They absolutely did. I saw somebody say how the demographic of the Democratic Party has fundamentally changed, and I think there's some real truth to that.
This should've been an easy win, but the DNC didn't campaign on the things that voters are worried about. They seem completely out of touch with their own base.
Legal or illegal matters very little. During Operations Wetback 1 and 2, American citizens were rounded up as well as the illegal immigrants/foreign workers and deported to Mexico for "looking too Mexican," and I've heard of at least one or two border towns that have done the same thing in the past 10 years (and crashed their economies doing it). I don't expect Wetback 3 to go any differently other than probably targeting more minority communities besides Latinos.
And what do you expect people to do other than make exasperated "I told you this would happen" comments? It's not like making comments on Lemmy will do anything when the dictator hasn't even entered office yet and the only thing we can generally do anyways is whine to those in office to actually do something. There's donating to various groups put in place to help minority communities, but that also has nothing to do with commenting on Lemmy.
Fun fact(s): The COVID strains that were active at the beginning of last year were actually more infectious and deadlier than the original COVID strains. The only reason we didn't hear much about them is because, despite RFK Jr's beliefs, the vaccines work. 443 people died from COVID in the US during the first week of November, even with the vaccines. There were about 15 deaths from the flu in that same week.
There are plenty of immunocompromised people who can't get vaccinated who can no longer be in public without risking death now that COVID is endemic.
I heard that the dude making jet fuel ended up immigrating to some place called the United States and started a real estate empire.
About 1974. Massachusetts was the only state to not vote for Nixon during his re-election and the bumper stickers appeared after the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation only a year and a half into his second term.
Yeah, I figured you didn't mean that and wasn't trying to imply that you did, lol. I was just trying to specify that when I was talking about the Wright Brothers I meant the technological jumps between their first flight and the moon landing. We're probably several technological leaps away from anything that could be considered actual AI.
The Wright Brothers didn't figure out the moon landing. They figured out aerodynamics. There were plenty of other discoveries that went into the moon landing such as suborbital flight, supersonic flight, and orbital dynamics to list a few. It's less about the specific time as it is about the level of technology. The timescale is much harder to put down due to the nature of technological innovation.
As for the rest, I completely agree. One of the most dangerous things about these AI programs is the lack of responsibility or culpability.
The states that consistently vote Republican are also consistently amongst the worst states for quality of life. There's a correlation there.
Time is a circle.
That the states that consistently vote Republican are also consistently among the states with the worst quality of life, and that there's a correlation between the two.
That Republicans don't actually care about Americans.
Definitely not a question of AI sentience, I'd say we're as close to that as the Wright Brothers were to figuring out the Apollo moon landing. But, it definitely raises questions on whether or not we should be giving everybody access to machines that can fabricate erroneous statements like this at random and what responsibility the companies creating them have if their product pushes someone to commit suicide or radicalizes them into committing an act of terrorism or something. Because them shrugging and saying, "Yeah, it does that sometimes. We can't and won't do anything about it, though" isn't gonna cut it, in my opinion.
California has one of the highest CoL's in the country. 51% of Americans made $15k or less in 2021.