The winners will be the middle men selling fixes for the fixes.

Please don’t confuse actual technological progress with markets.

Consumer goods are delivered through market distributions for nearly every post-industrial society on earth.

The government could distribute widgets, but it doesn’t.

Modern infrastructure is not built by markets.

Construction crews, materials purveyors, architects, electricians/plumbers… All come through the market system. That’s why Americans have to turn to Spain or Japan every time they float the idea of expanding HSR. That’s why only two companies in the world build civilian airliners. That’s why our telecom network is an oligopoly.

Whut?

Teqball’s a lot of fun.

Well… maybe not.

I do think we’re running into a problem of net in exceeding net out with modern tech and finance companies. They’ve surpassed the point at which they can generate meaningful amounts of profit because they’ve cartelized all the major profit centers.

But the idea that there’s nothing left to improve, nothing left to repair, and no one left to consumerize… no, obviously not. The market system isn’t failing. It is being failed by business leaders that no longer want to do the hard work of management, innovation, and improvement.

Look outside the US and you can find everything from massive overhauls in modern infrastructure to breakthroughs in manufacturing and miniaturization to exciting modernization in entertainment and sports. Within the US, though, its just slop.

Or they’re in a hurry and didn’t realize the door was ajar when they left the vehicle.

Pretty normal for this to happen at the airport, especially when you’re carrying a bunch of bags, juggling kids, etc. Normally, its not a big deal, because the cabbie will pop out and close the door if they get the alert. But here, there’s no remote way to close the door and no way to signal the rider that it didn’t close completely.

TUI

You’re just describing a task scheduler.

Are you kidding? There’s nothing I love more than hand typing a 400 character file path.

People will believe anything if the icon on the tweet looks authoritative and the grammar is sound.

human is dumb for specifically choosing to be a piece of shit for NOT closing the car door.

Depending on what I’m doing, I periodically have to double back and re-close a door if I didn’t close it hard enough. Modern cars have built in alarms specifically to alert drivers when a door latch isn’t secured. You don’t have to be a piece of shit to fail to notice that a door is ajar.

Need a car to get to the airport, because my city doesn’t have mass transit.

If the only cars in my area are Waymos, do I just skip my flight?

Humans know how to close a car door.

The future is clocking in for another 12 hour shift at the “making minor adjustments to the super intelligent AI dick sucking factory” so you can afford to eat the bugs and live in the pod

Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?

https://www.walletgear.com/leather-wallets/wallet-with-coin-pocket.html

Wiggling another jenga block out of the tower.

If only there was some way to watch classic movies without using a corporate streaming service.

As opposed to a private for-profit company run by friends of the people in government?

Musk was upset that his control over the company would be ceded to a broader pool of public investors. He’s got no problem with privatization and securitization when it fattens his wallet.

He’s appointing the next Fed chair as we speak. We’re a bit past feeling squeamish about what Trump controls.

The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year bond, is expected to yield 0.95 percentage points over US Treasuries, down from 1.2 percentage points during initial talks, the people said.

Gotta be really bearish on treasuries to consider this a good idea.

Traditionally, you need to find someone to loan you money with the bond as collateral. Then you promise that person the bond as repayment of the debt + interest, with the expectation that you can re-buy the bond at a future date for much less than you could today.