I think AI automation will have a far larger impact upon capitalism within this and the next generation than anything else.

Possible atomic alchemy of the future is interesting....Maybe I could use it to finally realise my 'weird science' dream....mind you Kelly LeBrock isn't quite the same anymore.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Thing is, over time, technology tends to change the powers that be. Same as the industrial revolution changed society from agricultural to urbanised, the likelihood is that such a technology would eventually over time become common place, and where resistance is encountered it tends to create movements for change - as seen in industrialisation with Unionisation etc. Where societies don't change willingly, you tend to get militancy and revolution.

The great age of liberalism stemmed from not so much a desire to do the right thing, but from the fear of the consequences of not doing so (and massively accelerated following the French and Russian Revolutions).

The 'powers that be' only have so much control. After the industrial revolution these powers shifted from landowners to factory owners and merchant classes - the great middle class revolution. Strange as it may seem to us now, but the emergent middle class was a revolutionary in its own right.

With the arrival of such technologies, societies that refuse to change will likely be subject to revolutionary movements of the people, typically led by disenfranchised middle classes and occasional members of the upper classes.

Most revolutionary leaders tend to come from the middle and lower upper classes.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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You were excusing Milo speaking in favour of paedophilia by saying that he does good things for kids. I was simply highlighting that absurdity with a bit of hyperbole.

As for churches, I think all churches are as fallible and full of s*** as mankind, because they are constructs of mankind. The best of them preach love and tolerance while doing thoroughly good deeds; the worst of them incite their followers to murder and cover up all manner of sins.

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We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

How on earth was that "personal"?

You know the right has lost an argument when they invent an argument they think they can beat and attribute it to the opposition.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

My initial impression is that I needed sunglasses to look at that clip.

So. Much. White.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Still would.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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