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Sure, those are barrels full of chum. Hooper and Chief Brody are after another one.
Weird. I made this post probably 2 hours or so ago.
Where will the universal basic income come from? Those who still have a job paying taxes? If so, being how AI has been taking a lot of jobs, what would be their tax rate to not only pay for that but pay for everything else that we pay for now? I am not picking at you, but I have heard this UBI point for so long now regarding people who need this to live once jobs are gone that I wondered where the money would come from. I mean, those still in the work force would be paying for it as well as the corporate businesses I suspect, but I was just thinking about how much money that would take and where would it come from.
We will all live on Big Rock Candy Mountain where there are soda water fountains and lemonade springs. And the hens lay soft boiled eggs.
They’re gonna need a bigger boat.
Got to have unicorns too.
Half of them will be poached. By that I mean stolen by those who want more than their share. There will always be liberal types (criminals) in the system
We do already. The name has been changed over the years to Rhinoceros.
There is a lake of stew and whisky to.
The jails are made of tin, so you can walk right out again. Oops, sorry, that is here right now in some blue cities.
That damn cotton gin is going to take my job. Then again, one can adapt and learn to work on cotton gins. You know like humans have always had to do. You can't stop innovation. Not sure what sort of crazy thing you think Trump can do to stop it. Other nations like China are moving towards fully autonomous dark plants to produce vehicles. (.and thats despite having billions of people who need work). If GM, Ford, etc do not, they will be out of business because they can't compete. If my mid 50's self can change career directions and learn the STEM skills needed to work on these things anyone else can. Stagnation is damnation.
Classic.
Yeah, let's act like this is as simple as converting VHS to DVD or car from horse.
The cotton gin analogy fails because it created more jobs overall (farming boomed, new roles in transport/processing). AI automation is different: it's general-purpose, replacing cognitive labor across all sectors simultaneously—drivers, coders, accountants, lawyers, even STEM maintainers—faster than humans can retrain en masse.
That was a gradual shift. AI will immediately knock out like millions in 5-10 years. You also run the risk of something like China’s “dark plants” which prove the point: they automate despite cheap labor, because robots don’t unionize, sue, or age out.
Adaptation assumes new jobs appear. This time, the machine does the adapting. Stagnation isn’t the risk—irrelevance is.
"The first-time political candidate said he got the skull and crossbones tattoo in 2007, when he was in his 20s and in the Marine Corps. It happened during a night of drinking while he was on leave in Croatia, he said, adding he was unaware until recently that the image has been associated with Nazi police."
I tend to believe him on the tattoo part. I'd be more concerned about the Antifa portion than his tattoo.
Clean Break → U.S. Wars: The Timeline
The "new Pearl Harbor" caught me eye.
Document: Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century
Publisher: Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Date: September 2000 (exact month of release)
Key Authors: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, Richard Perle — all Clean Break alumni.
The Exact Quote (Page 51)
**“The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”**
- U.S. public/military won’t support massive defense spending + Middle East wars without a shock.
- Use 9/11-scale crisis to ram through:
THEN BOOM---9/11 happens one year later.
Wesley Clark (2007) the man who said a memo at the Pentagon mentioned seven countries we'd invade on Israel's behalf
“I realized — this is the PNAC plan. They were going to take out seven countries… and they needed a crisis to do it.”
| Date | Event | Who/What |
|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Clean Break paper delivered to Netanyahu (new PM) | Written by U.S. neocons (Perle, Feith, Wurmser) at IASPS (Israeli think tank). Explicit hit list: Iraq → Syria → Iran. |
| 1997–2000 | Neocons infiltrate GOP | Perle chairs Rumsfeld’s Defense Policy Board. Feith/Wurmser join PNAC. |
| Sept 2000 | PNAC “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” | Calls for “new Pearl Harbor” to justify Middle East wars. |
| 9/11/2001 | Attack | Netanyahu (private): “It’s very good.” (later: “good for Israel”). |
| Sept 20, 2001 | Wesley Clark at Pentagon | Sees memo: Take out 7 countries in 5 years → Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran. Exact Clean Break order. |
| 2002 | AIPAC drafts Iraq war resolution | Congress passes 98–0 (Senate). |
| March 2003 | Iraq invaded | Feith runs Pentagon intel → fake WMDs. |
| 2006–2011 | Syria destabilized | U.S. funds rebels → civil war. Israel bombs at will. |
| 2011 | Libya | NATO (U.S.-led) removes Gaddafi → Israeli arms flow to rebels. |
| 2015–2025 | Iran proxy war | U.S. sanctions + Israeli assassinations/strikes. |
The "new Pearl Harbor" caught me eye.
Document: Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century
Publisher: Project for the New American Century (PNAC)
Date: September 2000 (exact month of release)
Key Authors: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, Richard Perle — all Clean Break alumni.
The Exact Quote (Page 51)
**“The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”**
- U.S. public/military won’t support massive defense spending + Middle East wars without a shock.
- Use 9/11-scale crisis to ram through:
- $1T+ defense budgets
- Regime change in Iraq, Syria, Iran (Clean Break list)
- Permanent U.S. bases across the region
THEN BOOM---9/11 happens one year later.
Wesley Clark (2007) the man who said a memo at the Pentagon mentioned seven countries we'd invade on Israel's behalf
“I realized — this is the PNAC plan. They were going to take out seven countries… and they needed a crisis to do it.”
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Come on. Flu deaths averaged 40-50K/yr w/o covid before the distance thing. No one knows how easily covid spread vs. flu nor the relative lethalness of each. Net, you 384K number for covid is meaningless for flu deaths.
it was also not based on any science. it was for show ... to make people "feeeel" better. LMAO.
Sure reduced them though. Not everyone became a hermit so there was transmission anyway. No way to know how much it helped with covid but it absolutely had to. I have no doubt that someone that spent 2019-2021 alone on a boat didn't get covid.
It didn't disappear, just greatly reduced. Don't no where you got the disappear routine.
OK
OK. To my knowledge, since 2000 we haven't had more than 70K flu related deaths in a year. I take that number as extremely severe.
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I'm not the one designing this or wishing for it. I'm saying it will be pitched to us.
"Where does the money come from?” objection assumes today’s tax base and spending model survive AI disruption. They won’t. They would likely take from the AI economy more than the dwindling human one.
Not to mention, with fewer people working, that's fewer human entitlements like unemployment insurance, food stamps, medicaid--- maybe UBI replaces the welfare stack instead of adding to it.
I mean, there's historical precedent for this if you think about it. In 1900, 40% of Americans farmed. Tractors wiped them out. We didn't just tax the remaining 60% like crazy. We taxed tractor companies, railroads, and oil. I imagine this would be the same?
Like I said, I don't know. I don't want that to happen. I just expect the worst from the worst people.
I just got back from Maine …..none of the far leftists care .
If the scrimmage is not what you expect, the #3 ladycats play volleyball at seven
Go and have a look see at the history of Rome. Concentrate upon the end of the Republic. Roman elites owned most everything. They imported slaves to fill the jobs so that they didn't have to pay Romans a Roman wage. They bought out the small farmer and consolidated farming into large slave driven manses. The citizens saw it coming but they had no leverage. The appealed to the senate but the elites owned them and their pleas fell on deaf ears.
That resulted in 40-50% unemployment, some say 60-70%. Homelessness was rampant. People were starving. It was so bad that the empower had to issue food, housing, and entertainment subsidies to take care of the Roman citizen. One of Julius Caesar's major reforms was to cut Roman "benefits". Sound familiar?
History doesn't often repeat but it does rhyme. Robots = Slaves. There are only so many jobs, and when they are filled by robots what are people supposed to do?
Theyre waiting for their next martyr to trigger nationwide unrest.
And hence the Globalist depopulation agenda.
Nice first half. If we finish better, we're up by 14 or better.
Cats look pretty good for preseason. Still have some issues at the rim and we miss a PG to run the offense but everyone is moving and defending well. Refs sucks as usual.
You know, maybe AI will bless us after all and take Referee jobs away.
You know, maybe AI will bless us after all and take Referee jobs away.
Hyperbolic fear porn. The exact same thing was stated about computers when they became practical in business. It's only an ending for those unwilling to learn new skill sets. Once again, you expect Trump to stop innovation? Perhaps we should all just be Amish.
Well now. THAT was quite the statement by Kentucky Basketball.
Suddenly, I care even LESS about this year's football team.
Suddenly, I care even LESS about this year's football team.
UBI more than makes up for it. I don't see the AI economy could/would pay for anyone of them really. If the goal is for the corporation to make and keep more money what makes anyone think they would support UBI.
Seemed everyone was having a good time out on the floor. Looked pretty good in transition and the flow of the game was good.
I posted on the old site that dems would still vote for Hitler or a KKK grand dragon if they were here and said the right things. Safe to say if they said they supported abortion and hated Trump, they'd take the primary in a landslide.
Will be watching the volleyball match. It's not basketball season for me until the last football game is played.