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I would say this is a little too pessimistic. Legislation in the EU and California have both forced tech companies hands, it’s why we can download all our data and delete all our data (supposedly, doubtful in reality) on the large tech platforms. The issue I see is getting legislation that attaches itself to a standard controlled by the W3C. You are right that it won’t be something done by the US federal government though.

It’s a problem for anyone entering politics. It takes incredible resolve and character to resist selling out. He just didn’t have what it takes.

Nothing, amazon is a leech. Don’t use amazon.

I’m just replying to the “quality and cost” part of your post, which are inherently paired. Yes some products just don’t exist being made in the US, but if the store has a product that costs twice as much made domestically sitting next to a foreign product of the same or close enough quality, the price alone will dictate which they choose. This is often why domestically made versions of products aren’t available without a special order (which is even more expensive) and where tariffs are supposed to be used.

Hard to match cost when labor rights such as minimum wage exist, maybe Trump and Elon will get rid of those too though.

Agreed. You watch one video and the entire homepage changes.

I completely agree that it needs to be amazon-wide. But the reality is it’s a lot easier to close down some nameless warehouse in the area when you can still deliver to your customers out of another nameless warehouse. It’s a lot harder to shut down a store that customers expect to exist and remain where it is. I do think we think alike in the fact that unionization can stem from their customer facing properties into their “business” properties that are hidden from the public.

Hopefully they don’t just shutter the store and open a new one a town over. Maybe whole foods is the entry point for unions into other amazon subsidiaries.

Nvidia about to be selling through another country as Mvidia with their Shifty 90 series.

Tariffs: A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.

You provide a service, not goods. You will be unaffected by any tariffs.

Centralization is a weakness. These services can be targeted by governments that want to limit communication. Free speech is a commodity, and servers host this free speech. If a hostile organization, such as a government, targets a channel of free speech such as those hosted on a platform that makes it easy to setup a mastodon instance, this become an easy target that will affect a large portion of users. If you are serious about freedom, you have the freedom to self-host your own platforms.

Edit: I realize my post doesn’t answer the question proposed, but it’s more of an argument against such services. I would argue self-hosting doesn’t rely on paying third-parties to host your software, but I guess this is in the eye of the hoster.

Our studies show this lower literacy-higher receptivity link is strongest for using AI tools in areas people associate with human traits, like providing emotional support or counselling.

This is really dangerous, as subjective matters can easily steer people in vulnerable positions to think and act a certain way. Depending on the training data and safe guards put in place, this could easily lead to AIs telling users to do horrible things to themselves or others.

When I say residential IP addresses, I mostly mean proxies using residential IPs, which allow scrappers to mask themselves as organic traffic.

Edit: Your point stands on there are a lot of services without these protections in place, but a lot of services are protective against scrapping.

I don’t think either are good, but it’s funny how it’s bad when the other guy is doing it.

Foreign propaganda bad. Native propaganda good.

Edit: To add on this, isn’t this capitalism? These people are being paid to do a job, shouldn’t that be celebrated? /s

Crazy idea: Treat people like people and they’ll want to work for you. If you need a consultancy to figure this out, you are the problem.

I completely agree. The only deviation from past policies is that the United States did not want to take land, just keep the country under their thumb as to gain the economic advantage without the cost of actually making the country a US territory. The fact the United States has territories that are a long way from being states while they are talking about sovereign countries becoming the “51st state” due to supposed economic value is ridiculous. This is only being said because the incoming leadership is a strongman moron who just wants to appear strong, and stealing is something strongmen do.

South America from what? Imperialism is different than taking the land outright. The United States has exploited far more than South America, but they never seized their land (except during the expansionary period in the past, the United States did steal land then but I’m talking modern times past stealing Hawaii, as bad as that was).

Edit: Replace “America” with “The United States” because saying America exploited South America is a bit confusing.

The only way I can think of is require users to authenticate themselves, but this isn’t much of a hurdle.

To get into the details of it, what do you define as an AI bot? Are you worried about scrappers grabbing the contents of you website? What is the activities of an “AI Bot”. Are you worried about AI bots registering and using your platform?

The real answer is not even cloudflare will fully defend you from this. If anything cloudflare is just making sure they get paid for access to your website by AI scappers. As someone who has worked around bot protections (albeit in a different context than web scrapping), it’s a game of cat and mouse. If you or some company you hire are not actively working against automated access, you lose as the other side is active.

Just think of your point that they are using residential IP addresses. How do they get these addresses? They provide addons/extensions for browsers that offer some service (generally free VPNs) in exchange for access to your PC and therefore your internet in the contract you agree to. The same can be used by any addon, and if the addon has permissions to read any website they can scrape those websites using legit users for whatever purposes they want. The recent exposure of the Honey scam highlights this, as it’s very easy to get users to install addons by selling users they might save a small amount of money (or make money for other programs). There will be users who are compromised by addons/extensions or even just viruses that will be able to extract the data you are trying to protect.