Without a foundation, you have no foundation.

Effectively, China has been acquiring a monopoly on manufacturing, which is an absolute necessity for modern life. We have been acquiring the higher-paid, but less numerous and less critical industries.

They’re in the basements, so you don’t hear about them.

And, how does what you said cancel out what you responded to?

Don’t know why you were downvoted here…

Indeed. It doesn’t even trend towards consistency.

It’s much like the pattern-matching layer of human consciousness. Its function isn’t to filter for truth, its function is to match knowns and potentials to patterns in its environment.

AI has no notion of critical thinking. It is purely positive “thinking”, in a technical sense - it is positing based on what it “knows”, but there is no genuine concept of self, nor even of critical thinking, nor even a non-conceptual logic or consistency filter.

Idiots.

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One of us… One of us… One of us!

Yeah. Companies like that are bridges I burn and never look back to.

No. The ROG brand is ASUS’s brand in the first place.

Like, anyone could be like “this is my normal quiche, and this one here is my MuMu quiche.”

Then, once everybody’s buying MuMu, start using the normal recipe for MuMu. It’s not illegal, but at first people think they just got an Ok MuMu, then they start realizing it just sucks now. Hard for the company to recover from that.

But voiding and not honoring warranties?

Yeah.

Sick burns.

You also know all of the terminology, what a console is, what you’re searching for when something goes wrong, what sites are likely to have his answers, and how to search for it in a way that works.

This is the first time I’ve ever wanted a reward system on any social media platform. Sure, I’ve used Steam rewards and such because they’re there. I put emojis on chat messages, etc.

…but this comparison you made is pure gold.

Really. I’ve been watching the shitshow in windows and apple get worse and worse, and am glad for the availability of Linux.

Yep. Change requires actual change.

And it also generally requires more energy than working with the current system, unless and until it becomes the default.

You want free-range grass-fed beef that is slaughtered with reasonably low suffering? Pay more for that, until it becomes the system.

You want an operating system that isn’t screwing you over at every opportunity? Use a Linux distro, and pay for ease or pay with learning how to make it do the things you think I should.

I’m happily using Linux as my daily driver, and have been for ages. I’ve gotten over the need to tinker as much - I just use it, report bugs when they matter to me, and live life.

Tbh, I’m fine with cosmetic-only microtransactions, so long as they’re not pumped at you all the time.

Edit: in an otherwise free-to-play game. Fuck micros in paid games.

Except we do have that power. There’s reasonable national security risk, and your lack of understanding of the dynamics involved doesn’t make them nebulous to others.

In any case, if you don’t like it, vote with your life choices. If it’s not that important, well… …it’s not that important.

You’re thinking of laws in terms of obedience. Law is about agreed-upon structure (sometimes functional, often dysfunctional).

Enforcement is about obedience, and comes up when people don’t go along with the agreed-upon structure. When the structure is made poorly, enforcement has harmful consequences.

Examples:

• food stamps (law)
• no stealing (law)
• preventing theft or multiple-subscription to food stamps (enforcement)
• the wilderness act (law)
• suing the government for not following the wilderness act (enforcement)

Law and enforcement are closely linked, but definitely distinct.

They have the authority to create structure (pass laws) regarding foreign powers operating within the States. So they pass laws (create structure) that state the agreed-upon structure, and enable that structure to be enforced.

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