Do Republican voters keep track of what the administration does? I'm not trolling. I really wonder if there is support for every executive order, or does no one read the news?

In that sense, Flock is not at fault. I think the issue is that a company is providing a system where abuse and tragic mistakes are predictable and inevitable. The Flock system has the ability to greatly assist law enforcement, which is its intended purpose. Naturally, law enforcement wants this new power, and the company wants to get rich providing it as quickly and broadly as it can. Neither seem very interested in what the unintended consequences will be. Many people find the lack of curiosity and humility on the part of law enforcement and Flock to be irresponsible.

Especially the mistakes.

The parent has the right of it. I'm honestly not that interested in AGI or machine conscious. Whatever Claude Code and Codex are doing is useful to me.

> These concepts didn't come from maga.

MAGA didn't invent anything, but MAGA sure as hell took some old ideas to unimaginable new heights.

It's pretty natural to anthropomorphize things when talking about them. I anthropomorphize a lot of things that aren't nearly so anthropomorphic as an AI agent.

To play around with local LLMs get a unified memory machine. Pick up a used Apple M2 Ultra with 64 or 128 GB RAM. Even expensive consumer grade Nvidia GPUs don't have enough VRAM.

And the Swedish Finns. And the Nordics in general. Their principled pragmatism is refreshing.

The people selling the hardware and building the data centers are the ones who will profit. In a Gold Rush it's the person selling shovels and pics that gets rich.

I think most people can get behind the sentiment. The tricky part is what should be done. We could argue about that for eternity.

They might have to do the unthinkable and invest in training and education. The horror!

The US has ID cards. It doesn't have a single ID card. Here's a list of over a dozen forms of ID that will let you board an commercial air flight in the US.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/sec...

MS has 4 really successful products: Windows, Office, Active Directory, and SQL Server. Those cash cows have paid for all the marginal crap like Zune, Windsor phones, Surface, HoloLens, Cortana, and even Xbox.

I'll take all that, and a frothy mug of piss! Throw in a first post too

"thought free trade would liberalized China".

Where is the darn edit button?