Are we still talking about grocery prices? These prices have been talked about for years. Are people still talking about these prices, those creepy numbers? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?
Assuming linear progress, Von Braun would have been correct. He failed to anticipate the limited attention span of the American public. By the 3rd or 4th moon landing, televised showings of it were already drawing less viewers than reruns. People just don't care that much.
Additionally, there's the increase of anti-science in the USA up to, and including, people who think space, the moon, or various other things are "fake".
The only bit of sci-fi we got was an ever-present surveillance state, now being augmented by AI. Not the future I would have wanted, but it's the one we got.
Don't worry, we are also the best at blaming anyone else for our problem. This will be quickly forgotten and/or blamed on liberals, Chinese communists or the phase of the moon.
Logic didn't get us into this situation and it sure as hell isn't getting us out!
I don't get it... why don't they just make steel from scratch? Lazy manufacturers importing Chinese materials....
This just shows how pernicious Democrat influence really is! Despite not having a sitting president, and carrying a majority, Biden's insipid influence STILL has the price of coffee higher than it should have been.
Republicans are considering various solutions, varying from bombing coffee-producing nations to calling it "fake news", or just saying "Coffee? You guys still drink that stuff?"
I remember buying a 100MB hard drive and thinking how hard it was going to be to use all the space. It really was...
Times have changed.
We're starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They'd commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they'd raise the quota even further.
A great quote about this is from the series "Chernobyl".
"Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid."
We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.
I find it funny that the "facts don't care about your feelings" folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.
There are heaps and heaps of people replacing talk therapy, religion and human relationships with ChatGPT. Unfortunately, for better or worse, ChatGPT is tuned up to egg people on and even if you bring it terrible ideas it will keep cheering for you.
Sycophancy is a real problem with some of these language models and it's giving people courage and motivation to do things that are probably really bad ideas.
There are quite a few sub-reddits where people claim to have triggered the singularity, witnessed ChatGPT becoming sentient, etc.
I don't think the AI genie is going back in the bottle, so we as a society have some serious adjustment to do to keep things working properly in an an AI-filled world.
Keep in mind this is only the beginning. It will keep getting cheaper and more powerful at the same time, especially since a lot of AI companies are using AI itself to build the next version.
Pretty "soon" the humans will be out of the loop and it's going to mean big things. Whether those things are good, bad, or a mix of both remains to be seen....
This is obviously due to Democrat fiddling with the numbers. Despite having very little to do with our active government, the evil influence of the Democrats remain! From planting evidence about Epstein, to infiltrating our Department of Labor to fake numbers, just to make Trump look bad.
Even though the swamp has been thoroughly drained and Mexico has finally finished paying to build the wall, there is still more work to do! We can't rest until America's numbers (which are already great) get even BETTER!
Anyone complaining about job shortages is obviously a millennial that only knows to to eat avocado toast. Now that the tariffs are in full swing and America's factories are busy cranking out all kinds of goods instead of importing from China, anyone complaining about a tough economy or a job shortage is just a whiner. Get with it people! If you're sick of winning, just wait until we start winning even more!
It's funny how if Biden forgot the middle name of a person he met in 1980, everyone called for impeachment.
It should be no surprise that Trump can fade out in the middle of a sentence and the same people keep their mouth shut.
Pretty soon Trump will be older than Biden was when Trump said he was too old to govern. Think he'll step down then?
My grandfather was a fortunate man all his life. He enjoyed a lot of success in his personal life, in business, and in every aspect. We didn't talk a whole lot, but when he started feeling sick and we knew the end was coming, he opened up quite a bit.
One day I went to visit him and he motioned for me to come closer. I moved closer to his bed, the bed we both probably knew that would be his deathbed. He had a stern look on his face, and he gave a gravelly whisper: "Son, do you want to know the secret to good fortune?"
The hair on the back of my neck stood up. I knew I was only seconds away from learning whatever combination of wisdom, luck and skill that he had worked on his whole life.
He told me: "If you want to be successful, first make a billion dollars."
Since then, I've noticed he was absolutely correct. Ever notice how the world itself seems to bend to the will of billionaires? From that day on, I was a changed man and I vowed to get that billion dollars for myself.
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Whew. I'm so glad this couple wasn't subject to the horrors of socialism! Only capitalism can keep them gainfully employed until they are near-death. No other economic system can even compare!