The beauty of working in video production is I always have a tool I can run stuff through for very legal and very cool capture purposes.

Recording home videos for personal use within your immediate family was protected. Screening for people beyond that was not. Mr. Rogers famously gave us what little protection we had and insured that we could even have home VHS recorders. Testified before a congressional committee that was on the verge of banning it, changed one critical mind and that stopped it.

I didn’t realize there was a problem. So did all the streaming services fuck up the colors or something?

So he should just go ahead and let the shipment happen…?

“Why won’t he do anything to stop the bombing?”

stops bomb shipment

“Dumb dumb didn’t know bombs are for bombing? Yeah right!”

Like what even is your comment trying to say?

There are also different immigration rates for different states, some of which are as big as major countries. There are many states in the US driving the national average down because they have such a low percentage.

For the same reason we can’t take 15min without the context of the US’s size, smaller countries having larger percentages also need to be contextualized. The raw number does have some meaning here. It’s also about annual rate of immigration.

once they acclimate

I’m curious what you consider “acclimation” (and I assume you mean assimilate) because that’s a pretty loaded requirement

I am not forcing it with hostility. I made a broader point about treating people like pawns on a board and I got lectured about econ 101. Yeah I got a little snippy with them, sure I could’ve not been that way. But these responses are so absurd, they leave no nuance or middleground and keep telling me I am either saying things I didn’t say or put up a lazy strawman as if it responds to what I said.

Also notice not one person wants to acknowledge that there is this implication people have some obligation to not leave their country as it means they are participating in “brain drain.”

I get what you’re saying, I really do. But the fact is people got all prickly when I tried to introduce nuance. Of course economic factors heavily drive our decisions. I’m not sure where I said anything remotely to the contrary, so I’m getting irritated.

I took basic Econ. My point is decisions are multi-faceted. We are not all slaves of the invisible hand 24/7 as it guides our every single decision.

Your phrasing of your first comment certainly read that way to me. I didn’t misspeak. If I did not understand your meaning/intention that’s a fair claim.

Plenty of people seem to agree with me so the dismissive attitude is not warranted.

People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Never said they or we do

Our material conditions limit our agency.

Totally agree

But I agree with you? I’m not sure what we disagree on?

https://kbin.social/m/worldnews@lemmy.ml/t/1000729/-/comment/6477868

I’m not blaming them I am saying they still often make a decision. They are humans who have some control of their lives. That’s not mutually exclusive with saying they are also pressured externally.

The way they were originally described made it sound like they are just pieces on a board incapable of deciding what they want and acting on it.

I think you have lost the thread here tbh

I didn’t say people had free agency to go to any country they want. You are presenting a false dichotomy. There are different people with different access to different places with different senses of urgency and for different reasons. Many people make choices on whether or not to immigrate, as well as where to immigrate if they choose to. They have agency, they are not just pawns in this discussion to be shuffled around.

I get what you two are saying, but this kind of removes agency from the people doing the moving. Should people not be allowed to make another country question if they’re “too useful” or “skilled”?

I said:

I don’t think these people should be locked up or all AI usage banned. But there is definitely a middle ground between absolute prohibition and no restrictions at all.

I have used AI tools as a shooter/editor for years so I don’t need a lecture on this, and I did not say any of the concerns are new. Obviously, the implication is AI greatly enables all of these actions to a degree we’ve never seen before. Just like cell phones didn’t invent distracted driving but made it exponentially worse and necessitated more specific direction/intervention.