Yeah that assumes that AI is an absolute negative. What if it impacts positively? I mean you gotta spend money to make money.

Never is a long time.

When Fermi asked "Where is everyone?" one of the likeliest answers is they stayed home, maybe after they tried not to stay home.

As of March 2026, the average annual salary for a full-time Amazon warehouse worker in the U.S. is approximately $39,183–$47,415 annually, or roughly $18.84–$23.00 per hour. Total compensation, including benefits, can exceed $30 an hour, with many positions paying over $22 hourly for entry-level, plus potential for increased pay based on location and experience.

Don't compare this year to last year. Compare this year to 10 years ago. To 20 years ago. Then say it's a zero sum game. Ask yourself if you would switch places with John D. Rockefeller. I would not.

If it was E.T. I'd sign up for this but if hypothetically they found past evidence of life on Mars then I think that would count.

In the time frame that's a pretty unlikely event but I wouldn't say zero.

Employee costs went up. Red Robin cut staff. Chili's on the other hand hired more people. Wait times at Red Robin went up and people stopped going there. Red Robin stock price tanked. Opposite happened at Chili's.

There you go. Is that the whole story? No, but honestly I suspect the article isn't the whole story either.

This is a consequence of a lot of people wanting immigrants but not wanting to pass the laws that would allow the number they want. Instead they try to bend the law (see asylum rules under Biden) or ignore it.

Personally I'd like to see more immigrants brought into the United States. Taking people from the rest of the world and turning them into Americans is a core competence of the country. That said the way it's being done is totally nutty.

I watched the first episode or so and that was it for me. I don't remember it being super grim but it was too depressing and ominous for me.

I've always thought that you can lose weight on almost any diet - as long as it makes you think before you eat and almost by definition any diet will make you do that. For me at least most (probably all) of the time I eat it has nothing to do with hunger and if I just stop for a second I'll probably not eat at all.