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Do these stupid companies actually think that any of these products aren’t just going to be used by perverts?

There are legitimate professional use cases: for example, imagine a consulting doctor looking in on what another surgeon is doing and offering opinions as the operation goes on. Or same thing with engineers.

But I can’t think of a single consumer use case that isn’t designed for perverts.

Go ask a someone under 30 if they can afford a house and get back to me

That has nothing to do with Canada or any one particular country, jack ass. That’s just late stage capitalism. Billionaire class slowly but surely, generation after generation, increasing the gap and fucking over the little guys. Every generation gets worse, and now, globally, we’re living in the age when all of that shit since Reagenomics hit the scene has now started to come home to roost.

Saying that that is a “Canadian” problem is like saying that climate change is a “Canadian” problem. Yes…technically it is, but it’s also a US problem, a UK problem. A French, German and Italian problem. Because the over-arching problem has nothing to do with countries, but with the elites that pay for those governments the world over to do their bidding while fucking the rest of us over.

Stop being an idiot.

I would very much want to see the same for Canada. But Canada would have to first change it’s open border policy with the chuckle-fucks to the south. Don’t want to give those nut-jobs an easy round-about into the EU. MAGALAND --> CANADA --> EU

I can’t think of a single time that appeasement backfired!

Obviously /s

Is THAT what you’re having a hard-time grasping?!!

You do know that people put things for sale BEFORE the buying happens, right? It’s called THE MARKET.

If you’re selling a house, you put it ON THE MARKET and wait for someone to make you an offer.

Now let’s say you have a house on the market and you want 400,000 for it. But in your city, a lot of people are moving out and there are far more houses on the market than there are buyers. So you have to lower your asking price in order to entice a buyer to take yours instead of someone elses. You DEVALUE your house to make the sale; take less money than you originally wanted. Doing so devalues the other houses for sale since they have to do the same, and the entire market for “Houses in city X” drops.

If, alternatively, you’re the only house that’s for sale in your city and there are 10 families looking to buy it, your house’s value RISES. Rarity equals Value.

The same rule applies to stocks and BONDS. The US takes loans from other countries by selling them bonds. Those bond’s value is based on a few different criteria (stability of the country’s currency, etc…) But the important one here for your understanding is that the value is partially based on it’s rarity. If all of the US Treasury bonds get dumped into the market simultaeneously, they’re not rare anymore, and thus the value drops. If the value of the US Bond drops, it ripples through the economy.

It’s supply and demand. The more there is of a certain thing ON THE MARKET, the less valuable it becomes. That’s the rule for everything, from stocks and bonds and real estate, to beanie babies and pokemon cards.

Care to provide a contradictory source? Or are you just going to say that anything that doesn’t agree with you is “bullshit” without backing it up with actual economic sources?

Also, just to add another source that MAGA would find “legitimate”, this is from Fox Business.

China holds $761 billion in U.S. debt, making it the second-largest foreign holder after Japan. A mass sell-off could drive down the value of U.S. bonds and cause yields to spike, sharply increasing borrowing costs for the federal government. It could also weaken the U.S. dollar and send shock waves through global financial markets.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/chinas-trade-war-weapons-rare-earth-ban-us-debt-dump-could-cripple-american-economy-defense

But hey…I’m going to wait for your sources beyond “trust me, bro”.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but is anyone else thinking that the entire end-goal of this is to have the Venuzuela money handled directly by his administration so that he can keep his shit going when Congress finally (hopefully) cuts his purse strings?

The one thing that the government hasn’t been able to change is the fact that Congress controls the money, not him. Seems to me that Venuzuela Oil is his play at getting a private fund without them.

I’ll trust the economists on this one. Honestly should have just done this from the beginning rather than trying to explain things.

When foreign countries start selling off U.S. debt, the immediate impact is on bond prices. A surge in selling increases the supply of bonds on the market. Just like any other asset, when supply rises dramatically without a corresponding rise in demand, prices fall. And when bond prices fall, yields—another way of saying interest rates—go up.

source - https://www.investingdaily.com/137830/what-it-means-when-the-world-dumps-u-s-debt/

That’s not how markets work.

But you’re clearly a troll just being intentionally obtuse for shits and giggles. It’s on me for not having realised it earlier.

Have a good day.

Dumping their bonds into the market isn’t cancelling their debt. Its making all that debt available for OTHERS to buy. Supply goes up, value goes down.

In other words, if all of the US debt was out up for sale at the same time, is value of the US dollar would crater.

I don’t think you understand how inflation works…

Oh, believe me. I agree. But this is what they SHOULD be working towards improving LLMs for, NOT better ways to steal art.

What experrs? American experts?

They’re kind of forgetting the big elephant in the room that is the fact a lot of US foreign debt is owned by Japan and China, with the majority of the rest of it being held by countries that will be very very pissed off with this move.

If trump is stupid enough to pull the trigger, and those countries decide that a potential physical war is becoming inevitable, they’ll for sure dump all of that debt, all at once; killing the US economy and it’s ability to make war. War needs fuel. Despite Venzuela, Trump won’t have enough of it once his economy tanks.

This is what it’s supposed to be used for. Things like this are where LLMs are a benefit to society. The ability to “intelligently” process incredible amounts of information fast lends itself to things like this. Or helping Air Traffic controllers do their often hectic jobs, or sifting though the trillions of gigabytes of data that come in from space telescopes looking for anomalies, etc… etc… etc…

THAT would make me excited about AI. More…of…this…

But instead they use it make people even more lazy, and make corporations able to make billions more by firing real humans.

Given the average intelligence of most humans, I’d be willing to wager that most elephants are smarter than that.

Everything this idiot says tends to be the opposite. And frankly, I can see it.

The Europe I see (as a Canadian, with immigrant parents from Portugal) is the same Europe I’ve always seen; It has it’s share of problems, sure. But for the most part, they’re older, with a lot more history to draw from, and as a result are just more level headed than the idiot teenagers revving their engine and trying to pick bar fights that is America.

Europe as a continent has been through enough shit that they’ve kind of, as a culture, learned to say “woah…okay…let’s take a step back and look at this a bit before deciding to be an asshole.” Canada kind of inherited some of that by virtue of sticking in the commonwealth longer and having a peaceful transition to independence instead of kicking our feet and threatening to move out at 16 like some bratty teenage countries did.

(Apropos of nothing, I also think that this is sort of the problem with a lot of Eastern Bloc countries. With the fall of the Soviet Union, a lot of them (Russia Included) were kicked out on their own all of a sudden and are essentially entering the teenage years of their independence)

Does that mean Europe is perfect? No…of course not. Far from it.

But they’re a hell of a lot more put together and strong than the U.S. is at the moment.

Trump is projecting, as usual.

I’m talking about when I was a teenager. Neither iPhone nor android was a thing. I’m talking dumb phones

Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

FFS, we all got along just fine and dandy with group-chats via text message. We weren’t fucking cavemen.

The fact that this is her fear (and the fact that it’s a legitimate fear) proves just how much controls like this are needed. It’s literally digital crack that they think there’s simply no other way to communicate anymore (both her and her friends)

And rightly so!