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Initially I was thinking on how this is such a blatantly bad idea. I don’t think that it’ll attract chip makers to USA, but instead send the industries relying on those chip makers to other countries. Because as the text says it takes years to build a chip factory, and those industries downstream simply won’t wait.

Then it clicked me - government debt. He might be trying to find new sources of income for the United-Statian government. They only need to last four years - if they ruin the economy later on, it is not his problem.

Yup, something like this - but for the honeypot, not for the legit pages.

This looks interesting. I’d probably combine it with model poisoning - giving each page longer chunks of text, containing bullshit claims and “grammar of slightly brokenness”; so if the data is used to train a model with, the result gets worse.

We don’t need to lie about it; not even by omission.

In the best case scenario, Meta is employing an automated moderation system, it’s incorrectly tagging what users share as “spam”, and can’t be arsed to fix the issue in due time - note that this was already attested at least September 2024. That’s more than enough to blame Meta.

Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this.

I see quite a few reasons to not trust = be gullible towards what Meta says. Starting by the fact that it’s on its best interests to silence mentions to competitors.

Even if it was a honest mistake (is it? I have my doubts.), I don’t think that “we” (people in general) should give it a pass. On its best it highlights how unfair those automated systems are towards the users; plus Meta is in a position that it should be held responsible for what it does, regardless of its “intentions”.

Meta be like:

“Calling LGBTQ+ people «mentally ill»? No, we can’t remove that, it would be censorship.”

“Linking to a competitor that doesn’t ? NO, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! No, we aren’t totally censoring you, we’re, uhm, you’re totally spamming! Yeah, that’s it, you’re spam!”

I think that people can - and should - capitalise on Streisand Effect against Meta.

That makes a lot of sense.

Let’s roll with this hypothesis for a moment and say that Musk, Mellon, Adelson etc. want to instate a dictatorship in USA. In that case isolating USA politically seems like a bad deal, since it would make it harder for them to conduct businesses elsewhere.

If however they are trying to do this, I’d expect an autocoup similar to Hitler in 1934. For that they’d need to solidify Trump’s power, and remove the ability of the house of representatives to impeach him - by getting rid of it, or silencing it, or transforming it into meatpuppets.

Putin is a bit too serious and conscious of the impact of his decisions to be jesting, specially near some clueless moron. The other hypotheses that you laid out seem sensible, though.

Also, bold of you to presume that the USA will ever have another election again… […]

Even then, his successor won’t be as easy to manipulate as Trump himself.

I thought about Putin, IIRC he’s close to Trump. But the hypothesis in the link only makes sense if Putin’s goal is USA isolating itself, not the annexation of those territories. Because:

1. The odds of USA annexing Canada or Greenland are next to zero. Even Trump being guillotined would be less unlikely.
2. If USA actually annexed those places, it would benefit Russia for four years… and that’s it. Then Russia would have a bigger problem to deal with, as the presidency of USA changes hands.

But I don’t know, I feel like there’s some piece missing here.

Who’s manipulating Trump?

Or, asking the same questions through different words: who’s able to manipulate him, and benefits from USA losing all its soft power?

I’m asking this because there’s a clear pattern in all this shit: he’s taunting every single of USA’s long-standing partners. First the EU (Greenland), then the Commonwealth (Canada), now Mexico. In the meantime the shit that Americans whine on the internet is becoming increasingly more relatable, hinting that the situation there is becoming more and more similar to the one here in Latin America.

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We wear magnets in our shoes. They keep us bound to Earth.

Imagine what the original varieties looked like.

Likely similar to this:

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

It’s more like a myth than a real thing. Or rather, a pattern that is false so often that you can’t use it to guess if it’s true.

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…on a more serious note. Can’t they simply that USA’s healthcare system is so fucked up that people are taking the matters into their own hands?

Your and @tal@lemmy.today’s experiences are basically the same as mine. Except with translation instead of programming.

Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they’re malicious.

It’s refreshing and uplifting to see this sort of sanity.

The problem is that defending against a copyright troll in the court is an expensive headache, and the copyright troll has a whole army of lawyers to prove for sure that the Moon is made of green cheese. As such, even if the target knows that it’s a bogus claim, they still comply with the troll to avoid the court.

Sending a takedown notice under DMCA that’s knowingly false is perjury, which would presumably come up at the court hearing.

In theory, yes. In practice, good luck proving that the copyright troll knew it and acted maliciously.

[Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor from any country following Saxon tribal law like USA. Take what I say with a grain of salt.]

As far as I know, in theory the victim of the bogus DMCA could sue the copyright troll for damages, including attorney fees and all that stuff. In practice, it would be the same as nothing, megacorp who hired the copyright troll would make sure that the victim knows its place.