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> Now free trade is hurting USA economy and that's why USA play against the rules they were promoting for so long.

Explain how is it hurting US economy?

Munich, Germany. Although, the sea is a bit further away.

> Is there really? In the sense of a global organized boycott spearheaded by a particular organization? I've not yet seen anything like that. It seems like instead the brand has just been damaged by Musk in the eyes of the kind of person who might be likely to buy an EV in the first place.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-new...

"According to Germany's road traffic agency, Tesla sold 1,429 cars in Germany, a decline of 76%, an even bigger decline than the 60% drop in January. Overall, sales of electric vehicles rose 30.8% to 35,949 in Germany."

"Tesla sales were down 24% in the Netherlands, 42% in Sweden, 48% in both Norway and Denmark, 45% in France, 55% in Italy, 10% in Spain and 53% in Portugal"

> There are conservatives with money, and those without

The main issue with conservatives is that they just don't like EVs and are much more skeptical about climate change.

> Leaving NATO is not a one way street. If the US leaves NATO, then the NATO countries can also stop supporting the US. How many components of US weapon systems are made in the EU?

For example, 15% of every F35 is made in UK.

> Its not AI. It is enhanced autocomplete. There is no intelligence here and Claude 3.7 cannot create anything novel. We as an industry need to get more honest about these things.

Yeah, this sort of "AI" is still nothing more than a glorified “Chinese room” (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Chinese_room).

To illustrate:

https://x.com/yoltartar/status/1861812132209369420

> Stopping people from two closely related cultures from killing each other is "dooming"

You only need to stop one - Russia, and this "they're brotherly nations" narrative is irrelevant and ridiculous.

> Fighting until the last Ukrainian is "supporting".

How about we let Ukrainians decide how long they want to fight? Without back-stabbing them and forcing a deal on them.

> When Elon stripped the Twitter organisation down to its fundamental parts, saved tons of money and the service is still ran like usual, people said the he’s a moron and the service couldn’t possibly run without a bloated and inefficient workforce.

- The bot problem is much worse than before the acquisition

- Search is completely broken, borderline unusable

- Financial data is hidden, so no way to compare

> For reference: JD Vance said that another DOGE staffer, who resigned after it was reported that he'd publicly come out in favor of racism, eugenics, and normalizing hate against Indian people on Twitter, should be rehired because it was just "stupid social media activity".

To add to this, JD Vance's wife is Indian.

> The executive branch has all the lawyers,

Judges do exist, and they matter more than any lawyer.

> virtually all the media

How does the executive branch control the media?

> I don't think OpenAI is training on your data. At least they say they don't, and I believe that.

Like they said they were committed to being “open”?

Andrej Karpathy was tweeting about DeepSeek a month (!) ago.

"DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M)."

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1872362712958906460

The people pretending that the TikTok law is a speech issue are ignoring that no one was requiring TikTok to change their content at all. The law was written to allow for 0 impact on users if the CCP-connected parent company simply divested.

Their preference to shut down instead of receiving tens of billions of dollars would be a clear violation of a company’s fiduciary duty to shareholders for any normal company. But ByteDance’s allegiance isn’t to their shareholders.

Trump has also said that wind turbines harm whales.

> Meta services especially since they don't have any competing service that is popular in the US

Meta won't tinker with the algorithm to push propaganda. TikTok will.

> it's nothing compared to the many trillions of dollars Greenland is worth.

All of these trillions are imaginary numbers buried in ice

They don't need American nukes, UK and France have nukes.

They don't, Finland and Poland alone would counter Russia.

> Until we get major advances in robotics and models designed to control them, true AGI will be nowhere near.

AGI has nothing to do with robotics, if AGI is achieved it will help push robotics and every single scientific field further with progression never seen before, imagine a million AGIs running in parallel focused on a single field.

> "just be privileged as I was to get all the necessary education to be able to not be fooled by this tech". Yeah, very realistic and compassionate.

This has nothing to do with privilege, a person in Indian slums on his 2005 PC with internet access can have better internet BS radar than an Ivy League student.

> Yup, like Bitcoin going to zero.

If the encryption on Bitcoin is broken, say goodbye to the banking system.

> Ok but like if this true and operative, why aren't they mobilizing their algorithmic control right at this moment when it seems like they would need it the most? Just seems like pretty incomplete control if they can still let themselves get to this point

They did try: https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-activates-army-of-u-s-tweens-to-s...

"TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan bill gaining momentum in Congress this week which could ban TikTok altogether."

If this is not enforced properly, it's meaningless. Just like the fight against piracy.

> I don't understand how a tiny country like Israel has become so important in global politics. By population Rwanda is ~30% larger than Israel.

Iran and basically the rest of the Middle East, US needs an ally to keep the region in check.

> It is hard to know how much Russia has been harmed, because both sides probably exaggerate the figures.

> The question should be whether the sanctions have any impact on Russia's war economy, which they do not

Ruble is below a single penny.

Interest rates are at 21%, highest since 2003.

Inflation is out of control.

> they make Russia more independent and strengthen Russian ties with China and India.

ah, so that's why Putin went to North Korea to beg for troops and ammunition?

> Russia have been very clear that such permission would constitute an escalation OF WESTERN 'PARTICIPATION' in the war, and even be tantamount to a direct NATO attack, and so it is at least an escalation.

Since the war started, Russia has moved their red lines dozens of times. The “escalation” argument lost it's meaning.

> haven't harmed Russia all that much

Ruble is below a single penny.

Interest rates are at 21%, highest since 2003.

Inflation is out of control.

Not really all that rosy.

Okay, now let's see polls for Poland, Finland, or UK.

> They have just won a war. That is clear as day now.

Ukraine still holds a part of Kursk region after months of Russia failing to take it back, is that what winning looks like?

> thus there is much less time to organize defense, etc.

Russia was concentrating troops alongside the border for months. It started on October 2021, invasion began on February 2022.