I've just read the SeaWorld article and the proportion of the article related to controversies seems appropriate to me. I wouldn't expect the article on VW or Mercedes to include lengthy sections on Nazi collaboration either. These are important historical controversies but there is a lot more to say about these companies and main articles like these should have a reasonable word count. Extended topics on the details, including the controversies, generally get their own article.

According to Star Trek lore Earth was unified after a nuclear war in the 21st century. The way things are going you might get your wish, just not on the stardate you'd like.

Pressure on China recently has, in my opinion, been about the Ukraine war. We see the same playbook as India- tarrifs and screwing with visas and just today India says they will stop buying Russian oil. It's a costly move for India in the short term but they understand it's the right thing to do and prefer to play well with other countries. China is the last large-volume buyer of Russian oil left but they are too proud to be seen as folding to external pressure and their propaganda ministry has been following the Russian line on the topic. I doubt China will play ball with the West on this one, and some Chinese markets are already or will be closed to American farmers forever. It's also true that China aggressively steals every digital file they can find, friends or otherwise. They should be called out every time it happens, because it keeps happening.

That's just begging for a "yo momma" joke...

At which point it will hallucinate that every building is a McDonald's only to get you murdered by a drug cartel gang.

Lying to you to give you that terrible restaurant recommendation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105 is a white paper mathematically proving that LLMs will lie.

I have said this all along- most of AI is GIGO- Garbage in, Garbage out. LLMs were trained on the largest garbage producer in our society today, Web 2.0. Nothing was done to curate the input, so the output is garbage.

I don't often reveal my religion, but https://magisterium.com/ is an example of what LLMs look like when they HAVE curated training. This LLM is very limited. It can't answer any question that the Roman Catholic Church hasn't considered in the last 300 years or so. They're still adding documents to it carefully, but I asked it about a document published a mere 500 years ago and it wasn't in the database, but instead of making something up like most LLMs will do, it kindly responded that the document wasn't in the database. It also, unlike most AI, can produce bibliographies.

I doubt AI is going to do much for divorce law. Divorces generally go relatively smoothly or are a battle. People in easy divorces are already using template forms from the internet. Difficult cases are the definition of a "people business", a chatbot is not going to be satisfying to people who want someone to fight for what they want.

It is likely true that software quality is dropping. But the important point I would like to make is that quality elsewhere is horrible too. Our relatively new house is on its third bathroom sink faucet in about 12 years total time. I cannot fathom how this could be so bad. Car quality, parts, engines, transmissions all of it is worse. Worse parts, worse designs, it all is bad and so much more expensive. A twenty year old car w/ only front wheel drive, a four speed transmission, a reasonable power v6 in comparison is SO solid. A little worse MPG but that is it, and sometimes that isn't so clear cut. I'm sure there are examples of things that have improved, and others that have gotten worse. But those were a couple I can think of off hand. A lot of this is driven by big government making decisions for us, even during republican administrations ironically. Fuel efficiency standards go back to Bush. Anyways, enjoy, the future is gonna suck. And be expensive.

Farmers will bitch about a def burn/regen, but still buy the new huge combine because even with sitting for 45 minutes, they get so much more done so fast it is unreal. So they buy/rent huge equipment they cannot work on because they run so many acres they really have no other options. Our government bankrolls all their risk so land/rent values keep going up and everyone is too happy to question anything. Red America complains about market access while voting in Trade War Trump. We're all so stupid. Nevermind GMO everything. If only we could make tofu w/ all this cheap soy. Nope, we gotta feed it to cows/pigs/chickens. No one cares about the river and aquifer water quality, or how expensive it is to treat for high nitrate levels. Sorry for the slightly unrelated farming rant. But I really wish our local river was cleaner. It is never a focus and so sad. But I'd refer to it as a "water quality collapse." Ironically you have to pay farmers for buffer strips and CRP, I'm not sure they'd do it on their own. Left to their own devices they're even ripping out the shelter belts around here.

and it's here today. No homelessness. No medical bankruptcy. No food insecurity. Affordable education. Decent places for everyone to live.

Why would you want socialism? It has been tried in more than 100 countries by now, and every time it included concentration camps and related goodies (strictly speaking, there were close shaves like Grenada which had only disorganized killing -- but given that it lasted only 4 years in a nation with 100k people, two towns and a bunch of villages, I'll give it a pass). Also, every major brand of socialism: soviet, nazi, maoist -- includes a massive push for propaganda and social control. Are you going to suggest that current socialist countries (China, N. Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, etc) don't use dark patterns and AI in their propaganda?

Capitalism's record isn't so stellar either, but at least it's not 100% bad and not so extreme. But then, the word "capitalism" is way too fuzzy to use in a serious discussion, we'd need to define it first. And the definition that was used the most, in countries that had dedicated universities of Marxism-Leninism and had mandatory lectures in all other university departments, was "capitalism = every economist system other than communism, including those that don't use money at all (like early kibbutzim), but excluding cavemen ("primitive communism")".

The other major definition is free market. But those billionaires you've spoken of are not so keen for free market, they prefer corporatism.

Thus: your post about capitalism vs socialism deserves to be at -1 not +4, as it brings no valid contribution to the discussion.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

Well, UK has declared war on Germany on 1939-09-03, then done nothing for a year until Germany was done with Poland and France, then started attacking them for real. Thus, a "preemptive" attack wouldn't be a big deal...