Crazy how the two most hyped and funded technologies of the decade were: energy wasting fake money for criminals and energy wasting plagiarism machines.
This[1] thread has a good collection of them. Has plenty of comments in favor of course, but the negative ones are present in high quantities. There's a reason even anodyne headlines like that can get 800+ comments on HN.
I missed that one. But it seems like a lively debate for the most part rather than a single opinion pile on.
But yeah I get your point that it's like there's an unreasonable number of people who have a strong opinion on it despite having no actual experience or evidence or reason to comment. Homeschool is a small minority and the majority are biased to what they know. We homeschool 3 kids, didn't intend to to it before it happened, and I would have held some very incorrect opinions about it too, for what little thought I ever actually gave it.
Content sourcing is decentralized, sure, content distribution is not. Through curation, one can craft a narrative without even needing to pay propagandists to write copy.
insisting, against an overwhelming amount of irrefutable evidence to the contrary, that states like Australia and France are benevolent toward their citizens, does indeed make one a bootlicker.
was persecuting COVID dissidents "russian spam suppression"? are government-mandated backdoors "search warrants"?
Yeah pretty much. We know Russia was behind a whole lot of the pro-infection movement. Ostriching that fact doesn't make it stop being true. They've been doing stuff like this since the communist days, so they're very good at it now.
Very mundane explanations for all of these things -- you could basically make a similar argument about anything at anytime if you were to phrase it similarly.
I would argue no on genocide, but mixed on war (if you include China's occupations) - I can see the argument for it though. I'm not clear where you stand on freeways, but it seems like a weird one to sandwich between 'war' and 'genocide'. As for propaganda, that can go unmentioned.
China is not murdering millions of people halfway across the globe on a regular basis. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, everything Israel touches with our bombs...
How many counties has China invaded in the last 50 years? How many miles of train tracks has the US laid in the last 50? Which county has directly fueled the horrors in Gaza? Like what world are you living in?
china hasnt pulled out of tibet, or xinjiang, and its pretty clearly an occupying force there in the same way the the US was in iraq/Afghanistan, israel in gaza, or russia in ukraine.
china been continuously doing the bad behaviour that the US is only sometimes doing
Are you writing in the style of an LLM as a gag, or just interacting with LLM's so much it's become engrained?
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