It wouldn't be completely turned off, it would just be the closing of one American commodity that Trump can't risk before the midterms. With inflation as bad as it is across the world, I don't see other countries trying any retaliatory trade action in part because they aren't going to be able to afford it.

I expect Russia to make a lot of money as countries drop their sanctions.

I feel like app based messaging would be problematic because just putting the app on the phone or computer would be an issue for locked down phones.

I've seen some discussions on whether it would be possible to build in a reward/punishment system into some forms of AI. That would be an intentional addition of pain and pleasure.

There have also been cases where AI has self advocated for not being turned off, so there may be a case where AI develops some form of self preservation, even if it is just a mimicry of biological self preservation.

The concept works, but only when labor costs are extremely high. Right now, that seems to be only airports.

Not really. Colonization requires some administration from the colonizer.

The bigger danger is that it is American companies that operate a lot of the technological and financial backbone of the world. That market is going to disappear as other countries implement their own sovereignty measures.

That's typical of her relationships.

Unless I've got a lot of produce, I use self checkout. I don't like the human interaction.

I wish more places were like Uniqlo where you can toss everything into a bin and it reads the RFID tags instead of having to scan individual items.

At this point I can only blame my broken brain.

Lemmy karma is worthless compared to Reddit.

I feel like there has to be some laws regarding using a transporter as a replicator.

Nobody's perfect.