Ok, I already had heard the signature part. I mean, I think this is pretty tame by DJT standards.

Honestly, I don't buy this as authentic. Maybe it is. Even if it is it just change my opinion on either man. His actions were see in plain sight are much worse on the Epstein stuff.

What part? Its not as bad as I thought it would be.

SF NIMBYism is off the charts.

I have only been to Austin once. It was over 10 years ago. I get the feeling it's the Texas version of San Francisco. It has many of the positives and negatives in common. I wonder what you think. Not sure how familiar you are with SF but it has went through many booms and busts. After my recent trip it seems to be bouncing back. Glad to see it BTW. I wonder if Austin is in the boom phase and not learning lessons from SF.

What do you think since you work and live there.

Comparatively it is better than pretty much anything they had though

Gold actually has several roles. It's used in manufacturing and jewelry but you knew that.

How refreshing to see a post related to this "debate" that isn't completely stupid.

Classic

Been telling my wife we are in a sideways pattern. Seems like we could go down or up and people are very uneasy.

Well put. I have lived through a few and this is starting to feel like a recession to me. Regardless of what the numbers or politics say about it. Based solely on my work and social circles.

There seems to be a top down focused pressure to use AI. I've seen it. It's early days and there seems to be a lot of solutions in search of a problem.

I've seen effective and ineffective uses of AI. In my opinion it's largely a skill issue on the part of the users and devs. Most of us have overestimated how easy it is to effectively use these tools.

Not sure if this data is from the MIT study but it doesn't surprise me. That said, it's a mistake to think this will continue. It's just as foolish as thinking AI is gonna create massive unemployment in the near future.

He's not ideological at all. He's a bull in a china shop. His ability to make stuff happens is what scares these people. I still think these people think they are smarter than they are. They don't get the actual problem.

A thought repeatedly occurs to me with all the outrage I see about almost everything Trump does.

Imagine how these people would respond to a President Ron Paul. Based on some of the relatively minor changes from Trump vs Paul's I can't even imagine how they would respond to a principled liberty focused man that has character.

When you strip away the outrage related to Trump's personality and ego you are left with minor shifts. I mean, yeah when your world view is about as wide as a pencil he's extreme but when you view the whole of political though he's pretty mild.

I can't shake the sense that this is more about defending the elite. The system. The deep state. The status quo. Whatever term you are comfortable with.

I'm not convinced Trump isn't owner by these groups but the reactions to him are more telling than anything he has done.

Yeah, bitcoin doesn't. But far too many bitcoiners still do.

Totally

These people have done a great job of destroying what small sliver of respectability I had for them going back before 2016. It was small then but I have zero today.

At the time my respect for Trump was also small. Still is, but hasn't reduced. They have done this to themselves. It's hard to believe these people can suck so bad and opposing someone. Truly amazing that so many "elites" still seem completely flummoxed by Trump's ways and patterns. They somehow can simultaneously overestimate him and underestimate him.

They aren't sending their best. Clearly. I feel no sadness for the demise of the respectable class. I do wish we lived in a more civil and kind society but you can't put that on Trump. He's the effect. Not the cause. What people should be thinking about is what follows him. Not him. He's nothing more than a signal to the deep problems we have as a society. The deep divide and moral failure of the ruling class. God help us.

You didn't answer my question. Do you think humanity will actually believe this and change? There are many things we know but you'd never know it by our actions.

This is why my attitude about AI changed as I began to understand it better. The issues shouldn't surprise people. We have been set up to expect something that is different from the actual technology

Right on.

Do you think humanity will actually believe this? And I don't mean in surveys or when you have coffee with them. But when they make decisions. Talk is cheap and hear a lot of talk and I rarely see people that actually live like they believe we are headed to disaster.

I'm not saying we are or aren't. But I wonder if people really believe what they hear and say.

What say you?

Exactly