The video iteration, the Ready Player 1, will be where people actually start plugging themselves into a physical matrix. Reality will be too terrible to bear when you can literally plug into a better life.
So annoying! The world doesn't have to suck, we just have to have the guts to take it back.
Unless of course you happen to know the one, true God, then you're bound to try to help others see the light and even abuse a potential position of authority to do so:
Well that's unsurprising since they have the largest population and trends usually scale.
I think it is important to note they have been moving more toward republican votes over the last presidential elections, which if anything shows why Newsom is a symptom, not the cause--and I say that not liking the dude.
Despite much ignorance and ado, California is politically moderate. Their own voters shot down basic protections for unsecured laborers for private equity-backed driver services who are then wards of the state; no workers comp, no unemployment, no flsa protections...these are the bare minimum of a society that doesn't eat children. The states voters did this after the state just went through the clear and costly lesson of a mass layoff situation due to covid and it was clear these predatory companies were designed to screw workers and the state to maximize returns to shareholders, even beyond how bad a standard worker has it. If the states own voters arent anything more than moderate, why would the hope be the governor of the state would be?
Anything to the left of Pinochet is being labeled as anarchist left wing terrorist by fascists who are actively dismantling government, legal, social protections.
The article is heavy on narrative but...did the CEO leave? Did they take him into custody? Kind of the important result of reporting on the arrest, which if something came of it is great. I assume it wasn't reported because the CEO just left and they didn't hold him by force and no one took him into custody.
There are few social spaces where people can meet in healthy ways without having to pay some private entity for the privilege.
The rungs of society have never been further apart, nor has it ever been more transparent.
Education has been systematically underfunded for 50+ years, the economy in accelerative wealth concentration. Adults suffer and the home environments for children suffer.
I can't stand street racing, and barely drive unless forced to but it's not hard to understand why many would find a somewhat cheap thrill attractive when their lives are filled with hopelessness or despair.
Did you look at the markets Friday? They was probably mostly tarrif response but it's also lots of articles in the last month about everyone acknowledging there is a bubble, lack of other gov data being released, it could come any day or be a few years away.
Altman said 2 months ago "yeah there are a lot of bad AI companies that money is being wasted on, that was my current to retreat to some more conservative assets. Have a bit of exposure still but more than ready to stop hearing about fucking AI.
The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don't get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can't believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.
Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they're arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.
I'm not sure if it's the Irish or pirates who are offended here.