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With respect to screwing the state, it diminishes the nation's standing in the world. Tech companies under the government are unable to compete with other tech companies when it comes to promises of supporting Linux properly.

By itself it's not much but add the sum total of sanctions and you hopefully inflict an obvious contrast in prosperity available through global trade for a well behaved nation versus losing access to all those markets through misbehavior.

If the world doesn't want to step in with direct force, this is about the only sort of potentially effective measure available. Without force nor economic measures, you are left with shaking your head is disapproval.

As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s

So you are behind the outbreak!

Hitler has only got one ball...

And that should be an easy choice," Trump added.

I find myself agreeing with Trump for once.

I think the nut job aspect would be leaping to the conclusion they would be forcing people to quarter these folks, as opposed to arranging long term hotels/rentals or maybe voluntary hosts. Employers do this all the time and people don't presume a constitutional crisis.

Still seems stupid, shouldn't need that much manpower to help canvas.

Oh, I'm sure they could deploy in a way that has acceptable optics for those folks. They would see a strong violent force there to enforce their interests over those pesky desperate poors.

If 9/10 were already voluntarily coming into the office every day, I could see it. Of course it would only be 9/10 of the people he bothered to speak to it about, and maybe he only spoke to people that were already there.

As to why they would care if they were already there, well one guy in my team goes in every day of his own accord. He applies pressure to everyone on my team to be there with him every day, in spite of the stated WFH policy. So everyone but me goes in every day because I'm the only one that is willing to disappoint him. I'm reasonably certain that guy would love a forced into the office every day mandate, to force me to be there too. Then he could stop making passive aggressive comments about how people who didn't come in must not care about the work as much as they should at every opportunity.

I've seen some analysis correlating the shift in those odds not to any political news or polls, but to things like Elon Musk telling folks to go bet on Trump...

There are signs of three distinct interpretations in the result:

• On topic, the concept of cleaning a wild bird you are trying to save
• Preparing a store bought Turkey (removing a label)
• Preparing a wild bird that is caught

It's actually a pretty good illustration of how AI assembles "information shaped text" and how smooth it can look and yet how dumb it can be about it. Unfortunately advocates will just say "I can't get this specific thing wrong when I ask it or another LLM, so there's no problem", even as it gets other stuff wrong. It's weird as you better be able to second guess the result, meaning you can never be confident in an answer you didn't already know, but when that's the case, it's not that great for factual stuff.

For "doesn't matter" content, it may do fine (generated alternatives to stock photography, silly meme pictures, random prattle from background NPCs in a game), but for "stuff that matters", Generative AI is frequently more of a headache than a help.

I mean, not one a human would ever make.

First off, the word "rescued" would have immediately made the context of "protect the pigeon" clear.

Second, a "rescued pigeon" wouldn't have a label on it, so it's clearly mixing in something from likely a store bought turkey, but then the other steps don't make sense either as those don't apply either.

A traditional search approach would not have made the mistake either. It would either have failed to find anything or found actual on topic results. It's "clever" enough to genericize "pigeon" to "birds" and hit upon text related to birds from a grocery store and birds that you hunted and mix all that together in a coherent language but with content that is nonsense.

In this case, hilarious, in other day to day situations, it's maddening, as some professional colleague gets the same sort of nonsense but lacks knowledge to correct it and relays it as fact. Then when called out on the data was in fact so bad it wasted time, they just say 'oh, lol, AI' (they wanted to take credit for it if it worked, but can hide behind AI when it doesn't).

Some sites only allow one public key per account...

I am saying there is no electoral path to Socialism.

That smells of voter suppression, like you are trying to talk people out of even trying to exercise their voice in the political system. The refusal to specifically spell out which described path you advocate for suggests you want violent insurrection, which is absurd, either doomed to be outgunned or doomed to be exploited by leaders with ulterior motives. If you can't get the votes to your position, then things are going to be very bad if you try to get your way.

None of your examples started from a vaguely functional democratic state. For all the fawning over Cuba, somehow they are a big source of refugees. The Soviet Union fell apart under well understood conditions that their flavor of 'communism' did not fix. China has an awful lot of forced labor, laborers stuck dorming in factories, and capitalist billionaires for a 'communist' state, and they have an ethno state with some other problematic human rights behaviors. While they may have been better than prior regimes in their contexts, I don't think the end state in any of those is better than the current state of affairs in the US.