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If the cost of the robot servant over its life is less than the delta in wage costs between where they're used and where they're piloted, then people will ask for them.

Assuming they work. Which Tesla's won't.

One German tradition we should adopt is the tradition of naming coalition arrangements:

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The overlap of the Starlink maxies and AI maxies I have to deal with is basically a circle.

So on a long enough timeline this could be incredibly validating for me.

I'm sorry but I can't muster up a partisan angle to the drivers license changes.

We don't need to bark at every car just because it's blue.

Miraculously minimal.

Having tried both, yes I would def recommend coming off on the concrete.

Walking away from a 30kmh crash with only a bruised elbow:

Bad thing about slick concrete is it's like riding on an ice rink.

Good thing about slick concrete is it's also like crashing on an ice rink.

This popping up on my feed while I'm on a rant about borders is... something.

Ultimately I don't think it works in mass 'democracies' like the US (or NZ).

Not because of superior institutions, traditions, or morals. But simply because the states that make it work (the antebellum south, the Saudis) had/have overwhelming extractive capital to deploy.

a man is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it and the words `` its all part of the plan '' . ALT: a man is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it and the words `` its all part of the plan '' .

I realize I'm doing the meme but it's one of my most "DO YOU SEE!?!" issues.

I'd even put Elon's "It's Just a Guy" humanoid automata in the same category.

Ideal way to get the labour power you need without the demands that come with it: keep the workers in the low wage economy, use capital to intermediate. Same as we do with tradable goods and services.

And it's only going to get worse as the working population of developed economies declines and the push-factors on those outside the wire increase given climate disruptions (and western powers replicating the Libya strategy on more and more states).

And everyone who is well-off enough to be reading this is complicit.

It's not that mudsill theory is somehow normatively or descriptively correct: it's just a logical response to incentives.

Further out you have apartheid states like pre-1994 South Africa or present-day Israel. Slave states are the extreme.

But it's all of a kind, and the violence of the border (physical or legal) is what makes it possible.

How it presents in a given state depends on circumstances. Gulf dictatorships and kafala, East Asian FDWs, American undocumenteds, Australian RSE workers. Even working holiday visas.

It's all of a kind, even if at different points on the spectrum.

And this isn't restricted to billionaire capitalist overlords.

It's ordinary consumer who want healthcare, homes, or food. And it's the political and commercial elites responding to that demand.

It's why cruise ships exist.

The core cost pressures developed economies face are in the non-tradable service sector: eaten by the Baumols effect and unable to be outsourced to countries with lower wage levels.

You need to create a pool of domestic labour who can't impose political or social demands.

People are reacting to the Miller tweet but this phenomenon - a subaltern population inside the domestic labour market but outside the political community - exists across the developed world.

He's just being more racist about it and letting the mask slip.

But lol no I am not paying $180 a year to put a logo in the corner and do image exports.

Like I never paid for it so I can't complain, but *man* have I over-invested in a platform that's now useless to me.

Canva have finally completely fucked Flourish. Godamnit.

I think that battle's largely lost for now.

The rate limiting factor is the ability to acquire targets, which is why we should Play a Fun Game of Minecraft with Palantir and their owners.

It does. But the only realistic way to avoid being seen (in future) is to disengage from modern society.

And if you do that you probably increase your chances of being acquired because it's an abnormal pattern of behavior.

I obv don't know the Minnesota specifics.

It's the problem with horizontalist organizing generally: it's not a collective decision, it's whoever's in charge of the group chat. Lack of institutional structures that provide discipline but also legitimacy.

If you would please consult the chart:

Obviously I'm predisposed to be sympathetic to a white man in his 30s who posts too much and I know fuckall about activism. But I do know about risk management.

This obsession with not being surveilled would make sense if you were involved in small-n "Can't Say That on YouTube" tactics.

Which is what I assume the cosplayers imagine themselves doing.

But for large-n protest and disruption, it's both impossible and unnecessary.

I think the people in Stancil's menchies are obsessed with the wrong layer of the Integrated Survivability Onion.

You are going to be seen. The only mitigant for that is doing nothing.

Treatments should be focused further down the hierarchy.

Nabakov: I have finally written the cautionary tale "Don't Trust the Bad Paedophile"

US oligarchs: At long last we have created the famous Bad Paedophile from the famous novel "Don't Trust the Bad Paedophile"