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Yeah, on the API, not subscriptions. Those are a loss leader

Great, the most corrupt court ever.

> university library

First function is archival and preservation, second is access for university students and researchers. It’s not Anna’s archive or TIA

Couldn’t possibly be that serving data to scrapers isn’t a core function for a university or that they can’t pay big tech salaries to draw sysadmins and engineers that know how to handle large scale deployments

> For all my common queries, it's reliable.

Is it though? How often are you spot checking sources?

Bringing up habitat loss from humans is a classic whataboutism. Do you care about neighborhood dogs shitting in your yard? Cause I’m tired of cats doing it

And yet they have the exact same effect on the local environment. Feral and free roaming cats are not meaningfully distinct except to their owners

Do you think people should let their dogs roam free?

Because of the high error rate on queries where I know the topic well enough to tell when the answer is way off base

Ok but there’s still a high error rate, so why would you trust it with general queries? Especially if it’s something you aren’t already knowledgeable about

Gemini summary is wrong way too often to be relied on, especially for anything niche

Obviously you don’t actually have a feral cat population around you. They are generally good hunters that kill for sport. Cats, foxes, and humans are the only species that do that.

And they dig up gardens and poop everywhere. People get so up in arms about dog owners not picking up poop on walks you’d think they would understand it’s not cool to let your cat do the same thing on other people’s property.

Come off it, domestic cats are literally a separate species bred from captivity. It is not “imprisoning” them to keep them in their natural environment (the home). They are not native to any ecosystem.

Farm cats are working animals, and they make up a tiny fraction of the “outside cat” population. Not really a fair comparison. Roaming/feral domestic cats in residential area are an invasive species and “do pretty well” the same way other pests do.

Yet they still destroy local fauna, shit everywhere spreading disease, and are generally obnoxious

You’re not wrong about the US but let’s not pretend China is just “trying to sell stuff”. They’ve got their own genocide going on with the Uyghurs and are famous for espionage

Have you bothered asking your IT to look into it?

Feral cats are an invasive species in most parts of the world and can be quite destructive, especially in large numbers

Frontier lab training data “collector”

Hard disagree. They are malware 99.9% of the time. The utility does not erase the fact they are abusive.

Yes, and advancements have made them both safer and more effective

It does if you like French press

The Founders didn’t exactly anticipate the internet. If states can place restrictions on certain types of speech (eg porn or abortion advocacy) they can certainly place restrictions on gamblers within their borders

The 10th Amendment exists, and regulation of gambling and/or financial futures are definitely not in the constitution

“Regulated by the CFTC” is a bit of an oxymoron when they don’t do any real enforcement

90% of trade volume on Kalshi is sports betting

The Sacklers already did that (not quite OTC) with opioids

Nobody is forcing anyone to do heroin either, but it’s also banned as dangerously addictive

And easily overturned, like Roe v Wade

If they ban markets on sports outcomes they lose 90% of their business