TheObviousSolution

So is gambling.

this shit will fade in to the into the domain of low skill grifters.

Seems about right. It just happens you can really get ahead by being a low skilled grifter in today's world.

It really isn't. This seems like rewriting history for views, although it's still an interesting read. This article is basically:

At the root of this reactionary thinking was a writer and public intellectual named George Gilder

- followed by an explanation of how his influence started and grew there, followed by a fair degree of mental gymnastics to how well-it-didnt-seem-to-be-there-but-it-really-was.

Societies change, I'm sure his and a number of factors less colluded that the article suggests also did contribute to it, but it wasn't the same. IMO the biggest transition has been from Silicon Valley being fostered to create an investment hotspot to Silicon Valley being targeted by increasingly classist special interests that were losing their competitive traction because of how much influence its innovations were having on the rest of the world.

Take your whataboutistic absolutes somewhere else, there are uncensored models and the fact that there is potentially heavy censorship behind the major ones to serve political interests is not a good thing.

Now our governments will give a shit for AI IP trampling. Or at least it would, if the "leader of the free world" wasn't so busy threatening it and re-prioritizing concerns. Eat the shit pie whole, Elon.

Talk about a shitload slice of the irony pie, the industry that has not given two shits about intellectual property is getting undone by the masters of intellectual property theft and they don't even have a recourse because of the bed they've made. Now, it's time to lie in it.

Virtue signalling idol virtue signals, more at eleven.

Whataboutism is basically their go to. Their mind doesn't understand people actually being capable of critical thinking and being able to criticize both things, they just project their own personality cult belief system.

It's like those fairy tales Zionists try to convince you about that every belief system should seek their own nation. It's easy to come up with free land when you have zero value for the people living on it.

A lot of technology goods. Which basically means China, which was already doing a lot of their manufacture, wins out. China is going to be moving all in on the US international market as it continues to ramp up this way, and the US will be left increasingly alone when it is eventually forced to aid Taiwan in its defense.

It's a practical monopoly due to how they've exploited their Android presence in the mobile market. The only viable alternative is Yelp. The biggest problem is getting people to jump on the same platform and to leave reviews, and Google does this with mobile location tracking, even prompting the user when they think they've been remotely near a location at times. Maybe it does need a fediversed alternative, it is quite the unaddressed monopoly.

confederation

... odd choice for a term ... Nobody in the EU would define themselves by it ...

Well, trying to use terms to justify the US confederacy post-Civil War aside, it would actually be better for a lot of states. The rest of the world can no longer trust and increasingly bipolar schizophrenic US, whereas that's not the case for a certain number of states. You can't overcome the deeply flawed and corrupt two party federal system, and it's rapidly becoming even worse. If you can't fix the problems from within, you will only be able to fix them from outside.

He wants to get rid of FEMA to make it all about political favors so he can solidify his power.