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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First time using AliExpress I got scammed. I got a refund, at least, but I haven’t been back since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The current regulations do consider density (people, buildings) when designating flight restrictions. Heavier small aircraft have to avoid certain areas because of the extra risk. This kind of single-passenger aircraft is way lighter than a car and wouldn’t be allowed over urban and residential areas, for example. I agree that CHANGES to the existing regulations could potentially add risk, but currently we’re ok and those changes happen slowly and are evidence-based. FAA and EASA don’t use the public as a testing area. It’s not as dystopian as the media might make you think. HTH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A passenger car crashed through the window of my local grocery store a few months ago. I think people see small aircraft as this great threat, but forget that cars have been quite capably killing people for over a century. They aren’t very safe, quiet, or efficient anyway, so I’m happy to see other technology getting taken seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While your cynicism is well-deserved in the US, Urban Air Mobility is an area of regulatory development. EASA and FAA are both actively working in this area, and VTOL and eVTOL aircraft have their own existing pilot certifications for both manned and remote flights. Lobbying has had very limited success with FAA and EASA, and they remain some of the most heavily regulated organizations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just another celebrity talking about stuff they don’t really know that much about. Jimmy’s witty and all, but his “physics is real and everything else is just stamp collecting”… sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People listen to others more than they listen to themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our ability to rapidly ingest the opinions and experiences of others through language, media, demonstrations, etc. has given us as a species, an incredible advantage, along with some risks you noted.

  For an example species following the “learn it for yourself” approach, see the very intelligent but very limited octopus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compromises on principles, not compromises with people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had a hammer …⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kinda sad, since I am genuinely worried that we’re relying on AI tools to assist with comprehending what I thought was pretty straightforward allegory.

  I phrased it the way I did in case it was actually ME that was getting trolled. Hopefully that’s all it is, and I’m just underestimating the depth of trolling here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had a hammer …⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone also posted an AI-generated summary for audience members whose reading comprehension skills have already atrophied.

  Good luck, humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I had a hammer …⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “… I had to use AI to figure out what this is supposed to mean.” I can only hope you really mean “I CHOSE to IRONICALLY use AI to figure out what this is supposed to mean.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only hope that was an autocorrect, otherwise you’d better retake that training. Or maybe full-contact corrupting is a thing now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot topics likely would have new and unique search terms, but maybe looking up the very latest news is just not this system’s strength. Thankfully there’s more out there than the last 30 days’ news.