That’s the guy who told people with 400 euro jobs to just get 2000 euro jobs. mind blown! Why didn’t they think of that?

Funny thing there: we have been automating an insane amount of work and processes since the 1950s. Email Messages arrive within seconds instead of weeks by snail mail. Computers optimize rail and road fright for optimal performance to ship more things faster or cheaper. Things can be measured, counted and sorted by computers much faster and accurately than humans ever could. A 1000 euro computer and one secretary can do the billing department for millions of orders. How did workers profit from the previous productivity advances? I did not see working hours go down or pay go up by an proportional amount?

We let Exxon and Ford build petrol stations and oversized pick ups and SUVs first, then just wait about 100 years.

White Tights, White Pantyhose or White Stockings[1] (Russian: белые колготки, beliye kolgotki; Lithuanian: baltosios pėdkelnės; Latvian: baltās zeķbikses; Estonian: valged sukkpüksid) is a Russian urban legend about female sniper mercenaries fighting against Russian forces in various armed conflicts from the late 1980s.[2] The legend describes these women as blond Amazon-like nationalistic biathletes turned anti-Russian mercenaries. They come predominantly from the Baltic states, but subsequent variations of the legend have diversified the ethnic composition of the snipers, including Ukrainian and Russian women in their midst.

Sounds like a plot for a Stephen Segal movie…

Can someone explain to me what goods would be affected by this deal? From my understanding the main exports from us and India are very different, so which US products would now be imported from India into Europe because of lower taxes?

Ja grüezi all miteinand!

You need about 6 working people to financially support 1 pensioner. Can you see the problem in a society that is getting older, has less children and outsources jobs to either robots or overseas countries?

Bold to assume that could afford an Nvidia card with more than 512MB video ram in 2026.

I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.

This seems like a problem that can be solved now that everything is connected to the Internet and has a computer inside. Turn on the water boiler only when the price is less than 10ct/kw. Run aircon or heater only when it’s cheap, and insulation will keep the temperature constant for half a day.

I’m sure people in the middle ages where adapted to most of the situations. For example If you don’t wash for a few days or sit near a fire mosquitoes are less of a problem. Most towns, inns or taverns where less than 1 days march from the next in medieval Europe, so you would not have to sleep in the woods. There where also seasonal workers who would not live in one place, but move depending on the season to help sow or harvest fields, or work at different cities in their trade to learn new skills from different masters to see different countries.

Trump: Ill make my own NATO, with black Jack and hookers little children!

Start by pretending not to speak English when interacting with Americans.

Yeah, but one super rich evil guy likes it the way it is, so nothing will change.

In the past, people assumed computers would get much easier to use. But instead you now need a comp sci degree to turn off all the BS Microsoft intentionally added to make your PC experience worse.

Not since ICE

Which PC had a 2mb hard drive? Smallest 286 PCs I can remember already had 20MB, and a floppy disk would hold 720kb or 1.44MB.

Uh oh, I know a company who uses chat gpt for translations, and they don’t have staff to proofread non English languages…

Look how much a Chromebook costs. Amazon can afford to sell them at a loss now, if they can charge you $20/month later or so, stuff ads into everything or bundle it with other Amazon services to make it appear like a good deal. The question is not “how much can we make on this hardware”, but "how much can we get from the customer over 5 years.

Faschists might be the reason crime rates go up…