The entire point of protectionism is to not allow countries with human rights issues (effectively slave labor) to take advantage of American manufacturers.
No, this historically hasn't been the point of protectionism at all.
Also, prison labor in the US is slave labor.
Don't forget no income tax. Texans are free to not contribute proportionately to the well-being of society, including for things that would help themselves.
Discrimination against the poor, minorities, women, LGBTQ folk, etc. is either an intention or a happy incidental bonus for policies like these. Pointing out the discrimination isn't going to make the proponents back off. They'll be happy that it's working as planned. The cruelty and suppression is always intentional.
And if it's supposedly just incompetence that results in functional cruelty, it is morally indistinguishable. If you can't do something effectively without hurting people, you shouldn't be doing anything at all.
You could create a random Trump grift generator with pretty straightforward programming.
Start with [billionaire | conservative special interest group | political pundit], analyze need such as [more contracts | more exposure | racist/transphobic/misogynist agenda wishlist], institute government program that provides variable A with variable B, then use a completely bullshit excuse such as [national security | making America great again | fueling economic growth | correcting an injustice] as transparent cover for the grift. Rinse and repeat.
But if Techdirt reports only one side of a disputed issue, and the minority side at that, I have no hope of become more informed by reading it.
First, the comments are linked, so if you earnestly want to know what they say, you have been empowered to do so.
Second, you seem to assume that with one third of the comments coming from EFF associated people that the other two thirds of comments would be in contrast to the EFF's position, but there's no statement actually confirming that. Why do you think there are only two sides to the disputed issue? That's called a false dilemma.
It's weird to complain that you haven't sufficiently been told what to think.
The big media companies would love to do away with comment sections. They've been trying to turn the internet back in cable and broadcast television where they get to control the programming and narratives and the population is just a passive audience paying for products and services without interruptions or distractions or critical analysis.
Soozafone, the guy behind the popular Dummy 13 3D printed poseable models, is dealing with this bullshit. A Chinese scooter company (Shenzhen LiFan Technology Co., LTD.) filed and received a fraudulent patent on Soofafone's designs and is issuing takedown notices against multiple parties, including against the designer himself. The USPTO spent months "reviewing" the patent application and apparently didn't do a simple google search.
Except since the "think of the children" excuse was bullshit, they'll just move on to another bullshit excuse. [The economy! | terrorism! | crime! | immigrants! | drugs! | dogs and cats living together! | Aunt Edna's fruitcake! | Labubus!]
Please send help in the form of doughy, unintelligible rage addicts dressed like they are weekend paint-balling with their boss for a promotion.
Do you have a card I can print out and hand to all the Meal Team Six tacticool-clad rural Washingtonians who come to Portland to redirect them your way? They have big trucks with hemis that drive fast in the slow lane and slow in the fast lane, so bonus!
We have as much ability to defund our military as fine upstanding Ozzies have to enjoy succulent Chinese meals without having judo moves applied to them.
They were in fact wars against poor people and democracy, or more generally, America. And they were successful. The Trump Administration is a direct result of the success the racists and authoritarians had in those wars, weakening democracy, trapping voters in media echo chambers that induce fear of others, justifying massive expenditures to fund wealthy donors and military budgets and law enforcement budgets, and restricting rights and freedoms.
I feel like it's more important that it comes from a white person, preferably a relative of the original creators or a historian who has insight into the culture that spawned it. So many people of color I've spoken to are exhausted from feeling like the world expects them to educate others about racism like it's their job just because they experience it.
So I was going to say, "It's anti-human to be honest about the nature of human beings? Have you met human beings before?"
But then I realized that you have to be facetious here and you're spewing bullshit to ironically prove my point. so in that regard, bravo!
Of course the cops and their leash holders won't think so, but using AI for anything official relating to charges or trials should lead to an automatic dismissal of charges. You can't practically confront software that hallucinates your guilt, so anything it touches should be inadmissible.
Quote me where I said we should be doing that. The topic was about the possible uses of LLMs, not their costs. The costs don't justify the use, but it's a juggernaut that our random comments on a website are not going to derail.
And why is all of that how this works? Because the process Steam follows is to takedown the game upon accusation.
Except I suspect this is only the case for indie games. If you or I filed a DMCA takedown for a mainstream game by a big studio, Steam probably won't just pull the trigger.
Don't forget no income tax. Texans are free to not contribute proportionately to the well-being of society, including for things that would help themselves.
Discrimination against the poor, minorities, women, LGBTQ folk, etc. is either an intention or a happy incidental bonus for policies like these. Pointing out the discrimination isn't going to make the proponents back off. They'll be happy that it's working as planned. The cruelty and suppression is always intentional. And if it's supposedly just incompetence that results in functional cruelty, it is morally indistinguishable. If you can't do something effectively without hurting people, you shouldn't be doing anything at all.
You could create a random Trump grift generator with pretty straightforward programming. Start with [billionaire | conservative special interest group | political pundit], analyze need such as [more contracts | more exposure | racist/transphobic/misogynist agenda wishlist], institute government program that provides variable A with variable B, then use a completely bullshit excuse such as [national security | making America great again | fueling economic growth | correcting an injustice] as transparent cover for the grift. Rinse and repeat.
The big media companies would love to do away with comment sections. They've been trying to turn the internet back in cable and broadcast television where they get to control the programming and narratives and the population is just a passive audience paying for products and services without interruptions or distractions or critical analysis.
Soozafone, the guy behind the popular Dummy 13 3D printed poseable models, is dealing with this bullshit. A Chinese scooter company (Shenzhen LiFan Technology Co., LTD.) filed and received a fraudulent patent on Soofafone's designs and is issuing takedown notices against multiple parties, including against the designer himself. The USPTO spent months "reviewing" the patent application and apparently didn't do a simple google search.
Except since the "think of the children" excuse was bullshit, they'll just move on to another bullshit excuse. [The economy! | terrorism! | crime! | immigrants! | drugs! | dogs and cats living together! | Aunt Edna's fruitcake! | Labubus!]
We have as much ability to defund our military as fine upstanding Ozzies have to enjoy succulent Chinese meals without having judo moves applied to them.
Behold, the Party of Fiscal
ResponsibilityCorruptibility!They were in fact wars against poor people and democracy, or more generally, America. And they were successful. The Trump Administration is a direct result of the success the racists and authoritarians had in those wars, weakening democracy, trapping voters in media echo chambers that induce fear of others, justifying massive expenditures to fund wealthy donors and military budgets and law enforcement budgets, and restricting rights and freedoms.
I feel like it's more important that it comes from a white person, preferably a relative of the original creators or a historian who has insight into the culture that spawned it. So many people of color I've spoken to are exhausted from feeling like the world expects them to educate others about racism like it's their job just because they experience it.
So I was going to say, "It's anti-human to be honest about the nature of human beings? Have you met human beings before?" But then I realized that you have to be facetious here and you're spewing bullshit to ironically prove my point. so in that regard, bravo!
Of course the cops and their leash holders won't think so, but using AI for anything official relating to charges or trials should lead to an automatic dismissal of charges. You can't practically confront software that hallucinates your guilt, so anything it touches should be inadmissible.
Quote me where I said we should be doing that. The topic was about the possible uses of LLMs, not their costs. The costs don't justify the use, but it's a juggernaut that our random comments on a website are not going to derail.
To be fair, humans are the original bullshit generators. We're just outsourcing the effort and increasing the cost and chaos.