Sometimes by the end of the day the totality of the global suckage really gets to ya, and then the next morning you find that while you slept stuff happened that puts a different focus on all that. Yeah, it all sucks, but it does get pretty freaking entertaining.
It's 7 am and isn't this a fun day already?
Many people are perplexed by the drive towards firing workers and replacing them with machines. They ask "who will buy the products?". But, when looked at from a neoliberal/ totalitarian ideological viewpoint, robots are the "final solution" to the ruling class's problem: "who will be our servants after we kill all the grasping, uppity peasants"? Using robots to do that would be even more efficient than what Jay Gould, the crooked Robber Baron, proposed:
World History this day
1605 -- Guy Fawkes was arrested.
1911 -- Italy annexed Tripoli and Cyrenaica (to help them, no doubt)
2006 -- Saddam Hussein, deposed by a US war of aggression, was sentenced to death
US History this day
Since I filled my daily quota for Today's Humor, I came across this interesting bit.
The human race has problems up the kazoo, but here's a real major one hardly anyone is talking about.
Robots.
"Sarah Connor: Reese. Why me? Why does it want me?
Kyle Reese: There was a nuclear war. A few years from now, all this, this whole place, everything, it's gone. Just gone. There were survivors. Here, there. Nobody even knew who started it. It was the machines, Sarah.
Sarah Connor: I don't understand.
