Let’s say I believe you. If that’s the case, why are AI companies still scraping everything?

As someone who makes and uses software, I feel it is not okay to steal source code. I wouldn’t feel okay with myself getting something for free when it’s based on the stolen work of tens of thousands of people

AI companies aren’t respecting crawler blocking. They’re actively working to ensure their crawlers bypass any anti-crawler protections

As a side note, these efforts help AI in the long-term. If we can poison LLMs, then you can guarantee a state actor can as well. AI needs to be able to weather training data attacks, otherwise they become an easily manipulated propaganda tool

US surveillance is far more effective than North Korea or Russia’s domestic surveillance

Only China is in the same realm in terms of ability to surveil citizens. They’re just more open about using it for low-level offenses

The choice does exist, but it gets harder and harder to go without a phone

Many jobs expect us to be available at all hours. Younger generations cannot navigate without maps. Phones are also the primary way we record/observe ICE. They’re also our calendar/organizer, notebook, and many other things

Sure, we can have an independent GPS, camera, calendar, and notepad, but the barrier keeps getting higher

We need to develop counter measures, and long-term pass strong laws banning this level of government surveillance

If you live in the US Empire, you can be a part of the movement to end it

That’s objectively bad messaging. ‘End the US Empire’ is so trivial to paint as purely anti-American. Not only will fail to win over more than a tiny fraction of people, but anyone part of it will be easily discredited

How would ‘end the US Empire’ ever be a popular idea in America? Even assuming it is a moral platform, it can only ever be a fringe idea in America

End-of-life visions are Santa cosplaying as people’s dead relatives, as he’s known to only be visible to those he wishes to be visible to

And, of course, as a real adult you know there is no logical way to unconditionally disprove this particular statement about Santa

Housing got cheaper in Japan. They went from the most expensive housing in the world to the cheapest in the industrialized world

They did it by removing barriers to building housing, and incentivizing building homes. The downside is that rich people can’t profit as much off housing, which is a non-starter in many other countries

Do they?

I’ve never met one. I’ve seen plenty of rage inducing posts online though. I’m sure somewhere, someone like this exists, but it’s probably rare enough most of us would never encounter someone so socially maladjusted in our entire lifetime

Which isn’t to say entitled people don’t exist - they do - more so that this level of oblivious entitlement is unlikely to continue existing into adulthood. Eventually it comes in conflict with reality and they learn acting like that only ends in mockery

Fight fire with fire. Apparently it’s the only thing conservatives will pay attention to

So many of them are convinced all gun violence is coming from the left, and at this point I’m ready to just let them have their delusions. What are they going to do about it? Implement gun control? Please do