DarkWinterNights @ DarkWinterNights @lemmy.world

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As you say, even with Internet connection, LLMs only infer. The software you run it on (or online) is a different story, and it's literally already the case with everything else for decades (although it is getting worse).

We weren't upset enough when Google started scraping everyone's emails, or how Meta/Amazon/Google/Microsoft/ByteDance track all your Internet activity right now via browser fingerprinting.

It is in their interest, they're unfortunately ruled now by a self-interested Russian puppet.

This is also a marked pivot from "I will end the war day 1."

This conversation opens up all over again the second our election is over. This hurts DeSantis Jr. here, with his Canada First signs and Trump magat style rhetoric, and they know it. The resistance to this entire stupid movement is a scale from shrug and blame Trudeau to some degree of active resistance.

And it will be so easy...

(After election)

But...

This is literally the plot to Trillion Game.

Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted

The article is a Trump hallucination.

He’s not wrong that leaders flatter him; but it’s not respect, it’s geopolitical strategy. They’re managing chaos, hedging with China and others, and responding to a weaker US position largely created by Trump himself. This isn’t strength; it’s a soft power collapse that’s opening dangerous doors, mainly for Americans most of all, but likely for everyone else too.

What Trump sees as deference is actually diplomatic triage. World leaders aren’t engaging him because they admire him; leaders are trying to keep the global order from unraveling faster than it already is. The cost of alienating the U.S. is high, but increasingly, so is relying on it. That shift is the real story, and it’s one that leaves America more isolated with each bluster.

Not just Canadian sovereignty - he deliberately and openly jetsets around the world with election meddling moneys trying to disrupt democracy wherever he goes.

He's barely gotten started with us.

Alternative headline: Musk pretends to be critical of policies he's endorsed and supportive of countries he actively interferes in the elections of

I suspect a big part of it is me not being particularly clear in my messaging nor successfully using an overtly obvious comedic tone. It's a miss on my part by virtue of drive-by commentary ha ha.

The main intent to my joke was pointing to the asymmetry between how the left and right tend to view party leaders - the left tends to be more skeptical to the leader of their own movement, where the right tends to evangelize them, and how Canada is USA light in this context (MAGA for instance is a Trump religion, whereas there was no such movement around Kamala - PP attempted to emulate this, where Carney kind of jumped in as the Liberals "best compromise" (in light of Trudeau and Freeland's numbers)).

It's also why the Overton window continuously moves right.

In the context of executive wages, it's important to contrast this to what the industry standard is. We're not reinventing capitalism overnight (nor is it the argument being litigated), and fair market incentives must be competitive to retain talent. It's not a matter of whether someone agrees fair market is right or not - it's the reality of how society currently functions (and I point out because this is almost always the fundamental principle to most of these arguments).

An aggregate $73k bonus is generally very small in executive talent pool - the article also goes on to point out the rest of the employee base also got $15k. Neither of these are particularly glaring.

Instead consider Catherine Tait (CBC) - her base salary is roughly $500k, with a target bonus of 7-28% (~$30k-$155k) and no additional incentives. That makes her max total compensations about $700k at best (and generally more like $600k). This is super low for a typical pay band at the CEO level.

Contrast this to Andrew MacLeod (PostMedia) - his base salary is $1.1M, with his incentives (bonus, rsu/PSU, stock, etc.) in the same 2024 year $785k, making his total compensation $1.89M, or triple Taits.

Looking around at a number of these, the CBC is pretty consistently on the low end of these ranges, especially when considering the size of the organization.

I'm essentially pointing out your comment argued the opposite of your stance.

E: Just saw the formatting - didn't realize ~ was a formatting flag.

Doubt your own party leader?

This is one of those "tell me your political leaning without telling me" type comments.

E: I acknowledge this joke didn't hit and ultimately was super unclear.

I'm glad I read to the end; your comment got me laughing and checking my life insurance

When you go in, 7/10 of the top comments in r/Canada are all op eds by ??? given volume by PostMedia and even further right organizations. All the top rated comments are variations of generalizations on why Trudeau (which is now just a variable for insert subject non-conservative) is just the worst.

Thing is, there are real things to say, but it all gets drowned out by magnified lazy drivel. It's the one time LLM hallucinations are useful.

And the moderation group, if not responsible, is at least complicit.

Even just the headline is a ride; US literally driving everyone into China's arms.

Wish the article wasn't quite so barebones.

Not to worry.

Canada Unity worked hard to scrub it from their servers after the fact, claiming it was being used incorrectly (aka they realized they had published evidence on their website after having whipped up a frenzie about authoritarian rule (and fell silent just a couple years later when the Premier started doing actual charter and rights violations)).

They also did an award ceremony for the on the ground leaders; I guess if you instigate enough fights with homeless people in shelters and cause X billion in economic damage, you gather enough PPoints for a victory lap and some timbits.

But it's been archived.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it