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  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    edited November 2016
    The future is pretty fucking certain in that it will be bad. There are a lot of varying degrees of bad but bad is FOR SURE the adjective.

    Now I will do my best to shut up when this isn't the topic but the everything is going to be OK thing is super played out and dangerously wallowing in denial at this point.

    Ludious on
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    What if we took all the people in the rust belt that need jobs and made them government subsidized uber drivers?

    What if we stopped being OK with using third world countries as our private slave labor pool and forced corporations to bring international manufacturing facilities up to US safety and salary standards otherwise they're hit with massive tariffs on anything produced outside of the US thereby negating the cost savings of exploiting other countries and thus actually returning those jobs to the US

    ha

    ha ha

    yeah...

    but are you ready to pay 50%* more for everything

    *number completely made up, I wonder what it really is

    arguably it would only increase prices marginally

    cheap labor doesn't necessarily only mean cheap goods

    it also means higher profit margins

    there will have to be a balance between corporations wanting to maintain their margins, but also the suppressed demand caused by higher prices

    ideally, lower prices win out over short term profits, but

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    Stockholm is pretty cool in regards to bomb shelters and stuff. A lot of public buildings as well as apartment houses have them. In my previous apartment there were blast doors in the cellar where we had the laundry room and our personal storages - so in need you could go down there and close them. That had air filters too you could crank on.

    Also by mandate I think there is one gas mask per citizen living in Kommuner (a Kommun is lika a county I think but probably smaller in size generally).

    And in the city there are two enormous bunkers that I know of. By day they are parking garages and stuff. One is directly below the city center and I think that one can hold at least 10,000 people. There is also one inside a cliff under one of the other areas of town. I think that one is also a parking garage usually.

    PSN: Honkalot
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I mean right now I can take an uber to and from work for about $30 as long as they're not in price gouge mode.

    Like that business model works. They'll find a way to get that cost down to $10 or less by removing the driver from the equation and I won't need a car. I'd be okay with that.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    ronya wrote: »

    long legs, covered in a fine down

    *bites knuckles*

    oh this reminds me

    last night shark shouted BELOW MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    i wanted to rush straight to chat for your choicest lady eye roll



    BELOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    well

    did you oblige

    you saucy minx

    i had an overpowering urge to gobble that knob so i done gobbled

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    so yes, your tshirts won't be $10 anymore, they'll probably be $15, but, you won't get lead poisoning from your walmart flip flops anymore either
    A great deal of companies have been coming back to the US to manufacture, because a US robot can produce a million T-Shirts significantly cheaper cheaper than slave labor.

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    The future is pretty fucking certain in that it will be bad. There are a lot of varying degrees of bad but bad is FOR SURE the adjective.

    Now I will do my best to shut up when this isn't the topic but the everything is going to be OK thing is super played out and dangerously wallowing in denial at this point.

    super bad for non whites, and pretty garbage for people who don't have at least 10 mill in the bank

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    My girlfriend is moving in... to the apartment complex next door to mine.

  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    What if we took all the people in the rust belt that need jobs and made them government subsidized uber drivers?

    What if we stopped being OK with using third world countries as our private slave labor pool and forced corporations to bring international manufacturing facilities up to US safety and salary standards otherwise they're hit with massive tariffs on anything produced outside of the US thereby negating the cost savings of exploiting other countries and thus actually returning those jobs to the US

    ha

    ha ha

    yeah...

    but are you ready to pay 50%* more for everything

    *number completely made up, I wonder what it really is

    Absolutely. Because it would have a knock-on effect. Jobs come back, more people have money, more money gets spent, more jobs come back, and so on.

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    Neco wrote: »
    No trmp pls I dont have the energy to keep maintaining angry neco

    that's what they're counting on

    it's...extraordinarily daunting

    3DS: 2165 - 6538 - 3417
    NNID: Hakkekage
  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    Shivahn wrote: »
    I'm excited for the shitstorm when they ban non-self driving cars from city streets

    Volvo has stopped marking its self driving prototypes as such because people have figured out that they drive super defensively and as such can be "bullied" into yielding even when they have priority.

    Take that, Skynet

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Neco wrote: »
    No trmp pls I dont have the energy to keep maintaining angry neco
    You voted for him, that's your president.

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    As a pedestrian, I am 95% certain that most people who change lanes while turning are not aware they're changing lanes, are barely aware that there are lanes, and will call you a fucking cunt fuck if you tell them they did something wrong

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    We just need teleporters.

    Like stand on a pad and BAMF you're at work.

    Let's get on that.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    You know what's interesting, is like, for example, Roads and Bridges

    Bridges can be really fucking expensive. Standard highway overpass might run $3-5 million. River crossing bridge maybe $100-$200 million. A couple miles of interstate in the Quad Cities, with all the new bridges and ramp bridges is going to be over a billion dollars. More than 50% of that cost is labor!

    So I guess, when you consider how third world labor is like, a fraction of what we pay here in the states, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things were made hella cheap by outsourcing.

    But I don't really know how much and surely it's gonna depend on the product.

    Sir Landshark on
    Please consider the environment before printing this post.
  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    What if we took all the people in the rust belt that need jobs and made them government subsidized uber drivers?

    What if we stopped being OK with using third world countries as our private slave labor pool and forced corporations to bring international manufacturing facilities up to US safety and salary standards otherwise they're hit with massive tariffs on anything produced outside of the US thereby negating the cost savings of exploiting other countries and thus actually returning those jobs to the US

    ha

    ha ha

    yeah...

    but are you ready to pay 50%* more for everything

    *number completely made up, I wonder what it really is

    Absolutely. Because it would have a knock-on effect. Jobs come back, more people have money, more money gets spent, more jobs come back, and so on.

    The other upside to it.

    It'll suck for some, but, it'll be a boon for pretty much everyone that isn't stockpiling wealth outside of the US because they hate paying taxes.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    My girlfriend is moving in... to the apartment complex next door to mine.

    Commitment saving throw.

  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/289954/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes-35-mile-run-on-ohi.html

    beep beep

    get ready for millions of people to become unemployed and all the economies built around trucking to also crash pew pew pew

    or:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60

    poo
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    We just need teleporters.

    Like stand on a pad and BAMF you're at work.

    Let's get on that.
    I'll be honest. I'm pretty sure every time they used a transporter, they were murdered and replaced with an identical clone.

    Do not want.

    zepherin on
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    You know what's interesting, is like, for example, Roads and Bridges

    Bridges can be really fucking expensive. Standard highway overpass might run $3-5 million. River crossing bridge maybe $100-$200 million. A couple miles of interstate in the Quad Cities, with all the new bridges and ramp bridges is going to be over a billion dollars. More than 50% of that cost is labor!

    So I guess, when you consider how third world labor is like, a fraction of what we pay here in the states, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things were made hella cheap by outsourcing.

    But I don't really know how much and surely it's gonna depend on the product.

    I don't want cheap bridges made by Malaysian children who are bad at stitching

  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    The future is pretty fucking certain in that it will be bad. There are a lot of varying degrees of bad but bad is FOR SURE the adjective.

    Now I will do my best to shut up when this isn't the topic but the everything is going to be OK thing is super played out and dangerously wallowing in denial at this point.

    who are you arguing with

    Please consider the environment before printing this post.
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I did not have a bad dream at all last night. I vaguely recalled having an average dream.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    That Stand Together FFXV trailer gives me goosebumps every time I watch it, which means it is fantastic marketing but also oh man they perfectly captured so many good feelings.

    I look forward to humming the chocobo theme at waffles for months

  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    You know what's interesting, is like, for example, Roads and Bridges

    Bridges can be really fucking expensive. Standard highway overpass might run $3-5 million. River crossing bridge maybe $100-$200 million. A couple miles of interstate in the Quad Cities, with all the new bridges and ramp bridges is going to be over a billion dollars. More than 50% of that cost is labor!

    So I guess, when you consider how third world labor is like, a fraction of what we pay here in the states, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things were made hella cheap by outsourcing.

    But I don't really know how much and surely it's gonna depend on the product.

    I don't want cheap bridges made by Malaysian children who are bad at stitching

    I'm fairly positive a robot could build roads and maybe even bridges at this point. You'll need humans to actually lay it out, but the labor for it is probably well within the realm of possibilities for robotics.

    I've seen a robot build a skyscraper for christ's sake

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    We just need teleporters.

    Like stand on a pad and BAMF you're at work.

    Let's get on that.
    I'll be honest. I'm pretty sure every time they used a transporter, they were murdered and replaced with an identical clone.

    Do not want.

    It's not like they knew.

    Also that's not true because if ANYONE ever figured that out then everyone that stepped out of the transporter would just instantly look like Brad Pitt and ScarJo.

    We'd have an entire planet of DD ScarJos and Pitts with 9 inch dongs.

    No one would complain after that.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Don't worry guys, basic income is being piloted in Ontario! If it works, surely the US will take it as a good example for pfffffhhahahahahahaha

  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I discovered recently that there's a decommissioned missile silo outside the town next to my town. Used to be a part of NORAD or the Triangle out here in Cali before the missile building stuff at Mather was shut down.

    I'm p sure this means the Russians still have it listed as a target for a nuke strike.

    Which is just great!

    The Sacramento area would get pasted simply because there is a high enough population density to hit it. Most cities over 50k likely make the Russian targeting list because when you have over 7k good sized warheads then there is no reason to be stingy.

    I live in the foothills currently, so I was hoping for some sort of protection from the Valley getting glassed, if that ever happened.

    but now that there's a silo nearby, it would probably still be listed as a target, so yeah. So much for that.

    You're fucked. Even if the blast doesn't touch you. Even if the radiation and the fallout doesn't get you then you need to keep in mind that you're in a moderately wooded area. Take a moment to imagine just how many wildfires would be started by all of the various blasts all around California.

    mdbpjib6hys2.jpg

    I'm sorry, let me give you some of the other follow on effects. Fallout will make it's way into the water supply. So you're gonna need to carefully filter all of your water. Any nuclear plant near you will contribute heavy metals to that nastiness. Then you have stuff like untreated sewage overflow that's gonna make lots of fun diseases spread. Basically the best possible individual outcome after a nuclear war is to be in the blast area and die close to instantly.

  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    We just need teleporters.

    Like stand on a pad and BAMF you're at work.

    Let's get on that.

    There is one of me. We don't need to go and start making extra copies of me.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited November 2016
    Don't worry guys, basic income is being piloted in Ontario! If it works, surely the US will take it as a good example of dirty, unAmerican socialism.

    jungleroomx on
  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/289954/ubers-self-driving-truck-makes-35-mile-run-on-ohi.html

    beep beep

    get ready for millions of people to become unemployed and all the economies built around trucking to also crash pew pew pew

    or:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWS4tTzs60

    Logistics is such a huge industry

    Automation and self driving vehicles and robo-pallets with RFID scanners are going to remove so many jobs at every step of the way

    Not just from the long term cost of not paying a paycheck and health insurance but the ability to move products 24/7 without stop

    A robot doesn't have a mandated maximum number of hours it can drive without sleeping

    Etc

    Fuck

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Basically if you live in California and you hear of a bomb going off but it's far enough away that it doesn't kill you your only option is to get the fuck out of California.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • SenjutsuSenjutsu thot enthusiast Registered User regular
    As a pedestrian, I am 95% certain that most people who change lanes while turning are not aware they're changing lanes, are barely aware that there are lanes, and will call you a fucking cunt fuck if you tell them they did something wrong

    yeah a lot of people treat lanes like the advice to not eat within 30 minutes of swimming

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I discovered recently that there's a decommissioned missile silo outside the town next to my town. Used to be a part of NORAD or the Triangle out here in Cali before the missile building stuff at Mather was shut down.

    I'm p sure this means the Russians still have it listed as a target for a nuke strike.

    Which is just great!

    The Sacramento area would get pasted simply because there is a high enough population density to hit it. Most cities over 50k likely make the Russian targeting list because when you have over 7k good sized warheads then there is no reason to be stingy.

    I live in the foothills currently, so I was hoping for some sort of protection from the Valley getting glassed, if that ever happened.

    but now that there's a silo nearby, it would probably still be listed as a target, so yeah. So much for that.

    You're fucked. Even if the blast doesn't touch you. Even if the radiation and the fallout doesn't get you then you need to keep in mind that you're in a moderately wooded area. Take a moment to imagine just how many wildfires would be started by all of the various blasts all around California.

    mdbpjib6hys2.jpg

    I'm sorry, let me give you some of the other follow on effects. Fallout will make it's way into the water supply. So you're gonna need to carefully filter all of your water. Any nuclear plant near you will contribute heavy metals to that nastiness. Then you have stuff like untreated sewage overflow that's gonna make lots of fun diseases spread. Basically the best possible individual outcome after a nuclear war is to be in the blast area and die close to instantly.

    um i think the best possible outcome would be some sort of toxic avenger type mutation

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Yeah a lot of people don't realize that at amazon warehouses there are these little robot pallet jacks that just go and grab pallets and move them to and from places.

    Like they've replaced people to do that.

    That's only going to increase.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • Sir LandsharkSir Landshark resting shark face Registered User regular
    You know what's interesting, is like, for example, Roads and Bridges

    Bridges can be really fucking expensive. Standard highway overpass might run $3-5 million. River crossing bridge maybe $100-$200 million. A couple miles of interstate in the Quad Cities, with all the new bridges and ramp bridges is going to be over a billion dollars. More than 50% of that cost is labor!

    So I guess, when you consider how third world labor is like, a fraction of what we pay here in the states, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of things were made hella cheap by outsourcing.

    But I don't really know how much and surely it's gonna depend on the product.

    I don't want cheap bridges made by Malaysian children who are bad at stitching

    Meh I've seen road crews that aren't any better

    But that's not what I was arguing for. I was just pointing out how labor costs are massive even in something involving expensive machinery and massive amounts of materials and lots of shipping etc

    Please consider the environment before printing this post.
  • syndalissyndalis Getting Classy On the WallRegistered User, Loves Apple Products regular
    Basically if you live in California and you hear of a bomb going off but it's far enough away that it doesn't kill you your only option is to get the fuck out of California.

    I saw this documentary

    ag0di0i24m8g.jpg

    SW-4158-3990-6116
    Let's play Mario Kart or something...
  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Can't we compromise with cars

    Let me have a little electric Ariel Atom to plug into a solar powered charging station amidst all the self driving pods

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    And yet as a tech teacher, all my cries of "this is gonna be IMPORTANT" fall on deaf ears.

    I remember my 6th grade teacher telling my mom my handwriting didn't need to be good because everyone would be typing in a few years instead. And yet we still do cursive for some reason.

    People are really resistant to letting the awesome robots take over for some reason.

  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    desc wrote: »
    Can't we compromise with cars

    Let me have a little electric Ariel Atom to plug into a solar powered charging station amidst all the self driving pods

    but it won't go brum brum desc

    you need brums

    919UOwT.png
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Only one man can kill this many Russians. Bring his guitar to me! Registered User regular
    Basically if you live in California and you hear of a bomb going off but it's far enough away that it doesn't kill you your only option is to get the fuck out of California.

    Yeah, that's not really limited to California. And places where that isn't an issue often have other things that make surviving there harder. Imagine how many people outside of Phoenix will die if there is no longer power to their AC and water delivery ends.

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