But if they subsidize it to gain market share against western tech they are still distorting prices.

I don't think alcohol is required, but the better of the only two Funny on the story that had large potential for humor.

I am beginning to think the entire AI topic is a joke. Side effect of trying to read What is Thought? by Baum? Or aftereffect of A Thousand Brains by Hawkins. We have no idea how intelligence works, but "borrowing" LOTS of "intelligent" artifacts has become the default starting point?

Me? My new ambition is to become an expert in asking questions that drive AIs crazy. Yes, I'm claiming partial credit for driving Gemini nuts. But it's probably just a personal problem because (optimistically?) the google has put me on a special enemies list to receive worthless answers.

That's easy, does't require any apt. Modifications....

I don't agree. In fact you could fix a lot of what's wrong without even spending more money to do it than it would have cost to do right in the first place. Modifications to slaughterhouses like having the cows go through a curved passage so they can't see what's happening to others in front of them for example. Obviously you can't fix feedlots without eliminating them, so some things are basically unsolvable, except that we don't actually need feedlots and could eliminate them.

Therefore I'd say the sad fact is that we don't even give a fuck about reducing the cruelty.

We do not want "mob rule" here in the US...and if we didn't use the EC to more proportionally allocate vote weighting....then basically NYC and California for the most part would dictate who was president....and ignore the vast middle of the US.

Here in the US, you are a citizen of your state first and then of the United States....the state is what affects your life the most directly...and each state is diverse in its population climate, land types and laws....so they need to be more represented on a state level by the president...the Congress has a house with proportionate representations as a part of this too.

You're frequently insulting, apparently without realizing it, which implies that you're a lot dumber than you think you are. Learn not to be insulting all the time if that's not your goal, or continue to be looked down on for people you sound like you're looking down on when you talk to them.

Nobody is less familiar with history than Slashdotters, who think they're smarter than everybody.

This is why average people hate techbros.

If it can misused, it WILL be misused and we all know that...at least to date we do.

False. Learn to read.

What he stated as fact was "nobody is just going to shrug and abandon the lifestyle we have all enjoyed the last 50 years" but that is completely fucking irrelevant and places the blame on the masses whose fault it isn't. They will use what they are forced to use, as always. The people who are deciding what they will have available to them are the culprits, as always.

I take it back. You don't need to learn to read. You need to learn to think.

Are they the exception? Given what we know about shelters, there's no shortage of cruelty. The difference is that instead of enjoying it, we pretend it doesn't happen. On one hand that's better because it's not a celebration, and on the other hand it's pathetic weakling bullshit with people too cowardly to face the results of their own actions. And that's before we even get into how CAFOs didn't even exist before the 1940s or so... Everyone who eats meat (myself included) is funding whole new levels of institutionalized animal cruelty.

It's NOT an advance to PRETEND that you're not cruel.

The US has a single centralised government with a single currency, Europe is not.

You've partially right....we have a single currency, but we do NOT have just a single centralized government.

The Federal govt. is and is supposed to be somewhat weak...and its few enumerated powers are in the US constitution....

The real power that actually governs the people for the most part, resides in the individual states. That's how we have VERY varying laws in many respects.....there are some cases the SCOTUS has had to take over the years, mostly on equal rights, etc....to establish that are constitutionally the same across states, but for the most part, everything that affects a citizens' life daily is governed by the laws of the state they reside in....so, financial laws, tax laws (state and local)...etc can all vary by state.

Most states have sales taxes..some do not. Some do not have income tax and others do...some states require car inspections annually, some to not and even those that do, vary in what they check..most do not check emissions if I recall correctly....

So, the US has. Federal govt that manages the currency....and is a singular face to the world....but internallly it's largely a mishmash of state laws that change as you cross state borders...

Tell us more about how you're smarter than the experts who actually did what you say they didn't do

The US - within living memory - used to be a high trust society.

Of course, no, it wasn't perfect but I grew up in MN. You could leave your car running outside a Target on a bitterly cold January day and it wouldn't get stolen. In the small town I grew up in, it was pretty common to 'run a tab' at the local grocery so if you needed to stop and get stuff but turned out you forgot your wallet, etc they'd just note your name and the amount and you'd come back in (usually as soon as you could, as it was embarrassing) and pay off your tab.

But then...the Somalis came along with millions of other illegal and legal migrants from LOW trust societies.....and helped ruin this.

It's easier to be a high trust society when the member of the society are more homogenious , and live and think alike largely.

Next week, Habanero will be the New Standard

Week after that, Dave's Insanity chips

Then why did the US give up paying in cash?

Err....we still pay in cash over here....I actually try to do MOST of my local domestic shopping in cash.