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There’s precedent. China made some trade deals with Nigeria and there’s hardly any ice hockey going on in Nigeria now.

Surely all of these problems would go away if teenagers would simply act rationally and do as they’re told. Has anyone tried explaining this to the teenagers?

“I regret that so many people are offended.”

What I’m pointing out is that this target audience of AI haters is actually the whole gaming community.

Where do you get that from?

They titled it with the objective of getting clicks. OP chose to post it here with the objective of getting upvotes. Same basic goal.

We know a few. “Fire”, for example. And “Axe”. The inventions named after them are still in use to this day.

According to “The Evolving Ecosystem”, a recent Connected Intelligence® report from Circana, LLC, 86% of U.S. consumers 18+ are aware of AI in smartphones and other technology devices

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Of consumers who are aware of AI, 65% are interested in AI features coming to at least one of the device types studied — most commonly the smartphone. This figure rises to 82% of consumers between ages 18 and 24 and steadily declines among older groups.

So, an alternative headline that would be just as truthful: “A majority of US consumers are interested in AI features coming to their devices.”

That’s not going to get the upvotes here, though.

Take care, he may emit a cloud of noxious gas.

America isn’t the only source of history books.

How would that layer distinguish AI from non-AI?

They were 37% Trump voters in 2024, so I wouldn’t bet on it.

Besides, I think it’d be unfair to the Turks and Caicos Islands, who are at the head of the “tropical Canadian island province” queue if they want it. Hawaii should wait its turn.

And they can’t legally join either. The Canadian constitution would need to be amended and ratified by at least seven provinces representing over half the population. That is never going to happen. Not for an American state that’s far to the right of Canada politically (ie, any American state).

Canada decides whether a new province is let in. Not Americans.

Sorry, if we’re getting this fiddly trying to explain how “they’re not extreme extreme right, just extreme right!” it’s not going to cut it.

Canada doesn’t want Minnesota. Not even the “good bits.” Americans are just going to have to sort this out for themselves. If individuals want to become Canadian there’s an immigration process they can apply for, they don’t get to just declare their chunk of America to be Canadian and bypass all that.

Even that would still be bringing in an extremely right-wing population.

The by-county results are here, the twin cities have 27% Trump support. The lowest in the state, sure, but that’s still almost a third of the population that voted for Donald Trump.

That’s twice the Canadian national average from the same time period. Those two counties considered in isolation are still redder than the reddest Canadian province.

Minnesota voted 47% for Trump last election. It would be the most right-wing province in Canada if it joined. No thanks.

They’re extremely right wing compared to the average Canadian. 47% of their vote went to Trump last election.

Ask them if they’re ready to give up their second amendment rights to join Canada. Ask them what they think about socialized health care. Bet a lot of that eagerness to join will fade.

They should sort their own problems out, not try to get us to do it for them.

Besides, we don’t want them. Too many Americans.

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The problem there, oddly enough, is that I wouldn’t have believed that headline. I would have dismissed it as a Beaverton article (Canadian version of the Onion) and not read it. Whereas this headline was sufficient to make me click on it to find out what his “hockey warnings” were.

“China will take hockey away from you!” Is such a completely deranged pants-on-head bonkers idiot thing to say that even now I’m still half convinced that this is parody that has somehow slipped through all the filters that are supposed to keep this serious.

Toilet paper doesn’t go bad.