A historic motive was that prisoners can not vote and felons lose their voting rights. If you didn't know, that was a plan to take black people out from voting. The tradition continues with other excuses covering for it. It's way more about poor people today and there will be many more poor people... with AI powered policing and legal processes you could be a felon quite easily in the future. Hell, if you just oppose fascism you are now a terrorist Antifa supporter (look it up, it's actually happened. BTW, quickest way to spot a fascist is they hate/fear Antifa.)

OUTSIDE OF PRIVATE PRISONS: the unions for government prison workers are also a problem; sometimes the police unions are a problem too.

If you have a major illness and are broke, you need to rob a bank. More people need to realize we have minimalist universal healthcare after all...

I knew an excon. Tried as an adult. He said prison was like going to college for crime. He also had no trouble getting certain drugs in prison, had a harder time getting off prozac (easy to get) than he did cocaine (hard to get in prison.)

Conservatives (not the tribal brand, actual meaning) are only correct by accident:

The philosophy is founded upon appeal to tradition which is a logical fallacy. They will fire up their brains sometimes and rationalize excuses in a reactionary defense which is inherently flawed and anti-science; rather than use their brains to discover truth, they do what feels good (often selfish) then use their brains to excuse what is arrived by thoughtlessness.

Contradiction, hipocracy and distraction a constant problem for them - for some (now a majority) they give up that fight and just embrace it. Their #1 representative believes it's a virtue and you are weak if you limit yourself to sound reasoning and this has accelerated the adoption of what is beyond even comic book villain monologues.

Crime is largely controlled by conservatives defending their profits by using fear and tactics of "the other." They should be called "right" rather than the better sounding "conservative" label, they prefer "conservative" because they can make up principled arguments for that. Facts do not actually matter, unless they are useful props along with the lies, it doesn't matter it's just another tool for maintaining their position.

The "right" historically was the right hand man of the wealthy establishment who serve the powerful above all else; to most, it's corrupt - to them, it's protecting their small group of people from the masses who they fear will ruin their advantages. USA's "conservative" today is stripped clean of principles and constantly demonstrate that they are rightwing stooges.

The "right" comes from France where they literally kept brawling and nothing got done so the pro-king establishment was put on the right side with moderates separating from the left side republicans (term vs name are now ironic) just to keep them from killing each other... just for a while because the two sides were killing each other often in those days. Back in those days, the wealthy ruling elite were connected with monarchies which is why republicans were against the rich kings, but today we have dictators and wealthy ruling elites (some with more cult status than a king) which serve the same purpose. It's a shame that republics / republicans ONLY means no-king because severely limits the scope of the problem so many people fought against for centuries. It's more dangerous now as more people believe they can someday join the royal family if they just make enough money or marry the right person (we've not come too far from back then have we?) This is why USA Republicans look so much like a contradiction in terms.

amen, brother!

Americans can't solve any problems and the place is stuck in a doom spiral. It's like trying to convince a believer their religion is just a mythology inherited from their upbringing not much different than flat-earthers of the past ( present ones bring up a whole another example of fools.)

The USA always was #1 for cults for a reason!

Besides lacking critical thinking and an anti-intellectual culture (largely countered by educated immigrants but that no longer the case) the culture is all about SHIFTING BLAME, the customer is always right, and so on. It's like they are all a little bit narcissistic. Frankly, every flaw here combined into 1 man turned out to be perfectly represented in their president who they identify with (but not a few things they do see and object to, just everything else they don't see is like themselves... "He's one of us.")

It's not obvious to the blind masses. As the French said, common sense is not so common.
AI is wrecking critical thinking so this will get worse.

Any other software company facing a similar order would have immediately sent a lawyer to court to file an injunction to block the order. The fact that Anthropic immediately rolled over tells us that on some level, they wanted this government action. They literally didn't object to it.

And while I am still working on OpenWater and Alignable, the only thing I've gotten from LinkedIn in the past year is rewrite-your-resume scams

The greedy lying fucks and their bribery schemes do more than enough without China helping slow them down. They can use a water LOOP but instead they just want to destroy all the potable water; they can plan for slower sources of power but they have to run jet-engines 24/7 popping up louder than airport in areas that never planned or were priced to be next to an airport... They raise power rates too... Selling it as a job / career killing revolution hurts them while it makes the actual capitalists ecstatic! (They only employ people when forced by necessity, they never were willing job creators.)

WTF are you talking about? Seattle is doing so much business that our taxes fund the rest of the state, including eastern Washington. You can talk when you start paying for your own infrastructure. Until then, politely STFU about Seattle business.

The Chinese space program exists because of fools like you. Yes countries have spies in corps around the world trying to learn secrets; that is not news. A lot of stuff is published scientific work... now manufacturing, that tends to be secretive. They are quite different things.

Yes! Far too many people just blame the "teacher" when students fail... The culture in the USA of blaming everybody but yourself has been growing significantly over the last few generations and it began with the gen X parents (I know teachers old enough to have perspective.)

That said, I see students making an honest effort using the bot to tutor them. I've seen students who tried to use online "tutoring" services before that. In both cases, when I had honest interactions with those students, I noticed their questions were "bad" and their understanding was retarded by something. Normally, to get to the point where they would ask a question it would follow logically from where they were in the learning process but when they had the steps skipped to get to that point they may not even know what question to ask and it'll be a non-sense question that was never seen in the wild before.

When you see the answer explained to you with all the reasoning and steps and you do not fully grasp them and this builds a bit without any real progress the subsequent problems that build upon that foundation become extremely difficult and it's so shaky one can't find where the problem is. It takes incredible discipline few have... it is like the 80s programming "help" that merely described code printouts and thinking that would teach you programming skill. It's far easier to use little brain power and essentially memorize the answer and the explanation; it takes a lot more actual brain energy to digest it and learn from it to get the full benefit which one gets from figuring it out and fully using their brain. There is a process in education where you practice or APPLY the knowledge which is needed for greater understanding of the material that takes a great deal more effort than just recalling the information. What I think I'm witnessing is this with some learning mixed in; so it's not clearcut, as most psychology is - you won't have clear results to look at. I've had more screwball questions or simply ZERO questions than ever before over the decades. They do get stuck but seem to give up if the bot can't take them out of their quagmire... or ask me for help but then it's an issue of them not understanding my help or needing so much that I'm simply taking the place of the bot. Then they complain because I'm so much worse than the bot... because they had to burn some brain calories...

We are doomed. So few people can grasp what is going on and it's hard for the experts to spot it I don't feel that enough of the population will before we have a few generations of angry morons. Look at the USA's morons and it's decline... it's coming for YOU if you don't learn from this fat canary going down.

If a US company is actually based in Ireland, then it's not a US company. That's an Irish company.

Some US companies have offices in Ireland. That's to take advantage of Irish tax policy. Their headquarters are still in the US. The decisions of the company are still made in the US. They are based in the US. Those are US companies.

Okay then, that was always allowed.

EU regulators were perfectly capable of blocking any US purchase of EU companies at any time. They were perfectly happy taking US money all this time. It's ridiculous to now complain about all that money the EU earned.

Still as a American, I shrug. Europe should have been allowing, recommending, and actively promoting the creation of their own software their entire time. I think it's great that Europe is finally deciding to truly compete in technology.

The whole thing reminds me of Jerry walking out of the daycare in Rick and Morty. Yes, that was always allowed.

Europe always had the capability and opportunity to create European alternatives to US technology. There was never anything stopping them from going that route at any time. In fact, I welcome this work as an American. As a consumer of technology, I'd love to see some alternatives to the US technologies I currently use. Why Europe is approaching this as some flex on the US seems a bit ridiculous to me. This was always allowed.

Long term, there won't be many working on leading edge who deal with the USA government...

Have you seen Trumps plan to destroy research in the USA yet?

https://arstechnica.com/scienc...

That is really going to perform badly, especially if you ever update your computer. Will MS actually improve for a change due to the RAM crisis going on??? Maybe Edge will improve on RAM use over google trying to replace the OS with Chrome?

I have an M1 with only 8GB of RAM and it works surprisingly well within that limitation. I don't do serious work with it but my casual use is beyond a typical office worker; plus I have two accounts that are often active each with a browser open. I might wear out the SSD early with swap usage; guess I'll find out.