We should never have accepted having a land border with Denmark, it's a perfect invasion point.

It's mainly a question of proximity. The United States is right next door, China is across the Pacific. And I'm not really in a business where I'd need to travel there for professional reasons either.

America has threatened to forcibly annex Canada. China has not. So yeah. China's certainly got its problems, but I don't feel as personally or nationally threatened by them.

As a Canadian who holds negative views of both the American and Chinese governments, I think to myself: which am I more likely to visit someday and will therefore have the opportunity to stick me in an ICE detention center when they look up my profile to discover that? Which of the two governments is a more direct threat to my own country's security and sovereignty?

I get an answer that would perhaps surprise Americans.

Prosecute everything.

Indeed. Or charge them fees for their power consumption that would pay for the construction of additional generating capacity. This is how it is with any new expansion of industrial demand, there's going to be a need to build up the infrastructure to match. This is normally considered a good thing when you manage it properly.

These headlines are getting truly hysterical.

HA-ha!

On federated platforms like Lemmy, a small number of highly active users can also create the impression of a broader cultural shift.

And bear in mind that this goes in both directions, it's possible for highly active anti-AI users to flood the discourse.

Community opinion is often a bistable state. If 70% of the userbase has opinion A and is constantly downvoting and browbeating anyone who says anything positive about opinion B, one would naturally expect the userbase to soon be 80% opinion A. Then 90%. And so forth. The few holdouts who continue to say positive things about opinion B get labelled as "bots" and "trolls" and are dismissed.

Maybe it's just that the world isn't as uniform in their anti-AI opinion as you imagine it to be? Social media inherently forms bubbles, smaller platforms like the Fediverse even moreso than most. As the Fediverse grows opinions are likely to become more diverse.

Give it a few months and the gold leaf is flaking off, and they start fixing it with spray paint. It's all so poetic.

They were already pretty hard to defend.