Everything you address makes sense. I’m not a Texan by birth but most of my life here, have traveled overseas, learned French language, culture, and cuisine. The issue is, unfortunately, profit drives everything here. Now it’s driving the most successful post-war boom economy into debt, because, well, Boomers.

The saying is the US doesn’t have “health care” we have “sick care.” Preventing diseases? Not profitable. Giving people diseases then charging them for treatment? Profitable.

Fortunately the obesity epidemic has a cliff like tail end, as those people tend to eat themselves into an early grave and lack the resources to pay to prolong their participation in Planet Earth.

Unfortunately I don’t think your last point is true. The chronically sick, diabetic, unhealthy obese people (to say nothing of our plethora of druggies) limp along for dozens of years, racking up healthcare costs all along the way.

“It’s hard for me to put into words how bad this is.”

AHAHAHAHA! I genuinely laughed out loud, filled the room.

This is the “citation needed” rebuttal most REASONABLE people in the software industry have been looking for, and the sample size is only going to get bigger! Does anyone really think - not believe, logically conclude based on evidence at hand - that there will be any contrary outcomes at scale? Honestly, this is going to put a lot of software pros into a “sabbatical” where cleaning up the mess should be billed like that old joke at auto mechanics’ shops:

$150 an hour to fix it

$500 an hour if you tried to fix it before bringing it here

Seriously laughing out loud. I needed this. Hahaha

Edit: no wonder he’s so astute - came up in construction. In that industry cost versus benefit and safety concerns are often a matter of life or death. Real consequences. A lot more educational than staring at a glowing box for most of one’s career. Disclosure: I did risk management for construction projects, like the Alabama MB plant.

Dopamine is a helluva drug. Whatcha gonna do when you can’t afford your happy chats?

I have a 128gb box to grow my own tokens at home. Gemma 4 31B uncensored works great.

This is a great summary and well reasoned. Kudos to u/lpcvoid and I’m saving for later. Also the Torment Nexus link was helpful. Starting to see more of these and in time it will matter. Ed Zitron is human and fallible but certainly getting the facts in one place these days…and they are spurious AF lol

Also relevant: the “swallow my pride and do this for the clicks” videos in the day of release that YouTubers began posting once the embargo was lifted. It was obvious no matter what they actually thought they were going to toe the line Ferrari wanted. Sad but hey, lie with pigs expect to get dirty…

Could be an interesting angle for cross-referencing with US jury verdicts, not that the objective True/False issue is concrete, but in the reality that flawed reasoning is endemic to our species. Systems designed and built by humans inherently have flaws in their DNA which take generations to sort out, if ever.

Counterpoint: based on a lot of anecdotes here, the most likely people to burn tokens aren’t GenZ but managers using ChatGPT to respond to questions or otherwise as an outsourcing of their job. There aren’t enough GenZ in the workforce to back your claim in my opinion.

Token efficiency where instead of the AI burning money at 1:3 instead of 1:5 isn’t quite a winning argument.

There's no way managers using LLMs to answer emails are burning tokens at a comparable rate to someone trying to utilize inference in production systems is.

Maybe managers going back to coding.

There's the cost to do productive work, and the proportion of work which is actually productive.

GPT5.5 medium is ~20% the cost of Opus and 27% the cost of Sonnet on a task by task basis. That's a material difference.

Ahem, there is a new Rolling Stones album slated for release in 2026. I most definitely agree with you by the way.

lol. Emotional Rescue was when I stopped listening, but I hope that Keith and Mick live forever, even as statistical outliers. I love folks that win the life lottery. It's a hope for all of us.

It's sick those guys are my parents gen and still work and do what they love like outliving most of your fans must be a lonely life

Oh wow, it’s even worse than I imagined based on those early images of the PlaySkool cockpit renderings!

The body lines? What body lines? I’m a vocal critic of derivative design, but this space egg usually is little more than a Junior Study drawing at best. It’s so bland it might as well be still made of clay.

I’m not being unfairly harsh here, there’s a huge tradition of sorting a car’s emotional response - yes, Countach being a prime case study - but I get more “This is interesting” from the latest Prius than anything with this design, in parts or taken as a whole. I can’t be alone, and I suppose the reactions will be savage. I am kind of giddy thinking about what some of the more crude phrasings might be from the likes of Clarkson or Harris.

This is a design for the Super Yacht club. If it was a concept car for a Chinese knock off of a Honda, it would be rightly panned at first sight. Was it designed on a first generation Macintosh?

It has no character whatsoever. The interior looks like patio furniture intended for a retirement home. To call it a failure is not quite right, because sometimes things like the Pontiac Aztek have coherent thought and risks involved. This has none of those things. Mayo on white bread with a glass of room temperature tap water.

In a strange way I love it because it might as well be called the Ferrari Hubris. Just…wow…

And while your comment has validity, in the US the phrase uttered by Presidential candidate Mitt Romney adds a layer of complexity:

“Corporations are people, my friend.”