You oligarchs aren't engineering AI to work for people. You're engineering AI to work for corporate interests. It takes far more than it gives in return. It's taking our jobs. It's taking our electricity. It's taking our wealth. It's taking our creative works. It's taking our data.

And what is it giving in return?

It's giving the executive and corporate leaders at eight companies on our planet a ridiculous amount of wealth. To hell with the dog-and-pony show going on in the foreground.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

I can explain it very easily. I don't want to talk to a machine. I don't want my car to listen to my conversation with the people riding with me. I don't want smart home assistants listening to my TV program. I don't want my tools telling me what to do. I don't want YouTube to automatically translate video titles.

Just because something is impressive does not mean I want it around me. That we can build a nuclear fusion device is impressive. But I don't want a hydrogen bomb exploding in my backyard.

Open a porn site in Florida or Alabama, this is already and always has been happening. If we want to upend that precedent I'm not opposed but it is precedent already.

Federally managed mean "Congress passes laws" not an Executive Order.

Your representatives are there to represent the interests of the states in the Federal government.

Online vendors already have to work in that type of framework, different states have different taxes, different warranty laws, different regulations. Also making AI harder to sell is half the argument, maybe theres a good reason to make it harder

I'm sorry which party cut Medicare this year? Which party voted against school lunches? Which party is suing Tylenol? Which party decided on Biden's arrival in 2021 that the shots Trump (to his and Pences credit which Biden gave them in Dec 2020 and afterwards many times) were not bad?

Come on guy there's no way to both sides this, you don't have to do this.

It could, that's on you to make that argument not just speculate. It's not as though these countries don't also have vaccination schedules if you're born in Mexico you get a similar set of shots as you would in America. The entire world has access to these. Also if this was the case why wouldn't we be seeing similar outbreaks inside all these countries if everyone is just walking around unvaccinated. Why is it so concentrated in US/Ca/UK?

Quick to assume other nations are the savages but what if we actually are in our privileged hubris to second guess things other folks with less means would look at as an actual obvious thing. It's a position of wealth to say "fuck it, maybe diseases arent real after all"

Oh, of course how could i possibly forget, there's always a way for the liberals to be at fault. The President has no independent agency, we can, nay must, only judge him through the lens of his opposition (since we've already preloaded the idea they are just nutters to not be taken seriously). That whole measles thing in Samoa? Wasn't measles it was TDS!

Andrew Wakefield, the demon himself said Trump was "on our side" back in 2016.

Eh, I don't buy this was some inevitable thing or one regard as president means we have to discard the very good concept.

The first precedent on if vaccination could be compelled was 1905 and unofficially even before then. It has never been an issue until this guy, we just might have to learn a hard lesson for it to sink in again.

Without "government dictate" smallpox would still be a thing.

It's also cultural. Chinese/Japanese/Korean culture values academic results over pretty much anything else. If you want to be the most popular person at school in Asia then get the best grades.

Compare to the West where when I was at school lots of the smart kids pretended to be dumb because they didn't want to call attention to themselves and get bullied.

Asian culture is massively supportive of working hard and studying so it's not a surprise that they excel in the knowledge economy.

Note while there are aspects of this I very much admire, it is not all sunshine and roses. If you cannot perform academically in these cultures you are basically thrown no the trash heap of life very early on. Children are under immense pressure in a way that sets many up to fail. Many people find the cultures very stifling as well if you have grown up in them and don't have the 'white privaledge' of being a tourist/expat there. Japanese and Korean performative work culture is also insane.

Your whole argument hinges on the idea that long distance trucking happens within an European country.

And that's plain wrong. Long distance trucking in Europe mainly means transporting goods from the large harbors in the Mediterranean (Genoa, Piraeus) and at the Northern Sea (Rotterdam, Hamburg) to the large industrial centers and back. Additionally, trucks are transporting raw materials, furniture and similar goods from Eastern Europe to the West and machines and machine parts to the East. This means crossing borders all the time.

Let's put it like this: The Han canal was completed in 489 BCE, more than 2500 years ago, and the complete Grand Canal of China, which extends the Han canal from Bejing to Hangzhou to over about 1100 miles, was completed 609 AD.

If China is anything like Germany when it comes to electric truck adoption, then it's long distance trucking which moves to electric. In Germany, there are truck operators which have moved completely to electric - trucks which barely ever touch a town center. Electric trucks typically are rated for about 250 miles of range, which is sufficient for about 4 to 5 hours of driving. And after 4:30 hours, a trucker has to rest for 45 mins mandated by law anyway, while the truck can recharge.

So any website that wants to know if people actually read the articles or whether they clicked a link in order to A/B test the site needs a banner. That's pretty much any website that is being run for commercial purposes.

Most people cannot make any of the following at home:

Meat (beef, chicken, pork, etc)

Farming is not making in common parlance. And people have been farming livestock at home for thousands of years, clearly it ain't that hard. A few people round my way have a few chickens and I live in London.

Butter

Yeah you can. You can churn it by hand with a whisk and a lot of effort. If you've ever tried to make whipped cream at home with an electric whisk (this is incredibly easy and common) you should know to not over beat it otherwise it starts to separate into butter and buttermilk.

Cheese

I got a cheese making a while ago. There's not much to it, really. People have been making cheese for millennia. Not ultra processed american cheese of course...

Vegetables

You can grow tiny amounts of vegetables as a houseplant what the fuck are you even talking about.

Fruits

My comment about farming not being making in common parlance still stands. And my comment about being able to grow tiny amounts at home as a houseplant still stands.

Flour

Chuck some grains in a coffee grinder or pound them in a pestle and mortar. Job done. It won't be great, uniform flour. But it will be flour.

Spices
Tea
Coffee

Farming ain't making. You can grow some herbs spices at home easily enough. In fact I've been doing that with herbs (like English Mace) which are not widely sold. If you had fruits straight off a coffee tree you could make coffee, it would just be rather involved

Sugar

https://www.instructables.com/...

You didn't just pwn the scientists with your "common sense" that ultra processed foods don't exist because most people don't have a small holding. Farming isn't processing. Most people can do most of those things with a bit of land or labour.

Probably not. My knowledge is probably out of date by now but it used to be the case that the top end processes not only would be wasted on analogue radio stuff, but they'd also need to be adapted to it a well. You want different features.