LostWon @ LostWon @lemmy.ca

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I guess since they're no longer an official now, it doesn't matter to them.

They're definitely going to make criminal amounts of money off this one way or another, but he still has to put up a pretense (like the incomplete border wall).

Also, I don't know about Masayoshi Son, but I suspect this is a prestige thing for Sam Altman and Larry Ellison, among their billionaire buddies. I don't know if Altman in particular is going to be okay with just bailing from something high profile.

I can't help envisioning long-term corporate welfare here (similar to Musk companies, hence his jealous jabs about it), nominal jobs (with a sudden loss of job security as soon as AI can replace them), and horrid potential uses for the AI advances they do make.

Yup, even if the short-lived boost I mentioned was about the people who will do work in the datacentres, he's really doing this to benefit the tech billionaires he has swarming around him lately.

(also @m0darn@lemmy.ca)

I'd love to see either of those things happen if possible. I was just making my estimation of what seems the most realistic scenario, based on what I've heard and seen so far.

My guess is that this is probably about the massive amounts of energy they'll need for Stargate, the massive AI initiative. They want a much, much sweeter deal on energy resources. This feels a lot like an equivalent of the time Trump badly screwed over at least one other country that needed Covid vaccines by outbidding them for supplies (that were already promised to them) at the last minute.

Believe me, I'm no fan of the guy but for now he is trying to spin the Stargate thing as a job creating measure. Hell, in the short-to-medium term, it could well spur some short-lived economic benefits within the US. Beyond that though, it will probably be disastrous. I really hope world governments have the sense to develop countermeasures as soon as possible, with high priority.

The second half of the article mostly talks about delayed marriages after the pandemic (since folks don't want to have kids outside of marriage), and financial incentives. Hard to be sure if they're really the reason and if the bump isn't just from a backlog of marriages they were catching up on, as implied.

I agree. We could also forge better partnerships with Mexico, Central and South American countries, and Pacific island nations. Up to now I think our companies have been more exploitative (i.e. manipulating governments or bringing underpaid labour), but we could do things that are mutually beneficial instead. Strengthening less powerful neighbours is beneficial to everyone in a region (including the US, ironically), while exploitation just helps the specific corporations involved.

I don't think they were saying they need resoling every year. That would be absurd, so I hope not. The idea was that they can be resoled and repaired at all, so it's not fast fashion. Hopefully they also use other environmentally friendly practices. The big issue here is the up-front cost.

Thanks for pointing that out. When I first checked the link, I must have been tired as I missed that there was an article beyond the image and headline somehow. (Normally my habit would have been to check if the topic was covered, since headlines can be misleading. Case in point, in this case they were going for humour more than accuracy there, but the article indeed has examples.)

Fair. But if we do include intersex people with less common chromosomes in this topic, I wonder if they might get overlooked? I hope so, since it's probably the best chance here except in the unlikely case a "wait and see" stance is allowed.

*edit - correction: I somehow forgot that as orclev said (and usernamesAreTricky expanded on with a vice versa), it's possible for XY folks to be cis women. So chromosomes don't deliver the desired gotcha either.

Pretty sure according to current science, the sex is "undifferentiated" until a certain point in development. That means Trump wrote it so no one is female, lol.

Totally agree with Doctorow as usual that this would be ideal, but there is NO way the US would allow that without things getting much, much uglier. Maybe we could get away with the app store temporarily but I'm sure it would get shut down eventually... unless we can convince our other allies to back us first. Unless he thinks there's a high chance of this, I think he's underestimating the kind of response we would face-- especially given the current climate.

As he says in the article, we've won some trade disputes but I doubt any of them were under an ISDS. Either way though, we do definitely need to boost our own tech sector so we have self-sufficiency if things go bad.

Probably best to say Eastern religions/spirituality.😅

The Anti-Defamation League is an influential NGO that's supposed to fight antisemitism. Probably because Trump has repeatedly shown a fondness for Netanyahu, they're apparently throwing Jewish people under the bus to sweep this under the rug.

*edit - Just occurred to me that might've been a joke. Doesn't hurt to have this up for those who don't know tho.

He reportedly did a tweet mocking people for calling him Hitler (which I saw elsewhere since I'm not a user of his site). Incredibly, of all people, the ADL also chirped out the same "it was an accident" line as the media.

Lack of hope seems to be what depressed the vote turnout in the first place. What a vicious cycle.

Yeah guys, find a non-hardboiled egg snipping area.

Reads like they're covertly lamenting multiple states requiring IDs for online porn sites.

Minor nitpick - Japan was involved with/affected by WWII and any map from there has swastikas to mark Buddhist temples.

If it's true he was on the outs with the online neo-nazi crowd because of the H1B visas thing, this might have been a way he was trying to get back in their good graces.