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Yes, technological development is often underestimated, and people working within a field have a certain set of assumptions about it that can be upended by new developments. In the case of LLMs, it was advancements in the mathematics of tensors that allowed for associations between words to be modelled effectively at scale. The inventor of the Roomba could very well be in this category, operating from outdated assumptions.
Chinese robotics seem to be very advanced, capable of dexterity and sensitivity beyond what Dr. Brooks suggests is possible.
Odd; I've never worked there, but have visited, and the quality of life seems very high. Great food, nice environment, easy to get around, lots of events happening. I think they've solved the bandwidth issue - last year in Germany and surrounding countries I got a travel SIM and had 5G access most places I went, good service.
Russia has been attacking and subjugating it’s neighbors for centuries.
The Berlin Wall is in Germany.
You are either reading Russian propagandist directly or indirectly from those who have been influenced by it.
It seems like most of the commentators are unaware of the nuances of “Aboriginal title”, in Canada, and are interpreting the court decisions as if they were ordinary land claim disputes, for which there is ultimately a single “owner” of the land under dispute, rendering all other claims invalid. JFK Law tries to explain that treaty disputes are not like that, and nor for that matter is land ownership in Canada. The treaty negotiations are at the federal government level, above the provincial level, and does not necessarily impact what we think of as private ownership in the provinces. Instead of your title being a contract between yourself and the Crown, it could be between yourself and the Tribe and the Crown, or the Province and the Tribe. It is still being worked out.
See:
Cowichan Tribes and Private Property: Separating Fact from Fiction
https://jfklaw.ca/cowichan-tribes-and-private-property-separating-fact-from-fiction/
JFK Law argues that the tribe is not seeking to displace established private land owners, but rather seeking to redress British Columbia’s violation of their Federal Treaty obligations, which grants Aboriginal title over certain land, over which the provinces have no jurisdiction. "Aboriginal title" does not mean that no other legal ownership exists. It does mean that the legal structure in the chain of titles is different, but does not invalidate private land titles, aka "fee simple ownership".
Aboriginal title and fee simple ownership are two distinct forms of property rights. Historically, in British Columbia, the Crown did not recognize Aboriginal title; rather, it assumed that it held title to the land and proceeded to grant those rights to settlers. This led to the exclusion of Indigenous peoples from their own territories throughout the Province. Cases such as the court case brought by the Quw’utsun Nation are about addressing these historical wrongs by the Crown and determining how these overlapping rights should be reconciled today.
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In this case, the Quw’utsun Nation never asked the Court to invalidate the titles held by individual homeowners or private businesses and never tried to get those lands back. The Nation’s case is not about taking land from individual private property owners in the claim area.
The Nation has emphasized that they intentionally did not bring this case against individual private landowners or private businesses. In doing so, the Nation has in fact taken a respectful and responsible approach, aimed at reconciling their interests and those of the individual titleholders. Their case focused on holding the Crown accountable for its actions, not on challenging individual British Columbians.
Contrary to what’s being said by much of the media, the Court’s ruling does not “erase” private property. It does not mean that private property owners in the area over which the Court declared Aboriginal title no longer own their lands. Private fee simple interests continue to exist on these Aboriginal title lands.
So basically tribes in B.C. (at least) are suing the provincial government for having ignored Federal treaty rights for decades, and the remediation for that injustice has yet to be determined. The process could take another decade or two. In the end, it could mean that land titles are between private buyers and the Aboriginal Nation that holds the treaty rights over those lands, instead of with the Crown, or perhaps some combination of both.
“They allowed”, but then fired the chief of the department. Not exactly a signal for trustworthy reporting.
The negative jobs reports followed the longest yield curve inversion in U.S. history. Such inversions have preceded every recession since the 1960’s. And now inflation is expected to return with a vengeance, given the retarded tariffs, massive overspending, and resuming QE. So it’s looking like the perfect set up for stagflation.
When payroll processor ADP reported that the economy lost nearly 32,000 jobs in November, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick scrambled to blame Democrats and deflect blame from President Trump’s tariffs. Trump himself fired the BLS chief over the summer because he was mad about the negative jobs data the agency produced. It’s not outside of the realm of possibility that Trump would put pressure on the agency to fudge better numbers.