BarneyPiccolo

There is no Free Market, that's just a myth they tell us to allow them to do whatever they want. They don't really want a true Free Market because it leads to Luigis.

Let's change that.

He's really not going to like "Eat The Rich."

The only problem with his prediction is that as the 10% of human work increases, most of the increased work will also be done by AI, so all humans are doing is getting all the work breaking rocks, as AI handles any interesting stuff that pops up.

I lost 100 pounds, and I'm still dropping, without any drugs. My strategy:

• Stop all soft drinks. Ice water, mostly, occasionally a Waterloo Peach, 0 calories/sugar. I will sometimes have a beer for dinner.

• Eat whatever you want, but only when hungry, and only until not hungry. Serve small portions or half a sandwich. If you find yourself staring into the fridge, wondering what looks good, you aren't hungry, you're bored. Go do something else.

• Distract yourself. My Dad quit smoking in the 80s with a Rubik's Cube, picking it up whenever he had a craving. I did it with the guitar. Every time I had a craving, I picked up the guitar.

Just those three easy rules, and I lost 100+ pounds, and learned to play the guitar at the same time. You could lift weights, learn a language, write a book, go running, knit, or anything else.

Well, that's a relief. I'd rather have AI making decisions than this putz, and I hate AI.

No it won't.

Valid. Media Manipulation is the name of the game right now, but that's so inefficient. You throw out a bunch of propaganda, and hope something gets traction.

Soon, Data Manipulation will be more important. They'll start tracking all your date points, and soon they'll find something they can manipulate you over. They'll find some obscure crime to leverage you with, like a wrong statement on a Federal form interpreted as a deliberate lie, rather than a confused wrong answer. Or they'll identify patterns, and create laws to make those patterns a crime, and get you on that.

They'll threaten your family, job, your healthcare, your money, your home, your freedom, and they'll eventually get you to dance to their tune.

The only math class I ever enjoyed was a college statistics class which actually made sense to me. So I spent my life reading polls, always checking the sample size and the margin of error, because I knew how important those are to accuracy, etc. But that same knowledge also served to let me know that modern polls are becoming horsehit.

I remember hearing Rush Limbaugh telling his listeners to either refuse to take polls, or to lie on them and say the opposite. He, and others, taught MAGAs to disrespect polls (cuz polls are the enemy of predatory politics).

Also, many of the "pollsters" are MAGA operatives in disguise. Add unreliable pollsters to unreliable respondents, and you end up with a weird poll that doesn't reflect reality at all.

I no longer enjoy tracking polls. Too many of them have been games.

I inherited my grandfather's robber baron fortune, I'm a GENIUS!

If they are told it will make a LOT of money, they will believe literally anything. Then it's up to the rest of us to either work, or sacrifice, to make it happen for them. Likely both.

LIGHT THE SENTINELS!