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It’s somewhat specific to social media, but otherwise is very generic “anything critical of authority” answer imo

Plus, as you say, we have no idea what the actual prompt or response were 🤷

I’m not sure this is actually meaningful - presumably grok doesn’t actually have knowledge of the twitter algorithm itself, so this is just a run of the mill AI make-it-up-on-the-spot response

Okay, I too could afford to pay for your OneDrive subscription, but I’m not going to because - frankly - I don’t care about your cloud storage needs.

The fact they’re technically capable of providing you something for free has nothing to do with whether they are legally or morally obligated to do so.

You’re not the centre of the universe, sorry.

The fact that all of those services have costs - so what you’re effectively saying is that the companies should pay for these things for you whenever you demand it

If they promised you X service for a certain period of time when they purchased something, then you have a right to that service for that period of time. But if they didn’t do that, it just happens that the same company sells that service as a separate product to what you bought, then of course you don’t have a right to it.

If you’re asking whether the rules for services you’ve paid for are different to the rules for services you haven’t paid for then yes, absolutely.

If someone is providing a service at no cost, they have no obligation to continue that service, because you have not provided them anything in exchange for anything.

“I want” is not a valid legal argument for having a right to something.

No, because that’s not what tips are for? But if you don’t pay for the groceries, then yeah, they should be allowed to not give you the groceries, because that’s how buying things works

But if you specifically agree to pay someone a certain amount of money to load your groceries in advance, then refuse to pay them, it’s totally valid for them to not load your groceries, because you didn’t pay for the service you bought

Jesus Christ on a bike

Sure, but you put them there, without taking backups, and then stopped paying them to keep them

I mean not providing a service because you stopped paying the cost you agreed to for the service is quite different from forcibly destroying random people’s data if they don’t give you as much money as you demand

It’s not like they remotely connect to your pc and wipe your hard drive if you don’t pay up

I mean, I don’t disagree that there’s similarities especially wrt to nationalism etc, but I also think those things are far more widespread than the UK and US.

Germany for example has had the AfD emerge as a major party with a big rise in nationalism, Italy has Brothers of Italy in power, who were an explicitly fascist party until very recently, and Italy has a long history of nationalism. China and Russia are extremely right-wing, propagandised, xenophobic, nationalist, surveillance capitalist and deregulatory (moreso wrt Russia), but it would be very silly to claim that makes them America-like.

I’m just stating how I see it from the perspective of a person actually from Britain - not sure what you’re referring to wrt UK/me personally(?) having a superiority complex about it, in fact I’d argue self-deprecating, anti-British attitudes are an integral part of British culture in a way that is a direct inverse of US nationalist fervour.

I just think “the UK is America lite” is a very reductive way to look at a country that is highly culturally and politically distinct from the US. Whether that’s the NHS (the first ever single-payer national health system), which the US has no equivalent of, the importance placed on the separation of church and state, or the far stronger regulatory frameworks that have frequently been a preventative factor that have repeatedly caused trade deals with America to fail (eg the whole bleached chicken thing).

I don’t think the US would leave the EU given they’re not in it xD

I wonder how differently the last US election would have played out if Murdoch had died before campaign season

Going to have a big party when he finally goes and joins Reagan in hell

Uh, no, not really.

The British attitudes to work, social systems and regulatory standards are more closely aligned with the EU than the US, even post-brexit.

We are very diplomatically aligned with the US as a result of our historical/cultural overlap and trading relationship, though.

Is this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?