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Neither do the defensive ones.

If war is tragedy, where is the dramatic irony?

Correct.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90782096&caseSearchType=U...

Did search engines increase rudeness?

Impressive scale actually, didn't realize there were over 500 Canadian wineries.

You haven't been following the FTC's enforcement?

e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/owner-conservative-appa...

Not sure why the sarcasm. Do we keep picking up the tab until they're trampling the entire Bill of Rights?

> It's always going to be cheaper to make things in places where labor costs and environmental responsibility expectations are low.

Yeah, offshoring was mostly about driving down costs by laundering labor and environmental law.

Nice, you found Canadian wine and orange juice?

Only on those who buy imports.

Buy American. False Made in USA claims are subject to fines exceeding $40k per violation.

The ancients had reed/bamboo pens, which looked similar to modern pencils, though they were largely supplanted by quill pens by medieval times.

Nah, just appreciated this relic of '10s culture from the great mustache boom back around the turn of the 13th b'ak'tun.

On the contrary, a weaker dollar would make exports more competitive and imports more expensive, thus realigning trade balance.

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system

Marsh Island, Maine as well:

https://umaine.edu/umec

Crypto.com

This squares with Edward Luttwak's take:

https://unherd.com/2025/02/the-breakdown-of-the-cia

I'm sure they have.

I don't have a PCP.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/02/medical-...

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-02-1...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/04/0...

Are audio recordings of patients shared with third parties?

That sounds like the old trick of pulling out a pen and paper and saying "I'm going to record this, okay?" with a tape recorder in your briefcase.

Are they informed that their personal medical information will be shared with an unknown set of third parties / LLMs subject to manual QA / cloud services with telemetry?

Honestly sounds like she's opening herself up to massive lawsuits (depending on State law). I would reach out to the legal department if any doctor pulled this kind of shit on me.

What's defensible? LLMs seem like gunpowder artillery to last decade's moats.

How does she disclose that to her patients? How many refuse?

Dystopian.

No, it's the lack of representation. We're an extreme outlier among OECD countries, worst representation in the free world. Even Communist China has better representation. The U.S. in the 1790s had representation in line with Nordic countries today.

The only change needed is repealing the Apportionment Act of 1929.

I don't plan to upgrade beyond Windows 10 and Mac OS X. If I gotta go to a version 11, it'll be X11.

Stories and jokes are made of, or at least delivered with, words. Architecture (and music, as Elvis was referring to) are not.

It decoupled us from foreign markets.

> You’re looking at an economy in which the best human is worse at any and all jobs than the worst robot.

Yeah yeah, they said that about domesticated working animals and steam powered machines too.

Humans in mecha trump robots.

Smoot-Hawley and the Buy American Act, which protected/enabled the Arsenal of Democracy to win the Second World War. Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. Voluntary Export Restraints. Steel and aluminum tariffs. Tech/IP restrictions from the U.S./EU on communist Chinese firms.