They don’t have to be as good to replace us.

This is too dismissive.

Industrialization and automation has already eliminated an entire class of work that was otherwise there.

In a hunter gathered society or an early industrial society there was always work for everyone, in modern capitalist society, there quite frankly isn’t, and that leads to huge numbers of people just being cast aside.

And AI may wipe out a huge number of the rest. I genuinely can’t possibly fathom how it will do anything but exacerbate every single one of society’s problems.

The US tariffing the world to bring back domestic manufacturing is not a dumb idea on its face.

The execution has been dumb and alienating but that is one of the few areas where it’s been baffling watching leftists flip from being anti free trade because it lets corporations siphon money and avoid regulation to suddenly being super pro free trade because Trump is against it.

Free trade is what has hollowed out North America’s manufacturing industries. Corporations have used it to effectively send money to poorer countries where labour is cheap while getting paid bonuses for “efficiencies”.

In a single country you can do things like set a minimum wage, with free trade companies can simply move manufacturing to somewhere with a lower minimum wage, pressuring governments to race to the bottom in terms of how badly they abuse their workers.

More righteous excuses to not read, think, or use your brain.

If I say the word Hitler, you stick your head in the sand and pretend they don’t exist.

Good luck changing the world by ignoring reality and not listening to people. I’m sure it’s a rational strategy that doesn’t play directly into the openly published playbooks from Russia and China that detail how polarization is how you break society.

Some of that money goes into producing Canadian Content which employs Canadian artists and the broader Canadian arts industry. That’s better then that money going to Hollywood and supporting the American arts industry.

Either way the benefits are just trickling down rather than going directly to artists, but with these laws more money stays local in Canada rather than going to the US.

You are arguing about whether that money should trickle down or be given directly to artists and that is quite frankly, completely irrelevant given that both options here (the rates increasing or the rates not increasing), don’t effect that.

This isn’t meant to be the be all end all solution to every single problem eey ore.

It’s a specific mechanism that keeps money in Canada instead of drifting away.

It is objectively a good thing.

Lmfao, so now Lila Shroff, staff writer at the Atlantic, is a white supremacist?

The quote was being used to make the article author’s point in the context of the article, it wasn’t a feed of quotes the author found inspiring from people they think you should pay attention to.

By your logic Robert Evans of Behind the Bastards fame is a white supremacist because he’s quoted them before.

Yeah, and my point is that your point is anti-intellectual horseshit wrapped in righteous indignation.

Yeah, and he’s quoted once to make the point that the fact that someone like that, and someone like Bernie Sanders agree on AI hurting workers, shows that the anti-AI backlash is cross partisan.

Your righteous ignorance is just anti-intellectual trash.

Read the full article, then critique it and him if you want, or keep your mouth shut and don’t judge a full article because it’s opening line quotes someone you despise when you don’t even understand that the context is not validating or praise worthy.

Hey everyone, check out how edgy and dismissive this guy is!

God, not listening or thinking is so cool. How do you maintain your ability to not engage with the discussion topic while still thinking you have something to say that’s worth listening to?

This is precisely why. xAI spent a huge amount on compute hardware, then got absorbed into SpaceX.

SpaceX doesnt have need for that much compute, and there’s certainly not enough Grok demand for it. Meanwhile Anthropic is desperately looking around for anyone to buy compute from.

We grow herbs and spices, lettuce, tomatoes, etc. One problem I’ve found is that I’ve never been able to get decent yields out of any root vegetables, have never been sure the issue.

One nice thing is that some of the Ontario hydroponic Greenhouse lettuces are sold with their roots still attached, so you can the head of lettuce and then plant the base in your garden.

The Wikipedia article on infrasound has one US weapons expert quoted as saying there’s no reliable evidence of it causing nausea, yet the original discovery of Infrasound was from a French researcher who’s whole team was nauseous and they were able to trace it back to a low frequency motor that was resonating with the building. They published a paper on it in Science in 1968 called “Infrasound” which is literally where the word infrasound comes from.

Honestly, this just exposes how bad the author is at math.

Like congratulations, you’ve heard of a linear trend line, surely all systems can be modelled with nothing more than an unchanging straight line right?

I hope nothing but the worst for Tesla, but this kind of guffawing at the most basic possible extrapolation just makes the author look dumb.

Why is stolen in quotations in the original headline?

It is objective fact, not an opinion someone said.

Fuck Russia straight to hell for what they’ve done.

https://youtu.be/7Szfj5VC8_U

“the majority of boomers that voted to support conservative politicians since 1980”

This is inaccurate again.

1. Boomers is a generation of people, not Americans. The majority of boomer aged people around the world did not vote for conservative politicians in the way you’re describing.

2. the majority of American boomers didn’t even vote for them. Are you sure that Republicans have held more offices, for longer, then Democrats? Are you sure it’s not just that they’ve been more effective at accomplishing their goals? Even if that is the case, given voter turnout rates, it’s not the majority of that generation, just of who turned out to vote.

This is sort of how discussion works. You’re also doing this. You’re saying rich people instead of “politically active rich people supplying money to XYZ, while ignoring those born into money and disconnected or lottery winners, or whatever other issue with syntax I can dig up.

No, it’s fundamentally different. You can never change being a boomer, you can change whether or not you’re rich.

They’re happy to live in the GOPs alternate reality rather than face the reality of what they’ve done.

Your own sentence points out the issue. You yourself instinctually scoped it down to those living in the GOPs reality, which is a tiny fraction of the billions of boomers.

At the end of the day, you have to ask what the purpose of blame is. Is it so that you can vent? That’s human, but helpful only to you, and only in the extremely short term while it feels satisfying. In the long term constantly ascribing blame just makes you bitter and makes you see calculated ill intent where there’s just chance, systemic effects, or ignorance.

Blame is useful as a tool only so much as it can actually effect future change in the world.

And baming an entire generation for ‘being conservative’ evidently isn’t accomplishing anything given how conservative gen z and alpha are. This isn’t the kind of blame anyone can draw any meaningful lessons from. Systemically reducing wealth and class inequality is.

Yes it is the logic you’re using.

That logic is called “collective punishment” or collective blame, and it’s you blaming all boomers for what a subset of them actually did.

If all millenials turned up to vote, or even just the majority, we wouldn’t have Trump in office, therefore millenials are to be blamed as a whole for him being elected.

Don’t feel like you deserve to be blamed for that? Great. Neither do boomers.

And that’s on top of the fact that you’re ignoring multiple factors:

1. boomers started out farther left and then drifted farther right as they aged, same effect is true for millenials, we haven’t seen how far right this generation will go yet. And on a percentage basis, they don’t even skew that differently, they just have always had the tyranny of the plurality available to them since they’re the biggest generation, so when their generation shift right, everything did, an effect not true for millenials or gen z.

2. millenials and boomers were raised in different environments, with different pressures and values, hell boomers are largely the result of parents that just went through two world wars. That alone will have generational effects on families.

3. Even just in terms of information, would you be going to the library, reading books, and paying for newspaper subscriptions to replace the internet, or would you be out playing and hanging out with friends?

4. Without the Internet and your parents raising you, would you have fallen to Fox news or Sky news or The Telegraph, just like them?

If you were born in boomer times you would not be the person you are right now, and it’s wild to blame all of them when half of them were literally deliberately manipulated by corporations, in a time with little awareness that that could be happening.

Blaming the Boomers overall accomplishes nothing. It is at best too broad a category to actually learn anything from or make any meaningful change.

The rich upper class however, has continuously fucked over Boomers, GenX, Millenials, and now Gen Z. They are the actual subset of people to blame, because a) they have the power to change the systems we live in, and b) they are by and large (though still not universally) the ones who have chosen to keep perpetuating the system.

Lmfao, “progress”

If you want a vacuous word then buy a dictionary or a sign that says “progress”.

If you want a real thing that tangibly benefits a real person, I’m listening.

Yes ,millenials elected Trump twice, because your generation was alive when he was elected.

That’s the logic your using to ascribe every previous bad decision to every boomer. By your logic, you are to blame for Trump being elected.

Again, it’s not boomers who did this to you, it’s the rich.