u/thecoffeejesus

I heard explosions till a little after midnight. A lot fewer than last year.

Not complaining, just curious.

I was thinking about downtown but it’s pretty dead.

Parkside is probably gonna have the cops called at some point (they usually do on big holidays)

Anybody have any recommendations on someplace to post up and people watch this 4th of July evening?

I have been fighting with the stupid AI thing for over 20 minutes. I just want to create and edit a mask

This is nearly impossible.

Nothing online is helpful. Every article is garbage. Nothing has a location for the stupid menu.

I can't find it. I can't keep the AI on task. Every time I click to edit the mask it goes away.

This is awful.

How on earth do I

A) find the mask panel and
B) keep it open?

What a pile of garbage.

I cannot comprehend why anyone would argue against this, but every time I say it everywhere I go I face nothing but backlash and resistance

Food grows out of the fucking ground.

If we didn’t have this massive global system of organized violence called “capitalism” we could just find a place to call home and build there, like our ancestors did.

Money does not need to play any part in the process of growing harvesting and supplying food unless we ENFORCE that it does.

We could just decide tomorrow that things are different and then they would be. We proved that during lockdown.

Shelter is the same.

Obviously, it’s a little more complicated with things like building codes and property values, but that stuff only exists in a fantasy world where people imagine things to be worth a certain amount or not.

When we have approximately 3 million homeless veterans and approximately 15 million vacant homes at any given time, it’s hard to see this as anything, other than an intentional punitive system that punishes people on purpose to enforce compliance

I mean, there was an interview. I saw where one of the billionaires literally said that. I can’t remember his words exactly but it was something like “if we try to make people’s lives better or help them then capitalism doesn’t work”

Nobody likes the way that things are. Nobody likes this. Nobody wants it.

Except unempathetic salamanders who can only comprehend “number go up” and “my number bigger than yours”

We are on the verge of AI, taking all our jobs and robots doing all the labor

That would only be a bad thing in a society where your ability to survive is directly tied to your ability to work for money

Our ancestors would be jumping up and down at the opportunity to have a machine provide food and shelter for them

You don’t see anybody raising their pitchforks against their fucking dishwasher

My friend and I were talking about the recent Figure AI demo.

He said that it wasn’t that impressive. That the human beat the robot in the end.

I said the human was almost injured, whereas the robot can just keep going forever.

We chatted about how it’s similar to when they had the last race a horse ever won over a car. Where we once only had the model T, we now have Ferraris and rocket ships.

We’re at the point now where humanoid robots are straight up better than or about to be better than humans at manual labor

What do we do now?

People keep talking about money and how everybody is gonna be homeless or the elites are gonna Terminator us, which is unreasonable and not worth spending much time on in my opinion. Regular healthy people are not gonna just keel over die or let their kids become homeless.

So what are they gonna do then?

Are we gonna just talk to the robots and they’ll do labor for us?

If nobody has a job, then how does money work?

Would we even use money at that point? I mean, if robots can provide food and shelter, then what would be the purpose of money?

If the bots can charge from the sun, grow food, cook it, inside a house they built, then what on earth are we waiting for???

This seems like the god sent solution to all the problems that have plagued our ancestors since time began, no?

What am I missing?

Edit: nobody so far has answers this with any reason. Lots of fear and rhetoric in this thread, very little sense, which is what I keep encountering.

Guys. I want a serious discussion, not a bunch of BS.

Don’t just say “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE REEEEEEE”

Actually engage with the topic please. Seriously.

Scientists at the University of Toronto have proven negative time exists.

Photons were detected exited a cloud of atoms before they entered.

From what I understand, the tests determined that the cloud of rubidium atoms were excited into a state where they would produce photons. But the energy that powers that interaction comes from photons that haven’t entered the cloud of atoms yet.

Meaning the effect happened before its cause.

This, obviously, makes no sense. Unless spacetime is nonlinear, which it is…so….

Does that mean your gut intuition is really just you feeling the weight of your future?