Talked to a friend who actually seems quite radicalized by the LA fire. He keeps falling back to people should collectively make better climate conscious decisions (electric over gas cars etc.). I was trying to convince him it needs to be a systemic change for any hope of actual meaningful impact. He seemed to take it well.
I left out how we have already exceeded 1.5 degrees thing though. I'm not sure what the future will look like 
My understanding of class is it's defined by your relationship to capital. A shareholder or landlord could do labour, but that doesn't make them working class
Yea I tend to use "AI" as a term for generative AI, which I should stop cause of how broad it is. I definitely see the usefulness of machine learning models for research purposes. I haven't heard of how it's used in manufacturing and infrastructure though, interested in looking more into that.
I'm wondering what advantage, if any, does AI really give for a nation? All I've really seen is that it can make people in beauracratic jobs be a touch more productive, but these jobs are already bullshit to begin with and are not producing real value. All this is doing is reducing some of the costs so that companies can report a bit more profit for the quarter.
Then there's all the slop AI can produce which doesn't really mean anything for competitive advantage. And there's also "AI integration" in products that don't really need it. So yea unless some compelling use case for AI is discovered, I feel like it's another crypto.
Looking at some posts on libsky, they're coping hard and saying things like "it's fine, because on the inside Trump is really angry about being the only felon president, and it's gnawing at his insides". They're more delusional than MAGA
I've literally never heard anyone talking about hoeflation
Lol even he's becoming disillusioned
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lfaxo7gtc22e
Crazy that it was written by a republican. Though republicans back in that era were much different than the ones today and I think even Herbert was quite unique among them.
Tfw Iran cares more about protecting Canada from American aggression than Canadian leaders
Trump anti-Zionist arc?
I doubt it. Netanyahu will just name one one of the pieces of land he stole in Syria after Trump again and he'll forget all about it and go back to glazing Israel.
Reminds me of an interview I was watching where Michael Hudson was talking about the issue of CPC members (or maybe he was just talking about wealthy Chinese) sending their kids to western schools and warned that this would mean they would learn western economics and bring those ideas back home
That's actually really cool