Yup. Violating IP licenses is a great reason to prevent it. According to current law, if they get Alice license for the book they should be able to use it how they want.
I’m not permitted to pirate a book just because I only intend to read it and then give it back. AI shouldn’t be able to either if people can’t.

Beyond that, we need to accept that might need to come up with new rules for new technology. There’s a lot of people, notably artists, who object to art they put on their website being used for training. Under current law if you make it publicly available, people can download it and use it on their computer as long as they don’t distribute it. That current law allows something we don’t want doesn’t mean we need to find a way to interpret current law as not allowing it, it just means we need new laws that say “fair use for people is not the same as fair use for AI training”.

My initial reaction was what the other person said, but as I was reading theirs I kinda shifted view.

Taking the mystery out of the world doesn’t mean we’ve answered all the questions, it just means our expectation has shifted and we assume that all the dark corners have been explored.
Villages in the most remote parts of the world have Disney T-shirts.
There’s no troll under the bridge.
Our stories of the unknown increasingly feature people as the monster.

It’s not bad, and there’s still wonder in learning about the world around us, it’s just a different perspective where the default is a lot more skeptical and assumes there’s an answer, even if it’s not currently known.

Even conspiracy theories have shifted tone to being more disbelief in rational things than belief in irrational things.

A lot of it you can fake pretty well by putting some water on their face and a touch of whatever makeup makes your cheeks a bit rosy.

A lot of the cries the babies have are the “I asked for food and it’s been three minutes and I haven’t gotten it, so I’ll ask louder”, or “I just woke up and forgot I have hands”

I entirely agree we shouldn’t do it, but I don’t believe it would necessarily be an illegal order to follow.

Invading a sovereign country for overtly offensive reasons isn’t against any particular military law, it’s just shitty.

The president doesn’t have the power to declare war, only to do everything involved in a war, but I don’t think that would actually make any of the orders illegal, unless they were to explicitly do some war crimes or some such.

If your sales decline is because of a boycott by the “radical left”, doesn’t that mean that your product mostly appeals to … The “radical left”?

And it was related to a policy initiative, and he didn’t have price notes and feature lists.

“Business that benefits from policy initiative let’s president use their stuff for a photo op during pitch tour” has a very different connotation than “president tries to sell people the car of his backer from the Whitehouse lawn”.

You really don’t need to keep posting screenshots of articles. I’m not even bothering to read them anymore because it takes too long to find the article and figure out how you’re taking the headline out of context.
Consistently posting screenshots of bullshit kinda ruins the assumption of good faith.

Here’s my rebuttal:

The bit you highlighted from the article doesn’t make any indication about the identity of anyone. It’s really only a smoking gun if you already accept your conclusion.

A historical quote about Jewish people being driven to Israel aligning with Zionist goals isn’t really evidence of a conspiracy.
Neither is Israels political allies.

You’re not going to convince me there’s a zionist conspiracy to stage antisemitism. There have certainly been cases where people staged antisemitism. That doesn’t mean there’s some grand conspiracy by the zionists.

Seeing that someone did something antisemitic and concluding “oh, it must have been those tricksy Jews faking it” is antisemitic, just like making assumptions about the race of a criminal is racist. Data points that align with your prejudice don’t validate making assumptions without evidence, and data points don’t provide evidence of an ornate structure linking them.

But lets keep going.

Let’s not.

First it goes into free fall, then it slows its drop, but the ticket starts going backwards in time.

It’s why Tesla makes a lot of money despite not actually having significant sales volume.

Electric cars are far, far simpler to manufacture the ice vehicles, but by positioning them as luxury vehicles he can try to sell a cheaper car made to the lowest spec at luxury prices, and because there wasn’t much comparison people haven’t known that the margin was just enormous.

Really? I’ve seen it pretty often when an order is going to take a minute and there’s cars in line behind the slow order.
They also do curbside order pickup, and are one of the only places I can think of where that makes sense (for food orders). Since their system is timed very precisely and already has a queue system, of a person says they want their order at 2, you just drop it in the prep queue the right amount of time beforehand. You also know approximately how many orders of which type you can process at once, so you can disable pickup slots when typical in person orders and booked orders get too close to the threshold.
Every other type of place just has to make the food early to avoid keeping you waiting, and it results in damp steamy food, inevitably.

None of that had anything to do with what you were asking, I just went on a tangent. Some places do curbside pickup, particularly in cities.

Oh, 100%. I had hoped to make it clear that the manager is just another person without any actual power. The only power they have is to not send them home and have them work the register instead of the fryer. That maybe the lowest tier power possible granting the largest yet meager favor they can stands out is, as you said, everyone else failing them.

No, my response to a terroristic hoax that wasn’t a Zionist false flag is that maybe we don’t need antisemitic conspiracy theories to criticize Israel.

Your first screenshot is what this headline is the update to. https://apnews.com/article/australia-terrorism-antisemitism-hoax-546a36d066f651888ae7e460c07f9080

Law enforcement agencies investigating January’s discovery of the trailer on the outskirts of Sydney divulged in a news conference that its placement was concocted by criminals who meant to derive personal gain from tipping off authorities to its presence — a bizarre twist in a saga that followed a monthslong wave of antisemitic crimes in Australia.

Your next screenshot seems to be from the daily mail, which… Is it’s own flavor of untrustworthy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14123417/Woman-Nazi-salute-protest-owner-kosher-cafe-Jewish-hospital.html

Setting that aside though… It goes on in the article to pretty clearly state that it wasn’t a case of someone pretending. Customers at her cafe were perturbed by her manner of support for Palestine. It turns out that you don’t need to be a Zionist or even Jewish to own a kosher cafe, even in a Jewish hospital. So I don’t think that article makes the case you’re going for.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/14/news-corp-team-confronted-after-alleged-attempt-to-provoke-staff-at-sydney-middle-eastern-restaurant-ntwnfb

Next you have news corp Australia acting very strangely and definitely seeming to hope to catch some antisemitic behavior that doesn’t materialize.
This is not, however, a “Zionist false flag”. First, I’m not sure news corp is what I would call Zionist, secondly nothing actually happened, and thirdly no one was pretending to be antisemitic to blame it on others. While it’s weird to go antisemitism fishing, and racist to assume you’d find it at a middle eastern restaurant, this is a case of someone ordered tea, got it, and then stood around for a bit. Pretty far from false flag terrorism.

Finally you post three screenshots from a perfectly reasonable article: https://forward.com/opinion/608230/jews-have-to-stop-believing-conspiracy-theories-yale-columbia-antisemitism/

Absolutely nothing in it even comes close to “zionist false flag attacks”. The only flag of note isn’t zionist, isn’t false, and isn’t an attack. At best a slight eyesore. (🥁)

You’re deadset on convincing me there’s a zionist conspiracy behind antisemitism reports, and I’m not sure why. I just said you shouldn’t succumb to antisemitic conspiracy theories while talking about actual injustices.

You might try actually reading that last article. I think you’ll find there’s a lot more cases of mislabeled or exaggerated antisemitism than false flag conspiracy nonsense. Although, you’re most likely too far down the hole to actually be able to get back out. Say hi to the elders for me, and let me know how their protocols are going.

I feel like the person is failing to see beyond the scope of immediate surroundings. They’re seeing the manager as the village in this case. The manager being about as good as they’re in a position to be (because let’s face it, a McDonald’s shift manager isn’t exactly the 1% and has only probably been there a few months longer and can’t tell them to just go home and they’ll get paid regardless) looks a lot like “support” if you don’t look around for the missing friends, family, community daycares, social programs or charities.

An actual community would see you being supported to be with your child when they weren’t being otherwise cared for. Like a year of parental leave from the government, guaranteed job to come back to, and daycare for when you get back.

If it never occurred to you to look for those things, the closest person in authority you can see not being as bad as they could be can look an awful lot like a favor.

So your response to “don’t do an antisemitic conspiracy theory” is… “But there actually is an orchestrated Zionist cabal doing these things”?

You’re comparing information warfare by Israel trying to drive support for their actions to a nebulous Zionist conspiracy performing false flag attacks in order to provide a pretext for cracking down on protestors.

Your evidence is a man who is clearly unwell, who tried and failed to convert to Judaism, was kicked out of a synagogue for behavioral problems and vandalized his own house. In 2017.

A mentally unwell man behaving erratically and defacing his home isn’t much of a conspiracy, and certainly not one to discredit a protest movement that would start six years later. Or are you just arguing that “the Jewish people are notorious for making up antisemitism”?

You’re part of the reason it’s so easy to paint legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Anytime anyone criticizes them there’re people like you who chime in to add notes about how the zionists secretly control all the governments and media, how insidious they are or about how they’re one of the biggest threats.
Or to just weakly echo some false flag lines while ignoring that the article has the police giving an entirely different motivation based on who they caught.
Eventually people start to believe that you actually can’t criticize Israel without succumbing to antisemitism.

I can’t wait for your next link that’s the top result for “Zionist false flag” or some such that share without actually reading it.

That article doesn’t say at all what you’re implying? Someone being reprimanded for saying a synagogue attack could have been a false flag is far, far from an example of a false flag.

There’s opposing Israels actions in Gaza, opposing their treatment of Palestinians in general, disagreeing with the concept of an apartheid ethnostate or the actions taken to create Israel in the first place, and then there’s unfounded claims that specific events are secret Zionist false flags to create the appearance of antisemitism and create an excuse to crack down on protestors.
What government needs an excuse to crack down on protestors? Why leave explosives somewhere when you can just say it’s antisemitism and do your crackdown that way?
Why not read the referenced article where they discuss the, honestly interesting, case where people are building plots to then have information to trade for favorable sentencing if they get caught later?

Believing Israel to be commiting atrocities, or disagreeing with Zionism does not obligate one to start entertaining tropes and conspiracies about Jewish people pulling the strings of the world and manipulating events to get their way.

I’m not sure taking unhappiness with Israel into a conspiratorial mindset towards Jewish people is the way to go. This is actually antisemitic fear mongering.

I’m of two minds:

People had a knee jerk reaction to the concept of a vaccine requirement, even though they largely weren’t a thing, and didn’t want the government telling them what to do. From there, if the government telling you to take it is bad, then it must be bad, because why would the “bad guy” try to push something good? That made people focus on the real negatives out of context and proportion to reality. It is newer technology that doesn’t have as much testing as other vaccines. That ignores that there’s no theoretical reason for it to be different, and that it’s less tested compared to some of the most tested things ever, and still actually very tested.
Then they started seeing the very complicated approval process that looked like it was being skipped, rather than skipping paperwork and running multiple safe trials at once when they’re justified instead of one at a time.
Combine that with how any major event causes people to become conspiratorial and you end up with vaccines being a “thing”.

Alternatively, if people wanted to intentionally fuck over the country because they were Russian assets, they might do stuff like fire everyone in a bunch of government agencies, maximize chaos to reduce their effectiveness, do random things to tank our stock market and slow the economy, spread disinformation about vaccines and try to get people to avoid them, and then suppress information about the spread of infectious diseases to get a lot of people sick and dead, and generally throw the country into chaos.

The first one looks exactly like what we all saw happen. There’s no evidence for the second one except that if we take motivation out of the picture we wouldn’t be able to tell what’s happening apart from the second scenario.

Weird.

I used the search function to find it, since it’s kinda tucked away oddly.

The EU is definitively a world power or great power. The EU might rise to the level of superpower, which is where the US is.

Being a great power just means that you can exert influence over events on the world stage. Having a meaningful say in how international organizations are run, or the ability to influence conflicts outside of your direct realm of control.

The EU is not yet at a point where no power can take a meaningful action on the world stage without considering how the EU will react to that action, which is one of the defining criteria of a superpower.
Despite having burnt an enormous amount of soft power for no reason, the US still holds a position where they can’t be disregarded. EU military spending patterns are changing because the US is changing it’s stance on a conflict they aren’t really involved in beyond a “superpowers are involved in everything” sense.

Being either type of power has benefits beyond what it gives to those in control. In general, the leverage is used to effectively bribe the populace of the power. Pushing international organizations to prefer vendors from your country, driving business to it. “Thank goodness that agricultural development program bought their equipment from us, we had a great year, our jobs are intact and we actually hired more people”.
It also brings cheap goods preferentially.
The benefit to the people in control is that it simplifies distributing favors to the people who keep them there, which in part includes the general population. “I’ll let you buy these tractors from me on the condition you sell me every mango in your country for a decade. I’ll even give you the tractor money back over the course of the decade. If you don’t accept the deal no one will make a different one with you for fear of me not renewing my contract with them”.

You don’t have to have our broken internal culture to be a power. That only makes it so people take our position for granted.

I can’t address most of it, but under gesture navigation there’s an option to swipe from the corner to invoke the assistant. I entirely agree that the power button is for “power”, and I don’t know why you would try to change that.