According to wordpress, this is my second most recent draft, it’s not, I barely remember the post below, and I still don’t understand how yesterday’s post disappeared. I think I’ll star looking for a new home.
10% of Americans think HTML is a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
25% of Americans think God helps decide the outcome of football games.
51% of Americans think stormy weather “affects” Cloud Computing.
25% of Americans thinks the Sun goes around the Earth.
54% of Americans who attend church once per week support torture.
9% of college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court.
29% of Americans couldn’t name the vice president.
73% of Americans couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War.
44% of Americans were unable to define the Bill of Rights.
6% of Americans couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.
25% of all U.S. high school students thought that Christopher Columbus made his famous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean after the year 1750.
33% of all U.S. high school students did not know that the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
We are going to give robots and AI 50% of our jobs. We are going to build self-driving electric cars made of exotic minerals that are too difficult to recycle. We are going to flood the world with IOT bugs and nano-RFID dust. Then we are going to run all this extra infrastructure by covering vast regions of the world with throwaway solar panels and wind turbines, along with millions of tons of batteries that are too difficult to recycle properly. This will increase disparity to politically disruptive levels. We don’t need smart toilets, smart dildos and lightbulbs. I don’t even like dogs smarter than me.
Remember the Artificial Intelligence AI videos on YouTube, before they got got?
Now all we get from YouTube is how AI going to free us to be “creative”. See video just below. It’s the same story we got with solar/wind power, about how we can quickly just switch over our urban power systems to solar/wind batteries.
By 2020 we will be littered with 20-30 billion IOT data devices that will crash the ecology of the earth. Nevermind the climate. They want hundreds of billions of micro RFID chips by 2030. At the same time, customer service jobs are going bye bye.
All this IOT data throughput will expand mineral demand exponentially, as will AI service automation and robot manufacturing. Baidu promises a free online education revolution and a universal basic income. It was 2007 when solar panels and wind turbines took off and they’re not even at 10% of world energy demand, the media will still be talking about a free education and universal basic income in 2027. This is not how things get done.
I’ve been arguing against all the energy growth this “smart economy” will require exactly when we should be reducing energy demand to save earth and humanity. Minerals are the new oil, that’s what all the fighting’s about. We have to reduce superfluous mineral demand to accommodate basic mineral energy demand. We don’t need 5 Terra byte per day cars. We don’t need smart toilets.
Electric vehicles, renewable energy driving demand, and price, for copper (abc.net.au)
EVs use 4X more copper than ICs.
Renewables use 4X as much copper as fossil fuels.
Copper: 28m tons/year today, 40m tons/year by 2030.
Copper will peak 2030-2040 even without all the extra demand.
Electronic recycling yields diminishing returns on exotic minerals.
In 30 years we’ll have solar panel and wind turbine toxic waste galore as it is.
The Secrets of the Super Elements (BBC Documentary)
This excellent documentary lays out how our data economy depends on erotic minerals. We are driving our info economy into a mega mineral bust. It shows how we will have to move more tons of ore for extremely low yields. We are driving erotic mineral demand exponentially in the face of mineral energy poverty. We can’t have a self-driving sex robot economy filled with buzzing IOT bugs just because AI wants more data, like that creature on Little Shop Of Horrors.
Two US solar companies are petitioning Trump to add tariffs to Asian solar cell imports—a move that could devastate the US solar industry (insideclimatenews.org)
They don’t mention the foreign owners of the 2 bankrupt solar firms.
Old Fat Dumbass Lectures Millennials One Last Time… Maybe.
Both sides of the Charlottetown crime are funded, most of us don’t agree with it. Everything’s a big fucking mess of a game until someone loses an eye, or worse.
When Baby Boomers were 20 years old, they scared the fuck out of the MSM establishment. The media of the time were filled with horror stories about the sheer power and might of an entire generation of well informed and educated people.
Flash forward 600 billion years, and here we are again. Millennials scare the fuck out of the establishment, and the media are filled with horror stories about the sheer power and might of an entire generation of well informed and educated people.
If I were a millennial, I would wonder how did baby boomers become the great unwoke fucktards they are now? Don’t worry kids, they didn’t just drift off to sleep from their own accord, life conspires against liberal radicalism when you have kids. Life’s a bit of a joke that way. Don’t get carried away, the more things change the more they stay the same. Don’t drift off to sleep. Power is only taken. Don’t have kids, and don’t compromise.
4 TURNINGS = GROWTH • MATURATION • ENTROPY • DESTRUCTION every 80 years.
1 Turning = 20 years
I think we are collapsing socially as well as every other possible way as the whole world yells out in horror as the shit show plays out.
When you build bigger roads, you get bigger traffic jams.
By 2020 your car will burn 5 Terra bytes of data per day, 20 billion IOT devices will burn data like mental, 100 billion nano RFID devicess per year will burn through data and data. Electric cars, smart grids, intermittent grid management will burn through data and minerals faster than 5G EMFs will fry your noodle until the mineral supply chain breaks. Then our world will be too complicated to run without automated services. We will forget how to run things without computers as the supply chains break. This is why we kill Afghanis, and this is why we’ll kill Koreans, not just because they have minerals, but they have them closer to market than Russia’s vast untapped reserves.
I spent the last 20 years reading exclusively lefty websites. After the financial crash I started reading righty sites. I’m neither right nor left now because the world is coming to an end. Both sides are full of kooks, cons and bullshit artists. If I were American, I would vote for Jill Stein or Bernie Sanders. To me, Alternet is every bit as bad as Zero Hedge, but news is news and I take stories from each.
That the right is full of assholes is a given, but I’ve seen first hand what evil the left is capable of.
When Google’s YouTube first demonetized the alt-right, the lefties jumped for glee, and the right warned the left they would not remain unscathed. Well, here are the results.
The World Socialist Web Site (wsws) has obtained statistical data estimating the decline of traffic generated by Google searches for 13 sites with substantial readerships.
