fallguy_1978

This is completely unrelated to the topic, but I really hate the acronym "AI" in all caps. It often looks like we are talking about some dude named Al at initial glance. Can we all agree to use "Ai"?...

So you have 80% unemployment, where do you get the money to pay your citizens? Economic output would be way down. Consumer spending is roughly 70% of GDP. You wouldn't be able to squeeze that out of the employed 20% and businesses with declining revenues. I guess they could print it and we'd ...

[quote]That would cost the US 6.5 trillion dollars a year in UBI alone. That’s double our current entitlement spending.[/quote] It's larger than the entire federal budget. The math never works in these scenarios....

Where is the government going to get tax revenue to pay these massive numbers of unemployed citizens? Citizens that are largely poor now. Never underestimate the length the government will go to to protect their revenue streams. They'd outlaw the percentage of jobs that could be automated even....

[quote]It will replace 95% of all jobs in 25 years[/quote] I think these predictions are overblown. I think some jobs will be automated and others will spring up. If we replaced even 40% of all jobs we'd have total economic collapse. Most businesses wouldn't need to automate things because they...

[quote]And just wait for the political ramifications. Elections will be awesome when 80% of the voting population are completely reliant on government handouts.[/quote] Imagine the economic ramifications. Companies won't need to automate things when nobody has enough money to buy their products and...

[quote]Good God. What a terrible way to go. I can't even imagine (well I can but don't want to). Prayers to this kid and his family.[/quote] Yeah that's a bad way to go. Horrible to think about....

[quote]Any updates? Body found?[/quote] They aren't looking anymore so unlikely it ever will be found....

I went back to the old St Jean apartments maybe a year ago. They actually look better since the flood. I believe they are mostly non Section 8 now. ...

[quote]It’s part of why I’m 100 percent against apartments going up in the county we live in. They will eventually turn into shite holes.[/quote] They are building another huge complex off of Millerville right now and off of Bluebonnet and Burbank right near a bunch of middle class, upper middle cla...

They put a bunch of rent controlled/Section 8 apartments on Hooper down by Plank years ago. That's down there by Bella Noche. ...

[quote]not gonna lie, I'm getting a little nervous about my resale value. I need my youngest to get out of school ASAP. Unfortunately, that's in five years.[/quote] We live in the general vicinity off of S Harrells Ferry. Our current plan is to sell this house in 2 years or so. One reason is simpl...

Seems like a bad design if you have to replace half of the truck from a fender bender ...

[quote]Glad to hear from you. I figured that's probably the hookah lounge that you use.[/quote] The only time I'm ever up at 1am is to take a leak or one of the occasional times I have to work in the middle of the night :lol:...

[quote]Happy to take it. On top of my regular income.[/quote] Everyone else would be too and they'd buy cars, bigger houses, vacations, boats etc and the cost of that stuff would go up even more. ...

That's right by Parkview Baptist. I know those apartments well. You drive around the curve and you are basically at the PBS softball field. ...

Our Mayor and police chief had a press conference touting the decline in murders the first 4 months of the year. Keep in mind that the decline was from the 3 highest murder totals in the history of the city in 2020, 2021 and 2022 :lol: The current number is still well above the historical ave...

We've had like 11 murders in 15 days. A bloody June and we'll be catching up to last year's pace. ...

It would generate a lot of inflation unless we had mass unemployment and people were just spending it on basic needs....

I just don't understand why he suddenly turned and swam directly away from the ring all of the sudden....