https://xkcd.com/927/

NRA, who would gladly supply the weapons - for a price, of course - says YES!!!

Now, I hear you say, that would preemptively arm any wannabe school shooters and eliminate any leftover threshold for their shooting sprees, but the NRA has a solution to that problem too: more fear of guns means more people buying more guns to protect themselves from all the guns in circulation.

It’s beautiful, isn’t it? * wipes away single tear with dollar signs in both eyes *

Again: nobody is complaining that you can make AI spit out their training data because AI is the only source of that training data. That is not the issue and nobody cares about AI as a delivery source of pirated material. The issue is that next to the transformed output, the not-transformed input is being in use in a commercial product.

Well now you got something black on white that you can cite and point to for collected evidence. That’s… something?

The issue isn’t that you can coax AI into giving away unaltered copyrighted books out of their trunk, the issue is that if you were to open the hood, you’d see that the entire engine is made of unaltered copyrighted books.

All those “anti hacking” measures are just there to obfuscate the fact that that the unaltered works are being in use and recallable at all times.

“Also, why keep pretending? Texas judge immediately declares case won by Musk, saves everyone time they could be spending on paid vacations instead.”

Grab them by the sacred places. When you’re rich, they let you do it.

Were this capitalism, the competition would simply win by offering lower prices, but Kroger was allowed to grow to monopolistic proportions so that they’ve either bought up any and all serious competition already, muscled rivals out of business or settled on quasi-gerrymandered spheres of influence with their equally monopolistic competitors, so that nobody undercuts them when they abuse their status to not offer the best deals, but instead price-gouge the people stuck in their sphere of influence.

The question stands.

Memes are fair game in this wretched hive of scum and evilitude.

If I may propose a counterpoint: all that, in some cases, sure, but certainly also other cases where they started out under the umbrella of the right’s airtight propaganda screen and simply never bothered to get a second opinion, reinforced by the cult-like indoctrination claiming that everybody else is lying anyway.

Propaganda works and it takes an active effort, an effort that is severely discouraged by the existing propaganda environment, to seek out a reality check.

However, while such cases may exist, it is getting harder and harder as time goes on to justify sticking to the FOX propaganda bubble at this point.

He would have the vast majority of the nation’s wealth on his side, due to the tax cuts and permissions to strip-mine the environment. Having half the nations capital on his side translates to like twelve people in total but as we all know, corporations are people (when convenient) and the worth of people is measured in $$$.

Him going off on a tirade doesn’t take any trolling. That’s his default state, unprovoked, regardless of what his own, actual plans were up until ten seconds ago.

But if we’re honest, the real crime is “daring to aspire to be more than a cheap, husband-adjacent taxpayer factory”.

Picked two bad candidates.

Q: “How many r are there in strawberry?”

A: “This question is usually answered by giving a number, so here’s a number: 632. Mission complete.”

Sure, when the chips fall, eating a computer rig won’t stave off starvation for even a minute.

No, obviously not the guns of real people, just the ones who get stopped and frisked by the police. Y’know… the ones you can tell are evil because they’re… y’know, wink wink nudge nudge “urban”.

Just wait and see: all it takes is for a judge to tell him not to do it - ten consecutive times, THEN threaten with actual consequences, and THEN you may or may not see him become more circumspect about his transgressions in order to skirt the legal line a tiny bit less obviously!

After all: everyone is equal before the law!*

*Unless you bought the highest judges and make them declare you an absolute ruler immune to criminal law.

By definition, he cannot “do something that will make him lose support”. Those who still support him like what he does by default, because HE does it. It literally doesn’t matter anymore what it is that he does.