That’s typical of her relationships.

Google used open source as cover to to illegally dump into different industries to expand its monopoly. It did the bare minimum to prepare for the antitrust litigation that never came.

I expect that the takeover of AI is going to be slower than AI companies make it seem. I also expect that AI won’t be run out of major companies as the ownership of data becomes a bigger deal.

One big thing which will become a big deal is that AI is able to take novel approaches to hacking. I suspect that infrastructure will become less connected as it becomes impossible to keep infrastructure operational without an air gap to the Internet.

A lot of kids are going to rely on it for their education and they’ll be incredibly brittle employees. I suspect that screen time will be seen as incredibly toxic to kids.

Social media in general.

Watching a lot of stuff from the era, it seemed to completely miss the mark on how social media as a concept would work.

It is even worse as there are two feet.

Yeah. The attempt was made to convert everything to metric for official government documents, but that just meant most businesses paid people to convert it back for their use.

That usually happens with any of the Wikipedia clones. The Wikimedia Foundation has flaws to how it works, but I’ve yet to see an organization try to replace Wikipedia while trying to keep any semblance of neutrality or impartiality.

People are still using the USAID closure as a point to Trump killing a lot of poor people around the world due to lack of access to medicine and food. The organization seemed to do both, being a psyop campaign while providing some material benefit to the communities they were in since providing aid is really good at winning hearts and minds.

Painting a roof white has shown a measurable lowering of temperature inside the building. Any issues are likely caused by the material used to make the roof white.

If you ever come into some money, whether it be a raise, bonus, or gift, don’t let it sit in your checking account. Move it to somewhere that is able to earn money.

You don’t have to invest in the stock market to invest in a 401k. There are funds dedicated to bonds and you can pick the funds with low overhead ratios. You can even pick treasuries if you really want to.

It is better than shoving it under the mattress.

The Gen Z stare is a rational response to the risk that anyone can pull out their phone and start recording.

I’m describing a step, you’re describing a walk.

There seems to be this weird Schrodinger’s Cat situation where is both the “this isn’t Communism yet” combined with “no, we are creating this on Communist principles”.

And the talking point for the discussion is about China’s form of “Communism” should be replicated across different countries. My statement that China’s economy currently fits a state capitalist model is still valid because China hasn’t full communist like how the Soviet Union never hit full communist. It is a step on the path.

I feel like the argument right now is that I’m using the word capitalism to describe the current step on the path.

That’s a lot of words to reiterate what I said. If China is in a transition state, then it isn’t full communism. Also, China has decentralized some decision making from its planned economy, the “third way” which I reference.

China’s recent development doesn’t really hinge on Marxist-Leninist models. It went heavy into state capitalism to produce a massive improvement in the economy. I feel like China’s main innovation was to create an investment model that was company agnostic; private companies competed to operate state owned factories rather than the state owning the companies. Corporate governance is more “third way” with loose control over semi-private entities.

Flight Club was one of several cubicle movies released that year which was tapping into the underlying rage in what was otherwise an extremely peaceful time in history. It was strange that there was this underlying aggression in a lot of media which hadn’t been there in previous “good times”.

It isn’t sweet foods, but using sugar substitutes. You said you’re drinking diet soda, which uses sugar substitutes.

Meetings where all the managers say their own thing about cheering on the company.

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It isn’t the worst thing for you, but it can be a problem for some people.