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- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 6 days ago:
I think the problem is that for a long time Tesla, and specifically Elon, went around telling everyone how great their autopilot was. Turns out that was all exaggeration and sometimes flat out lying.
They showed videos of the car driving on its own. Later, we found out it was actually being controlled remotely.
Yeah, the driver wasn’t operating the vehicle safely but, Tesla told him that he didn’t have to.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like you and your wife have a healthy relationship. That’s awesome! But, for possessive and controlling relationships, surveillance can be harmful.
Personally, my location is shared with my sister. I’d share it with my partner but he is a bit of a Luddite. I wouldn’t be sharing because he asked, I would be doing it so he could find me easily in an emergency.
And, I wouldn’t ask him to share his. If he turned it on and wanted me to have it, that’s cool. And if not, that’s cool too.
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- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I don’t get it here. I kinda get them not wanting to deal with porn when you can’t verify consent and age of the performers, but the games don’t make sense because there aren’t live performers to worry about.
Mostly that stuff annoys me on Steam because it’s always at the top when I’m sorting by trending/popular, but I don’t think it needs to be removed either.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The real answer is that it depends on your age. Probably also race and gender. People will react differently to each.
An older adult ready for retirement? Delightful!
A kid trying to be different and impress girls! Cringey.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 3 weeks ago:
I do not welcome our robot overlords.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Oh also, the zoning and type of property matters too. A strip mall has different requirements than an office or hotel. Obviously
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 weeks ago:
I’ll try to look some up today but I think it varies by lease and by loan. You can’t apply the same rules to a warehouse as an office as a grocery store. Also, big spaces are different than small restaurants. Might not be consequences for a Chipotle but there could be for a grocery store in the same strip mall. The leases negotiated between the landlord and the tenant also have to be approved by the lender.
The whole thing is called “going dark”, meaning they are still paying rent but not operating on the premises. It causes the borrower/landlord to go into something called “cash management”. They lose the ability to collect rents directly. It all gets sent to a special lockbox that the lender has access to. They use those funds to post the payment and other things like that. They send a portion back to the borrow for operating expenses then hold onto the rest. The borrower also has to pay cash management and bank account fees when this happens.
I remember there was a big fight at a shopping center near me because a grocery store wanted to move the grocery location and open a giant liquor store in its place but the landlord didn’t like that. I believe they ended up terminating the lease and a different grocery store moved in. My company didn’t handle that loan so I don’t know the details but I knew that the loan was likely the real reason for the fight.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 3 weeks ago:
Their mortgages have clauses that cost them when tenants are not operating onsite. It devalues restaurants and stores in the area. I’m not saying it’s right. It’s just how it works. Tenants have to do business on site during the lease if they pay fees and their landlords have to pay the banks.
Source: I work in commercial real estate.
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 4 weeks ago:
This motherfucker doesn’t care about us in MO at all. Numerous other problems here, but he’d rather kiss the ring and hope Trump nominates him for some position so he can wreck a lot more.
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 4 weeks ago:
When I was in KS under Brownback, I remember how progressive MO seemed, but lately I feel like it’s flipped.
Don’t get me wrong, KS still has some assholes but MO really seems to be swinging for the fences.
- Comment on Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) 4 weeks ago:
When I was in KS under Brownback, I remember how progressive MO seemed, but lately I feel like it’s flipped.
Don’t get me wrong, KS still has some assholes but MO really seems to be swinging for the fences.
- Comment on Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think they have a good idea for ES6 and they know it’ll be a disappointment so they aren’t in a rush to put it out there
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 4 weeks ago:
I know some who still works for RadioShack in KS. It’s official RadioShack but also it’s its own thing. Idk maybe a franchise or something.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you have an iPhone and an Apple Watch, you can activate the camera remotely. I used it to take this picture of a quail. I set up my phone and put tomatoes out. Worked perfectly.
You can also see what’s on screen but you’d just look like you’re checking the time.
- Comment on YSK that fracking is not safe. People living near fracking sites are more likely to develop serious diseases 4 weeks ago:
I have experienced earthquakes. In Kansas City, Missouri. One had an epicenter near Stillwater, Oklahoma.
That’s not supposed to happen.
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 5 weeks ago:
Does anyone know if there is another federated version of GitLab/GitHub? That’s something I wouldn’t absolutely switch to.
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 5 weeks ago:
But wait….that would be I’m almost 40. Omg you’re right. Time moves too quickly!
- Comment on Oculus founder Palmer Luckey leads group of tech billionaires launching new crypto-bank — aims to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's 2023 collapse 5 weeks ago:
Oculus founderArms dealer, Zionist and Trump supporter - Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 5 weeks ago:
It feels like they just announced it? Why did they even bother?
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 5 weeks ago:
Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA.
Here’s an article about it from 2018.
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Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it
And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 5 weeks ago:
Oh no! My ATM card! My secret PIN number, 1077!
- Comment on Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations 5 weeks ago:
Idk Bayer made some hemophilia drugs, realized they were tainted with HIV and Hepatitis after it had started selling.
They pulled it from the US and Europe but sold the rest in Asia and Latin America.
They continued producing the medication for something like a year after admitting that it was tainted and when the updated safer version was available, they told distributors to use up the old stock before selling the new version.
Fuck capitalism.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 5 weeks ago:
Given that US citizens are getting immigration court notices and even getting deported, I’m sure this is a very accurate and trustworthy system.
We are in the dumbest timeline.
- Comment on Hey.. 5 weeks ago:
This is how I rolled my car off the interstate.
(I’m fine!)
I was less than a mile from my exit and I thought I could make it. I was trying to hard to stay awake I ended up driving past several exists. Suddenly, I realized my eyes were closed and I wasn’t sure how long they had been like that. I panicked, afraid I would hit the median, slammed on my brakes and swerved.
Once that happened, I was alert and I knew I couldn’t stop the car from rolling so I let go and let it happen. Apparently, that’s partly why I wasn’t seriously injured. I didn’t tense up and try to brace myself. That and seatbelts/good safety design.
I was scared to drive for awhile but it’s fine now. Though, I never speed. I always pull over if it doesn’t feel right. By that I mean, if I’m tired, if there is bad weather, if my car isn’t driving properly….anything. I don’t risk it.
Other drivers seem annoyed that I’m going the speed limit but I don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
One of my strategies for voting on judges is looking up who in my state appoints them. Do I trust that person to appoint reasonable judges or not? I vote to retain and dismiss judges accordingly.
- Comment on Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it 1 month ago:
I loved this game too! I haven’t finished it yet. I get distracted sometimes but I really do love it. It’s so unique but also kept the right tropes in the genre. Plus it’s cute.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 1 month ago:
Again? Didn’t they just raise the price in September?
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 month ago:
I cancelled the moment they put ads in the plan I had been paying for. Don’t miss it for a second. Not even prime shipping.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Deportations seem to be the primary benefit of electing Trump according r/Conservative. I check periodically to see if they regret Trump yet.
Obviously, hard to tell what’s real over there.
