Wasn’t Biden’s chips act meant to encourage chips and semiconductor manufacturing to be shored in the US? What’s Trump doing nuking everything with tariffs? Surely, the oligarchs who bankrolled him won’t appreciate this.

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I have just read other people’s comments as to why Redditors delete their comments. But even before the enshitiffication, I and others find it frustrating when comments are deleted.

Yeah, I get so pissed when people nuke their comment history. Why do that when you don’t have too much of personal revealing information in that post or comment? Even one of the mods of AskHistorians expressed frustration of insightful posts and comments being deleted by OP. I did not even delete any of my posts before I deleted my Reddit account, because there are no revealing information, and I know some of my posts and comments will be helpful for others.

The previous iterations of LLMs is not even that close enough to be called AI unlike the current ones we have right now. In many years to come, the AI will improve.

I am embracing AI. For better or worse, it’s here to stay. The issue with the current AI models is that they are over-hyped. It would just lead to a bubble burst like had happened with dotcom. The full capability of AI will probably improve in ten or fifteen years.

If you mentioned that Tesla is losing its competitive edge as EV manufacturer, most Tesla stock fans would quickly correct you that the company isn’t just about that, it’s also an AI company. I think the company is leveraging other competencies to future proof itself to market shocks; which makes sense since Musk stole personal information from the federal government to train his AI.

Because you aren’t the target.

I definitely hope so, like it will with dotcom bubble. If the bubble burst delays the rise of killer robots, then I am all for another economic recession!

Wtf. Is Signal going to be affected? I just recently installed Signal on my phone.

Probably too distracted by culture wars and other single issue pet peeves to pay attention to the whole picture. My coworker says he agrees with most of what Trump says but is extremist on others. I was like, it’s part and parcel what did you expect? A friend supported Trump for his non-interventionist foreign policy, which may be true on Trump’s first term, but not so much anymore on his second term. I haven’t spoken to him in a long time but I reckon he may be regretting supporting Trump.

What I notice about Trump supporters or those who sympathises with him, is that they don’t really talk about economics or how his bill guts major public investments and agencies, and give more tax cuts to the rich. It is more often on culture wars, or even Epstein files (not dismissing the Epstein files but the Republican economic policies will have more severe consequences to Americans in generations to come and should be talked about more).

A lot of people supporting an ideology or a politician is being in our own social bubble. In my social media feed, I see only anti-Trump content. For others, they see pro-Trump. We’ve became more polarised since the Second World War because of the advent of new modes of communications. In the 20th century, TV and radio were the social media that polarises the society Even if Trump did some good things (remember that he said Hitler did some good things, and yes, Hitler may well have) but the problem with demagogues is that they bait and switch. You can’t ignore the genocidal intent of the person simply because he or she gave you free healthcare.

That’s the idea.

I haven’t seen the show, but the premise of “The Thick of It” is that the real powerful figures are staffers, not the politicians themselves.

When I requested the data they have of me thanks to GDPR, I learnt they shared my information to other apps and websites. I deleted the app as soon as I got the info.

Americans informally create coalitions. That’s why you hear the term “caucus” a lot more often, like Bernie Sanders “caucusing” with Democrats. Many libertarians may not like Trump and the fascist Republicans, but they still caucus together. The problem with caucusing with Democratic party is that they sideline the left, especially Bernie Sanders, in favour of more corporate friendly candidates. As for the Republican party, well the right always act right and value group cohesion and appeasing the rich more, even if they become fascist.

Caucusing is hardly working and here is the hard to swallow pill for Americans: organise grassroots campaigns and plant actual progressives into primaries. Americans used to be good at doing that. That’s how they got the Roosevelts, ended the first Gilded Age, and third party candidates being elected more. The duopoly system became entrenched sometime after the early 1900’s, probably when Theodore Roosevelt ran third party and split the vote of progressives, which handed the presidency to the racist Woodrow Wilson.

Good. YouTube is a contributor to increasing massive societal polarisation. We don’t want kids these days turning to Nazis. Some of the kids and people I grew up with became extremist.

Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money…

Beavers: Fine, we’ll do it ourselves!

Fascists always shooting themselves at the foot. What will they even gain from destroying the world? The GOP make the Nazis look better, because the latter were at least environmentalists!

I still see on other social media on blaming everything and everyone on the growing debt, but not on taxing the rich.

Judging from what I have read before, some men genuinely think being greasy, sweaty looking and not being clean is attractive. I have read some comments in Lemmy before from men who feels like they found the secret sauce to attracting women: just being hygienic. The latter, I could pass it because they seem like they are neurodivergent. But the former? I don’t even know. I heard it was more like a 90s and 00s trend. Maybe looking like you have a labour intensive job by looking greasy, sweaty and haven’t showered for couple of days will turn on women, which isn’t really the case.

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