But the customer pays for tarriffs, right? So if the business paid for an illegal tariff, and passed it down the chain, shouldn't their customer get the refund?

If not, why not pass a law saying so?

This could fund the stimulus/grant/tax refund that Trump wants to give common folk

So we're back to blaming voters for everything. As if we really had a say in how things were going to run. It's not the monyed elite buying public perception with ads or the news media/entertainment industry's fault for manipulating us. No, it's the voters fault for being manipulated.

The whole point of democracy is so we can blame the voters while the rich continue to control the government. Much as it's always been.

I mean, most everyone's mad at Trump over implementing these tariffs (and rightfully so, IMO, if only because of how haphazardly it was implemented). But now, you've got companies demanding a refund when it was mostly the consumer who really paid them. (I didn't see many places eating the cost of the tariffs and holding prices where they were? If that had happened, the typical consumer wouldn't have cared so much about them.)

Knowing these companies have no plans to cut prices, it makes it sort of accurate for Trump to praise the ones who won't try to claw back the money. At least as additional revenue to the U.S. government, it technically goes towards servicing the national debt as opposed to tax increases.

I read that. I think it's an unconfirmed, second hand account from a professor who worked with one of trump professors, who said it and is now deceased. Still, I have absolutely zero doubts that both the statement and assertion are true. I believe the phrase "lacks intellectual curiosity" was also mentioned, either there or elsewhere - also totally believable. The fact that Trump has gotten so far and so much boggles the mind. It helped that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth -- which must have been hard on his mother. (to quote some comedian) :-)

It just seems chaotic and unfair.

The people behind ChatGTP are essentially designing a neural net training system and general purpose inference and expression system based on the neural net. Then they are feeding in pretty much all of the human expressions of knowledge or communication in the public or cheaply commercially purchasable (e.g. used books) domain, as learning material for the neural net.

Essentially, they are creating a very large library with a very fast, efficient, disinterested librarian function to help a person find what they're looking for. I'm sure a lot of crimes have been planned in the past with the assistance of library visits. Do we start rounding up librarians? Or, in a more apt analogy, do we start rounding up the university professors of library science, who trained all those librarians?

I remember when Columbine happened. I also remembered when the Federal building in Oklahoma got blown up. Guess what WAS'T around back then? That's right: OpenAI wasn't a thing. But those events still happened.

Blaming a chatbot for a tragedy is like blaming McDonald's for your obesity: even if the restaurant didn't exist, you were going to end up in that condition because of your eating habits anyhow. The name of the restaurant might have changed but the song remains the same.

This guy had it in his head to shoot up the school, OpenAI or no OpenAI. Rounds were going to fly downrange even if AI didn't exist. This is some lazy logic.

Whatever. They're not stupid, that's the point.

As for the makers of ChatGPT being stupid -- no I don't think that either. They're among the smartest people on the planet.

Machines don't have agency. If you use technology to help you commit crimes you are the one with agency and so you are blamed for it.

I am wondering how the zealous consequenceculture-people feel about this, getting consequences for what you post online..

Crashes you say?

Can't remember the last time I had one of those.

If anything will get people to move to Linux, increases in gaming performance will. I know a couple of people who moved to Linux and virtually every game they play runs faster on Linux than on Windows. Also, some oddball USB stuff that wouldn't work under Windows works perfectly under Linux. They're not going back; they're more than happy using Linux as their daily driver.