GM needs to focus on making better, safer, cheaper cars.

"Cheaper" is indeed what you get when you reduce payroll.

Ironically, the AI datacenter boom is also buying up all the storage.

Is that true? It feels wrong. Consumer grade SSDs and spinning disks are unlikely to be the products used in enterprise.

Look at SSD prices over the last 6 months. https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/

AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.

I’ve not come across any.

> A general lack of ideological “mind viruses” that seem to plague the western world. Most Poles are pretty straightforward, common sense people. They might have opinions you don’t agree with but it’s not a country of extremists in any direction.

I want to stray from the politics too much, but we definitely self-sabotage in canada. It's kind of an immature teenage angst to self-loathe to the point of punishing yourself all the time.

Rage-bait media is both profitable and the masses will defend you as "fighting the good fight".

The mind virus actually makes you love the host.

It’s also about managing length and slack.

> Putting an llm in front of it helps me focus on the facts.

This used to be a very important skill taught in high school and perfected in university. We have lost something if people cannot focus even for short reads.

> AI is not thinking, it is repeating.

This^. We aren’t talking about general intelligence. We are mostly using a large language model. It’s a model of languages and not the universe. Language encodes a lot, enough to be “unreasonably effective”.

It might seem they are lazy and not willing to put in the hard work to learn for themselves. The follow up questions confirmed this.

curious question as a canadian. when our prime minister makes a budget, it really is his fault. He runs parliament and executive functions. The budget in the USA is supposed to be a congressional matter so why does the president get any blame?

The Executive is the most visible branch of the US government and it lends itself to celebrity worship and cult of personality, being embodied in a single person. Most Americans can't name their representatives at any level but everyone knows who the President is.

And like a CEO, the President tends to get credit for everything.

Canada had very high taxes covering everything from income to sales and yet our debt is ballooning at the federal and provincial level.

Its like saying that uncle bob has a ton of credit card debt because he doesn’t make enough money and not because he spends too much.

Disclaimer: lay person, not American or Canadian.

Whilst I understand your point in isolation, I don't understand how it refutes GP.

AFAIK, the current US administration has cut spending on most things (the military and ICE being notable exceptions).

As such, the suggestion that the ballooning debt is due to tax cuts seems perfectly valid.