Companies play the threat game all the time. Just go, so a local startup that treats people better can take over.

Selective reading. 😭

Even in Amsterdam are All Cops Are Bastards? (ACAB)? Dayum

Appreciate it! I didn’t even see that.

And now this one has a lot of comments. 😭

I’m laughing real hard because I was also attracted by the thumbnail and clicked.

But – I hope others don’t follow suit and make sharing content look like time square with motion everywhere.

Yeah I was prepared to hit the mark to spam button until I clicked on it.

Did we read the same article? What are you talking about?

Ah I see. You’re referring to OP’s body text. Sorry about that.

Yeah OP, wtf. Dude, leave your comments in the comment stream.

Did you not read the part where it linked to a affiliate link to a ebook that was written in AI?

I’m mistaken. I read the article and was confused.

You are commenting on OP’s take below the link. Apologies.

Sorry? What? I’m not following any of this.

Did you watch the video you linked to?

It says that money went into a campaign, which Kamala used to make content to explain her position.

Elon musk gave money to Wisconsin voters to sign a petition.

Two departments DOGE wants to chop! Nice job Maga!

Let’s be real: we would rather make our products in the USA. Doing business in China is hard: a different language, a different culture, a different legal system, and a very long and expensive plane flight every time you have to pop over to help fix what’s gone wrong. So why don’t we make keyboards in the USA instead—and why don’t the vast majority of consumer electronics manufacturers, be they big or indie?

Most of our electrical components are made in China. Sometimes we’ll use or consider components not made in China—and they’re made in Japan, Taiwan, or Germany. The USA doesn’t make the components we need.

Making keyboards is intrinsically a cross-border activity. (For us, some of that activity involves shipping American goods to China! We make a number of products that use American wood. Unfortunately, China has just announced they will now tax that lumber at 34% in a retaliatory tariff.)

We’re a small company making niche products; we don’t have the volume to justify opening our own factory. We definitely don’t have the capital to do it. We rely on contract manufacturing, where we pay a network of factories to make products to our specifications, without us owning the machinery or hiring the workers ourselves.

Southern China, Guangdong and Shenzhen in particular, have developed an ecosystem of factories and suppliers within a small radius. Within about thirty miles, we work with a bunch of factories who are specialized in doing low volume production runs. Having so many companies close together saves a lot on transportation and freight. More importantly, it allows for local competition and sharing of knowledge—just like greater Los Angeles is the best place to make TV and movies even though other cities offer incentives, Guangdong is the best place to make consumer electronics.

The effects of the tariffs.

I started my protest a decade ago.

While you can argue that nothing happened and we still have loot boxes, I’d argue that my life is greatly enriched for not feeling any motivation to play in those looty skinner box games.

(Musk literally gives money to buy votes)

Conservatives: the left is so corrupted.

The smear campaign is very Russian-like.

This is America Don’t catch you slippin’ now

You were banned because you were obviously a person.

Have you seen the comments lately? Most of it looks like AI bots are replying to AI, upvoted by other AI bots.

Why would the WOKE libs do this?

Oh this in Rome? Do they have woke libs?

My root issue with people who shit on AI is that by pretending like it doesn’t exist or refusing to use it, your voice is not part of the conversation.

The world will use AI, regardless of your personal feelings.

And if you arent in the room to help shape decisions, don’t be surprised when we are fucked.

This is terrifying. Anybody can pretend to be ICE and kidnap in broad daylight.