wait, which restaurants require an ID scan??

No man is an island. It's basically impossible to do anything that affects nobody else. If you kill yourself, you might have kids than then needed to be provided for by the state. If you harm yourself, even if nobody is obligated to help you, you can do emotional/mental damage to others who observe your suffering. If you decline protection of infectious desiese, you out others at risk. And so on and so on. Libertarians hate this one weird fact ...

"Almost nothing in the real world is a 2-player game"

That's quite untrue if you ignore rounding-error players in a substantial number of markets.

Gracious of you to make a joke that illustrates that you actually understand how braindead your original analogy was.

It boggles my mind that somebody could write those words while presumably entertaining the thought that they were making a cogent point.

They don't want to take money that can then be demanded to be returned after having spent it. It's quite simple. What constitutes discrimination is subjective - don't look at me, every nation has volumes of evolving laws and case law on trying to define discrimination, and in what cases it's legally permitted. Knowing this administration, the bar in the agreement probably isn't even legal - just, "When we say you're doing it, you're doing it." You'd be stupid to take money on those terms. They might as well take money that is only allowed to be spent on "super cool shit, although we can then decide later that something isn't as cool as we said it was the month before".

NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott.

Hilarious. Hey, would you like to take on a massive economic liability? Take this money!

Where the definition of "discriminatory practices" is up to the NSF, subject to whatever day of the week it is, and the claw backs are retroactive to money already spent?

Independent of your (stupid in your case) politics, that's a poison pill. No rational actor should be expected to swallow that.

Then you would be wrong. Probably best to recuse yourself from weighing in on this dicsussion.

lol uh you think backup companies only have your data only in one place? This would be like you thinking your favorite pizza place doesn't know what a tomato is

Go learn about raid or something

That's not what's happening. That's never what happens. Any time someone uses an ai chat bot as part of their work, they immediately turn into drooling idiots.

Yeah, who needs a chatbot when you can make unqualified claims as statements of fact. You don't even need citations, such as the ones you're claiming (without citation) they make up. (Which just to be clear, they do, a certain amount, although a casual interpretation of your words suggests you're implying "always".)

Look, there are lots of problems with LLMs, but I find it amusing to watch people launch into "what I say is true, because I said it, and it sounds true to me" when talking about LLMs being sources of inaccurate information.

Do I think 20% of 7% of their trade surplus is a massive blow to their economy? No, I don't, because I can do basic math. The rest of your post is full of the same dumb shit you cusco of, although nobody can accuse you of not being a team player. Enjoy the ride, I guess.

"This is Chinese propaganda"

Do a quick self-learn. The amount of solar panels China was selling to the US before exports was only around 20% of their total solar module exports. Their total solar exports are only about 7% of their total intl trade surplus. They sell as much capacity to Europe in a year as the US has installed *total, nationally*.

I'm not arguing they don't care about loss of business to the US, obviously it impacts them.

But watching the US self-elect to fall farther behind, checking of boxes down a veritable "how to" list of losing US hegemony is far more valuable to them.

In that sense - maybe it is propaganda, but reverse psychology style, because you're doing the lord's work for them.

https://theonion.com/area-man-...

s/constitution/democracy in your case