It’s not unfair to say, given recent events, that Israel has an unusual amount of influence over Western countries.

Nothing antisemitic about it. Israel has the means and capabilities of running influence operations in a way that Palestine doesn’t.

“Jewish bankers”, however, is a pretty common antisemitic trope so I don’t think you’re wrong about this specific commenter

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How do you do, fellow hackers

Uh, no thanks we’ve all already got one

Yes this isn’t limited to billionaires. It protects everyone who owns private jets…

Sick bastard, that seat was only 4 years old.

Also why you can’t take him out to a bar, storming brighteyes…

Exactly, it’s a pretext and the people are immediately removed from the country without due process so they never have a chance to defend themselves

He’s already started the onboarding process to be in Trump’s cabinet

They’re really playing with fire here.

So many MAGA supporters are seniors who are entirely dependent on OASDI. If Trump’s minions break this, we’re going to see torches and pitchforks strapped to electric scooters and golf carts coming out of Florida retirement communities in droves.

It’s like when they say “We value your privacy” it really means “Selling your data is worth a lot of money/value to me”.

“User Security” means “We want to secure customers/users for our cloud services by forcing a login to a microsoft account”

Most people are more worried about remote attackers than someone physically putting hands on their PC. But, yes, you should pretty much without exception be using full disk encryption.

It’s very assholish of Microsoft to lock bitlocker behind the Pro license.

TL;DR?

I don’t know who needs to hear this (everyone, apparently) but it isn’t a virtue to make people angry.

Way too many people abandoned any attempt at conversation and immediately move to trying to “own” the other side.

You didn’t win because you pissed someone off, a child can do that.

Teslas famously don’t use lidar because Musk declared that cameras were good enough. Reality disagrees, but reality owns no shares of Tesla.

Surely the richest men alive will save us from the predations of the rich and powerful.

-Voters, 2024

i seem to recall it wasn’t an outright ban, but unreasonable tariffs on chinese evs specifically.

Yeah, tariffs.

Otherwise, you’d see the subcompact EVs with a 150mile range for about $9,000 US that BYD sells.

No US manufacturer can remotely compete with the cost of EVs from China. Rather than letting people buy cheap EVs, the government decided to tariff them so that they cost as much as a luxury car.

Literally every standing structure is destroyed.

Either Hamas is the most battle hardened infantry to ever take the field and never giving an inch despite being armed with scraps vs a US armed foe with air dominance, or Israel is carpet bombing civilians.

Nobody strap laser beams to their heads

I never suggested or implied that copyright laws need to be removed.

It does appear that OpenAI’s position is “copyright laws are dumb and need to be changed” which, during the Aaron Schwartz story, was the position of the community.

Now, since the entity involved is an AI company, we’re seeing people who’re on the side of using copyright laws to punish infringers because they don’t like AI.

Either copyright laws need to be changed or they don’t need to be changed. Someone’s position on the topic shouldn’t change based on who is being negatively effected by said laws.