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Functionally, probably? Given most states are sovereign instead of being divided up into zones by security checkpoints managed by a foreign power and which requires citizenship in said foreign power to cross. Between how much influence Isreal has in the government of the West Bank archipelago and the requirement that Palestinians possess a lower tier of Israeli citizenship in order to move from town to town, I don’t think a strong case can be made that the Isrealis have allowed the Palestinians have sovereignty over their own territory.

As such the Palestinian people of the West Bank have been and unfortunately practically remain part of the Israeli state, albeit a horribly discriminated and abused part of it with very good reason to splinter off into their own state. If Isreal had actually followed the UN mandate in the first place there might be a stronger argument that the West Bank and Gaza have always had a sovereign Palestinian government, but they functionally annexed them instead, and as such the West Bank and Gaza are now hopefully splintering off from the government they have been largely barred from participating in on racial grounds.

You mean free trade policies might result in foreign companies coming in and outcompeting local ones here instead of just allowing our companies to go into, take over, and outcompete their ones? How could this happen? Who could have possibly predicted this turn of events? How could anyone else’s companies come in and do unto us exactly what we’ve been doing to them for the last half century?

Why, next your going to tell me that in a free market a company with lower labor costs that is willing to slash profit margins might actually gain market share over a collection of companies that collectively decided not to compete with each other on margins./s

Cracking down on “illegal” immigration, exclusively targets legal immigrants showing for appointments at government offices, sounds about Right.

Surely randomly deporting legal immigrants can only going to lead to higher illegal imagination as people decide to not present themselves at the border in favor of banking on the shear impossibility of effectively survaling the entire country. But I imagine that is kind of the point, we need to manufacture a illegal imagination crisis but all we have is legal asylum seekers, so we better do something about that and bet that our electorate is too dumb to understand.

For a piece of legislation written to create a “free market solution”tm by a Republican think tank, they sure do love attacking it.

Almost certainly not, expanding 2.5 miles of additional catenary or especially third rail really isn’t going to have that much of a cost compared to specialized rolling stock. It’s also worth noting that the longer the route the less practical it is just down to the scale of battery needed and time it wastes charging.

Personally, i’d recommend Perun’s excellent video on the topic of your curious on the present state of nuclear deterrence, though it is several months old at this point.

It’s really strange how the stats own budget analysis blames a week stock market and tax income on said market for the drop as compared to their previous buget surplus but the narrative is that we need to bend over backwards for the poor billionaires.

I believe the top comment over there noted how at most wealthy Californian’s leaving could have contributed 1.4 billion of the 68 billion shortfall, so I’m as skeptical as every other time this argument comes up that tax is a major deciding factor on where you live and not things like jobs, geography, climate, weather, public services, safety, friends/family, house prices, cost of living, etc…

As a neat aside, an economic studiy found that at a national level the US could get up to a ninety percent tax rate on the super rich before enough of them would actually renounce their citizenship to get out of taxes to offset the increased income. Admittedly US citizenship is very desirable compared to most others, especially for the supper rich, but it gives some perspective on how high you actually have to go to make a difference.

It’s also worth noting that the current US tax rates are very low compared to both many other nations, and indeed things like corbate income is a third of its historical level during the 50s and 60s, and less than half of that of Canada. For instance 2017 corporate tax cuts alone are responsible for an estimated four hundred billion a year in additional national dept, have been found to have no statistical effect on market growth distinguishable from random noise, but arn’t likely to be fully removed anytime soon for some reason.

It is perhaps unsurprising that the rise of absurdly low taxes on high income earners nationally has been an increase in both public dept and taxes on low and medium income earners, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.

They’ve generally been pretty open about using pirated books and data to train their product on.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llama/

There is also no law stating that copyright doesn’t apply to training AI in the same way it applies to every other use. Even this comment technically has a copyright, in the same way that people who write long original stories on forums like Spacebattles and Sufficent Velocity post by post still have a copyright on that story.

There is a carve out in copyright for academic research, but that protection disappears the second you start using it for a commercial purpose.

It’s a Chinese EV manufacturer who primarily competes on producing basic but solid EVs for prices on par with used gas vehicles by taking advantage of the lower cost floor of short range EVs. If you live in a nation without an indigenous car industry and especially if you live on an island or in a city, just need a basic car, and don’t mind having to stop for coffee every hour or two if you go on a road trip BYD has a lineup just for you.

The transformation doesn’t matter if it was illegally obtained in the first place. They published thier material for human consumption, not as AI feedstock. The problem for Microsoft is that the only thing special about chatgpt 4 is the amount of feedstock, and if they have to buy the rights to it suddenlyp putting half the internet into Siri and selling the result doesn’t seem so brilliant anymore.

You can also download many point clouds from opentopography if you have an .edu email around.

The party of “fiscal responsibility” tm everybody.

To be fair, from my understanding it’s is specifically talking about a slight increase in the rate people who immigrated to Canada are leaving, and not emigration in general, which is also slightly up from last year.

You know, it would be really nice if some of them actually knew what that book was talking about sometimes. From my understanding the Bible describes and condemns witchcraft as making deals with evil for power, and basically uses it as condemnation of thinking that the ends can ever justify the means by taking things to the logical extreme.

In most modern settings at least, magic is either an inerhant trait, lots of carful study, or a bargain with a benign spirit of some variety.

There’s is admittedly a long history of people missing the point of this, most of which stated by an utter loon trying to get back at is ex. The people at the time utterly ignored medieval Karen, but this drove him to rant a lot in writings which then got used as a source by latter assholes to justify gojng after the people they wanted to get back at.

All of which ignores the obvious of course, which is to say the Bible doesn’t say you can’t experience story’s about sin in the first place.

Becuse we fund a 1.3 trillion dollar health insurance industry purely out of bureaucratic waste?

It’s a shame that the traditional US (and japanese) auto industry decided that they needed to make every EV they could a truck or suv becuse that’s what they get the best margin on. Like there’s a reason that EV adoption isn’t a problem in europe or asia, and that’s becuse most of thier models are small enough to be affordable. While you may pay at the pump for a large suv or truck, with electric that cost comes up front in the form of the battery and motor needing to be far larger than they would otherwise be. Combine with the fascination with longer ranges than most people need even for cross country trips and the cost for most of these cars is far higher than it should be even before artificial scarcity and dealer shananagans come into play.