That directive regulates banks from denying the opening of a basic payment account. But there is no legislation preventing governments from freezing accounts, Canada-style. As far as I know, there's no protection against being de-banked.

You're saying that like it's a bad thing.

I'm continuously surprised by how America, a supposed capitalist country is more communist than some communist countries.

I grew up in Romania, after the revolution, but we still had basically the same education system. Even in communist Romania, if you wanted to get into a good high-school, you had to pass exams, and if you didn't perform well in school, you got left behind.

Everyone understood that if you wanted kids to succeed, you couldn't let the slow kids pull down the smart kids.

Poor choice of words. Illegals are not citizens. That's the whole point.

> have no recourse if they're exploited

The recourse is to go back. In the era when you could just immigrate to the US just by getting on a boat (before the Immigration Act of 1924), about 1/3 of immigrants went back to their home country if they did not make it in the US.

See:

> From 1908 to 1932, 12 million individuals migrated to the United States. Over the same period, four million returned to their source country.

-- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00144... (you have to pirate it to view the full thing)

But now, the expectation of leftists is that the government is somehow supposed to help the failed immigrants.

Please don't. Europe has enough ethnic tensions. At least the US is built to be an ethnic melting pot. It's much better to go there.

Didn't they also change the tests to make the re-write pass?

Scientists can tell that Lucy the hominid was a female even though only a few of her bones have survived since 3.2 million years ago when she died yet leftists think that Page is no longer a women just because she excised her breasts and changed her government papers.

If her bones get fossilized, 100 million years from now you'd still be able to figure out she's a woman.

> A big part of Achilles' story in the Iliad

Not only is it not a big part, but it's not even in the Iliad. You're clearly just regurgitating talking points.

That's a later invention. And it doesn't make him a transsexual. He marries a woman there.

Soon there will be no more AI doomer comments. The bots will take over that job too.

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I'm working for an open source company, and my God, are 95% of contributions useless.

There are really dumb ones where the bot writes 10 paragraphs about how he implemented the feature, but the entire changeset is adding one line to .gitignore or adding a CLAUDE.md file.

There are even worse ones where the bot submits 3000 lines of code that seemingly works, but you have to spend an hour to figure out why it doesn't work.

The dumb ones are so much better.

I was not able to detect it's written by LLMs from the opening paragraphs. Can you please share some insights as to what gives it away. I didn't find any blatant stuff like em dashes or "it's not just x it's y".

Okay, I'll bite. Why is it a strength, and why is it the greatest strength?

All people are equal, so it shouldn't matter if you have an all Asian team, an all black team, or any mix of all races.

In many systems of law, the punishment should mirror the crime. You gouge out an eye -> the government gouges out one of your eyes.

In every country, men commit almost all violent crimes. In school, boys physically bully other boys. Hence the physical punishment for them.

> What does this teach girls - that they can get away with more? That they're more fragile than even a prepubescent boy?

Yes, for homo sapiens, the female is more fragile than the male. This is basic biology. I'm sure that in praying mantis society, females get harsher punishments.

It's kind of a weird take to say that the issue here is that girls aren't being whipped too.

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If you own an apple tree, and (as is common in some countries) a child leans over your fence to grab an apple, you don't lose sleepless nights over it. But if a corporation comes over and leans over with its 10 meter long robotic arm and takes all your apples then it's a disaster.

Scale matters. People don't care for small "losses" because we want other people to prosper. But AI steals from everyone and brings prosperity only to Amodei and Altman.

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wuldorf%C3%A6der