taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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You do realize that corporations have legal personhood?

I think you underestimate how much the rest of the world is not on the US side in this if the US decides to be on Russia's side.

I wasn't aware the generation of CEOs and politicians was called "Gen Z".

And you think those 99% of the population will then just die quietly so the 1% can shuffle around money between themselves in peace?

I think the point was that Trump doesn't actually control the land.

That means the people controlling it will get richer.

Actually they won't because in a society where 99% of people don't work at all for money the concept of money starts to lose its meaning. Who are you going to sell all those goods and services to if nobody has an income?

leaving some experts wondering if the upheaval could derail an AI boom.

AI hype could certainly be derailed if you need to start an independent baseless hype in dozens of separate countries instead of just having the hype as a cultural export of the US.

AI in its current state is at best a distraction from the real inequalities we need to worry about today.

Otherwise you end up with people accusing movies of using AI when they didn’t.

Or worse, all movies lying into everyone's face that they don't use AI much like they have been doing with the 'No CGI' lies in recent years.

Well, that whole civil union thing didn't really work out so well and those same people were still (and are still) homophobic to the extreme so why give them anything? They are clearly not interested in compromises anyway.

True, but it is important to keep in mind that the current Israeli population isn't just a random sample of all the Jews in the world, it is a mix of the ones who moved there because they agreed with the idea that Jews had a claim to the Palestinian land and those born since. To be fair there are probably also some who changed their mind since then and some who simply had nowhere else to go but it would be naive to assume that this self-selection process and the later ideological upbringing didn't have an influence on the average current Israeli citizen views on the matter.

Only for those it would happen in 8s.

People who travel to shitholes like the US for several weeks at the time clearly don't have "better things to do with their time".

To anyone who was paying attention this was already a pretty clear possibility last year. Not to mention that all the people voting for this outcome also make it an unpleasant place to visit on a more personal level, even if the election had gone the other way.

I don't really like it, makes it sound as if her rights are only important because she is useful.

So what you are saying is that the US can look forward to South African style load shedding schedules for a few decades?

You might need to switch to a keyboard layout with or without dead keys depending on your preference. Not quite sure how Windows does it these days other than some vague nightmares about the layout switcher thing in the task bar from a few years ago that kept switching back semi-randomly when switching applications. Some of the changes in how accents are typed are actually related to using accented characters less than the characters on their own (e.g. backticks) but others might also be related to making things easier for people with disabilities that prevent them from pressing certain key combinations.

How long did you try each one? Usually when trying anything new it takes a little while to get used to the things that you readily accept as "just how things are" with something you have been using for a while. I am a long-term Linux user and I can tell you that Windows has plenty of major UX problems when I occasionally have to use it on someone else's PC.

Is he, though? He looks more like the final result of decades of very deliberate work by certain groups in the US political establishment that started with Reagan or possibly even earlier who put specific types of people on the Supreme Court, extended presidential executive order powers, gerrymandered, sabotaged political education, established think tanks and propaganda networks,...

They might have gotten a bit more chaos than they wished for but to think Trump ended up as president by complete accident would be naive and other nation's top politicians (and their own advisors) are not that naive.

Even if he gets ousted, the US has lost the trust of most other nations already. Regaining that will take years.