Probably fewer countries excusing the hard power they use?

Just because they occasionally kiss their victims doesn’t make what they do to them first any better. It never has. But if the world’s bully finally stops providing any good then maybe we can move on as a species.

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.

The west has spent a half century outsourcing their industry to feel like they’ve done any environmental work (and to lower wages). That has affected all industries, in all western countries.

Ever use anything with a pcb? Congrats it was partially made in china. Any industrial electrical components? Any microelectronics for non computational work? Hell most steel fab is in china. Half the us’s packaged fruit travels through china for packaging.

Your owners and masters have spent a long time ruining domestic companies for the sake of profit. Don’t take that out on chinese people, take it out on your owners and masters.

Stealing another artists work when they have very loudly and publicly stated they do not support you stealing their work does have a personal impact.

You just don’t see artists as people.

‘corporate’.

From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

As we saw in russia and ukraine, that doesn’t really matter to these people. They’ll slap an old stock gun on you and shove you out a van with their guns pointed at you, and just beat you if you complain or try to not be drafted.

Nearly every company in the world that has an international presence uses chinese parts somewhere. And no, you racist count, made in china is not a word for cheap shit, it’s a word for made in a factory. You can’t avoid chinese products at this stage of capitalism. Your made in japan microwave? It was assembled in japan. It was made in china hence why you can get the brand less version for half price on aliexpress.

Country labeling is a joke, wherever the final assembly takes place is where the label gets put on, specially because racists like you are too stupid to tell the difference and it sincerely hasn’t mattered since before most people were born.

By producing everything you use in life?

Don’t buy cheap shit you won’t get cheaply made shit.

Listen, not all nazi soldiers were particularly bad. I’m sure a chef in the rear guard probably did not do a single war crime. But when the SS existed we know that the chef isn’t what most people refer to when discussing war crimes of the era.

Its the same in this era. Sure, there are bad guys all over the place, but compare to the US there’s really only a handful of entities in the post WWII era that could be equals, and none more evil.

They’re a direct competitor to one of microsoft’s products, and a better one at that.

If you’re copying keys like this, you probably don’t want a paper trail or additional witnesses.

That’s nice, except that’s in absolutely no documentation from the era, not one news story, not one documentary mentions it.

…no, it just wasn’t. That’s entirely a lie. Having a va office does not make a building a hospital. And yes, oppressors usually use the cries of children to justify their fascism after the fact.

Again I don’t support his ideology, you can see that from my comment history, but you people are the reason trump is installing fascism in the us nearly entirely unopposed.

…you understand how tiny of an industry that is compared to nearly anything else china exports, right?

And the entire world is going towards evs, even developing countries since generators are more efficient over time than dealing with all the parts of a ice vehicle.

Some businesses might go under if they somehow can’t pivot their floors to produce something more profitable, but the entire ‘problem’ western firms have when competing with china is that they’re set up to easily pivot and expand production to different items.

I never said I agreed with his ideology. However blowing up federal buildings in an oppressive society is always morally justified. Means isn’t motive. The motive is awful, the means is just fine.

Also no one cares about liberal threats, you guys give power to fascists ever chance you get because you can’t stand to kill the undesirables you hate by yourself.

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China has the entire developing world, their own growing middle class, and europe for import/export. There is nothing america produces that is exclusive or the best cost, and with the us economy dying it’s not like china can sell to the us profitably for a while.

Every work from home person and every corporate end point will be upgrading; simply due to legal liability for the corporations. That alone is hundreds of millions of pcs and laptops getting thrown out (because anyone in IT knows no corpo is going to pay the extra hours to recycle properly).

Average users with no liability? Plenty will stay on win 10 until their use case no longer works, i.e. when steam dropped win vista compatibility, but plenty will be scared enough to upgrade.

The weird part will be seeing who sidegrades to a tablet in the corporate environment. Many android tablets can do everything needed for office work, and don’t have the same security cross section. Most app front ends are electron anyway these days so its not like x86 is needed.