

Love the princess bride reference. Thank you for acting on behalf of those of us with less technical skills.


Love the princess bride reference. Thank you for acting on behalf of those of us with less technical skills.


Your comment is more technical than I can properly follow, but this all reminded me of the tarpits I read about a year ago. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
Is that more usable? (Genuine curiosity from someone who would shed no tears if the plagiarism machines experienced resistance)


your Industrial Workers of the World only seems to exist in the USA; a disproportionately problematic but still relatively small part of the world.


Alas, I don’t live in a world where context is restricted by what is convenient for your point of view.
Thanks for the lazy ad hominem response though.


Let’s just substitute China for America and see how that reads…
‘There is this time now when people, perhaps rather conveniently in Europe and indeed elsewhere, might be ignoring that America’s economy has massively been running on slave-like labour for long period now. I think these and other human rights violations in America aren’t gone. I think America has very strong dictatorial policies, censorship, and surveillance capabilities.’
I don’t think anything in that revised text is completely wrong.
The inadequacies of US human rights and employment rights do impact to the point of forcing many into fearful servitude as a form of slave labour, even when they aren’t just quietly paying slave wages for manufacture in other countries anyway.
I’m not saying you are wrong about China, but a critique of anyone pursuing ‘partnership’ with China while not even mentioning equivalent criticisms of the current dominant trade partner discredits the complaint. If anything trade with china is a side grade, but probably not a downgrade.
A fair response. Just couldn’t see anything except US references when I looked at the site.