FreedomAdvocate

The poorest always shoulder the burden - of everything - because they’re the ones where even the smallest change affects them the most. They’re the ones most affected by unchecked inflation like we’ve had the last 6 years.

A recession does lead to a “reset” in prices via deflation. Prices go down when spending and earning goes down. That’s literally what happens. Buying power per dollar increases because money is harder to come by, so prices drop to accommodate the drop in spending and earning.

I didn’t say AI will save Hollywood…….. quite the opposite actually - I said it will destroy Hollywood.

It means that filmmakers won’t need to worry about making $1bil at the box office just to break even, so every movie won’t have to be safe and derivative. Movies can take risks again because production costs are now a few thousand dollars instead of a few hundred million dollars. It allows rapid iteration, rapid “reshoots”, near instant CGI, automatic lip synched multi language audio, etc.

Like I said, the only people acting like they’re in a religion or cult are the anti-AI luddites like you. People like you would have been anti-TV, anti-car, anti-flash photography, etc

No one is “worshipping tech bros” 🤣. Most people like what AI is bringing to the world. It makes lots of jobs infinitely easier. It opens new doors for people, doors that previously were locked shut with a million padlocks and booby traps.

Like I said, the only cult like behaviour is from people like you.

They have been trying to develop nuclear weapons. It’s not easy.

The rest of the world doesn’t want to just leave a terrorist “death to our enemies” country alone. They need to be stopped and kept in check.

AI makes what people tell it to. Hollywood is already creatively bankrupt, derivative, and boring. AI is, funnily enough, the solution to the current situation - it’ll allow budding film makers who could never get a million dollar budget to make entire movies with blockbuster level cgi and production for essentially peanuts. It’ll allow “reshoots” and editing and complete rewrites in an afternoon instead of months and millions more dollars.

It is funnily enough almost the saviour to movies, while spelling the demise of the movie industry as we know it. It’s electricity to the candle. It’s the model T to the horse and cart.

The only “cult” around AI is the anti-AI cult. The rest of us just acknowledge the reality that AI is now an everyday tool to use, and it’s revolutionising the world at a break-neck pace. It’s turning entire industries on their heads, doing in minutes for a handful of dollars what a year ago took 300 people millions of dollars to do.

The genie is out of the bottle, and it’s not going back in ever again. The genie is only going to get more powerful by leaps and bounds. The anti-AI crowd are going to be left behind, unemployed, and even worse for them - unemployable.

Those EVs are made in foreign countries using non recyclable, non-renewable materials mined and made with non-renewable energy.

Australia has no energy independence, and the further down the “renewables” rabbit hole we go the less energy independence we have because we don’t and can’t make any of the “renewables” equipment here. We’re intentionally getting more and more reliant on China, and for some reason no one seems to care.

7.5 hours? God that sounds like heaven to me at this point.

We’re looking to sell and buy a new place atm, and high on the list is dual living as I’m under no illusion that my kids will ever be able to afford to buy their own house without our help. Happy for them to stay with us as long as they can to be in the best financial situation they can. Will be looking to try and transfer our places into their names as early as possible too, so we aren’t forced to sell them to access assisted living etc when it’s time.

I’ve got about 15km left to empty according to my dash 😭. Not looking forward to the petrol station stop tomorrow morning, but at least my car is economical on fuel - I get about 800km to a 40L tank of diesel.