I talk a bit on my political beliefs and the world

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Don't let anyone guilt you out of abstaining from voting if you don't want to vote. Being allowed to stay home if you think all the choices are dumb is a freedom Americans enjoy too; some countries force you to vote even if you hate all the options. People have turned against George Carlin a bit in recent years, but I always liked his bit about how its the people who vote who are more responsible for the way things turned out since they chose to participate and endorse the system, even if their party didn't win. Things are pretty bad in the world right now. A lot of it is unfinished business from years and years ago coming due though. Even a lot of the questions people are asking about AI today were raised decades ago in the 1980s, and some as early as the 1960s. We kicked that can down the road thinking that technology was something the 23rd century would have to deal with, not us. Turned out to be an extraordinarily bad call. I like the idea of UBI but it does have some feasibility issues involving inflation that are difficult to get past. Of course, inflation would be less of a concern if the reserve wasn't allowed to print money constantly like they've been doing. It does seem foolish that with all the billions of dollars that are printed to use on nonsense that none of that ever seems to trickle back down to the American people. Maybe things will change, but I think everyone has realized that something's got to give. And its probably not gonna be pretty when it does.