War Room Lounge v51: A Total Non-Starter

Which presidential candidates are total non-starters for you? (Pick up to 3 out of the top 12)

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MiniCraque said:
Am I a bad person for thinking it would be funny if someone took it seriously and tackled him to the ground? Or if he passed out mid sprint?
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That only make you honest.
 
MiniCraque said:
Perhaps I'm being unfair towards his need of having a zinger, but I'm predisposed against the "freedom" brand of politics and everyone already knows what it is. It's like when conservatives started calling inheritance taxes "the death tax". Bring everyone onboard with merits, not with what you decide to call it.

As for jobs being replaced, you have to keep in mind that, in the US, less than 1.5% of the population is employed in agriculture. And a vast majority of those are self-employed farmers, not grunts. There's just not that many people working in farms. Those jobs have already been killed by technology and if the shiny new toys paraded around conventions (fun events btw) these days replace the tiny blimp that still remains over the next 20 years, nobody is going to notice.

Like I said before I support tech education to prepare the workforce for a new generation of jobs (something that already happens right now when you look at how many people have a rudimentary understanding of computers) and a robust welfare system, but the latter should not be justified on jobs no longer existing and even then I dislike unconditional cash transfer welfare programs. People already freak out when they see people buying steaks with foodstamps, imagine the propaganda against people getting a check for whatever. As efficient as it can be, the political reality often works against it.
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But look how long it took to get people using computers. These days, 30+ years is a long time. Imagine if you graduate school and unemployment is 25 or 30 percent and it stays that way for 30 years. Like I said to @Jack V Savage, it might be a problem that is resolved over several decades, but in the short term, massive job loss due to automation will be plenty painful, I think. Whatever approach we adopt, it had better be sooner rather than later.

Here's me wishing I was Hari Seldon and could create a system that would prevent such massive tragedy all the while knowing in the very long run it would lead to stagnation and ruin.
 
Lead said:
I heard a rumor Agedflatus is lost somewhere in the great beyond. Go find him and bring him back to us.
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Looks like you have cuntitus kevin, no need mate! Free Agedflatus!
 
nac386 said:
Lol.
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Crazy Diamond said:
But look how long it took to get people using computers. These days, 30+ years is a long time. Imagine if you graduate school and unemployment is 25 or 30 percent and it stays that way for 30 years. Like I said to @Jack V Savage, it might be a problem that is resolved over several decades, but in the short term, massive job loss due to automation will be plenty painful, I think. Whatever approach we adopt, it had better be sooner rather than later.

Here's me wishing I was Hari Seldon and could create a system that would prevent such massive tragedy all the while knowing in the very long run it would lead to stagnation and ruin.
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I think job losses in the short term are possible (and job losses take place because of a bunch of different things, mind you), but I doubt they're massive in scale. That's just not how technology has been integrated into the economy thus far.

When new technologies are truly ground breaking, usually what you see is the early adopters gradually gaining an advantage over their competitors until those are either forced to change or go out of business, and that happens over a fairly long period. Kodak went bankrupt 20 years after consumer digital cameras first became available, for example. LAN centers are still a thing even though the vast majority of people have internet connections that can handle online gaming.

This theoretical mass layoff where a bunch of employers suddenly go "you're all fired, wellcome your new robot overlords" has just never happened. Like I mentioned before, the uniformity principle is flawed (just because something has never happened before doesn't mean it will never happen in the future), but it still leads me to ask for some VERY tangible evidence, like X technologies can be mass implemented as early as the year YYYY and will result in the direct loss of Z jobs.
 
NoDak said:
There's double yellows all over this motherfucker.

Which thread?
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PolishHeadlock2 said:
Saw it in the NBA thread in the sports bar. Not sure what he did this time
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He continuously waited out yellows and would just go back to the same offenses right after. If a poster gets carded for something again and again, their status doesn’t reset just because the cards expired. He caused issues in more places than the WR as well.
 
Lead said:
He continuously waited out yellows and would just go back to the same offenses right after. If a poster gets carded for something again and again, their status doesn’t reset just because the cards expired. He caused issues in more places than the WR as well.
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I don't believe you.
 
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