If a company in the United States collected and sold

But what if Flock buys the data and generates a proprietary score that gives people an idea of your financial means without divulging any of your actual financial details? I'm not saying that Flock does that, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

Yeah... Have you seen the videos from Europeans who came here for the World's Cup? The ones where they're shocked by the food and our welcoming attitude?

Stop paying attention to other people who haven't been here and assume they wouldn't like it and try it for yourself. Here's how it will go when people hear you speak:
"Wow, where are you from?"
"Germany" (right?)

"Oh cool! [and 50/50 they then say, "I've always wanted to go there" 30/70 they actually know where it is, but they'll be very friendly]"
Then you will be filled with delicious food, though you may not like the beer.

Let me know when you're on your way and I'll make sure nobody mentions the war.

Wait, did you think that a failed libel/slander suit means the contested allegations are true, let alone proven true?

How about Biden's FEC fining Hillary's campaign, the Durham report...

How are higher costs for raw materials in the U.S. due to these tariffs going to make more profits for U.S. chipmakers?

Flock is not a single police officer standing on a street corner. Flock is a network of continuous data collection from every perspective on every road and intersection. Flock is not a camera, it is an AI system that follows you precisely everywhere, it is a data dump without a court order. There is expectation that a police officer will NOT follow you everywhere without a court order just because he is paid from taxes and has nothing better to do, this is stalking.

No, it is necessarily bad as dictatorship is the tyrannical form of a rule-by-one system of government. A good and wise king is not a dictator, he is a Monarch.

China is a dictatorship. There is one man running a corrupt government with an iron fist. Nobody is superior to Xi, and while (as I recall) the CCP has the formal authority to remove him, they cannot in practice. Iran is a dictatorship as the Supreme Ruler is... the supreme ruler. He can override any law and their constitution. There is no body superior to him or able to remove him. North Korea is a clear dictatorship.

The sad fact about South America is that it was one of the main battlegrounds of the Cold War. Why did the US work with Pinochet? Because that was better for us than the dictator the Soviets wanted to put in place. Ditto Argentina. Why did we work with Peron's enemies? Because he was the Soviet's puppet dictator. If you have to work with the lesser evil to stop the greater, you do what you must.

Tyranny is the more general term you may be looking for. Tyranny doesn't need to be a dictatorship, it can be an oligarchy. A dictator is always a tyrant. Except for one, and we named the city of Cincinnati after him.

I've been places, but as I don't share your prejudices, that doesn't really matter. When I went to Cozumel, Mexican politics never crossed my mind because even I am sane enough to recognize that politics doesn't belong in every aspect of my life.

Then I invite you to google "pokemon meme" and let Japan know how many people they'll be suing.

No. Christians and Jews do not sacrifice human beings to God. Ever. Don't twist the terms to try and sound pithy, human sacrifice is a very specific act. An act reviled by Christians and Jews from the start. It is an evil act, and the Spanish responded correctly by forcibly ending it.

Do you seriously not remember how the antivax movement started? How it began with affluent liberal women panicking about autism, and remained almost entirely with them until the Covid vaccine? Do I need to find a link to the old Samatha Bee segment on The Daily Show about it to remind you?

Hmm, well, here's a story about her segment - https://www.salon.com/2014/06/...
But you'll have to look for the actual segment yourself, I haven't been able to find it so far and can't put more time into it right now. Note the date.

Not with that attitude!

I'm using fiction as an example of how this is a long-standing shared dream, not something ridiculous Musk just came up with on his own, as you implied. This is something we as a species have been looking at and working on for decades. It has been a long-term goal of every space program. People said landing on the moon was ridiculous or even impossible, but we did it. The only difference here is scale.

I reject your pessimism. That never accomplishes anything. Stop focusing on the hurdles and start looking at the ways we have to overcome them. There's nothing impossible about it, it's just an issue of resources, ingenuity, and willpower. We have proven that we can get spacecraft to Mars and land on the planet. We have proven that we can survive (and grow food) in a metal can floating in space, so we can survive in a metal can sitting on a planet. We have the capability to design the better craft and better metal cans needed to accomplish it, so where are you finding the ridiculousness?

His timeline may be too optimistic, but to make it happen, we only need to improve things we already have and use what we already know.

There's one thing I hesitate to ask. Was your opinion on the matter the same before Musk said he would do it? Did you give up a dream just because of who else shared it? People have.

We are reaching the flat part of the curve, where a change in the order of magnitude in model size is yielding only slight, incremental benefit. We are reaching the hard limits of what large language models can do.

Fetterman is the guy who makes moderates lean left; he is a net gain for the party. AOC and El-Said are the socialists who make even progressives think twice about voting Democrat.

I don't see any reason to prioritize or order them in any particular way. Both need to be in place and neither depends on the other's completion, so they can be tackled simultaneously or in any convenient order.

Now that I've actually looked, right now they're going with a PCIe card and it states "2.5 kW Server". That's 2.5x what my PSU provides, so I figure they aren't targeting the personal desktop or home assistant markets.