True to form, people still framing the class war as a generational war.
Entire generations are not in power, only a few corrupt examples of them. All we've done, all we've ever done, is vote for the "lesser of two evils". That's how we got here. We were all duped, and are still being duped, as the voting record will show.
So, she didn't say "boomer". But she did frame it as a generational issue.
It really has nothing to do with age. In fact that's backwards. It's about people who have been in power too long, and are coincidentally old. They aren't corrupt because they're old, they're corrupt because they're in power, and they're old because they've been in power a long time. Too long. Bernie is rare because he's avoided becoming corrupt, his age is coincidental.
We need term limits for Congress. That won't stop the corruption but it will mitigate the damage they can do, and help prevent them from becoming entrenched and forming damaging long-term alliances with other corrupt politicians and billionaires.
You might say, "voting is the term limit", but voters are notoriously terrible at spotting corruption, and of course, the politicians do everything they can to hide it.
I think the ideal home robot would be two or three separate arms that ride in tracks along the ceiling, long enough to unfold down to the reach the floor. They'd be out of the way, no need to recharge, they can forego all the balancing and walking hardware and software, they'd be very strong and have the leverage of being attached to the house. Most tasks only need one, but some tasks are better performed with two. They could even move furniture. Of course, houses would need to be redesigned to accommodate them. For instance, doors would need to go all the way to the ceiling.
One step further? Okay, here's a weird one.
Another task they could perform is to manipulate a sex doll mannequin while you wear AR goggles to make the doll look like whatever you want. It doesn't need to be a complicated doll, since all the visual is handled by the goggles. They'd be cheaper, too, you could afford more than one. In... different shapes.
He's passionate and found his "calling", so yeah, zealots can be tiring. He also happens to be right, and I appreciate that he's sticking his neck out for that conviction. If he ran for national office, I'd vote for him. He's exactly the sort of bulldog we need to stir up Congress. However, unless he learned to catch flies with sugar, I don't think he'd be very effective-but, maybe he could do that.
We went from the twin lead coming from the antenna on the roof, to the coaxial stapled along the outside wall, coming in through a hole in the wall near the TV and connecting to a box, which connected to the antenna in. Then the VCR comes in and the TV got a coaxial in. Then we had the RCA component in on the TV, along with RGB. That's where CRT input ends.
There's the TOSLINK, but I think that was only for audio hardware.
Then HDMI, and probably other ones I'm forgetting.
I was there for all of it. Including the rabbit ears antenna on "portable" CRT TVs. And, the Sony Watchman.
Do I remember? I'm fucking 60, I remember everything y'all ask about and much more. I remember when my 16" 1024 X 768 monitor died and I rushed to Staples before they closed to pay $400 for a 14" monitor, which was as much as I could afford at that moment. But, how far back do you want to go? MS-DOS 2.0 on a 12" amber monitor (I didn't like green)? I was there.
My current "big" TV is a 1920 X 1080 14-year-old 55" Toshiba dumb TV.
I got a 27" 4K monitor a few months ago, when my old monitor died. I have my second, old 1920 x 1080 monitor next to it. Yes, I can tell the difference, but only in text, not in video.
I wouldn't mind having a 100" OLED 4K TV, but for two things. I don't want to pay for it, but I would pay for it, except I'm afraid it would die in a couple of years, because my experience has been that new appliances are crap. So, I'll just stick with my old TV, and be happy that it's much better than my 27" Sharp CRT it replaced.
Vacuum up the internet, provide generative "AI" for people to spew tons of garbage on to the internet. Everyone hates AI, and advertisers don't want ads showing against AI slop. AI can't accurately detect AI and kills real content providers that advertisers want to show ads for.
True to form, people still framing the class war as a generational war.
Entire generations are not in power, only a few corrupt examples of them. All we've done, all we've ever done, is vote for the "lesser of two evils". That's how we got here. We were all duped, and are still being duped, as the voting record will show.