I mean, will it censor you if you ask about the Chinese premier looking like Winnie the Pooh or tienaman (sp?) square....will it say it can't answer that...or give answers that only praise china?
Genuine question with potential genuine concerns....
Well, yes. For many years, presidential candidates, both Democratic and Republican, referred to the United States as "the indispensible nation". And my reaction was always, "Doesn't that mean the US is a single point of failure for civilization?"
We are currently performing an experiment which addresses this question: can the US enjoy the benefits of soft power without the cost? That's the whole point of obeying *norms*. No individual force is going to punish you if you are treacherous, mercurial, foul-mouthed, disrespectful and generally unpredictable. Everyone will punish you.
I think an inevitable cost of this experiment will be that the world will decide that the US can't be a single point of failure for global democracy any longer. In many ways, that's something that will be good for us. But it's also going to cost us in painful ways. When the world decides to move away from the dollar as the international reserve currency, you will see both inflation and higher interest rates on everything from credit cards to mortgages, to business loans that will offset the export advantages. We will need *more* business investment to shift the economy to producing low value goods again, so the transition will be rocky.
I think it's pretty f-ed up to say a company has to give their IP and trade secrets to their competitors (aka, your friends) so they can take their business, and then call it fairness. It isn't, it's theft.
Kinda sounds like China's business model, eh?
However, why couldn't Google just yank their servers out of the EU..and station them all around the EU. Sure, there might be a little performance hit, but at least they'd not be compelled to follow the EU rules, and I doubt the EU will firewall all things google, you know?
"She's got huge tracts of land!"
Wait....is that, is that...Sir Lancelot I see in the distance, running towards our castle....?
A life support unit for a cunt.
Unfortunately, the pleasurable part of that equation always comes with the other unpredictable part.
They have personality, and actual affection.
Like to see America...
My past dealings (mine and others) have lead me to think of PayPal as a criminal enterprise,
I've seen a lot of hate thrown at PayPal over the years.....and not quite sure why?
I've used it a LONG time for eBay payments, sending money to friends and the odd small merchant.
I wouldn't say I've used it a TON, but some.....and never had any problems.
What problems have ya'll had that you dislike them so badly? Genuinely curious....
I mean, I still can't stand the voice menus when you call support...I''m constantly hitting "0" or saying Operator over and over to get to a real person asap.
Don't get me wrong, I like my AI...ChatGPT can be fun and helpful...but, I don't wanna hold a fscking conversation with it, especially not in public.
Hell, that's one of the reasons I hate the voice support calls, when in public or sitting in Cube Land where everyone has nosy ears....
Most of the world doesn't have DST. It's really just Europe and the US. Somehow they manage.
I"m in the US...and I don't care which one they make permanent
I hate the hour changes....messes with me twice a year fairly badly at times....gets my pets off schedule too which is a PITA.
But WTF is "Protected Leave"?
That is a new term for me.....some forms of vacation time are "protected"?
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
