If an LLM attorney is smart enough to actually check that the cases they reference actually exist, we can be confident than they're better than a certain percent of human lawyers.

Let's keep our focus on the people behind these projects, shall we? Not the caterers, the electricians, the plumbers, or the company that mows their lawn. They're just trying to pay the bills man.

Yes, I get it, if it's your holy mission to oppose AI datacenters sure, you go right ahead and chain yourself to the front gate. But the fact is that most people don't have the luxury to morally evaluate their job for nuances of "whatever is bothering reddit today".

A historic motive was that prisoners can not vote and felons lose their voting rights. If you didn't know, that was a plan to take black people out from voting. The tradition continues with other excuses covering for it. It's way more about poor people today and there will be many more poor people... with AI powered policing and legal processes you could be a felon quite easily in the future. Hell, if you just oppose fascism you are now a terrorist Antifa supporter (look it up, it's actually happened. BTW, quickest way to spot a fascist is they hate/fear Antifa.)

OUTSIDE OF PRIVATE PRISONS: the unions for government prison workers are also a problem; sometimes the police unions are a problem too.

If you have a major illness and are broke, you need to rob a bank. More people need to realize we have minimalist universal healthcare after all...

I knew an excon. Tried as an adult. He said prison was like going to college for crime. He also had no trouble getting certain drugs in prison, had a harder time getting off prozac (easy to get) than he did cocaine (hard to get in prison.)

Conservatives (not the tribal brand, actual meaning) are only correct by accident:

The philosophy is founded upon appeal to tradition which is a logical fallacy. They will fire up their brains sometimes and rationalize excuses in a reactionary defense which is inherently flawed and anti-science; rather than use their brains to discover truth, they do what feels good (often selfish) then use their brains to excuse what is arrived by thoughtlessness.

Contradiction, hipocracy and distraction a constant problem for them - for some (now a majority) they give up that fight and just embrace it. Their #1 representative believes it's a virtue and you are weak if you limit yourself to sound reasoning and this has accelerated the adoption of what is beyond even comic book villain monologues.

Crime is largely controlled by conservatives defending their profits by using fear and tactics of "the other." They should be called "right" rather than the better sounding "conservative" label, they prefer "conservative" because they can make up principled arguments for that. Facts do not actually matter, unless they are useful props along with the lies, it doesn't matter it's just another tool for maintaining their position.

The "right" historically was the right hand man of the wealthy establishment who serve the powerful above all else; to most, it's corrupt - to them, it's protecting their small group of people from the masses who they fear will ruin their advantages. USA's "conservative" today is stripped clean of principles and constantly demonstrate that they are rightwing stooges.

The "right" comes from France where they literally kept brawling and nothing got done so the pro-king establishment was put on the right side with moderates separating from the left side republicans (term vs name are now ironic) just to keep them from killing each other... just for a while because the two sides were killing each other often in those days. Back in those days, the wealthy ruling elite were connected with monarchies which is why republicans were against the rich kings, but today we have dictators and wealthy ruling elites (some with more cult status than a king) which serve the same purpose. It's a shame that republics / republicans ONLY means no-king because severely limits the scope of the problem so many people fought against for centuries. It's more dangerous now as more people believe they can someday join the royal family if they just make enough money or marry the right person (we've not come too far from back then have we?) This is why USA Republicans look so much like a contradiction in terms.

amen, brother!

Americans can't solve any problems and the place is stuck in a doom spiral. It's like trying to convince a believer their religion is just a mythology inherited from their upbringing not much different than flat-earthers of the past ( present ones bring up a whole another example of fools.)

The USA always was #1 for cults for a reason!

Besides lacking critical thinking and an anti-intellectual culture (largely countered by educated immigrants but that no longer the case) the culture is all about SHIFTING BLAME, the customer is always right, and so on. It's like they are all a little bit narcissistic. Frankly, every flaw here combined into 1 man turned out to be perfectly represented in their president who they identify with (but not a few things they do see and object to, just everything else they don't see is like themselves... "He's one of us.")

It's not obvious to the blind masses. As the French said, common sense is not so common.
AI is wrecking critical thinking so this will get worse.

"... football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents..."

Hyperbolic language meant to spur some sort of emotional reaction, I guess?
This process : deposition of a dissolved solid and then the solvents being driven of by a long, gentle drying process, is pretty common in industry as a method. For example just about every self adhesive product uses this process for its release coating.

Did you miss my second to last sentence entirely?

Perhaps you could crawl out of your side-bias and recognize that BOTH OF THEM ARE SHIT.

Oh look, more evidence of the ideological capture of slashdot.
A call to murder the president, +5 informative.

I mean you guys have tried what, 4x now? It's always ultimately about murder when the leftist nursery school doesn't get its way.

The message is clear. If you find a vulnerability, don't go to a tech bro, hat in hand, hoping for a reward. Flog it on the dark web to the highest bidder.

You sound like a typical blowboy for Corporate Socialism. Social Darwinism for the masses, welfare handouts for the corporations.

The irony is that before the internet, it was a lot more difficult to find plans for building a guillotine.

"too many" being once.

"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.

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.