I always upvote Farscape references… always.

The population figures you’ve cited coming out of China are dubious at best. Births have been repeatedly found to be overstated and school age populations are plummeting faster than anticipated because of local corruption when reporting their birth figures. Bottom line China is rapidly aging with few young workers to take the place of their existing workforce. That isn’t to say there isn’t a lot of them, but it isn’t nearly enough to sustain anything closely to replacement.

You missed the point entirely about my capital markets comment. Put simply the CCP direct any profits the average citizen has with their capital to subsidize industries. The citizen sees no benefit from their work only an elite few who have connections with the CCP do.

It’s akin to the US government directing capital towards building data centers which consume millions of gallons of fresh water, get subsidized electricity and a elite few who will benefit from their creation while local citizens bear the brunt of utility increases. However in the US you can fight it and vote in a new governing party to stop it. In China there is only the CCP so they just have to endure it. The West isn’t perfect but if you feel the CCP has a superior system I’d question your judgement.

They have subsidize the shit out of their industry by keeping their citizens capital tied up in their banking, housing and stock market. It is hard to get capital out of China now and only the very wealthy can pull it off.

So yes if the government took a good chunk of the interest or revenues you’d make from your investments yes you can have the same subsidized industries.

In their defense they are also willing to let bad companies go under which is something the US hasn’t done since the 90s.

If something other than a human shows signs of intelligence on the same level as how we define it for ourselves. At that point are we enslaving another conscious being?

I’ve never understood how people can reconcile AGI and slavery. At that point it seems you have hit all of the hallmarks of sentience and now you are enslaving a thinking being to do your work.

He looks like an older Vincent Price.

Look up AST, better tech and is used by most of the major carriers.

He’s probably not on the take from big business and realizes he’ll never get donations from the wealthy. So he has no problem passing legislation that will harm them in favor of the consumer.

Because then they couldn’t track your online habits and use it for profit.

Or by then the surveillance system will break.

Are you comparing the two package sizes? One has strawberries and one has raspberry’s….

That is like… well comparing strawberries to raspberries they are totally different… I would assume packaging and pricing would be different.

The Iranian people were getting gunned down in the streets by the Iranian government just a few months before Trump attacked.

It’s the Iranian government and military that managed to hold on. Trumps attack only made them stronger.

Walk into any office or business that runs off the cloud or a local server and they will likely have dozens… I mean dozens of these lying around.

I know the gaming community looks at these like a vampire looks at a rosary but it isn’t new tech or even a new concept.