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Holy shit. We know that ChatGPT has a propensity to facilitate suicidal ideation, and has led to suicides. It not only fails to direct suicidal individuals to the proper help, but actually advances people toward taking action.

How many people has this killed?

I am a depression survivor. Depression is a disease and it can be deadly, but there is help.

If you are having suicidal thoughts, you can get help by texting or calling 988 in North America, or text 'SHOUT' to 85258 in the UK.

I just want my money back that I spent on a show that's been "delayed" for a year and a half.

Yep, if China is selling of its US bonds, they we have to ask who is going to buy them. Overall weakens the USD.

I think you just made my point, but harder. Debt is actually great for "the lenders," i.e. whoever buys treasury bonds. If the government wants to spend money on something, they have to issue a bond. The bondholders are paying for it. If you run out of bondholders, you have to increase the interest offered to make it more appealing than other investments.

It's not just "moving numbers on a ledger."

That would be essentially the same as printing more money,* which is what leads to hyperinflation and the collapse of economies. The higher the total debt, the more taxes go into paying interest on debt, rather than services (the nurses and water engineers mentioned above). There is a whole other discussion on where that spending on services spending should be prioritized.

Where does that Tax money go? Obviously it's a payment to bondholders, which are generally wealthy individuals, corporations, or nations, but can also be held by the US Government (maybe that's what you mean by "moving numbers on a ledger?").

Edit: source

*The Fed does change the money supply through interest rates, which can generate inflation.

Debt is fine in a strong global economy, but it creates big problems when there is no market for the debt.

Someone is still paying for it - by buying Treasury bonds. The more debt, the more interest has to be paid to make it appealing. That means tax money going to pay (mostly wealthy) bondholders.

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Trump gets paid so why should he care?

To the downvotes: this specifically bans religious dress. Don't you think it's a little too convenient that the majority religion is one that doesn't incorporate any type of religious dress? This law is designed to have an outsized effect on people who wear a keffiyeh, yarmulke, hijab, or turban.

For anyone unfamiliar, this is just extending an already contentious, anti-religion law.

Statement from a Muslim civil rights group

Statement from a Jewish civil rights group

Statement from a Sikh civil rights group

That's exactly what this is and has been a long-standing campaign.

So basically, no Muslims or Jews or Sikhs allowed? Doesn't seem that great to me.

Henry Ford (fuckhead though he was) figured out that if he paid his workers a higher wage, then other companies would have to pay higher wages and he would sell more cars from more profit.

Tastes like blue screen of death

If you liked Metro Music player, you should check out Retro, which I think is a fork.

Pretty interesting. I guess it depends in the end on what will be acceptable to the Congressional Budget Office. They hold the purse strings and a lot of the power in terms of actually providing services. Recognition by the house speaker would also be required for any votes.

The voice recognition is honestly the best I've ever used. It'll be a shame to give it up.

If I decide to switch keyboards, I'm certain I would go back to HeliBoard.

There's been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven't tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with.

Immich it licensed under AGPL 3 and the code is open - isn't that FOSS?

I know some of their apps are licensed under a semi-open license of their own creation and that's been touchy to say the least. But is it true to say that none of their apps are FOSS?

Isn't this the exact thing that Trump has been criticizing China for doing?

Eternity has notifications, but it hasn't been updated in a while. I'm not sure if it's active.

You can also check out !lemmyapps@lemmy.world for more options and information

Reminder: whenever the Bible says "stranger" it's just an old-timey translation of "immigrant"

This is great.