I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price

Yeah that’s a good strategy. Good for chicken feed too then they can be the new CEO of breakfast

I don’t even want to eat them. They’re hardly even worth being hog feed and I wouldn’t want to feed too many of them to my hogs. There’s an obviously high level of heavy metals in them.

We do this with every single new revolutionary technology.

Pets.com

Computer boom and busts

Even fucking railroads. They were building tens of thousands of kms of railroad to literal nowhere. “Towns will settle as long as you build a station and run a service there!”

Which is partially true in land that was a PITA to get to, and couldn’t access lucrative markets. I.e. a lot of prairie in the Midwest, which only truly settled around rail due to grain elevators and a more structure co-op system.

In not a Chinese shill but realistically modern war is a competition of industrialized might. China would whoop the US in a slugfest (i.e. not nuclear exchange. Nobody wins that) because the US can’t produce at the rate the Chinese can.

China can mass produce sophisticated weapons… The US’ military industrial complex and incentive structures (cost + % billing) has created a giant cancerous tumor of an arm’s industry. It’s currently tooled for bullying and murdering brown people for profit, not fighting a near peer nation and changing that system takes years.

It won’t change as long as cost + % and corruption continue, which they will. If the US finds itself in a war with China it’ll have entirely the wrong arm’s industry for fighting them and they won’t have the grace of 1939-1941 to scale their domestic arms industry prior to a major conflict… There’s also the fact that the US is heavily deindustrialized now too compared to WWII… China is closer to the industrial heavyweight the US once was in 1941-45, but they have technological sophistication and a knowledge economy now too…

Patriot interceptor missiles are a decent example of what I mean. They cost millions to produce and take forever to make which is by design. They could be made faster and cheaper but that’s less profit. If the arm’s industry in the US were paid a lump sum and not “pump your costs as high as possible to get the highest cost+% you can” things would be different.

It feels like a nice round tax number.

It reminds me of how US companies get a tax credit of up to $200 for office bonding i.e. pizza parties. That’s literally the reason they’re so common… It’s a tax write-off…

Also a lot of universities have encouraged AI use and adoption…