Lol get fucking rotated

“Wing” is not the term to use. Liberals sat on the left side of parliament, literally the left wing of a hall, so it’s accurate and quite literal to call them “left wing”. What isn’t accurate is calling them leftist, as in socialist, and I think that’s the term everyone is actually talking about? Everyone is talking past each other here cause of the wing thing.

DAE remember Kim’s Video in NYC? The main store was 4 floors of rentable media in a skinny former tenement building on St. Marks with a yellow/black facade. They had every movie imaginable from all over the world mostly in DVD and VHS formats in nondescript black cases, sorted by nationality and then director. You’d pick a case and bring it to the art students manning the desk, they’d judge your tastes without subtlety then go into the vault in the back and return with the media. Members only, no more than two rentals at a time, strict late fees. Friends and I were there every day or so rotating out an endless stream of cinema.

This is all because I never returned those DVDs in 2006, isn’t it.

Checkmate, fascists!

I guess they’re on to the fact that I’m no more likely to buy a new electric car than I am to buy a new combustion car. Zero to both.

This isn’t even a new euphemism for blackout DWI. From what I’ve read teleportation and alien abductions stories are not uncommon excuses.

Vivaldi is Chromium, which I avoid because I consider it an advertising corporation’s attempt to erode open web standards.

Still better than the Chrome-alikes, but all the same I’ve switched to Librewolf. Problem is, foss mozilla teams like Librewolf are small and underfunded, and their ability to continue sanitizing and debloating the app forever is not garaunteed. A new vanguard FOSS browser project is needed, ideally one that continues the Netscape lineage of open and non-coercive web standards with a more durable and democratic organizational structure.

LLMs are fly honey for stupid people.

OP if you’re gonna post a paywalled article, can you at least copy the full text of it into the thread? Most of us cannot read more than two paragraphs of this piece, ensuring that most participants here are talking around the headline only.

Veiled threat? We’re unilaterally carpet bombing them! OP how do you accommodate this kind of propaganda in your media diet? I could never tolerate it.

This is just one industry drinking another industry’s IP milkshake.

I’ve lived here my whole 40 years and can verify that while a significant chunk of our voting class (Because it very much is a class thing) are sheltered enough from consequence that they are either still satisfied with status quo or their disaffection leads them only to encourage debasement, the class living a tenuous and effectively disenfranchised existence is much larger. Did you know that despite our last presidential election having the largest turnout in US history, less than half of citizens and barely more than half of eligible voted participated? Whether disenfranchisement or apathy, neither of those reasons generate from nothing.

But my point above was not that it’s incorrect to point the blame squarely at US voted for their government’s decline (Even though I would probably argue, in a separate debate, that it is), my point is that it’s entirely the wrong tree to be barking up when trying to figure out how to put America back on “The right track”. Thinking that we can just yell at Americans until they vote progressive is to deeply misunderstand the nature of power. Asking why Americans are so disaffected, apathetic, or disenfranchised that they don’t participate in politics is perhaps a good first question, instead.

I don’t think you’re really addressing what I wrote. I’m not saying it’s untrue in a strict sense. I’m saying it’s a disingenuous point. A misleading framing. An uncritical, not entirely applicable, and wholly unhelpful approach to our political issues.

Kinda? Most Americans are extremely low-information on politics, and never proactively educated as to how to find that information or sometimes even why it matters. We are the most propagandized population on Earth, our country has little to no standards for factual information in media and several of our major outlets are just pure corporate spin, while all of our major newspapers are owned by oligarchs. Demographic fact is gerrymandered out of our districts, our default voting method creates perverse incentives to elect popularity over platform and locks third parties out of viability. Individual jurisdictions decide how voting is accomplished and more often than not use this power to make it difficult to do so instead of easier. There is almost no enforcement of laws requiring leave from work to vote. There is next to no oversight of our physical voting machines and little trust in tabulation, while parties can and often do purge voter roles between elections without informing those who they nullified. Ultimately most people didn’t vote for this because quite frankly most people don’t or can’t vote for one of the reasons above, something that I missed, or a tragic apathy created by said trainwreck of conditions.

Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous. At the very least it’s not a statement that can be built off of for a more productive outcome, in fact it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.

“Host” was certainly poor wording as one of it’s other definitions is literally data center services, I meant to refer only to the siting of software research which the headline calls the “AI brain”.

And yeah I agree on ultimate trajectory, AI offerings are 95% folly and it’s now so big that even countries who haven’t integrated their economies with the sector will feel the pain when it collapses, China will not be immune. Though they will probably just stumble while the US will completely face plant.

Most of that goes toward implementation (data centers) and chip manufacturing. China is making money on compute services and maintaining capability parity on software the good old fashioned pirate way merely to prevent a technology gap with the US, as is their way.

I would reckon that China is perfectly satisfied to let us be the sole host of the thing that is rapidly destroying our economy and trust in all media from the inside out.

Why? Little corporations must comply with KYC law, too. They’re all required to gather personal data.