Of course it should. An industry run by AI, still needs roads and other public goods. Furthermore, the taxes can go towards UBI, allowing people to help guide the economy with their dollars and to ensure their personal wellbeing.

The big question is when do we remove human CEOs, and use their incomes for the common good?

I suspect that we will find that lead ballots hold more weight, when it comes to voting.

Claims from people on Blue Sky. Obviously not proven…but the Trump Regime isn’t exactly known for honesty nor letting congressmen to inspect their facilities. 😒

It sucks that it can’t be verified, but I am going to assume that claims against Alligator Alcatraz, ICE, and so forth, to be true. I have seen enough video of ICE crashing into people, trafficking people going to their scheduled court hearings, dragging pregnant women, raising arms at civilians, and so forth to believe a lack of moral fiber within the Trump Regime behind closed doors. Or fenced facilities.

The pregnant lady was in my feed last night, if that helps with my assertion.

MINNEAPOLIS: “We kept yelling ‘she’s pregnant! She’s pregnant!’ — they put their knees in her… the handcuffed woman was dragged on the ground…”

EDIT: I remembered that I had a Ground News subscription. One of the six text outlets that reported, Huff Post, claims that 2/3rds of 1,800 detainees are missing from Alligator Alcatraz’s rosters, and the lawyers haven’t been able to contact their clients for scheduled discussions.

Alligator Alcatraz Is A New Kind Of Immigration Jail — And It’s Multiplying

If Luddites get their way, that will become the case forever. It is okay if you don’t want AI in your personal life, but I worry that opposition like yours will ensure that only wealthy jackasses have ownership over AI.

The important thing is to support efforts to create truly open AI and make it a public good available to all. Projects such as LlamaCPP, Olmo, Apertus, Heretic, and others will be key to allowing ordinary people to become masters of the technology.

…but seriously, if Pokemon was an actual world, owning pokemon for mundane purposes like this would make sense. After getting a new toilet that has a bidet, it has saved me a ton of money on TP, and generally leaves me cleaner.

It ain’t that easy, at least with uBlock Origin. The problem is that websites depend on many elements - ones that aren’t obvious to the human eye and experience. An AI could potentially analyze all of the content and to where it leads, then remove the undesirable elements, such as trackers. For example, when I am making a payment at an unfamiliar website, I wouldn’t know what services are key to a working transaction.

A fair bit of my browsing time is spent on figuring out how to not break a website with my adblocker - which is annoying, error prone, and not as effective as I would like.

I distrust Google and the mainstream media. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they simply ally with the Trump Regime, and remain silent about ICE death squads seeking out Democrats or something along those lines.

Personally, I would prefer dead - the record is clear about their state of humanity. What isn’t clear is how many people have been ruined by them. The only value in keeping them alive, is to obtain information about the innocents who have vanished or possibly dead.

There is at least 1,300 missing from Alligator Alcatraz. If it is possible to find survivors or lay rest the dead, that would justify keeping these POS on the mortal coil for a year or two longer in captivity. The most important thing is looking after people, before giving into a rightful anger.

This sort of thing is probably a decade off, depending on how history plays out. I just want the order of operations to ensure innocent folks are alright, before doling out the punishment that must be delivered.

The only reason why I started to doomscroll social media, is because I want to keep tabs on how close my nation is to having a civil war. If it is to happen, I don’t want to be completely surprised, and have some agency at my level.

Buy one. It might be the difference between protecting your own, and the death camps.

Should a day of the nation demagafying arrive, I expect this poster to be a very real thing.

When the 1st American Civil War started, many people brought their own weapons and ammo to the cause, among other supplies. The first year of it involved people and logistics being shifted around, because the nation as a whole was splintered. Here and there, people moved across states to join with the ideology they believed in.

I suspect that the 2nd American Civil War would be much the same. Blue State individuals who are armed, would be the early line of defense while the proper Blue Military gets itself into proper order.

Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” goes into the topic of how ordinary people were involved with the conflict, and the general chaos that entailed.

And then from their other orifice, they claim they don’t need to know the law to enforce it. Being a peace officer should require passing a law test, insurance, and exposure to liability if they fuck up.

Not following proper procedure, law, and morality, is very much NOT cool.

I sure hope that whatever the Regime is in control of, is a car without wheels. If there has to be a fight, I want conservatives to be the Three Stooges incarnate. It would save many innocent lives.

They can get behind me, I just ask that they provide support. Hand me loaded magazines, give me some food every so often, tell me what is going on in the neighborhood, dress my wounds with clean TP. If they can’t fight, they can still serve the cause.

I am a gun owner, who would rather never see it used in battle. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that the choice of bloodshed would boil down to this: “Do I want to live in a world run by these people?”

The Congress of today likely won’t. But the people who takes their vacated seats? Possibly.

I think centralization has merit…IF there are deliberate regional blocs, with the national figurehead elected by popular vote or if the heads of the other blocs agreed on that representative. Of course, the regional heads themselves are voted by popular election. As with the US Constitution, the concept is to divide up power - but in this case, the branches are multiplied by the number of blocs.

A national judiciary and parliament refines and creates national laws for all regional blocs, but only after representatives of each bloc or their constitutes have agreed for those laws. This creates a backbone of common law and policy, but also prevents any one region from dictating what should be.

Examples of hypothetical EU Regional blocs: A Mediterranean region for all nations who share a coastline with that body, a Black Sea region of the same, a Balkans Bloc, A Baltic Sea bloc, and so forth. Those spots have commonalities in what places they deem to be important, thus they would be focused on creating frameworks that allow for effective trade and practices within their region.

Whether this sort of division would work is the big question. Unfortunately, we will be exposed to political upheavals of what does…and more importantly, DOESN’T, work.

I personally believe that the US will become an social experiment of great and terrible proportions, that all other powers will pay close attention to.

I think you can see the more open signs of shying away from American products, with Europe starting to officially adopt FOSS software like Linux or LibreOffice. That is a relatively easy change to make, since there is less physical logistics involved with the transition.

Material things, like shipments of manufactured goods for the F-35 program, would become evident in a decade or so, IMO.