It’s not as though general public, and lemmy, want the health insurance industry protected more than the “necessity defense”. Mainstream platforms censoring it is oligarchist empire protection they are allied to, just as we accuse all foreign media of government alliances.

Author doesn’t say ignore copyrights. He says ignore the “broad IP” clause in USMCA. Right to repair, right to have your own app store, right to enhance products you own.

Overall good points, but:

The most potent political lesson of the past four years is that politicians who preside over rising prices – regardless of their role in causing them – will swiftly feel the wrath of their voters. The public is furious about inflation, whether it comes from transient covid supply chain shocks, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, or cartels using “inflation” as cover for illegal, collusive price-gouging.

GOP complaining about inflation and deficits is them finding something to complain about a strong economy. PP/canada conservatives complaining about carbon tax is supporting Ukrainian nazis while global diesel/home heating fuel refining was at maximum capacity. The Ukrainian support was common to all parties. They had to make up complaints.

Some other things Canada can do is export taxes on resources and energy. The US can’t replace Canada where it is needed in short term.

The big policy change is opening up FDI to China. Can put restrictions on natural resources to also invest in manufacturing using those resources, but treating the US as the only permissible option for investment is bad for Canadian companies and jobs. While Canadians are firmly programed in US foreign policy propaganda, if Trump/US adopts a “coercion until you accept being a territorial posession”, Canada needs to take a friendlier stance towards Russia, North Korea, China, and deprogram itself from US empire bs. It should continue advertising secession and provincehood to US states.

U.S. sponsored and sponsors many movements around the globe as long as their goals align. That money alone can’t invalidate the cause.

USSC declares money is speech. You not only agree, but go further that money is truth. Naziism and Islamist fascism is truth. Democracy, and political power, is much cheaper in smaller countries made less stable with US extortion and war. Navalny caught on video soliciting MI6 for funding to destabilize Russia. Hong Kong media mogul fomenting protests because of Americas values.

The US empire’s values are extortion, control, puppetry, and war whitewashed/described with a facade of liberal freedom. Every country is to be a pawn for the empire to the detriment of their population. The political establishment’s disdain for Americans provides no valid expectation for the empire to promote humanism elsewhere. Just propaganda.

Then when you get the power, then you get the women.”

Then when you get the power you tell the plebs to make more money. “This is America. If you don’t make more money (for me), you’re a douchebag”.

is it possible for lemmy user to “federate them in”/include in single feed?

I don’t think it is forceful - Trump said it would be economic

we’ve been “common law married” for 100+ years. “You don’t get to eat unless I have the fuller authority given to me by official marriage” is an extortion that is violent/unwelcome. Marrying the US comes with having to pay its huge credit card debt.

Vampires and humans are not known for enforcing laws against each other. Stake it before you get eaten rule. Eat then deny you were not invited in rule.

I’m not sure there is “binding magical power” in the food’s words, and if not, it’s not worth considering the food’s words. Not much recent history of “magical god intervention” stopping rule breaking, and there would need to be a “magical human+vampire governing interventionist god” there to supervise all interactions.

For the actual policy details not paywalled:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-and-sia-fire-back-at-u-s-govs-new-export-restrictions-on-ai-gpus-to-china

Nvidia:

“It makes no sense for the Biden White House to control everyday data center computers and technology already in gaming PCs worldwide, disguised as an anti-China move,” Finkle wrote. “The extreme ‘country cap’ policy will affect mainstream computers in countries around the world, doing nothing to promote national security but pushing the world to alternative technologies.”

the 50000 GPUs over 3 years per tier 2 country would seem to include consumer gamers from that country, perhaps buying older generation rtx30? gpus. 0 GPUs to China/others. Seems to make tier 2 worse than current China policies, while also “forcing Nvidia” to also only sell $2000 Blackwells in tier 2 countries.

Maybe a backdoor that is opened is to build all datacenters in Tier 1 countries, and then use the 25% allowance to expand to tier 2.

China’s “delete America” program is justified over this, and its not that far behind in single GPU performance, and ahead of rtx30. Just drivers and interconnection that need to catch up. Which doesn’t seem like an impossible task, especially in controlled hardware environments. National resources increasing/doubling for that goal is a likely response.

The whole national security justification and warmongering bent is troublesome. AI must serve war and US supremacy, and must be used against American people to ensure the supremacy.

Like all of the comments about much smaller emobility support.

A $300/ton carbon tax ($3/gallon gasoline), is the right amount. Cost of air capture of CO2 claims objectives below this. But there are far better options to reduce emissions instead, such as wind and solar. It is also enough to provide a $4000/year rebate to every Canadian just from average vehicle oil use.

The argument for dropping these incentives is that it has run out of budget. Carbon tax and dividend is a zero budget program. It is almost as much as the EV incentive, but you can support local transit/trains more, micromobility, and moving closer to work/travel destinations. Home energy is also a tax/dividend source, and dividend becomes large enough to invest in saving “taxes”.

With a $4-5k carbon dividend, you can also replace budgets for welfare/homeless programs to boost dividend/UBI by another $3k and solve homelessness, and work disincentives for those on welfare. Much higher “total” UBI becomes much more affordable, and empowering to people to make incentivized climate decisions, live without crime and divisiveness promoting hate.

https://agdatanews.substack.com/p/the-value-of-methane-from-cow-manure

is the cost/benefit source. It does say that with a price on methane emissions based on GWP100(year) that it is economic, even though with no price on methane emissions it is a 90% loss.

Taxing food emissions is troublesome. Cattle especially, and livestock in general, are high emitters. They are also a food battery. During drought/crop failure, eat them instead. Lab meat’s biggest advantage is an escape from climate dependence/resilience.

The American way is somehow subsidies. The right way is taxing emissions. That does make biodigesters profitable, but also makes cow products more expensive. Alternatives to lab meat are goats, sheep, deer, chicken which produce less emissions than cows. There would still be a market for expensive meat, just a smaller one.

GHG Tax proceeds paid as dividends makes food more affordable, even if cow products would be less affordable.

Destroying and rebuilding homes (AFAIU, most destroyed were over 60 years old) is a tough option. Really, removing forest for solar is the best, only practical, solution. This should be global adaptation to high value forest homes/communities, because drought risk is everywhere.

Not sure what more they could have done. A drought during rainy season, a quick response to clear dry vegetation/trees is clearing vegetation that could rebound if it rains soon.

From climate statistics of 2024, record monthly rainfalls over 24 hours were 52% higher than average, and record low rainfalls 38% higher than average, globally. 2023 was bad too. These stats, in a non global warming world, would drop each year as the bar is higher each year. Costs of disasters are growing exceptionally.

As bad as the current global warming impact is on just the US’s sustainability from disaster/insurance spending, calls for subsidized insurance doesn’t help. It just shifts burden to tax payers/debt, and like FEMA’s historically cheap flood insurance, encourages rebuiliding where it is risky. Neither does “Insurance reform” that prevents victims from making successful claims (as in Florida).

We may already have reached a point where climate disasters cost more than the profit potential of oil industry. Certainly more than their tax payments. As more of the US is destroyed, remaining housing scarcity means higher insurance coverage. Autos artificially protected means higher prices and insurance costs. (oil) “energy dominance” policies is climate terrorism to ensure a worse outcome.

One simple “helpfulness” in rebuilding is metal roofs that last 50 years and can support solar for that long too. They are fire proof. Less forest, with utility/community solar, becomes necessary from just an insurance perspective. Also related to forest fire problem, CA electricity rates are sky high because somehow utility negligence for past fires has to be paid by state wide rate payers instead of shareholders. CA governance that is captured by utilities and insurance, fail to help CA progress and resilience.

ty. Comments are angry that this was posted, but it was worth reading.

The tldr of link to AI is that AI was useful in modeling proteins, and LLM predictivity has been used to predict DNA sequences. Fine, “closer” is clickbaity, but article gives overview of potential, and approaches focused on getting there.

I know why it’s being banned or has been banned or whatever.

Maybe you don’t. It is the only non zionist media platform in the US. The zionist offers to buy it are happy to not include the algorithm behind its success. Just to let them censor it. The ban did move forward during the Oct 7th and election cycle psyops, and Tiktok did not prevent voter suppression that gives Israel 4 years to implement its final solution.

It doesn’t specifically have any strong/empire reason to be banned now. FB/Google/Musk donations to Trump are new reasons, that can enhance their properties.

If you actually knew all of this already, then you might not ask why it matters. Do you “know differently”?

Article 5 just requires a meeting to discuss actions. It is not as strong as it is made out to be.

Balkanizing these imperial powers would be a step forward, though I think it will be best if this is done internally rather than by external powers. This too easily slides into factional conflict and imperialism rather than the far more winnable and liberatory conflict of people vs the elites.

It is a nice sentiment, but Assad government, nevermind US government, has enough power to suppress organic wishes for liberalization, and Assad rulership had a lot of liberal pluses, despite not being pro Israel/US enough for US to tolerate his rule. There were no easy solutions to famine/drought.

Your 2nd paragraph is spot on.

US military will pay Open AI for this. More than $200/month. Of course this gets shut down.

I think it is possible to slow or stop military adventurism if we truly pursue a more democratic and pluralistic world.

Democracy, as approved by US, is easiest vector to install US puppet in a country. Everyone knows Crimea democratic referendum was invalid because CIA told you it was. All of the countries that the US celebrates as strong democracies are in favour of war on Russia, and future war on China. They celebrate the strengthening of democracy provided by Nordstream terrorist act.

Maybe, a more pluralist process in Syria would have resulted in a non ISIS/Al Quada US puppet ruler. But a US puppet would still have more corruption profit opportunities.

A more pluralist world starts with the US, and then an outdome where the US empire, does not oppress its population with its warmongering/militarism/Isreael genocide. Pluralism in general usually means freedom of women/sexuality. In Syria, Bashad provided this far more than expected Islamist rule will.

Pursuing peace is as important as pursuing fossil fuel reductions.

They go hand in hand. You cannot have influence over Russia’s climate cooperation if you are threatening to destroy/balkanize it. The massive diesel use, and terrorist strikes on its oil refineries, funds our own climate terrorist lobbyists to fund winning climate terrorist candidates. If war is necessary, then obviously nothing else matters relative to war.

Famines are actually quite easy to solve in the modern world during peacetime, and building up decentralized resiliency in these vulnerable places during more plentiful times can make a huge impac

An “arm of war” is sanctions. Venezuela and Syria sanctions fuel immigration which fuels right wing climate terrorist electioneering anger.

A lot of this comes back to foreign military intervention, lack of democracy, and unequal distribution of resources more than which place is better or worse to live in a climatological sense.

The anger that is created when difficult decision of who gets to eat in a famine/drought situation is an opportunity for that “foreign military intervention” to target uncooperative/unsubordinated regimes. If US/Israel pays you to be an ISIS soldier, and there are no farming jobs, then a soldier you become.