I don’t think people would end up idle. People would find something to do. Maybe more people would end up traveling to see the world, which would help a lot of people who are bottled up to open their minds. More interaction with other people and friendships to pass time, since adults don’t get to have as many of those…

Yeah, it’s pretty much going to wreck them. I mean, trucking is a garbage industry to start with - I was in it for a year, believe me it sucks - but it does supply a lot of jobs. Maybe not every one of them - store delivery routes will still require humans - but most are going to disappear in the coming days. That’s…

That’s always the hope, but I personally don’t think it will come to that.

I assume even Star Trek had moments like the one we’re approaching and arguably in. Most utopian societies in sci-fi don’t touch much on the ugly period of adjustment humanity had to go through to get there. At some point, they had to face down the fact that the concept of working, as they knew it, ended, society had…

If capitalism is going to survive, it’s probably going to have to, at some point, or everything will fall apart. When there’s no one left with money to buy your crap, you start failing. Though I expect the lower and middle class might rise up before it completely hits that breaking point.

It’s really not false, though. You can’t stop technological progress. Plenty of lines of work have been lost to it in the past. We’ve just started hitting the point where it’s going to slowly destroy the system we’ve worked under for a long time. That’s the great irony of capitalisms embrace of new technology. They’ll…

Don’t you dare sully the name of one of the best metal acts in history, villain!

It’s not so much fishy as they pulled classic corporate BS tactics to increase their bottom line. They merged divisions, sacked people, etc. It’s to make their performance look better. You can tell because, while they’re talking up profits, they also talk about how business is down as an aside while total revenue is…

I miss that cranky, funny prick. I think he’s the one comedian I’ve legitimately missed after he’s passed. Occasionally, I think to myself “oh man, the material he’d write if he’d lived to see 2016, we’ve been robbed”.

Yup. TOTALLY non-existent.

I do wonder, from time to time, what might have happened with Bernie. He had a lot of energy among voters my age and younger. If you could pay attention to Trumps speeches long enough without vomiting, he nicked a fair bit of language and policy from Occupy and even Bernie on the campaign trail. Obviously, once he got…

To some extent, there’s that too, yes. But I think it’s also that the damage had mostly been done by this point. Hillary has had a long career in politics, but unlike most politicians, she has been pretty uniquely disliked and targeted to the point of insanity for the entirety of it, even when she wasn’t running for…

A realist would probably be pointing out that the Democrats didn’t need any help to destroy themselves rather than act like a seventy five year old man has it in for the whole institution, much less the power to destroy it.

Well, I’m with you on that. I hope they wake up soon too, I’m just steeled for the possibility they won’t. You never know with them. Hopefully the Democrats get their crap together in the meantime and rework how they approach things for future elections.

I hope you’re right. I’m a bit scared that the moderate Republicans will be so concerned with “giving him a chance” that they’ll ignore a lot of what’s going to happen. That could translate to 2020; you know, the “four years wasn’t enough for him to really do anything, the second half is where he’ll turn things…

Well, yes, but they still have a lot of other non tech businesses making them dance like puppets, a lot of them figuring they can use it to their advantage or just sit back and let Trump do whatever. Once they take a hit, then we’ll see what happens. Let’s also not forget bankers are rubbing their hands right now and…

That’s just your distaste for the guy talking. He’ll be pushing eighty when the next election comes. At seventy five it was a long shot. Bernie knows this. As it is, one of the things that stood out with this election - one of a thousand things that bucked convention - is how downright old the candidates were. With…

A fan of melodrama, I see.

I think another female candidate, one with less obvious history to use against her, would do fine. Sexism played a part for some people, sure, but I think it was small compared to everything else that dogged her.

It’s not so much the typical Republicans they’re worried about, so much as the die hard Trump supporters, some of whom have gotten violent since the election. Much as I call them idiots, the Republicans aren’t complete morons; they know demographics in the future are against them and their voting base is shrinking or…