I'm not surprised. And I heavily recommend people to ask questions about a topic that they reliably know to those assistants; they'll notice how much crap the bots output. Now consider that the bot is also bullshitting about the things that you don't know.
Yup, it does sound like him. But I genuinely believe that his goal is manufactories beelining to USA, and that doesn't seem too likely for me.
I'll go further. My headcanon is that Trump didn't come up with this idea; someone else did, and carefully led Trump to it. That person knows that the manufactories won't go to USA, but they don't really care - they benefit from USA being economical and politically isolated, perhaps even at its population having decreased living standards.
They were supposed to force those manufacturing plants to go to USA, but as the article shows it is not working:
[AsRock] "As for the 10% tariff applied to other products like GPU cards, we need some time to transfer the manufacturing to other countries." [emphasis on the plural]
We already saw signs of this late last year, when PC Partner decided to relocate its headquarters from China to Singapore
And they likely won't move into USA territory because USA might create some tax against the governments they import raw materials from, labour costs are high, and all that talk about expelling illegal immigrants will make labour costs even higher (lower labour supply = higher prices).
Our US government would consider it anti-semitic not to use a nazi salute twice on stage in front of millions of people.
I was almost going to mention Musk's gesture as an example of how context dictates meaning, but removed it from my comment. Glad to see that someone else mentioned it though - that gesture can be only understood as a Nazi salute and as support to Nazism, nothing else.
[I'm neither from Australia nor USA, but it's clear that Australia got it right. Musk and his puppet, on the other hand...]
This is great stuff. I'll add a few hints of my own.
There's no such thing as "global Lemmy admins"; there are the admins of your home instance (where you're registered to) and the admins of the instance where you're posting. It's messier because each group will enforce different rules, but it also means that no group of arseholes can kick you completely out of Lemmy.
If you're a newcomer odds are that you don't know which would be the best home instance for you. That's completely OK - almost everyone was like this, including me. So if you don't feel satisfied with your home instance, create a new account in another instance and migrate.
Desktop users might benefit from the extension "Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin" (Firefox link, Chrome link).
App users: remember when Reddit had a whole rainbow of third party apps to choose from? Lemmy is like this: there's Jerboa (the official one) but also Voyager, Mlem, Boost, and many others. Give this link a check, or just look for "Lemmy" in your app store.
This is so fucking stupid that I had to check other sources on what he said, to confirm it. (It does.)
No, it is not just immoral, it's also fucking stupid. Why would he get the Palestinians or the State of Israel pissed, if he can get both pissed at the same time? The State of Israel doesn't see those lands as belonging to some banana maize republic dammit, it sees those lands as belonging to itself.
inb4: "but Netanyahu said he was thinking outside the box with fresh ideas! That it's unconventional thinking!". Well, his reply is superficially polite (likely to avoid the offend the other Nazi's precious-oh-so-precious ego), but it's non-committing and can be easily understood as "this is crazy talk".
It gets worse. So far the State of Israel has been trying to masquerade the genocide against Palestinians as a self-defence war. Now with Trump suggesting ethnic genocide, more people will ask "wait a minute... isn't that what Israel is doing already?" (Yes, it is.)
And they will, misinterpreting what he did as "actually not a Nazi salute."
And in the same way, people in Reddit will keep misinterpreting admin actions as if the admins were on their side. I do think that they'll eventually leave, but because the site is not good for them any more - and they'll never notice that it isn't good any more because of those admins.
For me this idea of using fake comments to make the site look more active is already sinister enough. It shows a platform willing to mislead people for its own interests.
The opponents likely won't do it because there's an asymmetry going on here: they're far more likely to care about the legitimacy of the electoral process than Trump does. And when someone says that elections were fraudulent, no matter if true or false, that legitimacy takes a blow.
Critics argue Trump’s aggressive diplomacy weakens trust, while supporters claim it reinforces U.S. strength.
It might be worth to mention the concepts of soft power and hard power here. I'll oversimplify it here:
soft power - "do what I say, it'll be better for you"
hard power - "do what I say, otherwise I'll go against you"
The critics are focusing on the soft power, and they're IMO spot on - Trump is ruining every bit of soft power that USA has (or had), by taunting allied governments.
In the meantime, the supporters are focusing on hard power... and they're completely off-mark. Hard power depends on your economical and military capabilities, and those threats are not improving either.
"But what about the tariffs?", someone might ask. Does anyone here genuinely believe that they'll improve USA's economy?
The game is weird, to say the least, but actually fun. It reminds me Anti-Idle, as there are multiple mechanics that are barely associated with each other, except on making some numbers go up; except that those mechanics revolve around leaves as a common theme.
I'm a sucker for crafting and breeding systems that allow you to customise equipment and/or characters. But it's really hard to find good implementations of the idea, most have some obvious flaw:
Pokémon (breeding) - in early games RNG plays too much of a role, so it's hard to get what you want. Late games don't fix this, instead they allow you to skip the process altogether (see: hyper training).
Niche - the breeding part of the game is actually really good, a shame that the rest of the game is a slop. For example gathering food gets a PITA once you got too many nichelings, and yet you want them to support your breeding pairs.
RimWorld (Biotech; germline genes) - arbitrary restrictions that must be lifted through the usage of mods.
RimWorld (crafting) - now we're talking. If you pay close attention to which materials you're using for which tasks, it pays off in the long run. There's some luck involved, but you can get perfect (legendary) stuff fairly often if you know what you're doing.
Leaf Blower Revolution (leaf crafting) - the game encourages you to craft a lot of leaves and salvage most of them. That's fine, it's easy to get cheese anyway. The problem is the sheer amount of beer that you need to get the properties that you want in each leaf.
Monster Breeder (old Flash game) - the game is a bugfest, and the lack of any sorting system makes you have a hard time even knowing which monster you should be breeding with which.
Minecraft (tools and weapons) - vanilla has a really dumb system that doesn't fit well in a game that encourages hoarding piles of materials into chests. The mod Tinkers' Construct fixes this, and makes the system next to ideal.
Plus a lot more that I didn't mention. Sorry for the wall of text.
OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.
Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over "his" precious data (i.e. users') + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.
Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?
Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then "if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick", then on how you don't really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it's the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren't really yours.
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Siegfrieda in the meantime: "who the fuck cares about work? Let me watch my anime."