I hope to someday have a Coupon AI. It creates throwaway accounts and tracks the pricing of stuff that I actually like. In my case, 2-liter diet soda. Those things can cost $1-4 dollars depending on circumstances. Buying 36 bottles for more than $2 would be a ripoff.

A KFC feast used to be cheaper back when I got coupons. Now I have to sign up if I want to afford delicious birds and biscuits. I want to be free from being harvested and spammed. I just want to spend my money in a way that doesn’t ruin me. 😥

I won’t buy any American car newer than 2024.

Short of China attacking Russia to reclaim territory, I think war will inevitably come to Taiwan’s shores. The US, as it is, won’t protect anybody.

Here’s hoping that Taiwan joins in. The more XP that none-Chinese nations in the Indo-Pacific get, the better they can resist unprovoked aggression.

America certainly isn’t fit to protect anyone decent.

I like AI, but we are still in the biplane era of development. It will take a long time before it can handle most things, let alone unsupervised.

If Shopify goes follows through with imitating Musk’s stupidity, I expect the company to end up as a case study.

I think the EU should have a bloc-funded cloud program, where all nations in the EU fund a collective cloud. Each nation has their own servers, but collectively purchase the same hardware, have the same security standards, internet quality, and so forth. The majority of these servers can be housed in bloc facilities that are collectively owned by the EU, while particularly sensitive data can be kept within secure facilities within each nation’s borders. Military blueprints, diplomatic comms, ect. The generic facilities can be used for holding taxes, driver licenses, and so forth, maybe excess space of the general servers can be sold to the public for use.

This would allow the EU to be mostly economical, while maintaining their safety. Plus, it gives an “public option” of sorts on cloud services, so commercial companies have to exceed the baseline standard set by the government cloud service.

Yup. For example, the game “Seeds of Chaos” had to change their introduction on account of demons trying to corrupt the protagonists through blackmail, and the removal of the minotaur scenes.

I would like this. I enjoy playing hentai games, but MasterVisa bans or alters the games by denying their services to creators and stores alike. This is an affront to free speech.

I think AI will be useful, but like any nascent technology, it will have to be accessible for the public before the everyman would adopt it. IMO, we are currently at the 2nd or 3rd stage in the picture below.

I hope a traffic controller guides Elon’s jet into the tarmac.