Violence is the favored recourse of the stupid (idea from David Graeber), since it is almost impossible to come up with an intelligent response. When fascists come for you, and make no mistake as they are coming for you right now, you must respond in the only language they do understand.

It is sad it has come to this, but there's no use pretending it ain't so.

North Korea was aligned with the Soviet Union after the Sino-Soviet split. All China needs is a buffer state with the United States and its forces stationed in SK, but it wasn't interested in turning NK into a vassal state after the Soviet collapse. In short, it doesn't have as much pull as people might assume, and it's none too interested in intervention.

In practice, it's impossible to determine the purpose of purchases. If someone talks about their experience of buying from a dealer without further context, you'd have to narc. Or, you open yourself up to legal liabilities.

Besides, people buy on behalf of others all the time. People share with others. Substance use is often not a solitary activity. This law would create a situation where it's risky for you if you do not narc every time.

WTF? We're gonna be required to narc on people struggling with addiction now, even if they're trying to quit? That's bad for everyone involved. I sure won't be hosting nothing in the US again if this passes.

Wait, it knows? Is Windows defender developing self-awareness before LLMs?

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More flexibility on flight stopovers in China. If you are going somewhere else, China would probably like for you to spend some of your money in a Chinese city. I'm guessing 10 days is the duration because flights occasionally get canceled or delayed. A lot more people would need to apply to extend their visas on stopovers if it was only like 3 days.

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IBM profiting from a genocide?? Say it ain't so!

I considered it, but the specs were too low. Ended up choosing a Google Pixel instead.

Not to cause any "offence", but I think that "manoeuvre" would cause misspellings for you if you need to write something in American English, say a paper or a formal document. Best double check your spell checker locale, and make sure your words aren't incorrectly "labelled" as you "centre" your text.

Chinese phonology doesn't allow for the pronunciation of "app", for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as "APP", and pronouncing it accordingly. It's kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word "yingyong" is only two syllables. "APP" just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.

You can look up Eric Hartford on Huggingface for more info.

Basically, somebody removes such restrictions from models, and publishes uncensored ones under the name "Dolphin". Presumably, an uncensored Deepseek would be called something like "Deepseek R1-dolphin". The full Deepseek R1 is quite large, and I'm not sure when this will happen yet. But there are other great Dolphin models.

Some models like Meta's Llama are way too censored to be useful for many completely normal use cases, and the guy is doing God's work in my opinion.

I do not assume that the US will continue to be a reliable trade partner going forward. Your logic works in a world with rational actors, where trade between Europe and the US is desirable. However, with Trump as President, the US is clearly ceasing to be a rational actor. It is desirable for the EU to cut back its dependence on the US. It would be bad for the incoming administration to be in a position to coerce Europe through economic means.

Also, by failing to control its monopolistic enterprises, many US tech companies are trampling over the rights and privacy of EU citizens. It is desirable for us to cultivate homegrown options, rather than continuing to let American megacorps walk all over us. Reducing trade volume is a rational choice, despite the short term economic pains.

There are political arguments for tariffs. I don't think your economic arguments are likely to persuade too many. In a more rational world, I'd agree with you. And I do very much regret that it has come to this point where I'm in favor of protectionism from the US.