If they actually opt to use it. Which is a big fat fucking if.

Also, Trump might just steal it from somewhere. (Where has all that Venezuelan oil money gone?) And who’s going to stop him? The Supreme Court has already ruled that he can do basically anything he wants.

If you can’t afford bread, you should just eat cake the rich.

AI hate is bipartisan and no national-level politician is dumb enough to throw public money at them.

Trump loves him some AI bros, though. And could easily “justify” dumping shitloads of public money into them because using AI in the military (bad idea in the first place) makes AI a “national security priority”.

Bullets and toilet paper. 📈

It was never even actual fiat currency. Just numbers in a computer somewhere.

Setting up a basic email server shouldn’t be too difficult. The difficult parts come with:

• Security – your computer will have to download and store every email – and every attachment – that comes in, regardless of who sends it, and how will you make sure those files don’t harm your computer?

• Domain name/IP address issues – You have to have some way for other email servers to know where to send the emails addressed to you … which means you’ll need some kind of domain name. Worse, you’ll need to tie that domain name to your computer somehow, even if your ISP randomly decides to change your IP address. You could fork out money to the ISP for a static IP address so that doesn’t happen, but hopefully there’s a better way than that.

• Uptime – If someone attempts to send you an email while your email server is inoperative or your ISP’s internet connection is down, it will get bounced back as undeliverable, and most senders won’t try to re-send an email like that. Some senders will even remove your address from their mailing list if they get such an error, because that usually means that it’s an incorrect/invalid email address. You can easily get pretty good uptime, but you can never count on it being perfect. And if you’re depending on that email for very important communications, any outage might be a nerve-wracking problem.

And, of course, the implicit assumption that “More AI = more profits!”

*checks it out*

“join waitlist”

:/

Damn… And I was just thinking of making a proton mail address. Is there a better viable alternative that’s not headed toward sloppocalypse?

Saint Luigi already showed us the way…

On the plus side, anybody who can manage to send messages to the AI CEO can get the company to do whatever they want.

Personally, I’m sure the company desperately needs to hire me as a shitposting consultant. Desperate to the tune of, say, $10M/mo salary. And I’m fairly sure a 5-minute conversation with CEO GPT will convince it I’m right about that and must be hired immediately.

Damn… I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a giant wind turbine on a stormy day if the engineers had vibe-planned the foundations…

She’s an engineer

What

An actual engineer, not a software engineer.

you can’t allow house prices to go up forever. Because that means getting onto the housing ladder becomes harder and harder, young people would have to rent forever. Their income thus funneled into the property owning class, inequality goes up, stability goes down, and so on. Everyone can see the problem, but not all governments can do something about it.

Here in hyper-capitalist dystopia, our property owning class is placing their bets on being able to deter that ‘stability goes down’ part with all-pervasive surveillance and authoritarianism.

Yeah… Folding screens were never a good idea.

Why not just skip a step and have an AI girlfriend?

Are the new features that it gets rid of the microphone and the internet connection?

If not, how much do I have to pay to keep these out of my house? What – you mean I can keep these out for free? Well sign me up!

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One of the original design considerations for what became the internet was that it should be able to automatically route around outages and allow communications to still get through, even if many of its nodes were taken out by nuclear war.

Finding a way to get around blockages is practically what the internet was designed to do.

Modern fighters don’t really do dogfights anymore.

Today’s air-to-air engagements are usually just a matter of launching a missile at the other plane, usually from so far away that they’re beyond the horizon. And in that kind of engagement, there are two things that determine which combatant is more effective: speed and range. SR-71 brings the ultimate in speed to the equation, now it just needs some good, long-range missiles.