This will last right up until all the right-wingers get pissed they’re being identified as teenagers based on their 5th grade writing level.

I’ve heard Element and Root talked about for those purposes. Haven’t tried them myself yet. My friend group talked about resurecting our long-dead Mumble server, but that’s a last-ditch option.

• “Hmm, this seems like a good idea”.
• Supported by a bunch of AI business groups.
• “…this seems like less of a good idea.”

EDIT: So after reading the bill, I can see the following problem:

It limits any level of government from restricting the private use of AI tech unless it meets a relatively high bar of legality and specificity. Remember that private use refers to both personal and business use. This means that e.g. a township could NOT decide to ban datacenters due to environmental concerns, water use, etc. They would need to prove a specific datacenter was ‘creating common law nuisances’ AND that they had exhausted other legal options before they could create any legal restrictions on that specific datacenter (let alone a blanket restriction). The law technically allows for other ‘compelling government interests’, but fails to list them… meaning it could be challenged in court and would be completely open to a judge’s decision. Basically this creates a legal environment where datacenters have a right to operate and any attempt to regulate them would be fraught with the risk of expensive court cases.

Pro-business legislation dressed up as personal rights. Never change, Montana.

As an alternative, consider not eating meat.

ITT: people who haven’t seen the movie, I guess.

Completely false pretense, to the level of outright propaganda.

Remember how Ozempic costs like $1000 a pack in the USA? It costs between $50-$200 in every other country. Why? Because other governments negotiate and/or regulate prices on drugs and the USA does not. It’s that simple. Every other country cares about providing their citizens with affordable-ish medical care. The USA cares more about the stock market.

WE WILL DRAIN THE RIVERS DRY TO QUENCH OUR THIRST

That sounds like a ‘them’ problem. Veganism is based.

Well you’re cranky, aintcha.

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Or your favorite lagoon of buccaneers.

Looks like books are back on the menu, boys.

ITT: people really upset at being called ‘vegan’ for some reason.

Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!

I mean, would you not want to do this specifically to see its effects on marginalized groups? That seems like a pretty good reason to me.

Yes. We do this literally every day. We pay taxes on what we earn to support those less fortunate. We share with food with coworkers and tools with neighbors. We have EMTs, firemen, and SAR who wilfully run into danger to help people they’ve never met. It’s literally the foundation of society.

Everything you wrote is nonsense. Pointing at a process that often occurs - evolution - and then working backwards to claim that organisms must feel pain when they don’t reproduce is completely antilogical. Evolution may be caused by feelings of pain or suffering when otganisms don’t reproduce, or it could be something completely different. You are putting the effect before the cause.

Trying to do evolutionary psychoanalysis on something as cognitively complex as a human is practically guaranteed to give you wrong conclusions. What’s more, this sort of bullshit is part and parcel of a lot of bioessentialist rhetoric, so if I were you I would definitely consider revaluating a few things.

Huh, so if I stand around near you with a big bowl, I can get some free organs? Sweet!

(also yes, the only good news reporting these days comes from random high-effort blog posts on Substack)

If my kindle played audio files / podcasts that would be half of what I use it for.

China limits social media because they repress free speech and political association. TikTok and other social media was a huge part of why there was such an outcry over the invasion of Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza. They doubly limit what kids can see because students are often hugely influential in political activism - especially in China, where students were an integral part of both the revolution(s) and Tiananmen Square. China’s gov is pants-shittingly terrified of another student-led revolution/crisis/etc and keep a very close watch on what the kids are saying and seeing.

Stupid. Kids are more informed and hooked into current events than ever before, specifically because of phones and the Internet. Hell, half of most peoples’ jobs are looking up reference material online. You want kids to succeed, hand them a big list of the best places to look for the answers and let them use their phones on the test.