is no legal way to take that away from you, and the land it sits on can allow you to grow food for yourself and even sell a little on the side. While a severe economic crash will be painful for most anyone not of the Parasite Class, those who have debt-free arable land have a chance to ride out that crash better than most.

Granted, the devil is in the details, but in broad strokes this is a truism. The difference is between virtual or physical assets that depend on appreciation, and those who can work for you.

Whales are always the most dangerous customer for a company to have. Because once a customer becomes a whale, they can dictate terms under threat of leaving. Or they can create massive secondary damage by their own failing.

Which is why I strongly suspect that many companies will become bankrupt once this AI bubble bursts - and not small ones, either. No, I fully expect nVidia to go into full Chapter 11 and lose 90+% of its value, requiring trillions in bailout in order to “save”.

Anyone who knows anything about boom-bust cycles will be escaping this bubble like rats from a ship.

ANYTHING cloud-connected - your doorbell, your security system, even all f**king post-2006 vehicles, regardless of manufacturer - are suspect.

And are highly likely to be actually spying on you.

I’ve been working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. The proportion of average people who don’t realize how much of their stuff is exposing them, and by how much, is frankly astounding. It’s almost 100% of normies who are woefully ignorant. Even IT people who have no clue is in the majority.

And the security on this stuff that tracks you tends to be - except in rare circumstances - absolute dogshite. Sometimes it comes without any security at all, such as all devices sold having admin creds baked in, or all remote-access credentials being identical and non-user-editable.

This is why almost all of my stuff is hardlined, I have no IoT devices at all, and the wifi for my family’s devices is physically separate from everything else.

Don’t get me wrong, as IT for almost three decades I love all the new shinies. But I’m not blind, and I’m not stupid.

Oh, Albertans can leave Canada, alright… by emigrating through the border to America at the 49th parallel.

Would love to know when the iOS app is coming out.

GenX here - I’m not blind. I’m two shakes away from becoming a full-blown communist myself, from what I have seen.

Capitalism is violently coercive and lethally exploitative. It’s only purpose is to concentrate wealth and power into the hands of a tiny proportion of people, and it does so exceedingly well.

Capitalism is working exactly as intended, which is the reason why it needs to be totally dismantled.

Note: I said capitalism, and not the free market. The two are not the same thing. You could have a completely free market under socialism and even communism, as those are economic systems that ensure workers actually earn the value they produce. Neither system says anything about command economies - that’s an Authoritarian shtick.

It was never about the 2nd amendment. It was all about restricting gun ownership for “the ideologically wrong people”.

Just look at how they came down on the Black Panthers in the 60s, and how “stand your ground” laws work in wildly disproportionate ways to serve only only white cis people.

It’s a racist and bigoted strategy that has absolutely nothing to do with “rights”, except for the selective restriction of them.