He right

I hope people realize that trump was able to do all this because of years of bad law writing and eroding of the balance of powers. All that concentrated power is great until someone you disagree with sits in the throne you built. It would be nice if after trump, we learn our lesson and vastly shrink the power of the office. Unfortunately , I believe it is likely people won’t realize this and will put even more effort into strengthening the power of that throne after trump is gone, in an effort to more quickly undo his work, which of course means someone will be able to redo the damage even faster at a later time.

IP is simply a state backed monopoly privilege. This obviously leads to a slowing of innovation and price rises due to lack of (by force) competition. IP is unethical and doesn’t even accomplish what it sets out to do. You don’t need government promises of monopoly rights to create innovation in the marketplace, competition drives innovation.

No. It’s useful when you need a quick picture for something or help visualizing something. A huge timesaver. I haven’t seen it generate anything good enough to be hung in an art museum, so I don’t really understand why anyone would hate it. It’s not really competition for actual art. Also, I want to say that I don’t think anyone’s art was “stolen”. That’s the same ludicrous argument the RIAA uses against online file sharing. Any images used in the training was downloaded, mathematically analyzed, and deconstructed. “Stolen” would require a heist at the museum.

Funnily enough anarchy is the inevitable conclusion of both extremes of economic systems: capitalism and communism. I always wondered if ultra capitalist folks and ultra communist folks would realize they both are envisioning essentially the same end game.

I thought the whole point of entangled communication is that you didn’t need to “send” anything. It automatically flips the entangled bit on the other end, all that “spooky action at a distance” bidness. Why do the need to “send” entangled photons?

The tarriffs bit is completely speculative. No one vnows that yet, and its not in the 2025 gop budget proposal. Federal income tax increases for middle and lower income americans are absolutely not being proposed. At the least this infographic is misleading.

Lets put this another way: where does it say low and middle income taxes are increasing? It doesn’t, therefore op is spreading misinformation.

Its all there, black and white. You wont find anything that matches this fabricated infographic.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILLS-119NAih.pdf

Nobody making less than 200k will see an increase in their federal taxes. In fact if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act didnt get extended, you’d be far more likely to see an increase.

Spread incorrect info? Sounds good

It goes back to critical thinking, the struggle to learn something is the most important part.

But I plan to use that loophole for my retirement, and at current inflation rates I’ll be a billionaire too by then, although eggs will still be unaffordable.

Don’t worry. The protest won’t matter at all and a large majority won’t even hear about it. Gives layabouts an excuse to layabout some more.

Does the pattern hold all the way? I.e is the root cause actually ease of access to info? Did reliance on the internet and the information age also cause declines in critical thinking? Should kids be raised without computers? I guess I’m asking what it is about ai specifically that causes the deteriortion?

What’s 9 in base pi?

Turns out you can get stuff done without a huge mega corp or government robbing everyone to pay themselves and justify it as being for everyone’s own good. Just listen to the absurdity of the argument that you need a state: “Hey, I’m going to forcibly take 30% of everything you produce, but don’t worry, after I pay myself and my staff, I’ll build you a poorly maintained road and send someone to the moon. You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

For me its not so much quality as it is control. I set things up exactly the way I want with exactly the content I want and I know it’s not going to suddenly change tomorrow. This is why I dont go for streaming unless it’s from a server I control.

How did people figure out what email provider to use?