There are a few episodes where various people mention putting a lot of time and wish into building holodeck sims. I’m guessing it’s more like having a futuristic version of Unity/UnrealE/etc, with a common asset pool and an AI assisted interface

With the efforts to neuter regulatory and inspection agencies, it’s surprising they caught this, but who knows how long it’s been going on even just the one company

Thing is, many of these things grow over time, and - especially with the active gutting of regulatory and oversight bodies - there’s a decent chance that the list isn’t comprehensive.

It’s also one of the reasons why I have avoided US meat products and grabbed stuff with a maple leaf instead, because it wasn’t hard to see this coming (and coming and coming)

I’d be surprised if a single one of them got the payout, and I don’t feel sorry for any of them

I’ve tried to make the same argument understood with cloud services and vendor lock-in generally. It’s crazy how companies find a few percent pay increase for employees onerous, but are perfectly willing to give the life-blood of their services to a vendor who can arbitrarily raise prices down the road. Lots of companies are seeing this already with Broadcom and VMWare

Assuming age ID wasn’t invasive and stupid to begin with, there could be other ways to set it that would be much less invasive for many devices, such as setting an “IS_ADULT” flag on devices (or even an associated account) at the time of registration.

“Hey Mr Smith, it looks like you’ve never registered a device on our phone network before but you’ve got a driver’s license from 1979 so we’ll just set the age code on your account aaaand, done”.

Then you get a sheet of random scratch-off AV codes pulled from a drawer that you can use on other shit, similar to how VPN providers do to separate payment vs login. Nothing should ever say who you are or even your age, just “hey this person is old enough, fuck off and let them at it”.

It’s still annoying, but less privacy invasive. And it’ll never fly because what they really want is to tie all communication back to a person not just an age.

Where do I approve of terrorism? My point is that the current actions are more likely to drive people towards terrorism, whereas intelligent strikes against the terrorist leadership actually reduce the threat

They don’t give a shit about any of that they just say “jump” and expect people to do something in response

You can call it “white majority” if you want to be cynical, or you could also call it compatibility with a country that was pretty much built (in current incarnation) with a strong origin in European immigration, and still has many citizens who have strong roots/ties back to Europe with strong overlaps in law and common culture. The origin influences the skin color yeah but that doesn’t mean the skin color itself is the deciding factor.

Yeah if you’re solely basing your opinion on what some famous dude with no other credentials says then that’s a bad idea. I still try and listen to the professionals, but they are being suppressed especially in the news. Still, it seems people are as much likely to migrate towards celebrities that seem to share their political views as they are to be informed by them.

If people are going to follow celebrities for politica informationl, maybe they would be better off to go with Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine). He at least he has a degree in Political Science, and a decent wit to go with it.

Yes, Jewish people suffered greatly in the last century. Yes, there people in certain countries/religions who actively want to kill Jews or at least Israelis. Yes, Israel is a majority Jewish state.

But.

No, a past genocide does not give a free pass to execute a new one. No, murdering thousands in collateral to catch the ones who might be dangerous is not acceptable (not to mention the executions etc of obvious non-combatants). No Israel does not speak for all Jewish people nor have justification to excuse their behaviour/crimes as such. Also, yes the Israeli government/leadership is corrupt as fuck, uses war to dodge accountability, and is involved in a lot more terrible acts than “just” the ones in Palestine.

Honestly, when Mossad was blowing up pages and mobiles I thought that was great. It was strategic, effective, and we’ll targeted at the actual terrorist leaders/allies rather than causing mass casualties… they obviously have the capability to be much more surgical in their responses, so mass-bombings etc seem that much more like war/hate crimes. Doing this just creates more hatred, which leads to more terrorists and a continual cycle.

Political opinions from uninformed or biased celebrities no, but at the same time it’s easier you somebody who already has a following to make that push in the right (or wrong) direction than some random nobody… This is especially true in the US where people are being actively oppressed by their own government, as it’s a significantly harder for ICE etc to suddenly disappear somebody famous versus a random “dissident”.

How does cooking at home even fix grocery costs? I’m already doing that. It’s the cost and quality of ingredients that’s the problem, bit to mention avoiding any of the US products in anticipation of the next version of diarrhea-lettuce or cancer-beef.

Exactly! I may have nothing to hide, but I do have many things to keep private thatb are nobody’s business but my own.

Privacy, anonymity, and “secrets” may be related but aren’t always the same thing.

Yeah, I can also see how somebody who might see a use for AI in their own field isn’t exactly for up it stealing work in theirs or others.

There’s a difference between “hey, we can train/build this tool to be useful to us” versus “we’re cool with it ingesting everything and barfing out cat pictures”

We had a big spider that did similar outside the bathroom window. Every time somebody went in at night to use the can, lights on=bugs in web.

I was sad when fall came and that spider died. She was a clever one

He’s not (supposed to be) above the law now. The problem is the system and those who should hold him to it are equally corrupt so stuff like impeachment goes nowhere

You’d need a way to charge, prosecute, and penalize a sitting president even even the deck is stacked with his cronies, and one that couldn’t be used to drown a future non-shitty president in bogus charges

Or if just looking for a solution too music, Finamp is pretty good as well

As a balding middle aged (mediocracy dependingb on the given activity) white guy, I get where they’re coming from.

It’s that the non-rich MAGA-ites have a tendency to fall inton those categories - not necessarily the other way around - as they chase the fictitious golden age where they could have instead been great.

I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.