Yes

The decisions of the Supreme Court really have less and less to do with the constitution—now apparently only in the sense that they contradict it in a grotesque manner.

Only if you want to buy regulations, laws, or any other favors. However, I assume that’s not exactly cheap.

Good. Don’t buy anything from Nazis!

I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here: the government is arbitrarily arresting people because the regime’s private partners earn a lot of money from every person they intern.

IMO this is organized crime in its most ruthless form—indifferent to the suffering inflicted on individuals and the damage caused to society.

And worst of all, this seems to be only the secondary function of ICE for this regime. Its primary function is to build up a secret police force that can be used against dissidents and serve as a safeguard against possible resistance from within the military – why else would ICE need such an astronomical budget?

The “/s” refers to the fact that it is anything but irrelevant when government officials threaten people, and minors at that, for no reason. That is wrong and, of course, an abuse of power. The rest of the statement is simply a fact: ICE has an inexhaustible budget, and I am convinced that it is being used to build a secret police force.

Nevertheless, I have no intention of ever traveling to the US again as long as the fascists are in power—not because I’m afraid of them, but because I just don’t like Nazis.

I wish there were more Canadian products available from our retailers in Europe. Especially atm, I would stock up on them to show my support for the country in its trade war with the US. Unfortunately, I can’t remember ever consciously buying a product from Canada—except for maple syrup, which of course has to come from Canada.

It doesn’t matter with the astronomical budget that ICE now has. Despite all these completely justified lawsuits, there is still enough left over to build a well-equipped secret police force and sufficient concentration camps for all the political dissidents who need to disappear.

/s, obviously.

I would try it if it weren’t also a US company.

Well, I certainly won’t notice if they change the flavor again, because I won’t buy any US products as long as the fascists are in charge in America—and it looks like that will be the case for an indefinite period of time.

Sorry Heinz, but you can fuck right off.

It’s nice to read something heartwarming from the US for a change.

I can’t understand how these people can still look at themselves in the mirror. I guess I’m not very empathetic.

I recently spoke with some old friends about the CDC, all of whom are chief physicians or specialists in Germany, Switzerland, and Spain: They all agreed that the CDC is largely defunct now. Apparently, almost all competent staff have been dismissed, meaning that the very important tasks of this organization can no longer be fulfilled. Unfortunately, the assessment of all my friends in medicine was unanimous: they all believe that the CDC can no longer be taken seriously—a great loss for medicine worldwide.

New lows every day in the US

Yes, of course. But the evidence must also be presented to the court in an unaltered form, which seems increasingly unlikely these days in the US, where even the Attorney General is no longer doing things as they should be done.

Why are there videos of this in the first place? Surely not to prove that guards acted wrongly, because in this case, strangely enough, the evidence always seems to disappear.

But (classic) Google provides links that can be traced. LLMs do not do this consistently - and they are frequently hallucinating. Don’t you want to contribute anything to my core statement?

Theoretically, yes, just as poor content is still content - but that only applies until someone takes the time to engage with it.

I don’t think you have any idea how bad it’s going to get in the future - Grok is already giving us a glimpse, but LLMs haven’t replaced search engines like Google yet (has AI already) - but it’s definitely heading in that direction. Then the answers will be given even more strongly and with far less transparency by those who control the LLMs - and they are all multi-billion companies, because only they can afford the necessary computing power.

Oh, companies will definitely provide content - much more than you could ever read, see, or hear (they already do provide more than you could ever comprehend using AI). And companies have done this in the past.

The difference, however, will be that it will be a sequence of existing content. The reason: AI companies claim that their LLMs would behave like humans - and that’s halfway understandable if you believe this narrative: Imagine a musician - it would be unrealistic to think that they have no influences - every musician will say that they have been inspired by Jimmy Hendrix, Kraftwerk or some other influential artist in their work. And yes, that’s what the narratives about neural networks are aiming for: machines learn just like humans: they take some input (training data) and make something extraordinary of it.

The thing is, though, most of it is just empty marketing. AI or rather LLMs are in fact not capable of producing new things the way humans can - not now, and as things stand, probably never. Nevertheless, the economy is adapting as if it were.

For everyone who actually creates content - musicians, scientists, writers, journalists, graphic designers, painters, even civil servants and many others - this means that in the future, they will no longer be able to make a living from their profession. Their valuable content can’t compete with AI because it is too expensive.

For employers, this may be absolute fulfillment - for everyone else, it means the end of the information age, because AI is not capable of producing anything new. And when there is noone able to make a living from their intellectual work, nothing of any worth new will be produced - just variants of thing that were already there.