And they're welcome, as a business to swallow those aquisition expenditures, or fund their own Canadian content, or not do business here.

The list of developed countries that don't have domestic cultural protection policies is low. The US doesn't have one because of its size (or I'll throw you a bone - HOW AWESOME THEY ARE) - it simply doesn't need one.

Kind of hilarious in light of how pro-protectionist things have swung there. If the US audience started consuming predominantly anime TV, movies, books, etc overnight (purely just because of how good they are, right?) you'd bet your ass US would do the exact same thing.

What you don't get is that French is useful for many people - it just wasn't useful for you - and you project that because to you, personal experience is reality. Calling Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic more useful languages for living, identifying with other citizens, and employment in Canada is fucking bananas - and I'm married to a Taiwanese woman and speak some Mandarin!! Nothing you've said has changed my mind. Your points are noted, but still remarkably dumb.

so why aren't they given force adoption

I feel like we need a "take Murdoch5 to a real job" day or something. I'd literally pay to sit you down some time and explain how the real world works.

I saw an interesting proposal from a film industry guy today proposing that laws ought be put into place specifically denying copyright protection to AI shit. While currently its not available mostly, there are loopholes that can be exploited to get around that lack of protection.

Its an "everyone wins" scenario too. AI companies can do their nonsense. Researchers can research. You can even make AI imagery and texts as before. But it forces companies to hire people to actually create IP, so it also protects workers.

The only people that would lose out are those who plot to enrich themselves by stealing art. But as a society we've always been comfortable denying criminals the proceeds of crime. So theres no moral patient to worry about in that respect.

The President simply does not have the power to rename the things he's claimed to rename. Lake Ontario straddles two countries, so its naming ultimately is a matter for the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. In the case of the Gulf of Mexico, theres a different maritime committee that governs that.

Trump can certainly make the executive branch insist these new names are real, but theres no real legal weight to it. Its just some dumb shit by a demented old fool.

Yep, a friend of mine uses a Mac Studio with 256gig ram completely airgapped to run a local DeepSeek instance to pour over documents from his legal practice (he's a lawyer). The airgap thing is the key part because his obligations to his clients data security is paramount, so its a mac studio, living in a gun safe bolted to the wall. It runs fine, apparently.

He's doing a crime again isn't he? And we're gonna let him, aren't we?

Ever since the supreme court basically ruled that he was above the law, he's been crimeing pretty much non stop.

America is in *desparate* need of SCOTUS reform.

Yeah, it bugs the shit out of me that we're basically burning down the amazon, and emptying out the aquifers* so a chatbot can hyper-surveil me to make dumb fucking suggestions I will do everything in my power to hide and ignore. And we COULD have spent that money on so many things that are actually socially useful.

Like, I dont mind at all if AI is used to make the world better. Drug discovery, solve some hard maths, shit like that. But it seems like *all* of the money is going on fucking marketing bots.

*And yes I know its a bit more complicated than "burn down the amazon and drain the aquifers". I'm being hyperbolic. Sue me.

This is what bugs me hardest. If some kid pirates one of my albums , he could be facing serious time in a cell with a dude who considers rape his primary hobby. But if some Silicon Valley exec pirates *everyone's* albums, well that's a 400mil bonus and a visit at the Whitehouse. Where's the justice if justice isn't fair?

Sometimes I feel like we're playing chicken with the alien with this AI stuff. Stepping closer and closer to a car vs pedestrian disaster where we aren't the guy in the car. And we're not the one making the choice to jump in front of that car either.

There has been a long running pattern where the think tanks that supply policy to the GOP have seen various sciences as threats to their economic beliefs.

Climate change is a big one. Physics doesn't *care* if the economy is more efficient if we ignore externalities. Cancer doesn't *care* if killing it with chemotherapy might require spending some tax dollars. Covid never cared if social distancing meant that some hours ought be spent away from the office.

Then you've got the religion issue. Christianity, Judaism, Islam etc as a whole has been reasonably effective in the past 100 years of surviving challenges from science by simply acknowledging the science. The catholic church and most "adult" denominations consider evolution just how god did it (Pope John Paul famously advised Steven Hawkings to not enquire before the big bang, because THAT was gods private time lol.) And that whole 6000 years ago thing? Metaphorical or something. But thats not the flavor of christianity thats noisiest in the world of GOP thinktanks. THOSE people see science as a direct threat to their religion because fundamentalism thinks christianity is at threat from science saying "Hey the world is not a 6000 year old flat plane where jesus rode a dinosaur around the place".

Which is a real problem for our children who have to put up with this shit if it starts turning up in their text books.

It's dumb to try to stifle it when it's just developing. For one thing, AI can't take anyone's job. Increasing production has never in history resulted in job loss.

This is ahistorical nonsense and demonstrably untrue. Don't just make shit up to support your arguments.

The introduction of the loom caused massive unemployment in the garment industry. Where I live in Western Australia, mine automation has dramatically reduced the mining workforce whilst increasing production. Improvements in Automotive manufacturing simultaneously increased automotive manufacturing volume whilst simultaneously

And more to the point, AI is causing unemployment amongst young knowledge industry workers RIGHT NOW. This isn't a speculation about the future, its a description of the present.

The economy is not magical. Its governed by the physical circumstances it operates in.

I dont think they where ever in any real danger of having to pay $1.4 tril. They where perfectly capable of keeping this thing in the courts basically forever and win the whole thing by pure attrition. Thats what happens when your company is wealthy enough that laws don't really apply anymore.

But what DID worry them was regulatory and reputational danger. You can beat anything in court if you have inifinite lawyers, but that wont save you if the government just decides to take your toys away and all the customers say "fuck this shit" and close their accounts. $14bil makes that go away. They "lose" but actually win, because it defuses the REAL threat, regulation and catastrophic permanent reputation failure.

"Just let me live the life I want to live, by fucking up others' lives way more than the other party may have mildly inconvenienced me for sound policy. Wait, why is this affecting me now?"

It's a tale as old as time.

and they ignore our laws in favour of their own

Well, we can at least tell you learned zero Canadian history.

I live in Ontario, Canada. You're an idiot, and don't speak for me. There are idiots everywhere on the planet. You're one. See you at the polls.

~22% (I'll round it to 25%) of Canadians speak French as a first language, and using rough numbers that would be ~10 million Canadians, which equates to 1/8th of 1% of the world population. If forcing kids to learn a language that ~0% of the world uses seems rational, you've lost the point of education.

I'm unlikely to read anything dumber than this today. French is a single class, its easy. You remind me of when I was in grade 7 and two morons in my class took up the cause to protest that we had to learn the subway stations even tho, in their words, 'they would never use it'. So that's fun, you make the same fundamentally stupid mistake that some grade 7 kids were making about the value of learning things - the point isn't to teach things that you need, the point is to teach you thinks so that you learn how to learn. That French *can* help you if you're not some kind of moron allergic/scared of the greater world is part of the point.

3 Inches of Blood

ROFL. Youre whining about CanCon then complaining about a Canadian band that isn't being played on the radio? The stupidity astounds me. I dunno what small town you're from, but it's doing you no favours.