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Software developer by day, insomniac by night. Send me pictures of baby bats to make my day.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that this is an actual robot?
Because we live in an age of tech-bro grifting. The great grifter Musk had some person in a skin suit pretending to be a robot. We have all these “AI” companies selling air castles.
Anyone who isn’t skeptical is gullible.
Why would it be real? The video you’ve sent is a puppet on a string, suspended from the roof.
There are people with prosthetic legs. Was expecting the chest to be cut open but they just did a leg. That proves nothing.
Usually Questions and Answers.
There is evidence, and there’s been conspiracies around it.
I don’t see the schadenfreude. The article is very matter-of-fact, and focuses entirely on Walmart itself. In this particular case I think the schadenfreude would be too bitter anyway, on account of all the people who are suffering because of this.
It’s not “low income groups will go without food” it’s “low income groups will not spend as much” and that’s about the only consideration that particular population gets.
I grew up a povvo bitch, granted in a country where that sort of thing doesn’t hit as hard. We have social security nets, and every school has free lunches for kids. Even so, I was acutely aware of the situation from a very young age, and the stress of “do we pay the bills or do we have food to eat” is not a fun one. Even today I’m still plagued by the habits and worries formed back then.
No one should have to live under such circumstances.
Complete outsider here; don’t Americans usually call people from Africa black? Isn’t one of Kamala’s parents from India? Like, I’ve never heard anyone refer to someone from China as “black” before, but I do have an Eastern-European friend who received some anti-Mexican sentiment when he visited the U.S.
The man doesn’t know the price of groceries. He’s completely detached from society and real life.
The climate catastrophe is a whole fuckload of problems caused by humans changing the climate. It’s not just “it gets a little warmer” it’s death of habitat for various species, it’s ocean acidification, it’s weather changes, it’s crop failures.
It’ll lead to things like mass migrations of people from places that are no longer habitable due to a loss of access to water or food, or because their homes get flooded or destroyed by severe weather. We might see camps as massive populations migrate, there’ll be infrastructure problems. We’ll see starvation, and disease, perhaps another pandemic.
As people migrate to other places there’ll be border disputes, xenophobia, increased nationalism. We might even see people get shot as they’re trying to enter other countries, it’s not like we don’t see that already.
The problem isn’t “it gets a little warmer” is everything else that follows.
Oh I’m sure we’re all really sad for Walmart. My toilets and papers go out to the Waltons.
Fuck articles like this. Walmart fucks over people all the time. They’re part of the problem. There are people out there who are scrambling to get food. I couldn’t give even the smallest of fucks for Walmart.
Further it isn’t a “loss”, it’s projected revenue that they’re not getting. I’m not losing money if I don’t work, I just simply don’t earn it.
Gods know the Waltons don’t earn their money.
Of course Bavaria would.
Calm down there, Okarin.
It’s not so much this case in particular, but the idea of it and what it represents. Pluto being a dwarf planet or not is really just an astronomical categorisation, and that’s where the usefulness starts and ends. You won’t go to jail for calling it a planet, even though it doesn’t meet the standards.
The idea of using legislation on such an irrelevant thing is what rankles me. It’s frivolous and could be harmful. Perhaps not in this particular case, but legislating away expert opinion because it doesn’t fit with your personal narrative is a problem.
Right now it’s a planet, but this shit happens with peoples lives as well.
The fact that they’ve had multiple vehicle designs that break when it rains is nuts.
Yeah. Don’t buy rockstar. Just get it through alternative means.
They both have no-log policies. One is “we never log” and the other is “we log sometimes” do you see the difference?
Right, because corporations are widely known for going to prison when they break the law. Where exactly did they imprison Facebook for interfering in elections? Running illegal experiments on people? Pirating books and pornography? Surveilling children and selling their data?
Look at Mullvad. They’ve denied access to their data multiple times, they got raided, and nothing of use was recoverable. That’s what respect for privacy looks like. Proton could set their infrastructure up in this fashion, but instead they’ve chosen to just hand out user data freely.
What data? Here it is the IP address and only under order by authorities.
Whatever they gather. It says as much in the article; they started recording IPs once a request by the Swiss government came through.
ProtonMail can’t directly share data with foreign governments. In fact, doing so is illegal under Article 271 of the Swiss Criminal code. The police gained access to the IP address because Swiss authorities chose to cooperate with the French government. ProtonMail also points out how Swiss authorities will only approve requests that meet Swiss legal standards.
Under Swiss law, ProtonMail should notify the user if a third party makes a request for their private data and if the data is for a criminal proceeding. However, there’s a big catch/ loophole here. On its law enforcement page, ProtonMail highlights that the notification can be delayed in the following cases:
That’s based on the currently available laws. So if a law gets drafted that says “if we suspect someone to be complicit in criminal activity we want you to gather more data” we should just be fine with that because the authorities say so? Because the authorities are always infallible and incorruptible, right?
The details of this individual case isn’t the problem, it’s the precedent it sets that is. When Mullvad got raided for their logs there was nothing recovered because they don’t store anything. Proton stores things based on if the authorities ask them to, and when they find out that it wasn’t a terrorist or child-trafficker they go “woops we had no idea the account belonged to a climate activist.”
The authorities aren’t infallible. Some years back here in Sweden we had police raid, physically abuse, and kidnap a guy they suspected was a pedophile because he’d sent images of him and his 30 year old boyfriend having sex via Yahoo Mail. There’s no reality where this man should’ve been fucking beaten up and traumatised the way he was, but it happened, and there was no recourse for him. Nowhere down the chain of responsibility did anyone get reprimanded or investigated for misconduct.
Complying with the law is such a bullshit fucking excuse.
That’s the issue.
No. White people are expats. /s
I hate the term expat.
Yeah I don’t think the problem is children on social media. I think it’s social media being entirely unregulated. It exists to steal data, invade privacy, and influence people. That’s entirely nefarious and blocking children from accessing it isn’t going to fix any of that.