yeah I’m very skeptical here as well

It would’ve been through the API access, so they’d get paid.

I think the reason they’re making noise is cause they want to make a case to ban Chinese models entirely. Right now they have a problem that Chinese models are open and anybody can download and run their own version. That directly undermines the whole business model of providing them as a service. I bet they’re going to try and argue that since DeepSeek and other Chinese companies stole their IP, these models are now illegal and can’t be used in the US.

that’s the hope

even a broken clock is right twice a day

For the record, I absolutely do hate living in a world where conspiracy theorists got things mostly right but for completely wrong reasons.

That’s precisely why organized labour has been systematically dismantled in the US. Back in the day there were strong unions, mutual support groups, and so on. These systems are key for workers to be able to take collective action like general strikes.

You just gotta love the narcissism these people have.

Idk what misinformation and conspiracy theories you’re referring to here are. Yes, food is literally being poisoned, and there’s an ongoing class action about it in the US right now.

Maybe actually read the thread before commenting? I’ve literally addressed this here https://lemmy.ml/post/43791761/24225658

I don’t believe I ever asked you to sealion into my threads in the first place. It’s some great loss that I don’t have to see your drivel anymore. 🤣

Money is not fake, it’s arbitrary.

While distinction between fictitious and arbitrary is technically correct, it’s just pedantry which misses the actual point of the colloquialism. It’s not that it doesn’t serve an exchange function, or that the dollars in your account are somehow illusory. It’s an expression of frustration with how we have chosen as a society to treat economic institutions being treated as laws of nature, rather than as social construct which we ourselves have invented and therefore can revise at any time. As in much public discourse, the statement is a rebuke to the widespread habit of treating financial constraints as absolute barriers, beyond which no serious thought need be expended, and as an excuse for avoiding responsibility to address the underlying human issues. Correcting their metaphors ignores their argument. If the rules that govern human wealth are entirely of our own making, they can also be systematically changed whenever those rules no longer serve our common good.

Food is not being poisoned, what a crock of shit.

Meanwhile in the real world, there’s literally a lawsuit against companies knowingly designing, marketing, and selling food products that are harmful and addictive.

• https://www.olshanlaw.com/Advertising-Law-Blog/food-manufacturers-to-suffer-increasing-legal-pressure
• https://sfcityattorney.org/san-francisco-city-attorney-chiu-sues-largest-manufacturers-of-ultra-processed-foods/
• https://www.venable.com/insights/publications/2025/09/emerging-litigation-over-ultra-processed-foods
• https://hls.harvard.edu/today/the-new-case-against-ultraprocessed-food

Going on about how it’s being poisoned makes you sound anti-science or like someone trying to scare people into watching their paid content.

Again back in the real world, the history of US water pollution is unfortunately marked by numerous instances where industrial discharge, coupled with weak or failed regulation, has poisoned water supplies. Just a few examples which you could’ve trivially googled yourself

• https://environmentamerica.org/michigan/media-center/campbell-soup-admits-to-more-than-5000-days-of-clean-water-act-violations/
• https://www.hbsslaw.com/press/oregon-groundwater-contamination/oregon-lawsuit-alleging-nitrate-polluted-groundwater-filed-against-power-company-and-dairy-manufacturer
• https://www.selc.org/news/the-city-contaminating-almost-900000-north-carolinians-drinking-water/

O7

The desire for Taiwanese independence has experienced a significant drop over the past three years, with only 25.3% of people who want to “move toward independence” or seeking “independence as soon as possible” - down from nearly one-third - 32.4% - in 2020.

https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963

lmao

incidentally, a good dive into the sketchy stuff the dev baked into piefed https://lemmy.ml/post/42049895/23496934

and unapologetically so too

yeah, and also stuff like this that’s been going on forever https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was

yeah the direct reddit tie in with world and piefed definitely feels sketch af

aww dronie is mad

I’m beginning to think that the whole reason lemmy.world exists is to remind us why we left reddit