I could see this playing out. Already, people in the admin and media are saying that we started this war to protect Israel (or because of Israel, or even dragged into war by Israel) and that seems like the first step to an off-ramp.
An oil crisis will hit everyone very hard, but it would have hit China so much harder just a few years ago. They're in a better position to weather this storm than basically anyone else.
What's really interesting is China is making these advancements just in time for oil prices to crash the global economy. While the rest of the world is paralyzed, China will just keep advancing faster and faster. It really is the Chinese century.
Okay, will the current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, be any better?
Not him. Okay, maybe the next guy: President pro tempore of the Senate, Chuck Grassley.
No? How about the next guy: Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
No? How about Scott Bessent? Pete Hegseth? Pam Bondi? If you go far enough down fucking RFK Jr is in line for succession! The rot in this government is deep. That's why we say Trump is merely a symptom.
Courts generally agree that a reasonable person could believe claims made in official promotional material. That's why it's not legal to outright lie in marketing and they need to go through so much trouble to properly word their statements so that they're technically true. In this case, they're just lying. They're saying the AI is safe to use for these tasks and it is not.
More a problem with the marketing, right? Imagine if guns were marketed as safe and helpful back scratchers, and then someone shoots themselves because they used the gun to scratch their back.
It doesn't sound like people would bend over backwards to give me a job. I work in a factory and live in a trailer. They bend over backwards to give rich people jobs, and it has literally nothing to do with being queer. You're getting mad about gender, but you should be mad about inequality.
Adjusted for inflation in today's dollars: $220