

Fuel tax only pays 25% of the cost of roads.


Fuel tax only pays 25% of the cost of roads.


Later on the top 1% will start to extract all wealth from the 1-10% class. Then the 0.1% will do the same. Concentration of wealth will continue.


These drivers are their own business and they’re just maximizing revenue according to market incentives, just like any other business. So Pizza Hut has enshittified themselves. Well done. I guess it looked a lot better in the excel sheet and presentation.


That’s a good way to start a general strike in the country.


Yeah, we were all sitting in the office with headphones to isolate from the office noise and distractions so we could concentrate and getting work done.
Just ask who got the gains in the last industrial revolution and who got to live in the slums, and how they plan to do things differently now.


It’s in practice a class based society with the big families at the top like ancient nobility. Seems they’re having a little “let them eat cake” moment.


At that point, it’s purely ideology and contempt for anyone beneath them.


A tech demo to draw investors but doesn’t provide results equal or better than classic AI so far.


The uncomfortable part of all this is that it is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem. AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad.
Harsh but true


CEOs are really herd animals, always looking what the other guy is doing and living in a continuous fear of missing out the next big thing. It sure doesn’t help with shareholders breathing down their neck pushing for short term profit and growth.


If every company is using the same few AIs, they’re basically the same company. Everything unique about them will deteriorate until it’s just corporate grey goo.


so no alternative for youtube


First it’s the tech bros using a tech for something it wasn’t meant for and continuously lying about it. That causes a backlash and makes people hate the tech itself, because it’s being used where it causes friction.


If that doesn’t match the sum of all their customer meters, then water is going somewhere else
That’s probably exactly what they did, but usually the water meter at customers is only measured or reported on once per year, so it takes months before the difference becomes clear in the data.


It does feel like the moment when somebody pushes ask their chips forward and declares all-in.


only be useful to a handful of people
So in the end it’s even more useful than the metaverse or NFT, and they hyped that shit up like crazy.


Is AI the final bubble they’ll inflate? Usually some new tech gets hyped when the old tech fails. See the progression through deep learning, Blockchain, NFT. Or will they do robotics and suddenly it’s robots everywhere. Maybe quantum computing.
There isn’t enough terrorism to justify things with that, so children it is.