There are so many speech restrictions and humans rights violations in China that scare the hell out of me, but then I see rulings like this and their progress on robotics and tech and I think “Well, they are doing something right…” I hope one day there is more free speech for people in China who deserve to be able to say what they want.

It’s a great ruling because companies that would normally favor efficiency and profit increases are in a better position to take these existing workers and utilize them in different ways than just have everyone fired en masse and then somehow the market will sort it out. Even under classical economic theories, governments are supposed to regulate externalities and AI displacing workers too rapidly could be considered a type of externality.

I tried to read this using Tor Browser and I can’t:

Failed to verify your browser Code 99 Vercel Security Checkpoint

Thanks Vercel Security Checkpoint! You’ve saved the Internet yet again!

That’s the real question: is coding protected speech?

Tornado cash started this. A fucking github repo was criminalized for just being code that wasn’t executed. This is what happens from not fighting that.

If we can criminalize code or legislate what code is allowed and what code isn’t, than computer code is not protected speech. And that’s a horrible situation.

That reasoning is a lot like saying a fish in the ocean is just a ballerina waiting to happen. No one can teach the religious anything until they stop being fantasy prone.

I think this is a sagacious point: I’m tired of trying to teach dumb people who believe in religion about non-fantasy-based thinking.

I disagree with all of you. Now that our benevolent theocratic autocratic overlords have decided to track everything we say and do and escape is impossible, I completely support their brave new dystopian agenda. All hail the wonderful leaders!

What is so hard about these situations is normies absolutely do not understand the problems with certain operating systems and OSes and normie tracking Apps.

I applied for a job and a recruiter harassed me over having a proton.me address, going “Well I’ve never heard of that.” How do I respond to that? “I’m sorry you’re an idiot?”

This is what Thomas-Johnson gets for using normie software like the rest of the oblivious. Because 99.99 percent of people will continue to look like they smelled rotten eggs whenever non-normie Apps or services are brought up, even when things like this continue to happen, normies will not change. It’s like global warming: everyone intelligent knows we are headed toward disaster, metaphorically steering the ship into the icebergs, and we are on a collision course with death; normies do not care. With the psychopathic and nihilistic rich and idiotic religious people controlling the narrative, you would think normies would notice; they do not. I do not feel sorry for this person. He used google. What outcome should he have expected? For them to adhere to their policies?

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Do you live in an area with poor people and lots of shoplifting? Do you work in grocery store security surveillance? Do you work as a 711 clerk? Is this an area of expertise or are you just guessing?

It increases the noise to signal ratio in their attempts to look for food thieves.

When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.

For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don’t make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.

I never actually steal and haven’t ever shoplifted anything.

I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.

I’ll admit to being one of those people. I’m always a bit biphobic of new bisexual people unless they end up fucking me.

It’s hard to know if you are right or just biased. I am not an expert on this topic but feel bad for animals who live in small cages or tanks alone and feel like if it must be done, it would be nice if they were comfortable. Has a hamster ever been observed doing this in nature or only in captivity?

I don’t care if there is a package called gnome-age-verification distributed in my linux distro and would prefer it if it means fewer sites with facial biometric tests. If I have concerns about the age verification, then I should be able to type:

sudo dnf remove gnome-age-verification

California probably wants it in linux distros so that linux can’t be a justification for big tech still demanding Orwellian stuff in every website (ie “but what about the children who use linux? we need to protect them with Persona too!”)

But where would it stop? The hell version of this would be kernel-level-approved-AI-agent-checks, with an OS required to have an approved AI agent with a validated third party key that reports to the government with required telemetry and the kernel makes sure the OS won’t run without the approved AI and then makes illegal any scripts for unapproved kernel code modification. And post-Tornado cash, we know code is unfortunately not protected US speech.

You’re missing the point… if you have a bunch of soft small cedar chips, they are going to shift while sleeping and some part of your hamster body is going to be on hard man-made material on the floor of a cage that is a lot harder than dirt and grass and leaves.

cruelty to animals (isolation, pellets on ground that aren’t comfortable enough to make a bed. a hard hard floor under the pellets, day after day of misery and tedium and a form of sensory deprivation, having to use his own body as a pillow because of horrible cruelty) isn’t actually funny!

i want to be your friend. can i run away to canada and do canadian thing with you? i’m not sure what people do in canada… but i want to learn…

the people who vote facist light may be perfectly willing to vote harder left if the overton window were shifted… but it’s not shifting… because of many many assholes… and since there are so many assholes, why have sympathy without context?

why should that person be having empathy for some conservative pos who voted to defund healthcare specifically so he could vote against LGBT rights and against women’s rights? this guy could be a cool dude, but he may not be. I need not have sympathy for my enemies.

No, it absolutely does matter. I am tired of these “we owned the libs” idiots giving each other high fives when a transwoman can’t compete in swimming and then suddenly crying bitter tears after they have no healthcare coverage.