I very much doubt the general public will accept a any sort of government bailout - people are completely done with the rug pulls, the only worrying sign is the new cult standard of people that just blindly accept whatever their leader states.

But in a moment of crisis it might reactivate normal people back into voting. Cause if it doesn't, it might be the final nail on some democracies as we know.

So yeah, either not such a big deal or the final nail for some decades.

If people are going on Google to search and end up in a chat with an LLM, isn't that defrauding the user?

Of course, a LLM can answer a query, but if a user wants to chat to find an answer they can do it.

Doesn't this make a stronger case for chrome to spin off away from Google?

Saying you're uneducated in local politics is just an excuse you're making to justify your actions.

Local politics isn't filled with much drama, and probably isn't that entertaining, but that exactly the problem with global and national politics - it's all driven by dopamine.

You shouldn't vote just to vote, you should vote to make some sort of change (or not), and it's ok to be wrong in this decision. That's why democracy is great, it renews itself every X years.

I'm not 100% sure but I think ad transparency was enforced in Europe after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

That's why they're considered a rogue state at the moment.

So at best you can say the Russian regime claims Russia is a democratic, that's not de jure, because for it to be de jure you'd need institutions to make sure it was in fact de jure.

There's none, just signs with the name on the wall, and people roleplaying.

Look at Russia, they jumped off a cliff to protect a regime from democracy, and people are checked out - they take no accountability and still act confused of why Russia is being despised - all while accelerating economic and demographic decline with more than one million casualties in a special 3 day military operation.

You can't make this up.

Before you go there, you should answer: what has the Chinese government done for the Chinese lately? Is everything well in their society, labor and economy wise?

But that margin isn't funneled to pay wages and improve living standards.

To say wages don't play a role it's more of a corporate narrative to wash those decisions.

If wages aren't a factor, why don't they raise wages and living standards for those workers?

So their goal is to try to squeeze as much from the end customer as possible, sometimes even with absurd price differences in physical locations vs online.

Promotional events are absurd with how they manage pricing in order to claim big discounts, it's almost insulting.

The general feeling is that these guys are out to get us, while on Amazon you don't get that feeling. And I'm not a fan of Amazon, I just find retailers turned marketplace despicable.

This is taking into account the worst case scenario, which isn't that unlikely to happen.

I mean, for sure there are these plans in motion already, but how hard would it be?

The ones killing on ads are Google, Meta, and Amazon.

I just don't see how ChatGPT will gobble those market shares - ads are increasingly tied to sales attribution, and it would require a complete shift of the market for ChatGPT to take over the role of those 3 players.

People will still try to look for content around the products they buy, or will shop for prices, or will look for feedback from other users of the product.

Claude is kicking ass in the niche of coding and processes.

1 trillion is a lot of money for something that's not differentiated and protected in a massive market.

Does it look like OpenAI has that in place?

Cuban thinks they don't, and won't.

I wanted to build a gaming PC, and now that's out of the question, even though I can afford to buy one in the current state. I just refuse to participate in this, so I quit.

There are thousands of great games that run on older hardware that would last me a lifetime of gaming.

Consumers always get the shit fed to them.

Grok used a book as a reference.

It's not like ethnicity is a fact you infer from looking at someone.

Now ask Deepseek about what happened in Tiananmen Square and watch what censorship actually looks like.

It literally knows the facts, but then there's a layer that prevents it from stating the facts.

That's censorship.

It's not an opinion, it's not a choice when facing a gradient, it's just an historical known fact.

Because for Deepseek is pretty straightforward censorship.

I think it's important for a product with a design to have part of the value linked to a human, but the reality is quite different: the vast majority doesn't care.

Just go on Amazon a watch the volume of slop there, and people buy it - it's like our standards for taste are so low at the moment, it's a bit sad because it will only get worse.

Joe Rogan is quite successful so he has to be intelligent for some things, but for other things...

I've seen him commenting on his podcast more than once of how the administration is conducting itself, with prosecutions, with ICE, etc.

He's not concerned about these actions, instead he's concerned about the precedent it will open when the others come around - probably because he fears that will happen to him too.

I don't know if this was his own idea, or if it was what someone told him, but it does show how this new billionaire class is navigating this event for which many contributed to, and it's quite telling where their morals e ethics stand.