Nah. It's all about the colloidal silver and green coffee bean extract.

I'm actually kind of surprised that Canada hasn't been making any efforts to poach tech workers and companies to build tech hubs for themselves. Setting aside the sycophantic quislings who've shown their true colors like Musk, Cook, Zuck, Thiel, Pichai, Bezos, et cetera; the rank and file of tech workers still trend fairly liberal, immigrant, and LBGT-friendly, all groups that the government is going well out of its way to feel unsafe and unwelcome.

I know people who've already left the country... afew of them the first time we got stuck in the MAGA rodeo and it wasn't even this bad that time. A few more friends have left over the last year. I know of others who are planning to go. I'm still kind of undecided. Living in the Bay Area does insulate me from the worst of it; but there's always the prospect that he could send his thugs to invade here too. So I've ceased my house hunting and buying effort and adjusted my finances to not be tied down if I do decide it is time to make my escape.

Thing is, the people who are leaving are scattering to the four winds... Europe is big, a few to Canada, some are contemplating Mexico or Costa Rica, my contingency is in Asia... the cost of living difference means I can retire early as well as getting out of Dodge. BUT... Vancouver is right there, in the same time zone as The City and Valley, with a similarly-pleasant climate, with good (and safe) schools and streets, functional health care, their "POGG"s, and they don't hate brown and LGBT people. It would make an ideal place for Canada to build out a tech center. Okay... the CEOs who bent the knee aren't going to be moving their companies anywhere. But... again, among the rank-and-file... I have no doubt that Vancouver would get plenty of takers willing to move. Attract them, let them found some startups, then lure more tech workers... and the big companies will eventually open satellite offices at least. Get enough tech workers to relocate, and the next batch of Unicorns and FAANGs could very well come from there too.

For starters, there's what you said yourself: "used to be". You people sure do seem to be great about stealing the bad parts of the left for yourselves.

And also, you are conveniently leaving out the fact that even back when anti-vax BS was a defect of the left, it was never mainstream. They were always considered to be fringe whackadoodles and kept at arms-length from having any real power to force their idiocy on others. You flipped that script on that by putting anti-vax conspiracy-theorists and quacks like RFK and Oz in charge of the nation's health care system. Anti-vax is mainstream now because of YOU, not us.

Some people actually *can't* be vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons, like being immunocompromised or allergies such as egg proteins... not "A former MTV dating show dating show host and some 'mommy blogs' told me they're a conspiracy to give my kid autism." or "My imaginary friend who lives in a cloud told me they make his baby son cry."

People who legitimately cannot be vaccinated rely on herd immunity to... you know... not die.

Well, when the cops run and hide instead of helping the children that they are specifically on-site to protect (Parkland) or refuse to pull their thumbs out of their asses, put down the doughnuts, and help the children they were called in to save (Uvalde); and in both cases cheerfully allowing the children to be slaughtered, refusing to so much as lift a finger, and in the latter case actively preventing others from helping the children...

... what good does it do to call anyway?

Economics. Sadly, plastic straws and cups are cheaper to manufacture than their wax paper equivalents.

Whatâ(TM)s interesting here is that as a professional musician, this guy is a public figure and the âoeactual maliceâ standard for defamation applies â" a standard that was designed when defamation could only be done by a human being.

This requires the defendant to make a defamatory statement either (1) knowing it is untrue or (2) with reckless disregard for the truth.

Neither condition applies to the LLM itself; it has no conception of truth, only linguistic probability. But the LLM isnâ(TM)t the defendant here. Itâ(TM)s the company offering it as a service. Here the company is not even aware of the defamatory statement being made. But it is fully aware of their modelâ(TM)s capacity to hallucinate defamatory âoefactsâ.

I think that because the tort is based in the common law concept of a duty of care, we may well see the company held liable in some way for this kind of thing. But itâ(TM)s new law; it could go the other way.

Maybe the mental health warnings should be for New York itself.

The laborious, linear interface is of course another limitation of all kinds of tapes -- digital or analog. But getting rid of this also changes human behavior. People don't listen as much to long form collections; they don't even necesssarily listen to entire songs.

A mix tape is essentially a long format program manually and personally curated for you by another human being, unmediated and indeed untracked by any third corporate party. Losing the mix tape was a real cultural loss. Sure they didn't sound great, but they didn't have to.

I suppose every technological advance is potentially double edged. When people get books and literacy, verbal storytelling declines. That doesn't make books bad. the technical limitations of verbal stories -- say limited repeatbility -- are real limitations, but that doesn't mean something wasn't lost.

There is a difference between traits that you're born with, like race, gender, et cetera; and groups you are a member of based on actions or ideology. "Dutch" is the first. "Afrikaners" is the second.

Just as I do not judge a white klansan as reprehensible scum for being white, but do so for being a klansman; I do not judge a Dutch Afrikaner for being Dutch, but for being an Afrikaner.

Afrikaners aren't a race or ethnicity. And they bloody well don't need or deserve any "help." Afrikaners are the *DUTCH* colonials who invaded South Africa, set up apartheid, and oppressed the majority of the population for decades. The word describes people who took a particular, and utterly reprehensible ACTION. This is more akin to saying the Hell's Angels or Teamsters or Atlanta Braves or the Klan are a refugee group that deserves help. They may be mostly comprised of a particular race or ethnicity. But they are not a group defined by it. They are a group defined by their actions... in this case, Apartheid.

Fuck 'em.

Exactly. Whatever the rules are going to be; they need to be objective, entirely impartial, deterministic in their metrics and outcomes, and published and known to ALL parties in advance. No pinhead bureaucrat or crooked politico should have any say whatsoever beyond "Is this number higher or lower than this other number?". NO moving targets, NONE of that "definition of obscenity" BS that you already mentioned.

Well, and not only that, but the article itself clearly says that it was the tariffs that killed the company, not Lena Khan. So the headline looks a bit like it's just clickbait nonsense, and Lena Khan had nothing to do with this. Sure, if Amazon had acquired them, maybe they would have operated at an apparent loss in order to collect all that hot hot private home use data, but that would not have been a win.

The worry that iRobot would be acquired by Amazon was reason enough for me to disable my device—I hadn't actually heard that the merger was canceled, because I moved shortly after that and we sold the Robot so we wouldn't have to move with it. :/

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With his age, weight, and diet*; by all rights he should already be dead. Never mind the fact that he has denied wearing makeup** in the past, which adds cirrhosis or hepatitis to the mix as well. I'm think he must have injected some stem cells from Jackie Chan, Keith Richards, or a Florida cockroach. So I'm not betting on an early exit.

* Not to mention the stress of the job. Look at before & after every pictures of every other president. That job ages people something like two years for every one spent in office.

** Yes, I know. He's such a pathological lying stack of crap that he lies about silly and trivial things like that too. But I also don't get why anyone would WANT to look like they're always about to drop dead from liver failure.