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Robot Makers Try to Reassure Public They're Legit After Elon Musk Fudged Demo (gizmodo.com)

Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla’s robot demo wasn’t all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company’s much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it’s interesting to...

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When is this AI tech bubble going to pop?

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I think you took the wrong lesson from that lol

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The US and EU have no room to judge Israel, that’s true.

I sure as fuck can judge them, though, and I do and so should you.

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Is that the line? Everything before was fine, but this is what caused them to lose your respect?

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China is very consistent on this issue bud.

I know that’s hard to believe when everyone else is so craven and two faced, but you should educate yourself on these topics before speaking.

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Unlimited genders on the first world.

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Hell yeah, time to put up or shut up.

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He did it because his people demand it, so in a sense you’re right, but his people demanded it for humanitarian reasons.

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It sounds like you are under the impression that imports are bad for the economy.

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Immigration absolutely helps the US economy, because it parasitically siphons all the skilled workers out of other countries that it underdevelops and hoards their labor for itself.

People think remittances help underdeveloped countries, but labor is the superior of capital, losing that skilled labor is never worth the paltry sums that get sent back home. It’s just another shape that imperialism takes.

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People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please. Our material conditions limit our agency. We go where the jobs are, where the money is, where the possibilities for a better future are. Those are all choices.

But you can’t ignore the material conditions that lead to those choices. We aren’t just free floating agents in a sea of possibilities.

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Yes, and the people who could develop that local opportunity aren’t there. They all leave as soon as they can.

That’s why I said they’re underdeveloped countries. They’re not “developing” in truth, but are being kept from becoming developed. How do you think that happens? In part it happens because of the IMF giving predatory loans and then imposing austerity on the people when the government can’t pay their loans back, but it also happens because labor is the superior of capital and these countries are losing skilled labor.

I am not blaming them for leaving their countries. I am blaming underdevelopment, which is a product of imperialism.

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I think you may have misspoke. You said I’m removing their agency. I did no such thing.

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Don’t misunderstand, the people moving to the US are blameless. Imperialism works by siphoning up all of the skilled labor around the world for itself in order to make life better for people within the imperial core, and this is part of how the imperial nations underdevelop other countries. People get educations in their home countries (often at the government’s expense) and then they take that education out of the country to put it to use in the US (or France or Canada etc). They’re just going where the jobs are, though, that’s not their fault at all.

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Egypt is also a useful case study, because the US props up its shitty government. That’s also part of how the Global South is underdeveloped, it’s a multifaceted machine that sucks out everyone who can help make the country better and gives support and resources to the people making it worse. It’s not just legacy from the 20’s and 50’s, this is an ongoing problem that is created by imperialism.

Also when a Global South government tries to solve its problems, such as through nationalizing resources or land reform, the US buries them under sanctions and attempts to make a regime change. This, too, is part of how imperialism underdevelops the Global South.

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A large police contingent that showed up four hours into the attack waited in the grass across the quad for an hour as dozens more attacks occurred.

Were any of these Zionist rioters arrested?

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I guarantee if any anti-genocide protester defended themselves they’d be arrested.

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That’s a much smaller number than I expected.

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I’m skeptical that there’s been any inflation. All deaths that have been recorded have been directly identified, names and identification papers and everything. There’s no way to actually exaggerate, unless they’re hiding survivors somehow.

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When Elon Musk tortures monkeys to death with brain chips it’s innovation, but when China does it it’s “controversial” and “concerning”

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lol we’re all going to die

Politicians and dog experts vilify South Dakota governor after she writes about killing her dog (apnews.com)

Politicians and dog experts are criticizing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she wrote in a new book about killing a rambunctious puppy. The story — and the vilification she received on social media — has some wondering whether she’s still a viable potential running mate for presumptive Republican presidential candidate...

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You’d have a point if she was raising dogs for slaughter, but there’s an extra layer of sociopathy to kill a nonhuman member of your own family.

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I like Joe Biden’s dogs and wish they’d bite more secret service members.

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Still trying to get Hamas to release captives without releasing Palestinian captives. 🙄

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Being normal.

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Relatable.

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Honestly incredible that Hamas has managed to keep them alive under the conditions of Israel’s siege.

Bird flu virus has been spreading in US cows for months, RNA reveals (www.nature.com)

A strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been silently spreading in US cattle for months, according to preliminary analysis of genomic data. The outbreak is likely to have begun when the virus jumped from an infected bird into a cow, probably around late December or early January. This implies a protracted, undetected...

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Can’t wait till all the people who talked shit about bushmeat during the COVID pandemic to stop consuming cows and cow products.

You know, to be consistent. 😏

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Please don’t tell me you actually believe them when they cry about national security. It’s almost always a lie.

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The CPC can just buy data from a different broker. You think Alphabet or Meta are loyal to American interests?

Also, TikTok won’t be banned for months, so it won’t change the campus protests at all. In fact it’ll probably piss the protesters off even more, it’s very obvious government censorship.

Also also, there’s zero proof TikTok is promoting pro-Palestine/anti-Israel content. That’s just what is naturally popular, the reality is that all the other social media companies are suppressing pro-Palestine/anti-Israel content. That’s it.

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The law only prohibits the operations of so-called “foreign adversary controlled applications” i.e. companies with Chinese investors.

I’m pretty sure if TikTok was controlled by American investors and sold data to China it would be fine - although there’s also an executive action that bans selling data to foreign adversaries, it also hasn’t actually been implemented by regulators and is pretty simple to work around anyway since a third-party can just buy data from American companies and then sell it to China.

I think a bill like this that targeted all companies that collect data would be good.

Targeting “foreign adversary controlled applications” doesn’t really help anyone.

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… and so by whining about natsec they can get you to support anything, as long as they don’t tell you about it?

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🤡

Is a vote for Trump actually two votes for Trump? Oh! Is every dollar you don’t donate to Biden a dollar donated to Trump?

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It was smart to delay the ban. The original bill would have banned it before the election - monumentally stupid! This, at least, delays the impact.

People are paying attention, though, and TikTok has been buying ads to campaign against this law. It’s still going to have an impact.

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If this was an actual national security threat, why would they give them so long to sell? In fact, why even try to buy it? Why not just ban it immediately? Furthermore, why haven’t they implemented Biden’s executive order to stop China from buying data from Meta or Alphabet? And why haven’t they given us any proof of an actual national security threat?

Their actual behavior betrays the truth, just like you said. It’s clear this is just national business interests and censorship.

Stop believing in national security bullshit.

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They just passed a fascist bipartisan bill to censor TikTok because it was showing the truth about Gaza and because it was disrupting the preexisting media cartel that already exists in the US. This was part of a larger fascist foreign aid package meant to help Israel carry out its genocide and prolong the war in Ukraine instead of seek a peace deal and help provoke a war in Taiwan by arming them to the teeth and pushing us to fucking WW3. By voting for them you are making it clear that they can do anything they want to you and you’ll beg for more.

I already decided not to vote for genocide Joe a while ago. If I’m going to vote at all, I’m going to vote the way Bushnell did.

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I think the reason it’s happening now is because of the growing protest movement against the genocide in Gaza.

All the other US media companies actively sensor pro-Palestine/anti-Israel content and TikTok doesn’t. Unacceptable!

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Israel is dropping US bombs. 🙄

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The cops start mass arrests regardless of aggression.

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The colleges have relationships with the companies that make the bombs and have direct investments in Israel.

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Okay, but then isn’t staying home also a vote for Biden by the same logic?

This isn’t a binary relation, there’s clearly three options (vote for Biden, vote for Trump, vote for neither).

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Why is it that staying home is a vote for Trump but it isn’t a vote for Biden. Doesn’t that seem strange to you?

And you’re right, it doesn’t make any sense, and that applies to staying home being a vote for Trump. The plurality of the country stays home, so Trump should win in a landslide, right? Yet he lost once. This seems like a glaring error in the idea that a protest vote is a vote for Trump.

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I have never once heard someone suggest that staying home is a vote for Biden, but it’s pretty well agreed upon that not voting is a vote for Trump.

That’s the strange part! Why is staying home a vote for Trump but not a vote for Biden? What makes them different?

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I give people the benefit of the doubt until they get nasty, so it’s no trouble to waste some time arguing with a brick wall 🙃

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I think I’m going to write in Aaron Bushnell.

They already cast the only vote that matters as far as I’m concerned.

Whichever génocidaire wins doesn’t really matter. America’s days are numbered.

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Here’s US Senator Pete Ricketts saying that we need to ban TikTok because pro-Palestine videos “have more reach than the top 10 US news websites combined”

The reason it’s succeeded now is because of Gaza. Crediting the election makes no sense, how does this help anyone’s election chances?

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So why are Democrats doing this? This isn’t just a Republican thing, it’s bipartisan and Biden signed it. Why?

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But only for those other reasons and definitely not because of TikTok being a hotbed of pro-Palestine/anti-Isrsel media content. Can’t be that, right? It’s just a coincidence. 🙄

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