The problem is "right wing" references are thrown out, where they're even created or permitted in liberal academia.

> Finish a two year program and you'll be better off than all your buddies with bachelor's and many with masters.

incorrect. The starting wage for a machinist is very low, relatively.

Most unions are led more by their leadership than votes. And the leadership isn't as interested in what the worker wants as you think.

You're absolutely right. But we need one jimmy of a social welfare system, quicklike.

>All it'd take is about half of you having the actual balls to march on washington and shut it down for a week

That was attempted. It took them two weeks to dilute, lie about, and refuse to report the message, another week to dilute it, and a fourth to make it yesterday's news.

History is full of examples of governments trying and failing to restrict technology. The Venetian Republic attempted to guard glassmaking secrets. European states tried to restrict textile machinery exports during the Industrial Revolution. The Soviet Union acquired Western technology despite extensive Cold War controls. Barriers sometimes slowed diffusion, but they cannot stop it. The advancement of knowledge depends on openness, criticism, and exchange. Scientific progress is cumulative. Every generation builds on discoveries made by others, often across political and cultural boundaries. Patents and copyright were designed to encourage innovation by TEMPORARILY rewarding the innovator, not by becoming a moat. They certainly weren't designed to protect massive global corporations from competition.

China has hundreds of thousands of engineers, world-class universities, substantial domestic semiconductor investment, and access to global scientific literature. America can lock down its own tech and lose in the long run or each side can learn from the other. Either way the American tech hegemony only lives in the imaginations of overindulged national chauvinists.

tldr: Information wants to be free. Screw your IP laws.

...the money and the power. Minute after minute, hour after hour. This is a thinly veiled attempt to give the government more power over AI companies, the end goal being an extra tool to take control of AI models, including open source.

I'm wondering how big the market is for room temperature espresso, even if it were as good.

>That's how democracy works. Elected officials make the rules, civil servants enforce them.

no, that's how a bureaucratic republic works. These days it's the favored cover for a plutocracy.

Go ask ChatGPT or Claude a question no one has ever written down. How many hamsters would it take to chew through Africa like a locust swarm? If London Bridge were built out of paper, where would it first structurally fail? The LLM will probably be able to either answer correctly or take a damn good shot at it. This is evidence that LLMs can at least approach engineering problems. Same for asking them for a circuit layout for basic arbitrary tasks, as long as the answer is within context window.

Am I supposed to see the word "risk" and ask the government to come save me? Give me liberty or give me death.

Complaining only about Chinese trolls is some combination of blind and hypocritical. There are troll farms in every direction, certainly here on Slashdot where non-leftist opinions are down voted by sock puppets.

Teach girls marriage is slavery. Teach boys approaching girls is harassment. Subsidize divorce. Take away mens support networks. Tell women if they're not working something is wrong with them. Tilt college entrance and careers heavily toward the graphic that only wants to date up. Give all the wealth to the upper, upper class. Make housing expensive. Make health care prohibitive.

Why are birth rates collapsing? Must be smart phones.

Don't worry, there's redemption for every bigot. You could start by watching the speech about judging people by the content of their character.

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