It does if you are used to sane languages instead of the implicit conversion nonsense C and the “dynamic” languages are doing

Even at 2 million that wouldn’t really be enough money to be above all the shitty laws the US inflicts on its own citizens.

No, the problem is that even if people who consider themselves really important want this really, really hard that doesn’t change the reality that the technology doesn’t do what they want it to do.

European tourism to the USA in free fall

That is what you get when you transport your tourism in a Boeing plane.

So the one that drags you from your bed and sends you to some third country torture prison if any of your ancestors in the last five generations had a different citizenship or they don’t like your skin color?

Well, the problem is that in a situation like the one we are in right now having software processes all locked into American companies is actually a huge strategic problem in certain areas so it makes sense to limit those (e.g. government, military,…) to software where that control can’t be taken away by a foreign power. So essentially those should be under our control for much the same reasons energy and food production should be.

Basically dropping a hint that American goods are just not very competitive.

I assume you meant to write “if you don’t have an account”

Personally I would prefer if they preferred European companies in some cases, especially when it came to strategic matters and the danger of supply chain attacks or vendor lock-in. Or, even better, things that aren’t tied to any single company like open source projects.

And the people who hate the right choices are rarely the ones who hold back on the propaganda front.

But won’t go so far as to acknowledge that the South China Sea is South?

But what makes you think the purple states won’t see what is happening to the red states? Not to mention that it will be much harder to just target the red parts of purple states.

That is not the same thing though. Your version sounds like the laws accelerate enshittification where the original is about the laws stopping a reversal of the enshittification that already happened in the past.

They’re just too unreliable for any serious enterprise grade application

I wouldn’t go that far. They are perfectly capable of fucking up as badly as organizations with the “enterprise” warning label have for decades.

Might be less pain in the long term to just let them die on that hill then and replace them when they are gone along with Excel.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

As in if you show it to 100 people each one will think of a different 10 words. But not as in “here, take these 1000 words and produce a picture that will put those 1000 words into the minds of anyone who sees it”.

Can we trust their developers to protect our privacy and security?

There is little hope of that if even article writers can’t be trusted to ask the correct questions such as “Do the AI model developers have enough control over their models to even tell if the model would do/not do that?”

The end result is often not important though. what is important is that someone understands the customer’s business use case well enough to be able to judge if the end result is actually fit for purpose and to adjust the end result to accommodate later changes in the requirements. AI is particularly bad at both of those.

The carrots are greens are made out of plastics.

I doubt many people in China are going to re-import MAGA hats from the US.