Sorry, the US is and will always be first world. It's the nation that the term is based on and has been since the very beginning. You should have learned this in school but they were probably too busy teaching you underwater lesbian grievance studies or something.

Look, if you're fine never being able to leave your 15 minute city and can afford to pay twice as much for less vehicle, have at it. Me, I have to drive 500 miles straight next week and I am not interested in spending forever waiting for a battery to charge, if I can find a charging station, when I can spend less than five minutes refueling at almost any exit and be back on the road. If you really love those beautiful, child labor lithium mines that much, enjoy. Some of us have actually important shit to do though.

You mean the vaccine that got pushed into the school children required list when the CDC's own data said it was over 5x as likely to kill children as the disease? Yeah, he's an idiot for not completely trusting them without doing any research himself.

Science you can't question is not science, it's religion. Science demands that beliefs be questioned and reproven regularly.

You can want that until you're blue in the face but it is never going to happen. The US accounts for roughly 40% of the world market. Nobody in their right mind is going to leave 40% of the market for their goods/services just lying on the table.

You mean the interest rates that are being kept high for "inflation concerns"? The Fed has never in its history been proactive on inflation vs rates, so saying it's doing so now when the exact opposite of these "concerns" is what's happening in reality doesn't strike me as particularly credible.

The economic numbers for the past six months must be quite painful for your worldview.

You act like all science is created equal. This is very much not the case. Many studies that the government foots the bill for are flatly idiotic, with quite a few even rising to Peter Venkman levels of work avoidance.

I've seen the corn that grows from a lot of those seeds. It's going to make anyone who eats it ill, so planting and eating it would not be a good idea.

Fine, be wrong all you like. You'll find out the hard way if you ever take that nonsense into a courtroom though.

No, the only aspect of how a copy is used that a rights holder is entitled to control in any way is whether additional copies can be made. For the purposes of this discussion anyway. It's right there in the name: copy right.

Anthropic did not make the copy, whoever sent it did. Learn your copyright law.

No, they can't. Possession of an unapproved copy is neither illegal nor actionable.

Wrong. If I download something from you, your computer made and sent the copy. Mine can not logically do so without having something to make a copy of first. This is why BitTorrent pirates are sued (sharing is built in) but people watching unauthorized streams are not.

That would be a problem, yes. Unfortunately there was a story a week or two ago about exactly that happening in many LLMs, so they need to pay a bit more attention.