Just look into qualified immunity and civil asset forfeiture. The police think they can get away with this kind of thing, because they can get away with this kind of thing in a police state.

They're looking for cash withdrawals and gold purchases. This is related to civil asset forfeiture and they're looking to improve their profit margins. The argument will be that they suspect people who carry large stores of physical value are involved in trading drugs, guns, tax evasion or terrorism. Won't you all think of the children?

The experiment's subjects are not the drivers, it's the people who live on once quiet streets that aren't equipped for excessive traffic. It's families who's children can no longer toss a baseball, football, skateboard or learn to ride a bike on their once quiet street.

While this does utilize existing roads, this terrorizes neighborhoods. Quiet streets where children play become highways. Cities avoid improving infrastructure, like public transportation, for longer. People will buy additional cars instead of using public transportation. Overall, while this is a technocratic dream, it abuses the public in unintentional ways while sounding very smart.

You have no foundational knowledge in actual history. Try studying the history of China and the USSR from both capitalist and non-capitalist sources, then make an assessment which narrative fits reality better.

What do you call it when Tesla sells cars at a loss for almost a decade and only makes money through subsidies?

I still only have 8Gb vram on my system with 128Gb of Ram. I still think I'd need more vram.

Agreed. But, I don't have 128Gb of vram or unified memory. I wish I had the insight to buy it before the shortage

With DeepSeek you'll hit 80M tokens for $25 prepaid. It kinda sucks, but depending on what you're try to do it's a fantastic deal.

I started using QWen 3.8 27B locally. It meets my needs and beats DeepSeek V4. Not totally free(I pay for energy and it's slow), but I get to keep my ideas to myself.

What studies?

Democrats support mass surveillance and censorship as well. We aren't going to vote our way out of this mess.

Even still, it lacks the narrative of human desire and effort willing it into existence. I will never be inspired by agentic poetry, because even if the words seem to have meaning they won't evoke the curiosity to ask why the poet chose these words. Poetry without lived experience and human connection is just an imitation. That's fundamentally different from machine-as-instrument. My main question is whether younger generations will accept and admire art that something outside the human experience created. So far, younger generations have rejected it.

Many of the most successful artists just copied and stole from the true creatives anyway. Not to mention a lot of "black music" was funded as part of cointelpro against black communities to encourage infighting and self destructive gang-culture after the BPP rose in popularity.

One of the worst offenders is Microsoft, which consistently publishes "major breakthroughs" without having even a 1 qubit quantum computer. Their "qubits" are so stable you can't even interact with them to do computations or disprove that they are qubits.