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- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 weeks ago:
It takes time for your bad consequences to catch up with you. Since the idea is clearly horseshit, I doubt the CEO put a large amount of his money on the line. It will take him some time to piss through the investor money and then you will see a sad “goodbye” message from Rabbit Inc. as they brick the devices on the way out. (since it does nothing without their server)
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 weeks ago:
Why bother? They made a bunch of money with the rug pull and suffered no consequences. Scammers are usually lazy.
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 2 weeks ago:
Why do people care so much that it’s an app? If it was not an app would everyone have been buying it in droves?
At least part of this is due to a direct quote from the CEO mentioning how they need a VERY bespoke Android version for it to run, which is clearly bullshit because you can run the APK on other devices other than the Rabbit R1 hardware.
Since Rabbit was at least partially funded by the “Cyber Manufacture Co” rug-pull and they suffered NO penalty the CEO has taken this as a sign the market will tolerate his scams. You should view the Rabbit R1 through the lens of it being a former “web3” company and I’m sure the shady legacy remains inside that company.
Since Rabbit sells at $199 and then NO monthly charge, there is basically no viable funding model for this company. Every single request you send the Rabbit costs them money. So, it’s only a matter of time before the R1 itself is “rugged”, whether that’s suddenly requiring a monthly fee OR just shutting down entirely.
My guess would be, like the Humane Pin, they wanted to do a monthly fee, but if they did the R1 would sell even worse (since it’s basically entirely broken out of the box). If these guys make it 3 years I’ll be surprised. And, since the R1 does nothing locally, it turns into a nice paperweight when these guys eventually pull THIS rug.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 2 weeks ago:
CEOs just make decisions that anyone can make
LMK when your company hits a billion dollars in revenue and we’ll see how easy the job is.
- Comment on Infinite Mac: Turning To The Dark Side 1 month ago:
This is fucking awesome and so much fun.
- Comment on 'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles 1 month ago:
Palestinians present = imminent danger
- Comment on 'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, they sleep very well at night.
- Comment on 'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles 1 month ago:
Drone strikes are expensive, why not reserve them for gatherings of dozens of Gazans? Why take out small groups like this? Why release the video?
Typically, the fellows pulling the trigger are so far removed from the costs it ceases to be a factor.
- Comment on 'Everyone in the world needs to see this': An Israeli army drone pursued four unarmed youth civilians attempting to reach their destroyed homes and killed them with missiles 1 month ago:
IDF justification:
As the youths were wandering through the rubble of the devastated areas in Gaza, they were essentially trespassing in what can be classified as hostile territory. These areas have been known to harbor terrorist activities and weapons caches. Given the high-risk nature of these environments, the IDF was merely enforcing standard operating procedures to protect both their forces and innocent civilians.
Moreover, these particular individuals had no visible means of identification, which left the IDF with little choice but to assume that they might pose a threat. Their lack of uniform and identifiable markers could potentially mean they are involved with terrorist organizations. This suspicion, coupled with their presence in an area known for previous hostile activities, made the situation highly volatile. It’s important to remember that the IDF operates under the principle of necessity and proportionality, meaning that only when there is an imminent danger will they engage.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
When will we, as humans of all colors, stand up against racism against whites (and especially males) that is strangely being more and more accepted as a normal thing daily?
You get 0 ‘progressive points’ for standing up for white males. One of the last socially acceptable punching bags. Look at the proliferation of the ‘dumb dad’ on sitcoms, totally acceptable.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
That’s why we have separate charges for drug manufacturing and distribution.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Its their job to block that content before it reaches an audience
The problem is (or isn’t, depending on your perspective) that it is NOT their job. Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit are private companies that have the right to develop and enforce their own community guidelines or terms of service, which dictate what type of content can be posted on their platforms. This includes blocking or removing content they deem harmful, objectionable, or radicalizing. While these platforms are protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which provides immunity from liability for user-generated content, this protection does not extend to knowingly facilitating or encouraging illegal activities.
There isn’t specific U.S. legislation requiring social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit to block radicalizing content. However, many countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia, have enacted laws that hold platforms accountable if they fail to remove extremist content. In the United States, there have been proposals to amend or repeal Section 230 of CDA to make tech companies more responsible for moderating the content on their sites.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 1 month ago:
Are the platforms guilty or are the users that supplied the radicalized content guilty? Last I checked, most of the content on YouTube, Facebook and Reddit is not generated by the companies themselves.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 1 month ago:
Using “diversity” or “inclusive” as a bad word. Using 88 without reason (or 1488). There’s also people using the term “Monday” to refer to black people. (So they can say “I hate Mondays” and stuff without it being immediately obvious). “Those [kinds of] people” is another pretty transparent one. In Canada, there was “traditional Anglo-Saxon words”, lol
None of these seem apolitical to me. I would associate most of these with right wing philosophies. I was specifically looking for examples of apolitical dog-whistles.
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 1 month ago:
OK, what’s an example of one?
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 1 month ago:
What’s an example of an apolitical dog whistle that cannot be identified as right or left wing?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Arguably, couldn’t the creator exist in a parallel universe and have created ours?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
One thing that shouldn’t be ignored is most UBI proposals remove the current means-based welfare in the USA. So, as many people go on the UBI list, many others would disappear off the welfare lists, which means there probably wouldn’t be as much disruption as you are expecting. If the UBI is implemented as a negative income tax, some people’s net may change even less.
- Comment on If the agreed upon age of the Universe is updated from 13 billion years old to 26 billion years old how does that affect Science and Astrophysics? 1 month ago:
by 13 billion
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t that count as political?
- Comment on Are there any good, apolitical right-leaning podcasts out there? 1 month ago:
How would one ever discover that a given podcaster is right wing if they are apolitical?
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 1 month ago:
“My opinions are so weak, I can’t tolerate dissent.”
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 1 month ago:
This is a quote that should end in ‘yet’. I am very confident in saying there will be an AAA game released that will be designed and implemented 95%+ by a machine. I am less confident in providing a timeline. If you consider the history of machine learning is ~70 years old (in one sense, one can argue other dates) and you plot the advances from tic-tac-toe to what machines can do today (chess being a prime example), it doesn’t take much vision to see that it won’t be but a matter of time before this is a real thing.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Clickbait is easy, investigative journalism takes brains, effort and integrity, all of which are lacking in today’s media organizations.
- Comment on What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/YouTube_headquarters_shooting
Does this count?
- Comment on Do straight lines and flat planes exist in nature? 1 month ago:
Depending on scale. Is the surface of the lake flat?
Once you experience true level you will never go back.
- Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it. 1 month ago:
Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder about the benchmark being set.
I don’t know what OP wants… a weekly news story: “VEGAS SHOOTING STILL NOT SOLVED, NEWSPAPER EDITORS SEEK ALTERNATE HEADLINES”
DB Cooper was one of the most mysterious hijackers of all time. Still no motive, why don’t we hear about it more often?
Zodiac killer, active for years on the West Coast. No known motive… why don’t we hear about it? Why does no one mention it?
Jack the Ripper, killed women brutally, unsolved, no known motive. Why isn’t he mentioned more often?
This line of thinking drives me crazy. Our current news ecosystem thrives off cheap clickbait and manufactured outrage. Barring some radical new information, they won’t get that out of the Vegas shooting, hence it doesn’t make headlines routinely.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 2 months ago:
Has Starlink considered just using really tall antennas? Should be a lot easier than all the risks associated with putting equipment into low Earth orbit.
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 2 months ago:
What do you consider normal? One thing that may aid autistic understanding, is many people who are enormously depressed manage to maintain a really happy facade over it. That smiley, goofy lady from work might actually be struggling with deep clinical depression. You may actually be one of the most fulfilled of your peers without knowing it.
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 2 months ago:
bro we should meet up