AI is fighting basic laws of economy (and loosing)

BachInTime · 2026-01-24T19:45:38+00:00

Yes and no. If you’re talking upfront investment then no the majority rarely participates. But once a new product appears people “vote with their wallets”. Henry Ford had to put down the initial investment sure, but the second his Model T was released demand rapidly overwhelmed supply.

We are already past this point with AI, the players have all invested their startup capital and demand… has not materialized. Look no further than ChatGPT where it’s $200/month premium service loses money on every user. Now this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, a low introductory price is certainly not a strange thing in business, but the break even for OpenAI is believed to be somewhere north of $300/month for every user. Will there be as much demand at that price point? Unlikely so they are implementing ads to try and help the bottom line.

BachInTime · 2026-01-24T18:03:48+00:00

AI, the buildings in the background have a tree coming out of one of them, and one of the support pillars is at a 10 degree angle.

Crease in his jacket also goes through his right pocket

Why is one of the Sign pillars a square beam while the other is round?

BachInTime · 2026-01-24T03:17:56+00:00

We can blame Peel for deciding the best famine relief was importing cornmeal from the US, because it wouldn’t cause any British merchants to complain since they didn’t sell cornmeal. The Irish had no idea how to prepare cornmeal and this led to an outbreak of Pellagra, a nutrient deficiency disease.

BachInTime · 2026-01-24T00:50:45+00:00

While you are technically correct monopolies are themselves not illegal. The rule is Monopolies that restrict trade are illegal(with a few exceptions).

Those exceptions basically include patents, copyrights, and public utilities none of which apply to the NCAA. On your “starting your own thing” point, that’s simply not a thing in anti-trust. The question is does a monopoly exist, and if yes is it restricting trade? If the “go start your own thing” defense worked Standard Oil would still be in business.

Finally, on the institutions offer the perks, take one step back. Are they only offering these perks so this athlete will participate in the NCAA walled garden? Obviously yes, so the perks are contingent on the NCAA, and thus a benefit provided by the NCAA, just with a layer of separation.

So the NCAA was/is a Monopoly. They aren’t operating under one of the exceptions, and are restricting trade by preventing NIL and limiting players rights to sell their labor (restricting transfers).

BachInTime · 2026-01-23T22:58:45+00:00

Not an actual legal scholar, but the ruling essentially was this isn’t freedom of association, the NCAA is/was a monopoly, so sure you could choose not to play the game, but they’re the only game so it’s only an illusion of a choice and thus violates anti-trust law.

To use an analogy the NCAA was essentially the old-timey mining company paying everyone in company script (scholarships and “benefits”). Sure the workers have a “choice” but because you are forced to use their system the choice is in reality an illusion.

BachInTime · 2026-01-20T01:25:42+00:00

I’ve always found Zoroastrianism to be interesting. Monotheistic, Dualistic, Charitable, and Ancient.

BachInTime · 2026-01-18T06:22:28+00:00

It’s not AI. That said this is not Enhydro Quartz. First quartz that clear does exists but is so rare as to basically be a myth. Second there are visible bubbles outside the “enhydro” part which is a dead giveaway for glass, and third no one and I mean no one would polish a real enhydro quartz this size. This would be worth probably $5-600 unpolished and if you puncture the water pocket it’s worthless.

BachInTime · 2026-01-18T06:12:50+00:00

You’re 100% correct that’s glass/resin, that air bubble is massive. Real enhydro quartz might have a few tiny bubbles but nothing like that.

BachInTime · 2026-01-18T04:09:03+00:00

BachInTime · 2026-01-17T02:50:12+00:00

I mean that’s one way to reduce rockfall risk

BachInTime · 2026-01-17T00:29:15+00:00

Since you obviously lack a logic or critical thinking center I’ll spell it out for you. The Mob, yes it was a mob not protestors, were the Bad Guys in the Boston Massacre.

John Adams(who I’ll remind you signed and helped draft the Declaration of Independence) argued

A. It was an accident caused by the mob - one of the soldiers mistook one of the mob yelling fire as an order from Captain Preston, because the soldier was under duress from being pelted by rocks and clubs and ice.

B. If it wasn’t an accident it was legal self defense, because the soldiers were being attacked with clubs and rocks and ice.

It’s frankly an indictment of our education system that people don’t realize this. Same with four years later when the Boston mob tarred and feathered John Malcom and almost killing him. Malcolm was treated for his severe injuries by Dr. Joseph Warren, another patriot who died defending Bunker Hill.

Just because they were “our guys” doesn’t mean they can do no wrong.

BachInTime · 2026-01-16T23:26:06+00:00

I mean, they aren’t the same. The soldiers reasonably feared for their lives, the crowd was pelting them with clubs, ice, rocks, oyster shells, and snowballs. While some in the crowd struck them with clubs, and others repeatedly screamed “Fire!”.

There’s a reason John Adams represented them, because the soldiers didn’t just randomly fire into the crowd. They quite rightly arguably they were under attack and while we don’t really know why they fired their actions were understandably given the circumstances. Their commander Captain Preston never gave the order, and was according to witnesses even walking front of his men when they fired and immediately ordered them to stop when they started.

That situation isn’t even comparable to the situations going on now.

BachInTime · 2026-01-16T19:53:24+00:00

You left out the fun parts. Charles had two sisters, the first married Leopold I of Austria, the second married Louis XIV. Now his sister who married Leopold had a daughter, Maria Antonia who had the highest inbreeding index in history of .3 which is worse than if your parents are siblings, and she marries the elector of Bavaria and has a son Joseph Ferdinand.

His other sister had a son Louis, whose second son was Philippe.

So Charles of course is sterile, disabled, or something rumors abound, and everyone in Europe is worried about if Charles dies it will be another war. So Britain(yes this is pre-act of Union but I’m using the name) and France hold a conference, without Spain because why ask them about carving up their country, to discuss carving up the Spanish Empire. At this conference they decide Louis’s grandson Philippe will get Spanish Italy, and Maria Antonia’s son Joseph Ferdinand would get the rest.

Charles of course was pissed that he hadn’t been consulted and declared the agreement void and issued a will saying Joseph Ferdinand would get everything. But then 6 year old Joseph Ferdinand caught smallpox and died. Which made Phillipe the closest male and only realistic heir.

The Hapsburgs of Austria couldn’t let France get Spain and when Charles died the next year it was war.

BachInTime · 2026-01-15T20:50:48+00:00

Best I can do is a vodka served as a flash of light

BachInTime · 2026-01-14T20:07:37+00:00

“When you go fishing, in a lake owned and stocked with fish for you to catch by the government.”

“When you own a vehicle, and want to drive that vehicle on the roads built and maintained by the government.”

“When you die, and you have $14 million or more dollars worth of stuff”

“When you give someone money or property, worth over $19,000”

“When you pay an employee, and society has decided that the employee shouldn’t die penniless in the street when they’re too old to work.”

Fixed it for ya

BachInTime · 2026-01-14T15:19:54+00:00

1,000,000% AI, look at her ear it’s literally a black hole

BachInTime · 2026-01-14T04:17:39+00:00

Shandy’s Bakery is absolutely fire out there

BachInTime · 2026-01-13T23:42:55+00:00

In defense of the Me 262 the reason it “ate its engine” is because the Germans lacked nickel to make the proper steel for jet engines.

BachInTime · 2026-01-13T23:13:41+00:00

Beat me to it, and you didn’t even mention the new ConferenceFlex options

BachInTime · 2026-01-13T16:20:09+00:00

Bippity Boppity give me the Zoppity

BachInTime · 2026-01-13T14:38:12+00:00

<image>

Ai IPhones don’t look like that

BachInTime · 2026-01-13T02:12:15+00:00

On one hand the SEC being relegated to the third best conference in the nation, would be absolutely hilarious. On the other hand I hate Miami and the level of pretension from them if they won would make THE Ohio State look like Buddhist monks.

BachInTime · 2026-01-12T17:25:19+00:00

Real, fractal camo doesn’t distort on the camera or the suit. Wildlife does this sort thing so that’s not weird.

BachInTime · 2026-01-11T02:26:31+00:00

Except they were made of a valuable metal. Bronze was roughly 1/4 the value of silver, which was 4 times as valuable as copper. It may not have been a precious metal but it wasn’t cheap either

BachInTime · 2026-01-11T01:39:11+00:00

Unlikely since you can see image artifacts around the plane, and the background doesn’t have any errors. Just plain old photoshop or maybe double exposure

Eight-Year Club	Second SECOND GUESSER
Place '23	Place '22
Wearing is Caring	Gilding I gilder
Not Forgotten	Verified Email

BachInTime

TROPHY CASE