Do something the robots can't do - raise a family.

Rule 1 of politics: Accuse the other side of what you yourself are in fact doing.

Nah. It's pretty easy. Truth is Truth, no matter what. Now the other side, I can totally see how that would be mentally exhausting. You need to hold two mutually conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time and believe both are true -- on so many issues.

I stopped reading new releases because it's all propaganda. The publishing houses are very tightly controlling what makes it to press, and if it doesn't conform to a certain set of opinions, it never sees the light of day. So, since I refuse to be propagandized, I just won't read their stuff. Same goes with movies and television.

The current book I'm reading Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, was published in 1907. Amazing how much good stuff is in the public domain now.

Eh, the buggy whip makers went to work for Ford.

There will be more productive activity to be done so long as there are people willing to work. Once wants and needs are met by AI, people will get sick of them and want and need things that can't be made by AI. It's human nature - we always want what we can't have.

Neil Stephenson's Diamond Age predicted this but with nanotech. All goods became commodities when the nanotech replicators became ubiquitous, destroying the need for labor to produce them - what became truly valuable was hand crafted stuff like furniture that required human input.

There's certainly going to be some pain as we transition more productive workload over to AI (or more accurately, perform existing workload much more efficiently using AI), but it will shake out. People will find productive work.

NASA was the public arm of the ICBM program. It's always been a DOD program first, which is why once the shuttle retired, they did shit - because only the civilian stuff was left.

Right! Just like Spacex! ... wait. Just like the transcontinental railroad! ... umm, wait, that was private industry too. Just like the cellular telephone! ... oh, that was private industry too. The Unix operating system! ... again.

I'm sure there are SOME government programs that caused a leap in engineering. The B2 bomber! The ICBM! Nukes! There we go. The aircraft carrier! Now we're talking. We need more engineers for those kind of government programs, right?

The last major project I can think of that was a successful government run thing was the interstate highway system, and maybe some feats of the Army Corps of Engineers like the reversal of the Chicago river and the levee systems of the Mississippi. Aside from that, even the subway systems in major cities like Chicago were private industry that was taken over (and run into the ground) by government.

And while we're at it, let's go back to glass deposit/return bottles for sodas.

Sounds like you understand my point

If you only stop people from pissing in the shallow end, they're only going to relieve their bladders in the deep end, and in the end, you have just as much urine in the pool. You either need to control the entire pool (global) or you need to make it very expensive to swim for people who piss in the pool at all.

Unless it's done at a global level or enforced carbon emission based tariffs, a market solution is only going to move the problem outside of California.

Too bad they replaced all those writers in the diversity purges.

Hyper-V is a thing too. For companies with already heavy Microsoft involvement, it makes sense.

It's been 20 years away for the last 50 years.

How about, it's 2025 and the damned iPhone still can't even adhere to web standards.