🤖 Three years ago a humanoid robot cost about as much as a small house. The industry leader was moving them at $85,000 a unit. Last year that same company's average price fell to $25,000.
Its margins went up while it did it. Its cheapest model now sells for less than a used car.
This is the part the industry keeps burying under billion dollar valuations and White House photo ops. The machines aren't getting smart fast enough to frighten anyone. They're getting cheap fast enough to.
A humanoid that can stand in for a warehouse shift used to cost more than that job paid a person in a decade.
Now it costs less than the person makes in a year.
And it works the night shift too. It doesn't quit. It doesn't call in sick.
That is the exact line every wave of automation had to cross before it stopped being a science project. Cheaper than the labor it replaces, measured per year of work.
Humanoids just crossed it.
All the noise about whether the robot is conscious, or general, or five years from your kitchen, skips over the thing that already settled on a spreadsheet.
Nobody buys a robot because it's brilliant.
They buy it the day it's cheaper than the person doing the job.
That day already came.
Clarence Thomas:
"A man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes that he is a woman ... Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable “biological” characteristic ... To use language to obscure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”— is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens as equals."
God bless this man!
The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here.
Really. Bravo.
They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.”
Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.”
Absolutely brilliant, guys.
Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.”
No, champ. This is not youth energy.
This is the bill.
You told them America was evil.
You told them capitalism was theft.
You told them police were the enemy.
You told them borders were immoral.
You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage.
Now they believe you.
And worse, they want promotions.
That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place.
Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist.
Now the hive has the keys.
Enjoy the buzzing.
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For the last 6 years, the woke left has essentially just been opportunistically shifting the focus of their Critical Social Justice movement to different heads of their ideological hydra.
From 2020-2022 the focus was CRT due to George Floyd.
From 2022-2025 the energy shifted to Queer Theory and Gender Studies due to a combination of catalyzing events: Lia Thomas, pediatric gender medicine, and red state backlash.
In 2023, the October 7th Hamas massacre and Israel's response caused the woke left to begin shifting focus to Postcolonial Theory, though I'd argue it didn't overtake the other issues until 2025.
We are now in the era of Postcolonial/Decolonization radicalism. It's main focus is destroying the West and all vestiges of it in every aspect of society. Some are now calling this "Third Worldism."
The election of Mandani and now other DSA members like Darializa Avila Chevalier, Claire Valdez, and others, is indicative. The rise of Hasan Piker is also emblematic of the postcolonial movement's momentum. AOC is and The Squad is fully on board.
The woke right is also, unfortunately, fueling this movement to a significant degree.
It's going to be a very tough road ahead given the fractured nature of the political right and the overall spinelessness of the center-left to stand up to their radical fringe.
All of these movements under the woke umbrella were detailed in Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and @ConceptualJames back in 2020.
Now would be a good time to re-read it to brush up on Postcolonial Theory, because you'll be seeing much more of it moving forward.
Woke isn't dead; it is just laying dormant while it shifts focus. If you're not paying attention you will suffer severe whiplash in 2028 if Democrats win the presidency.
One of the most thought provoking speeches I've seen in a while.
@Miss_Snuffy on how raising a generation to see the world through oppressors and the oppressed is changing the West.
If you don't have time, bookmark it. It's worth every second.
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🚨 JUST IN: A group of Antifa terrorists were just SENTENCED to HUNDREDS OF YEARS in prison after a violent attack on the ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas
FAFO, LOCK THEM UP! I voted for the law and order! 🔥
The group's RINGLEADER, Benjamin Song, got 100 years.
The others got as many as 70 years and 50 years.
BIG WIN.
BREAKING: Todd Blanche announces charges against 455 defendants across 45 states and territories for healthcare fraud schemes involving over $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs.
Breaking exclusive: Benjamin Song, the ringleader of the North Texas Antifa terror cell, was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison today in Fort Worth. The sentencing of 7 other violent co-defendants is ongoing. Turn on notifications.
Read my prior reporting about the trial in the meantime: https://t.co/087BoeojmE
🚨 HOLY CRAP! A major scandal has erupted, illegal aliens are stealing Americans' identities to commit fraud, and states are losing BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to unemployment "pay errors"
EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM is RIFE with fraud, gut it all and purge the rolls!
These illegals are likely VOTING as well.
"MORE major fraud cases will be announced next week."
"It appears that you can come to Massachusetts and steal as many benefits as you want without fear and without any accountability."
"The White House anti-fraud task force descending on Boston as members announcing 15 new arrests with suspects, allegedly scamming SNAP benefits, disability and social security programs."
"The Massachusetts US Attorney's Office says it has charged 65 people with alleged fraud offenses so far this year adding up to more than 56 million dollars."
"Not that long ago the very same agents that were working on these cases would present them to US attorneys and be told 'sorry you're not meeting the threshold sorry we're not prosecuting that.'"
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister
Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today