FaceDeer

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

EFF has always been opposed to the expansion of copyright, regardless of the "size" of the copyright holders involved.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why would a Chinese-made AI have American censorship and propaganda in it?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily. There was a large pool of non-voters, if a lot of those were disillusioned leftists who didn't see anyone worth voting for then appealing to them might have been a winning strategy.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would imagine it's not a problem if the betting market is small compared to the things being bet on. In this case you'd have to manipulate the long term outcome of the Ukraine war to win a few tens of millions of dollars, which seems unlikely.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 20 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Nice. This implies that these businesses are concluding that Ukraine is going to win - or at least, not lose - and will therefore retain its sovereignty. Their investments wouldn't be safe otherwise.

This sort of thing is why betting markets are so good at prediction. Experts can pontificate and analyze all they want but at the end of the day a betting market requires people to put their money where their mouth is.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 27 points 6 months ago

People who decide not to vote are in fact making a positive statement, they're saying "we agree with whatever the people who do vote decide." I don't give America a pass due to apathy.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago

It's right wing too, but it's not populous.

California's population is roughly equal to Canada's. Alaska's got less than 2% of Canada's population. We can absorb Alaska without too much disruption, California would be more of a fusion. And their economy is twice the size of Canada's, so likely it'd be seen as more of Canada joining California rather than the other way around.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How ironic that the only country to actually invoke Article 5 and receive NATO assistance under it is the one that's now ditching NATO.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nah, California is too right-wing and populous, it'd overwhelm Canada's Canadianness.

I think we should take Alaska, it always made more sense as a Canadian territory.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

AI can do subtitles too.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It really sucks how the US has given "spreading democracy" such a bad name. And democracy itself, I suppose.

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