Over their bankrupt bodies.

What does that mean? Nobody gets out or in? Sounds familiar.

Raise revenue you say? There's plenty of disgustingly wealthy people who could do with less wealth.

Problem is those are the same people. There are no consequences, because those who would enforce the laws are complicit.

Yeah I'm out. Just got diagnosed with an inherited degenerative disorder.

People need to grow a fucking spine and say no to doing illegal things for Donnie dinkie diddle.

Lol

Lots to criticize about China, but it's nothing if not proven as a stable partner in terms of its approach to international diplomacy and trade. They are consistent about what their goals are.

Nobody can count on the USA anymore. Perhaps they never could and it was always a paper tiger.

I just don't see what argument you're making.

Steel production is necessary for infrastructure. The point is AI is not efficient. It's adding energy load to the grid in the supposed name of doing things more efficiently, but where is evidence of these gains. Data centres drawing huge amounts of power to do what exactly? Run LLMs?

There is the promise and reality. If it was replacing manual labour and freeing humanity to pursue arts, crafts, and scientific inquiry great. But there's no evidence it's doing that.

Virgin adult having a chad baby is some Bethlehem shit. Praise.

Just your run of the mill efforts to further the cause of chaos in the name of profit by good ol Uncle Sam.

We want to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon by giving them every reason to acquire one.

It's amazing. Good for capitalistic competition, but I do wish we could all just work together as well.