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Seems like Amazon is doing the right thing cutting down its corporate workforce then.

> If you're one of the many many thousands of people

Correction, criminal illegal aliens. Some false positives have occurred and those people get released. Stop lying.


Are those not people? Right into the 'subhuman' rhetoric?

Criminals have less rights than non-criminals. Especially illegal aliens. Let’s not pretend countries don’t have reasons to protect their borders.

Are those not people?

People that broke the law entering the country whom have no right to be there yes, with reduced rights as they are non-citizens. This is internationally universal. What is your point?

Citizen =!= Human.

Even if they might not be citizens, they are humans, people. With human rights. Categorizing one group of humans as being less deserving of basic human decency than others, is, for a lack of a better word, nazi rhetoric.


Automating editing is by definition making it slop.

No. Public shaming for sharing AI written slop is what we need more of.

Such public shaming loses its value when it's overused though (see: boy who cried wolf). The "written by AI" accusation is thrown around so much, when it often isn't even true, that it just triggers scepticism as the initial reaction. At least, it does for me.

But it’s also true in this case. I’ve had my own comments claimed to be AI by someone because I used a phrase like “delve into”, but a few false positives from the over-eager are to be expected even if it’s not optimal.

That will lead to world war.

Local weather is what matters to individuals. So is access to affordable energy.

You cannot coerce someone to ignore their local weather and sabotage access to affordable energy because of some global average. It’s a losing battle that’s fundamentally misled.


You have to coerce the individual to follow the strategic direction despite tactical disadvantages. This is what leadership means.

If we all individually spend more money to accommodate the effects of climate change than their causes, then we are wasting enormous economic resources.


Sure, but local is a radius. There's my local, then there's my region's local, then there's my country's local. As wonderful as globalism sounds on paper, if saving the global average leads to a drought or a flood for another country, or another region, then you are trying to convince others of giving up a lot for no tangible relevant gain.

People don't like to admit it, but JD Vance was right about Europe. And the UK is up there with the worst of us. I am European.


> I am European.

Not a real one. A traitor. You will get what you deserve.


Why do we want CCP vehicles spying on us outside China? Did we forget everything we learned over the last decades..?


If you're a US citizen, it's far safer for the CCP to be spying on you than the US government.


That's such a dishonest argument.


Don't worry, this time it's the Social Democrats who ban books, it's _totally_ different.


Most western countries who care about IP have banned piracy. I'm not anti piracy but it's silly to compare.


Back in the day it was US media companies which started the big war against piracy and for the use of DRM. It was pushed by US media companies and the US government upon Europe. Same as with software patents. It's weird that now US companies complain about local media rights holders doing their censorship thing when the whole thing was started by the US.


I'm not sure, does US not block websites by DNS? Wrt Anna's Archive they've gone as far as revoking its main domain


US owns the registrars, they just deregister domains they don't like and show some sort of FBI logo instead.


I demand the RIGHT to get media for free without paying for it! And I equate this with a ban on literature!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

> Participants: Republican lawmakers in red states

oh weird, it's the opposite of what you said.


Politics isn't the exclusive hobby of the united states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/the-spd-parties...

And by the way, in the same wikipedia link you posted, there's documentation of Democrats also banning books.


What book banning are you referencing, then? it's all very vague


I can buy all the books listed there in the USA.


That's privilege. They're not available at the library at the learning centers.


*learing centers


Now I understand you live in a skewed world view


The good players are the US on this front. I say this as a European. Europe at large is in a dark place in terms of freedom of speech, the press, and other issues like immigration. And the US might eventually have to be the ones to apply force to hold our leaders accountable, ironic as that is given history.


> The good players are the US on this front.

Don't be fooled. People like Elon aren't pro-free speech. They only want their speech. For example on Elon's X you can call people all kinds of things but calling someone "CIS gendered" is a ban-able offense [1]. Linking to other platforms was also forbidden for a while and in the H1B discussion X shadow banned a bunch of people [2] and I could go on for a while.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/02/elon-mus... [2] https://www.newsweek.com/laura-loomer-elon-musk-x-twitter-h1...


Him being a hypocrite doesn't make him wrong

Do as I say, not as I do.


They can't even say "fuck" on TV in the USA, and god forbit a female nipple


That's just a cultural difference between Europeans and Americans, it has nothing to do with freedom of speech in the US.


By that logic, everything is a cultural difference...


You can say fuck on TV, it just increases the age rating. Same with showing nipples. Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from _any_ consequences of speech…


There are indeed a lot of cultural differences between the United States and Europe.


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