Ok. Thanks for clarifying.

Although I am pretty sure AI is already used in the medical field for research and diagnosis. This “AI everywhere” trend you are seeing is the result of everyone trying to stick and use AI in every which way.

The thing about the AI boom is that lots of money is being invested into all fields. A bubble pop would result in investment money drying up everywhere, not make access to AI more affordable as you are suggesting.

You and OP are misunderstanding what is meant by good and cheap.

It’s not cheap from a resource perspective like you say. However that is irrelevant for the end user. It’s “cheap” already because it is either free or costs considerably less for the user than the cost of the resources used. OpenAI or Meta or Twitter are paying the cost. You do not need to pay for a monthly subscription to use AI.

So the quality of the content created is not limited by cost.

If the AI bubble popped, this won’t improve AI quality.

AI is good and cheap now because businesses are funding it at a loss, so not sure what you mean here.

The problem is that it’s cheap, so that anyone can make whatever they want and most people make low quality slop, hence why it’s not “good” in your eyes.

Making a cheap or efficient AI doesn’t help the end user in any way.

Big companies are subject to constant audits. You, too, can check their balance sheets that are released and scrutinize the numbers.

While you may personally dislike MS products, most of the world’s businesses and governments run on them. That’s licensing money every month without fail. They can literally charge whatever they want because companies with staff want Office and Windows Server backend.

Killing the public option and capitulating to republicans.

Yet we got the ACA, but i guess you prefer the old system where Americans can’t get insured if they have preexisting conditions.

He was sure able to sell weapons to netanyahu without any problem at all. Bipartisan support, even. But codifying Obergefell wasn’t a priority

Sure. Things are easier to pass with bipartisan support. Are you suggesting Obergefell would receive bipartisan support? Lol

Which is why Roe was never overturned.

Which is irrelevant to my point. Roe was a republican talking point for decades but they were never stupid enough to act on it. When they did there was immediate election fallout. We are still in the “finding out” stage and there can absolutely be more blowback from this down the road.

But they never will.

Which is why you should continue to support the Republicans. That’ll show them

You realize what you are saying doesn’t make things any better, right?

Republicans played on the fears and stupidity of the American people and promised to deliver something, anything.

Democrats are trying to explain to the American people than yes, there is a period of higher inflation and prices, but the Biden/Harris administration navigated us out of a pandemic and provided a wage increase that outdated prices from 2020 to Sept 2024. That provided all time high in wages in US history. And this was despite the typical republican obstruction from congress and the judicial. And if given another 4 to 8 years we can continue to improve on this.

And that the American people, faced with facts or feelings, chose to elect the ones that let that ruined our country by mismanaging the pandemic (which caused the economic issues)…again.

No i don’t think we should agree with this logic. I want Americans to make smarter and more rational decisions and not have selective amnesia after only 4 years. Just because everything was not fixed in 4 years does not mean we should choose the dumbest possible option just because they delivered a “feeling”

When Obama had the majority, what did Democrats spend their time and political capital on? I don’t know about you but healthcare seems pretty important and affects more people than gay marriage.

Biden used his to deal with a pandemic fallout and he was at least attempting to solve a educational loan bubble.

Keep in mind things like gay marriage and abortion were never in any immediate danger at any time. It has become socially acceptable and used as an empty threat by Republicans. That they were crazy enough to go through with it is just stupidity on their part.

Again, the democrats can be much much better, but you are absolutely ignoring the progress they made that would never have been made under Republican leadership.

but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists

That last part is relevant, because thats not what YouTube does and what makes it a conspiracy

Are we really going to pretend that if LGBT rights were pushed and promoted by the democrats in the 90s, the American populace was just going to accept it? The Republicans would likely have a supermajority and the presidency after Clinton’s 1st term.

Look what happened when we had 8 years with a black president.

I’m not saying the democrats did everything right, but the logic on incremental progress is correct vs tear it all down if it’s not a utopia already

You are viewing everything through the lens of now now now.

Inflation was at record lows from the housing crisis through the pandemic. It only spiked in 2021-2022. Before that, we had nearly 3 decades of sub 2% inflation. You are basing all your conclusions on 3 years worth of data instead of 30.

Look things suck financially right now. Everyone is hurting except the rich and it is absolutely stupid. But no it has not always been that way and social progress is not the reason we are where we are.

We are in financial trouble because we elected a far right party that is breaking everything. Because we would rather be cynical about the Democrats and blame them for the economic fallout of a pandemic instead of having realizing the fallout is due to abysmal mismanagement of said pandemic by the very administration we let back in power.

If you have been following politics from the Clinton era, then you wound have seen the progress and incremental change first hand especially regarding social rights.

Gay marriage didn’t exist. They were denied their existence in the military, and on TV.

We went from that to adding new letters to the ltgb alliance every few years. To pronouns and kinks like furries being accepted.

A black president was unimaginable. There were still people alive that experienced segregation.

Most of what you are listing are reactions to the progress. The bigots pushed back, and they won partly because they convinced us to be more cynical and divisive. To ignore and forget the progress that was made and spin as negatively as possible all the change we see.

Incremental change is moving forward 3 steps after falling back 2, not giving up because we couldn’t be at step 5 by now.

This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

This is not a conspiracy. The conspiracy is saying YouTube does this because they are right wing company.

Why is this a shit post? This is like straight out of Silicon Valley.

Much less ok to pretend both are the same

We are not accounting for the percentage of people who read it but are still cool with forfeiting their soul.

So it’s a valid question to ask why all of the current fuckery has not translated into market chaos.

My reply addresses this with your 2nd point. What I’m trying to say is that maybe the market did factor in the fuckery and has so far believed it to be a nothing burger.

Everyone could be wrong, of course, but so far that is what the markets indicates. So naturally the follow up questions should be, are the markets wrong? Or am I (OP) consuming too much media from my bubble which is overexaggerating the doom and gloom?

You kind of get it with your own answer but are refusing to see it.

Why hasn’t the market dropped yet with all the fuckery going on in DC? Because the impact of said fuckery has not occurred yet. Let this be a chance for some awareness of your own personal information bubble and possible over doom scrolling.

This is not saying this administration isn’t going to cause some terrible shit. It just hasn’t stuck yet. Nothing the administration has done has prevented Microsoft or Google or Netflix from collecting their subscription fees. The closest thing so far has been tariffs that came and went.

You’re being purposely dishonest when you argue that the issues of the US 50 years ago are the same as they are today. Inflation isn’t something that goes away. It’s a necessity in for a growing economy. Abortion is politically still here but views on sexuality and women are not the same as it was 50 years ago.

Our issues are bad and still probably get worse before they get better but I still would not trade places with China. As I said it’s easier when you are still a developing nation but their issues are not something you’d envy.

They have a real estate problem that can end their economy, a gender disparity due to their 1 child policy that will leave generations of men without any hopes of finding a partner, and they still get to deal with the same education inflation problem that exists everywhere: all children spending their whole lives studying to get into the few good universities but without that good job waiting for them.

Vietnam is still developing so there is a lot of room for growth, but China already has a mountain of issues bubbling under the surface.

How well do you think your comment will age in 3 to 5 years?

It’s not that relevant if, prior to the man performing multiple nazi salutes, we already knew he was a full blown fascist.