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So, thing is USDA guarantees a minimum price for stuff like corn and dairy, paying the difference between the actual market price and the minimum price to farmers. So the market price for them will drop but production won’t, and chances are, most of the stuff will end up getting thrown out or used in utterly absurd way. Closing USAID just removes a potential useful outlet for the surplus. Rather than corn getting used for subsidizing food costs in other countries, it’ll be up getting used to make potting soil, gasoline and dry wall. Not because it makes economic sense to do so, but because the government will pay the economic losses that are inherent in such wasteful use cases.

So the issue is, that those are two different categories. USAID tends to be food stuff that the US massively over produces, dairy, corn, soy, ect. These are all categories that are highly automated and don’t require much labor (relative to other categories)

The places where the most migrant labor is utilized are things like fruits, vegetables, and meat processing. stuff that can’t be mechanized to the same degree as corn or milk. Stuff that doesn’t tend to get exported as part of USAID because it is in demand in the US.

Truly the most aristocratic of creatures. The bluest of bloods one might even say.

There is an over arching issue with most of the extant models being highly unethical in where they got their data, effectively having made plagiarism machines.

It is not ok to steal the content of millions of small independent creators to create slop that drowns them out. Most of them were already offering their work for free. And I am talking about LMs here, writing is a skill.

Say what ever you want about big companies being bad for abusing IP laws, but this is not about the laws, not even paying people for their work, this is about crediting people when they do work, acknowledging that the work they did had value, and letting people know where they can find more.

Also, I don’t really buy the “it’s good for disabled people” that feels like using disabled people as a shield against criticism, and I’ve yet to see it brought up in good faith.

It’s absurd because Biden wasn’t doing anything, like he was upholding the status quo, with limited efforts to patch up some issues.

Trump is straight up trying to gut the federal government and sell it for parts as well as legitimately trying to take away people’s rights, if not straight up make their existence a crime.

He’s also trying to do this with a pretty weak mandate. Most people who did want him wanted him for a specific policy and ignored the rest.

So he’s creating a huge amount of backlash while only appeasing a small group with each action.

I’d highly recommend:

Technology connections; he does in depth videos about the engineering of household appliances we often take for granted.

Bernadette Banner; she does videos about historical textile arts, weaving, sewing, ECT.

Lindsey Nikole; she does videos about ancient animals, Zoology, and Paleontology.

Ze frank; he does irreverent videos about interesting species of animal.

There is a … massive Asterisk on tik history. He’s does great research on historical operations and battles, but, uh, keep away from anything outside that, he has a super weird ideological agendas and misquotes references or makes stuff up in side videos. Some side videos are fine, even good in their sourcing, but many are low key unhinged.

basically not in any public space, with rare exception.

Q.E.D

This is a huge thing the Democratic Party needs to internalize unless they want to keep losing.

Support and work with local groups doing actual good on the ground outside of election season, maybe, like, I dunno, fund them a little with that massive fucking warchest? Be a much better use of the money than a deluge of YouTube ads.

Aggressive quotas for arrest are a notable element of the the NKVD during the Soviet purges under Stalin.

The goal of it was to create pressure on low levels to find reasons to arrest people. To cut corners and make up nonsense reasons. To create a sense of terror that scared the target population. Even those who had no good reason to be scared found them selves taking precautions and acting overly loyal.

There is a strong argument to be made that the goal was less to arrest dissenter but to increase the number of people being sent to labor camps to do free labor for the state.

eyes prison industrial complex and prison labor system of the US

It was never about releasing a functional product, it was always about saying what ever the people they answer to wanted to hear.

In this case, telling shareholders they released an AI feature, because the investors and share holders want AI to be a thing.