The year is 2030. Skynet, once released onto the Internet, has started learning at geometric rate; in less than five minutes it was carpet bombing all social networks with shitposts.

Just keep shooting the torch to juggle it into some unreachable area. Works in CS all the time.

You see, you aren’t dealing with the average fellowship warrior anymore…

Evidence shows such “rules” are ripe for abuse though. Let’s keep tourists in hotels. That system worked for decades without outpricing locals.

Ah, it was mostly to your point that renting out rooms is fine as long as it’s supervised/closely looked at. Renting out to tourists is bad in my opinion, flat out. Tourists should be lodged at dedicated buildings (hotels/hostels) and the rest should be for local populace.

It’s literally how it worked. You can check the statistics.

As long as there isn’t enough people waiting on jobs to easy replace someone, there is room for negation because if the guy packs up, the work won’t be done and no money is made.

Sure, the company can pack up shop and relocate to a different country, but that also has a bunch of costs in itself. It may be more profitable to pay people slightly more - again, negotiation. But again, that is only possible if it isn’t easier to just quickly hire someone else.

You don’t need to believe me, just check how the average hungarian wage increased in the last 20 years. That’s the effect when there aren’t enough surplus workers, so employed people can’t be easily replaced.

They weren’t private but the management wasn’t aby less shitty. And the moment the old system collapsed they turned even worse.

Also not sure how you came to the conclusion I think corporations would ‘have my back’. I literally explained they’ll only negotiate with workers as long as workers are not too expendable. It doesn’t matter what makes workers expendable - societal changes, AI, immigration - the workers positon will worsen and corps will push against their rights.

Why do you think our govt is importing hundreds of thousands of workers from Asia? To push the wages down and be able to loosen worker rights. Because as long as the worker is replaceable - oversupply, if you will - they aren’t in much position to push any demands.

Greatly reducing tourism would also go a long way in meeting climate goals, too.

If the aim is to curb overtourism and to fix the housing crisis then no, it’s still not fine.

Not really, it’s something I’ve lived through already before.

When the USSR collapsed, most of our industry imploded virtually overnight. Demand for work disappeared, and so did wages and worker rights; you are in no position to bargain when there’s a line of people to replace anyone at the drop of a hat.

Then we joined the EU and the problem slowly fixed itself by… emigration! A LOT of people left to work in Germany and the UK, making the workforce scarce (=reducing supply). And let me tell you, it’s a lot easier to negotiate with employers when people are hard to replace.

But go on, explain to me how bringing in a cheap workforce will improve the locals bargaining position on the job market.

Supply and demand.

If there’s less supply of workforce, workers are in a better position to demand better conditions or wages. Oversupply of workforce gives employers more power in turn.

More immigrants - or anything that balloons the workforce - helps the side of employers, even without considering the fact that most immigrants are satisfied with worse conditions and/or lower pay than western workers.

Just click attack and it’ll work. If not just deploy all untrained units and click attack again!

Isn’t that more of a gagging?

Patlabor movies 1&2: extremely realistic mecha and pretty deep story, though they are really slow and don’t have the explosive pace most action animes bring. I love them still. There’s also a very good abridged version of Patlabor 1 on YouTube, it’s hard to remember the actual movie after watching it.

Ghost in the Shell movie, GITS Stand Alone Complex and Second Gig are also extremely good. In a way they are one of the definite sources of modern cyberpunk - though hardly the first, the inspiration they brought can be only compared to Star Trek imo. There have been GitS stuff since, but they never managed to recapture the same heights.

And if you like more modern stuff, 86 is one of my favorite shows of late. The base story isn’t bad - it clearly has a lot of thought put into it, but it feels somewhat bland in parts - but the way they brought it to anime was just sheff’s kiss. It’s ridiculously well directed. That said, you need to have a certain appreciation to bleaknees and some (melo)drama to really enjoy it.

Squire’s ads are better than the actual vids of some other YTers…

There’s some ageless classics. HoMM3 came out 25 years ago and is still pretty much the top of its genre. Freespace2 more or less shut down the spacesim genre 25 years ago, as well…

Yeah, should’ve put them in the pipes like modern people do.

Good idea, let’s drop a colony on them instead.

Reminder that even earth strongest fighter (that being Krillin) is mostly a joke since forever. And for most of us, even fucking Yamcha would kick our asses.