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- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 days ago:
No, I didn’t say that they were, but more like agreeing with the point that if Boeing was in deep financial problems that the FED could do the same because of the strategic concern to National Security if it were to be available to be sold or merge with others in the open market. No way the FED would allow it and would bail them out and a way to do that would be to purchase a physical stake in the company as a way to infuse operating funds into it.
I was agreeing with OP.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
Yes, I know this. I assume that was a given. The point is that it is marketed and sold to people as an one stop shop of convenience to searching. And that tons of people believe that. Which is very dangerous. You misunderstood.
My point is not to point out whether it knows it is right or wrong. Within that context it is just an extremely complex calculator. It does not know what it saying itself.
My point was, that aside the often cooked-in bias, of how often, or the propensity of often they are wrong as a search engine. And that many people do not tend to know that.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 days ago:
Would it be the same as if they did the same with Boeing? If they were circling the drain? Since Boeing literally makes military planes for the US goververment, so that means that they can’t fail lest say they got bought by some Chinese or XYZ interest outside of the USA. So then those new owners would have access to highly classified design and schematics that the military uses.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 days ago:
By Trump admin, do we mean the US Federal Government?
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 3 days ago:
Yeah, I have some background in History and ChatGTP will be objectively wrong with some things. Then I will tell it is wrong because X, Y and Z, and the the stupid thing will come back with, “Yes, you are right, X, Y, Z where a thing because…”.
If I didn’t know that it was wrong, or if say, a student took what it said at face value, then they too would now be wrong. Literal misinformation.
Not to mention the other times it is wrong, and not just chatGTP because it will source things like Reddit. Recently Brave AI it made the claim that Ironfox the Firefox fork was based on FF ESR. That is impossible since Ironfox is a fork for Android. So why was it wrong? Quoted some random guy who said that on Reddit.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 days ago:
It depends how gay is it? And do dinosaurs mate in packs?
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
The internet is open. It is not up to a site to block a country just because. Which is what happened here, and this why their law is dumb and over reaching.
The argument is more like:
“UK citizens, via the open internet could see your site, and we have now decided that we do not like it. We are not going to complain via diplomacy or via your country’s existing Laws or policing agencies, as such, you must pay us £20,000 in fines, per day, for exisitng because we say so. Despite you having no interests, employees or infrastructure, at all, in our country.”
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
The EU wants to go after encryption. By introducing means to be able to see messages in services before they are encrypted and sent. Law is currently being discussed.
Basically:
“Trust us bro, we will have the means to read your stuff but we promise to never read them or abuse it. Trust us.”
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
Look at bigger picture. Ignore that it is 4Chan and imagine it is a site that you actually like or care about. That is the point.
The reason they go after 4Chan is because they want to normalise this general type of censorship and hope people are gullible or biased enough that they will or would let obvious authoritarian censorship slide because they know some people dislike the site. It is s manipulation and how you shot the Overton Window towards general censorship.
The point is that the UK should never do that and the law is bad. Whenever you see shit like this, switch the “thing” in question to something you like and be honest to yourself and think if you would be okay with it.
If they can do it easily to things you dislike, then they can as easily do it to things you like.
The fact that is Labour, or the equivalent of the USA Democrats trying to hinder public speech in other countries via this insane laws is something worth noting. Any side can do this.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
The Biden Admin tried and failed in some fronts and got censorship working in others.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 week ago:
The UK government is basically testing the waters of what it can get away with and also normalising the notion that they could even bother/dare to ask for this to be done in the first place.
It is about shifting the Overton Window for the normies. Especially, over time. For example, the first people to be cancelled or removed from social media years ago, like almost 10 years ago, it was done with some bad fanfare, and the people who did it, Twitter, etc… I remember said that they did it even despite some internal strife over the notion of censorship. Now, people can get cancelled on a dime and no one really cares all that much.
If you told someone 20 years ago that you should pay ca$h out of your ien pocketas to get a corporate microphone that listens to you, your family, your children constantly so it can play songs for you and tell you the weather and gives some other conveniences, 99% people would say that you would have to fucking insane to do that. Being such a breach of fucking common sense and reasonable privacy. Look at people now. Shifting the Overton Window works for fun, control and profit.
Of course, if the US does not play along, then UK’s bill goes nowhere outside the UK, or maybe they will try with weaker geopolitical cointries. But governments do this type of thing all the time, under a, “We will push until someone else finally pushes back,” mentality.
If the UK really wanted to go after 4Chan, they could contact the FBI or whoever in the USA that could serve relevant via proper channels. This has always been available to them, but this is not about that, it is about censorship and control. Obviously.
- Comment on The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia 1 month ago:
This type of camera use at concerts or stadiums is decades. Although I agree with you, the biggest concern are things like Nest cameras that film random people walking on the street. Or general government surveillance.
In the UK, some guy got arrested because he refused to show his face on a street surveillance camera on principle.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 months ago:
For future readers: Freetube currently works. Using it right now. Invidious works too, granted some instance do not. One needs to look for ones that are currently active.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Appreciate the honesty, friend. You are awesome.
I never got into the wearables but I for sure use my phone. My phone is degoogled so I use health apps from F-Droid which help with tracking some metrics which also sync with my Nextcloud instance only, or do not request to have internet or network permissions.
I do think, like you that having some into IS useful and in that no government Left or rRght leaning should have your ior my nfo. That’s just 1984 -type nightmare fuel.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Tell that to the Apple Watch wearers.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
He never said that he wants your data. Like, at all.You are just projecting. The Apple Watch BS claim is from the publication linked, not from him.
In fact, going by he actually said, you are doing exactly what he wants you to do. Use the data, if you want, to make better life and nutritional choices.
Keep doing it. You American seems to need it given your country’s general health stats.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Do you take your phone everywhere? Does it have a clock you use on it?
So, guess the only difference is that one has an armband and the other you stare at for a lot longer?
If you do not have a phone either, then hats off to you.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Having watched his actual statement, is not that they want your data. That’s a red herring in the article.
But that the average American is so out of touch with how food --presumably bad, shitty food and nutrition-- interacts with their body, that them being able to know of how, for examole, that 2nd Coke, and bag of chips is screwing up your insulin levels, and how it get affected in real time could be a positive drive for change. The fact is that the USA has an obesity pandemic and most people’s knowledge of nutritional science can be laughable at best. 60+% of Americans are overweight. And 33% are literally obese, including kids.
You do not have to buy a wearable. They are not making or forcing to you wear a wearable and they are not going to ask you to show papers before you want to enter a restaurant proving that you use or own a wearable. He said that he would prefer it because how do you empower people who know next to nothing? Is it the only way? Nope. Of course not, but the system has been so captured by interest groups that many changes may not be politically feasible. They could be done in theory but not in practice right now. Europe had s superior take on nutrition than the USA, for example.
Personally, I would never wear a wearable but I also spent a lot of time studying Nutritional Science and attempt to leave a healthy lifestyle. It is an extra load of work that cuts into other things and not many may want to do but it is one that it is worth doing for yourself and the family.
Additionally, I have friends who are Doctors and the concept of wearables is not always well received. Privacy concerns aside, the worry is that it can turn a lot of people into hypochondriacs if they do not fully understand some basics of human anatomy and take raw data out of context. Not to mention a waste of resources if people want to run tests for absolutely everything they think might be wrong with it. It can also be a source for unnecessary stress in some people.
- Comment on Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot 3 months ago:
Apparently, Digg may be coming back.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone 3 months ago:
Ah, I see that you too are a man of culture.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 months ago:
Use Freetube or Invidious, problem solved.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 3 months ago:
Try removing via ADB, maybe?
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
What are you talking about? Stop projecting, friend.
Do tell us about this great replacement theory you brought up.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
It is quite impressive that you think that anyone who disagrees with you is automatically a MAGA supporter. Tell me friend, is a MAGA supporter in the same room where you are at, can other people see them, or just you? Or do you think they just humouring you? Or do they just live rent free in your head 24/7?
Is a Pizza slice with anchovies a Facist pizza just because you may not like anchovies?
LOL
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
Source of your link:
“One official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details that have not been made public, said the purge could delete as many as 100,000 images or posts in total, when considering social media pages and other websites that are also being culled for DEI content. The official said it’s not clear if the database has been finalized.”
Do you have an actual source and not fear mongering? I think you seem to lack understanding on what “erasure,” actually means. No one is hiding or destroying anything.
Also, what you are saying is that I was correct with Tubman or you are still cannot admit to being wrong or are you going to just move the goal post again, Friend? As hominems just prove my point, as you would not resort to those.
I maen, people can down vote me all they want, but we both know you were wrong. LOL
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
Hehehe.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
Uh, it’s a free country and neither of us are paying for the server space. Albeit I do not know why you want to be such a white supremacist or focus on that. But c’est la vie. You do you, friend! No judgement.
Maybe add a PIC of Watanabe. But if not, post a bunch more photos of Tom Cruise, his new movie is about to come out! More eyes on the ball, I say. Cheers!
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
See? That is your problem. You and I care about History. The people who are okay with erasing white people based it all on political ideology that is educated on extremely cherry picked and narrow history factoids and examples along with an unhealthy dose of presentism. Sticking with objectivity is not their goal. Most of them are not even aware they are doing that as they are just parroting ideas that others in their echo chambers tell them. I know a bunch of kids at my local Uni who say the same thing and they get it either from the same professors who push the same thing or social media. Primary Sourcing is not something they do as it would prove them wrong.
Erasing the culture is the goal, despite the fact that they blame others of doing what they themselves are doing as a distraction.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 3 months ago:
Take it easy man, we do not want to over stage Citizen Kane, here.
Mr. Tan Suit would win best supporting actor, AND best costume design, by itself.