"the American rightâ(TM)s hostility to democracy" you say?
Do tell.

So if we're talking sides, which "side"
- invaded social media spaces, and then emplaced high level government agents within the relevant companies SPECIFICALLY to guide "public conversations" in the directions they prefer?
- pushed for vote-from-home, the most beautifully-crafted system if one wanted fraudulent voting?
- pushed for electronic voting, again simplifying and enabling large scale fraud?
- manipulated information, media, reporting and hid any information that called into question the mandated "It came from bats" COVID theory? And then worked hard to kill/hide the fact that the US actually funded gof work at the lab it seemed to come from?
- spent years telling us how far apart from each other we were allowed to stand?

I don't think Trump and his crew of morons is any better, but the idea that one side is better than the other is laughable.

Some would agree that yes, what was going on was inexcusable.

You "You used an AI"
(provides actual source)
You "I don't like that source"
Also you: I'm disingenuous as fuck.

Pay the bounty.

The two other possible outcomes are Nightmare Eclipse (she's really on a roll!) or 0day sales on DNM's.

It doesn't even matter whether a decision to fix is made.

Gosh, you'd think $GOOG was broke.

While I'm sure we all appreciate the ä宣éf's opinion, lying about gross economic statistics and manipulating currency is fundamentally non-capitalist.

I'm not going to disagree with you that Western governments have done so themselves sometimes (for example, the US unstated policy for at least 50 years after WW2 was to keep the USD overly strong as an 'invisible subsidy' to our western economic partners, making their manufactured goods more price competitive; US consumers got cheap goods, foreign economies got to build their factories and economies), but China's economic manipulations are ceaseless and utterly one-sided.

I think everyone understands that fundamentally, dictatorships HAVE ALWAYS been potentially more nimble, more efficient, and more consistent.

At a longer view, the question is if the costs are worth those improvements.

...they're fucked.
Their inventory is insanely high. And worse, it's OLD.

They kept running production full tilt, forcing dealers to take new production AND FORBIDDING THEM offering deals to customers to clear old stocks. They kept trying to sell to the top of the market and nobody's interested.

So their dealers are closing left and right, going bankrupt because they can't service the sustain costs on their inventory (they don't precisely own the cars in their lots) and as few people that are willing to buy a new JEEP for $120k, there's even fewer willing to pay $120k for a "new" 2024 model that's been sitting on the lot for 3 years. Drive that off the lot and you don't lose 30% value, you lose 60% or more.

I'm not in that business, but from what I understand their collapse is a "when not if" proposition. Not shocked that when Carvana looked for someone willing to be their playground, Stellantis was willing and had dealerships that would take anything for some inflow of cash and maybe even customers.

No, it' isn't hard to look up. What's your malfunction?

https://tcf.org/content/report...

It's important to realize that the so-called far-left Democrats idealize Bolshevism while the far-right Republicans idealize Fascism, both of which are forms of Big Government Socialism.

So if the Democrats are in power and they want to increase the size and scope of government the Republicans will go along with it 80% of the time. Because they know they will eventually be back in power and have more tools of power to control.

They will balk the other 20% of the time so they still have something to run on and false promises to make to their voters.

The powerful parasite class is corrupt as hell regardless of jersey and they only care about staying in power. So if it's endless wars to get bribes from the MIC or poisons in the food supply to get bribes from Pharma or Big Chem it doesn't matter, that get passed.

That's why we have two-tiered courts, warrantless spying, usury, rigged elections, poisoned foods, endless wars, completely failed schools, satanic pedophiles getting pardons, crashing wages, nondischargable debt, unaffordable healthcare, food, housing, etc.

The vast majority of voters in any party want the opposite of that but are told to vote for "the lesser of two evils" which admits to an inherently evil system.

The Framers constructed a system of subsidiarity but that's long gone, its vestiges only permitted to prevent a real Revolution.

> Vote accordingly.

The only thing they fear is an election where nobody participate because they know they're screwed regardless of outcome.

After that real change has a chance of happening but it's never comfortable.

...if you can't disable your AI in 90 min that would seem like a problem.

It's all well and good until Lore steals Data's emotion chip.

The scheme I'm seeing the game theory people put out:

1. IPO to pay off the investors (political oligarchs)
2. Fear monger about China.
3. Bubble bursts.
4. Nationalize all the massive new data centers "to stop China".
5. Hand over the data centers to the "National Security State" now merged with a tiny violent Middle East colony.
6. Turn the apparatus inward to implement the AI Surveillance Police State (ASPS).
7. Blackmail the Boomers to send control eastward.

It's worth defending against even if the odds are low.

Are these the glasses the Visitors wore in V: The Miniseries?

Definitely not something a human would wear.

Do any adults actually use Snap? I thought it was just kids. Kids who have a few grand laying around these days?

Maybe they'll pair with an absurd Commodore flip phone.

On the other hand we may be seeing Malicious Compliance from Snap workers. If so, well played.

Or there are no workers and some LLM is running the whole thing.

So many possible ways this went horribly wrong.

It seems you're right - https://www.brown.edu/news/202...

https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

It's not a serious comment. If you look at the highest-rated comments in /. on this subject, they're more about dogmatic virtue-signaling than meaningful comments about technology, science, or even this fairly important issue to near space viability.

My observing this will immediately get this post downrated despite it being a factual observation because on slashdot now:

Post 1: Elon is a stupid poopyhead, +5 Insightful
Post 2: SpaceX has vastly decreased launch costs per kg (fact), Tesla more or less single-handedly made EVs commercially viable, both from their cars and their investment in chargers (fact), -1 troll

This isn't hard to look up: it's about 20% per grok.

Hebrew, wtf are you on?
0.07-0.08% of students speak Hebrew.

Dwarfed by Spanish (75% of ELs)
Arabic 2-2.5%
Chnese 2%
Vietnamese, Portuguese, Russian, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Urdu all also are higher than Hebrew

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