Choosing lawful evil as ally and dumping chaotic evil from the party.

The year went to shit surprisingly early

So you’re saying EU needs to threaten with an Epstein Tariff Retaliation Program and keep throwing the name around until he backs off in a weaponized Streisand effect?

Because outright killing causes international problems, but slow starvation gets a lot less attention.

That’s kind of sily. You need some local hardware to run that virtual desktop environment, handle grapics and streaming. That means it’s powerful enough to run a browser and some basic apps locally, what covers most of what people need. If you do need a virtual desktop for the few things not covered by a basic browser, you probably pay a lot for the privelege. Then you get people living in a region with bad internet, like rural places, who’ll get fed up with laggy performance in no time.

The Overton window is again threatening satire?

while saying you have to be in the office because of the interaction

Rare earth like molybdenum is used for oil pipe lines and cobalt in batteries is also used to refine fossil fuel. So no, they’re not going to leave it alone.

Nah, they want everybody to only use their robotaxi too.

Kinda like we don’t hesitate to step on grass.

Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that’s for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.

We’re waiting until the USA economy collapses under Trump’s incompetence and the military refuses orders because they’re not being paid. Then we leisurely walk in.

layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts

Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.

Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.

And then not have the capacity to refine the minerals so they have to send the stuff to China for processing

That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.

Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.

Mostly people with very cheap employers. Like, we had to keep using the old computer mice with a ball, and regularly waste time cleaning out the lint, instead of just getting us optical mice.

Tales from the field:

One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting “WHAT DID YOU DO!!” The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they’re still standing in the door opening.

One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn’t found any outlet for his drill, and he didn’t want to run an extension cord, so plugged the drill one in the only outlet he found. It was the outlet marked by a different color because it was linked to the UPS, and that UPS went down hard when the drilling started, taking all the servers with it. That recovery took some time.

Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.

AI works, we lose our jobs.

AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.

AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.

Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.

Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement