I’ve almost always broken my phone before it getting out of date or laggy was any issue. I’m a bit clumsy.

It’s why I buy budget phones. Expensive phones break easier so far. They have a nice design? I wouldn’t know, it doesn’t leave its case ever.

And when the car is drivable you do a demo for the customer to show what it’ll look like, somebody in the room will ask what the flight ceiling is and things first go very quiet and then very loud. After much discussion it turns out they actually need a flying car. Of course there is no additional budget for that.

Money is power in this society, and billionaires have the most money. See also climate change what is again the choice between a few hundred billionaires and a livable planet, and the billionaires are winning.

Fertility rates and what influences them have been discusses a lot. It’s something influences by a multitude of factors, and each region in the world has a different mix or ratio of factors, so that makes it hard to disentangle. Income, inequality, living cost, childcare cost, housing cost, societal expectations, double income families, commuting, urbanization and environment less suitable for children, pressure to be productive, promotions as status, prioritization of spending money on goods and travel, change in gender roles, dating and marriage changed, more single people, pressure to monitor and invest more time in children, economic instability, the increasing threat of AI and robots taking job … The list continues.

The main problem for modern society is that these things can’t be changed without modifying society itself and/or lots of money is involved. So policy makers are stuck. They’re under pressure to increase fertility rate but only in a way that it doesn’t cost employers money and makes sure that consumption of goods doesn’t drop. They also have to make sure there are enough workers but increasing immigration is problematic. The end result is that they do some token gestures and just let it play out. They probably hope that big tech arrives with their AI and robots to do the jobs and help with elderly care.

Guess what traits tend to make for people better at securing and conserving power within groups, and keeping loyalty within their ranks?

In a time of crisis. The biggest downside of these leaders is that they keep creating new crises to stay in power. There are cases of killing such a leader because of that.

And in a lot of leaders, their status was defined for how much they could give away and how generous they were, not how tough they were.

Then there is religion, that manages to encoded certain rules and pass them on to the next generations.

The world is a lot more than psychopaths.

It’s the deregulated part that’s an issue when people lose their life savings and nobody can help them because no regulations.

I’ve seen that move. So next is to lock down the city, establish holding camps and go door by door to root out all “undesirables” for deportation.

Because they want to build and experiment without all the red tape. Of course they do and people have to relearn why regulations are written in blood.

They hate the FDA, but one of the reasons it exists was because some folks sold radioactive beverages, mascara that caused blindness, a bunch of snake oil and medicine that killed people and/or caused deformities.

Adventures with financial deregulation and crypto haven’t been much better so far.

Judges are warning lawyers there will be sanctions if they kept using LLM to do their research as documents with fake references keep appearing.

That’s a sure sign there is some over promising and under delivering going on.

It doesn’t help with the hate that LLMs have some obvious flaws but tech bros are dead set on declaring it the future and ramming it in every product foie gras style.

And whatever Israel is doing does reflect back on the international Jewish community and tainting opinions. They’re still committing atrocities under a flag with the Star of David.

Until other European countries use this as an excuse to kick out polish workers and they’ll complain about the lack of solidarity.

Probably realizing that Democrats can now trace who bought MAGA hats and they too have guns.

But he cares about exporting grain as that means power and leverage for him, and that grain as now being trampled by half a million animals.

Americans have been made too individualist for collective action I guess

So there is now Taco Don. Karoline Leavitt, formerly BS Barbie is now called Taco Belle, and the tariffs are henceforth knows as Taco Tax. People are having fun with this.

And the places that do code with generative AI all have quality issues. Their management blames it on the remaining developers not checking and rewriting the AI code enough.

A worm addled health secretary saying nobody should take medical advise from him