solomon42069

You could rise up. Isn't that what all the guns are for?

It's all about the nuances... baby boomers as a cohort are responsible for many of today's problems and yet individual boomers are not. The elderly get roped into the defence of boomers even though there's plenty of older people than them that actually helped setup the prosperity that boomers ruined.

Karens are frustrating and their voices are loud, but to even compare them to predator class humans like billionaires or rapists is waay out of touch.

Public companies aren't capable of innovation, only acquisition.

Good question! Leonardo DaVinci was born in the 16th century and he came up with flying machines too. It's a very different problem to have a key person, or five, who have vital engineering and design knowledge versus the numbers needed to uphold an industry. I was more talking about the latter.

You might produce a few geniuses to write your whitepapers - but you need scores of them to manufacture vehicles, bridges, roads, buildings, etc. I've updated my original comment with an asterisk alluding to this point.

Donald Trump's Gilead is not going to inspire a lot of people to become a software engineer in a time when we're celebrating AI replacing jobs. Trump and MAGAs vision will not drive the world to do business with America - it will drive investors and new customers away, shrinking the US tech industry and eroding American dominance.

I find it really funny the US are trying to maintain their global position as tech leader while in the midst of a fascist take over. You know what's incompatible with a thriving tech industry? Fascism. You can survive a little while after a take over, but eventually your rigorous little Christian commune of a society isn't going to produce enough* engineers, scientists or anyone with a taste level worth a damn.

Zuck is the sexual abstinence clown. No one can get horny with that face around!

It's really demoralising scraping by as an IT person in a western democracy, and then realising the outsource contractors your company hired for cheaper have a much better life than you. Simply because their earnings hold up better with the cost of living where they are.

Yeah and they grew up in a mansion in Argentina, or Cape Town, for "the climate"...

They need to join forces and make the Cyberplane!

The Boeing Tesla Cyberplane could be a revolution in aviation:

• First aircraft to use afterburners to overcome lack of aerodynamics
• Heavy and yet strangely flimsy construction
• Cell phones and radar can ignite the battery in flight
• Fuel efficiency can be throttled mid air by shedding parts

I think conservatives fan the outrage over this issue because it's an easy distraction. Sex is gross and scary, harming kids is the worst thing imaginable and combining the two issues is disgusting. Some kids come from broken homes and this makes them more vulnerable to be exploited. I think conservatives know all this, and they also know that that guy who beats his wife and kids and might murder them later probably is one of their voters. So they complain about Hollywood and gay people to distract, but never go after well known perpetrators like priests and wealthy businessmen. So curious innit!

Star Trek Discovery was so bad I had to just stop in the second last season... and I was only playing it as background noise at that point! I guess I'll try this movie but if even Michelle Yeoh can't save it I'm going back to old 1990s episodes...

Update: I got through it but holy shit... It had some good moments and other bits that felt like a Red Alert cut scene...