Can confirm that, as a mechanical engineering student currently in the process of finding a summer internship, there’s not many engineering jobs in the state. Even less with internship spots. Best luck I’ve had so far is places an hour or more away.

I just renewed and it took about a month

There was one until 1936 apparently, when it was destroyed in a flood

Edit: I mean a zoo, should’ve clarified before

I can’t remember the last time I’ve lost power. Definitely been a couple years. I live just outside of Concord

Fair enough. Figured the state saw at least some of the money, be it through the fees themselves or the certification process. If the state sees nothing from it, then I agree it’s definitely pointless, especially seeing the kinds of vehicles that make it through anyways.

That money has to come from somewhere. If it’s abolished, taxes will increase on something else instead

They wouldn’t have been there if that’s all he was doing. Even a best case scenario he was threatening someone (likely his parents) with the knife in some way.

The lack of info is likely the police department dragging things out until the blowback is minor, regardless if the shooting was justified or not. The news won’t report on anything that the police department doesn’t say in order to not get sued.

They didn’t bring the need for labor up though, it’s not like people just didn’t have jobs beforehand. First most people were farmers, then most people become factory workers, and now most people are part of the information economy. Those technologies replaced human labor and allowed other jobs to form. AI will likely much automate the Information economy, and we’ll enter a new era. I’d imagine we’ll either switch to more of a service and leisure economy or a more research and development economy(with AI as a tool to make that stuff easier), but we won’t know until we get there.

If AI could do absolutely everything, we will be made obsolete and humanity will die off anyways.

See my edit above: The jobs won’t disappear, they’ll change industries, just like every time before

You’re thinking of AI in the wrong light. AI is a tool for humans to use. It facilitates humans to create and do tasks, but can’t do them on its own. Some examples that ChatGPT have shown is programming, art, writing, etc. ChatGPT makes those much easier, but it needs a human to guide it to the answer we want. Technology for AI to truly think for itself and require no human intervention at all is easily 100 years away at best, if it ever comes at all.

Edit: Also, those examples did replace labor. We used to have entire office buildings full of people dedicated to crunching numbers all day. A single farmer today can cover an area that would take hundreds of farmers 200 years ago. The jobs didn’t just “disappear”, they shifted to other industries. Every new technology just allows humans to diversify more.

Fair enough, the Industrial Revolution was more of an idea for societal change based on new technologies rather than the technology itself. Probably should have said the steam engine there instead

AI of course will take some jobs, but it will never be able to do everything, especially by itself. The furthest AI can ever really get programming-wise is as an assistant for example, you still need someone pulling the strings. As AI improves it’ll definitely drastically change industries, and learning how to use it will be a desired skill, but it’ll still need a human involved somewhere in the process.

People say this every time a disruptive technology has come around. The economy didn’t end after the Industrial Revolution, it didn’t end with the invention of assembly lines, it didn’t end with computers, and didn’t end with industrial robots. People adapt, and new jobs take their places

The average net worth of candidates would probably increase due to how expensive it is to campaign in larger states. That’s the only thing I can think of

I can’t escape it. Somehow one of the parties got ahold of my info and now send me texts and letters too, it’s driving me insane