Nigel Farage says he would send violent offenders to El Salvador under crime crackdown
Nigel Farage has said violent UK offenders could be jailed overseas under his plans to cut crime by half.The Reform UK leader named El Salvador as a likely destination, though he said he has not held conversations with officials there and "multiple" partners would be considered.
El Salvador is home to a notorious mega-prison, the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).
Nigel Farage says he would send violent offenders to El Salvador under crime crackdown
The Reform UK leader sets out plans to cut crime by half in the first term of parliament if his party wins the next election.Faye Brown (Sky News)
US envoy doubles down on support for Syria's government and criticizes Israel's intervention
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BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. envoy doubled down on Washington’s support for Syria’s new government, saying Monday there is “no Plan B” to working with it to unite the country still reeling from years of civil war and wracked by new sectarian violence.In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Tom Barrack also criticized Israel’s recent intervention in Syria, calling it poorly timed and saying it complicated efforts to stabilize the region.
Barrack is ambassador to Turkey and special envoy to Syria, with a short-term mandate in Lebanon. He spoke in Beirut following more than a week of clashes in Syria’s southern province of Sweida between militias of the Druze religious minority and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes.
Syrian government forces intervened, ostensibly to restore order, but ended up siding with the Bedouins before withdrawing under a ceasefire agreement with Druze factions. Hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and some government fighters allegedly shot dead Druze civilians and burned and looted homes.
Neighboring Israel intervened last week on behalf of the Druze, who are seen as a loyal minority within Israel and often serve in its military. Israel launched dozens of strikes on convoys of government forces in Sweida and struck the Ministry of Defense headquarters in central Damascus.
Over the weekend, Barrack announced a ceasefire between Syria and Israel. Syrian government forces have redeployed in Sweida to halt renewed clashes between the Druze and Bedouins, and civilians from both sides were set to be evacuated Monday.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-us-barrack-israel-druze-ede9f5299c4e59a477736842adcd7de9
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Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making.
Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making.
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.Afeef Nessouli (The Intercept)
“I’m a Lebanese-American Muslim who is gay.“From that, I have a lot of experience going to Lebanon and experiencing war.
“In 1998, I was there when one of the sonic booms was above the sports stadium.“I remember that just because it was so traumatising as a child to hear bombs, even though in 2006 there were way more experiences and it was way more horrifying, for some reason, the 1998 experience when I was 11 was really, really traumatising.
“I think these experiences set me up for always really being interested in the Middle East as just a place of complexity and competing interests, narratives that feel different than my experiences.”
Queer Cumbria | Articles | Queer Support of Palestine
Queer Cumbria speak to journalist Afeef Nessouli about the current genocide in Palestine and the pitfalls of queerwashingSteven Westgarth (Queer Cumbria)
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How is this article about the Lebanese community gaining "white" status in the Jim Crow south relevant in order to become a naturalized citizen relevant to our discussion.
It is infinitely infuriating when some middling engagement with the material presents a loose keyword match of the topic at hand masquerading it as something relevant worthy of a "gotcha ya" moment. Citing this article in this context is a waste of everyone's time when the whole of your argument is "Lebanese people are white". It didn't matter to to racists then and it doesn't now.
Nou’la had immigrated with his wife Fannie from Zahleh to Valdosta, Georgia around 1906. They decided to move to Lake City, Florida in 1926 after N’oula was flogged by the local KKK chapter, and after several run-ins with the law in Valdosta. Unfortunately for the family, problems with the law persisted in Lake City, and came to a head when the Sheriff and his deputies shot Fannie to death over an altercation at the Lebanese couple’s store. They then placed N’oula in jail where later that night a mob dragged him out and killed him.
This happened in 1929. They were declared "free white men" in 1913.
And nothing will be done to stop this tragedy.
The left are filled with toothless pacifist pussies impotently waving signs while waggling their fingers uselessly at openly aggressive fascists, and the right are filled with wealthy cartoon villains exploiting people openly with zero consequences.
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The distribution site was run by a new aid provider active in Gaza for only a few weeks. Khalil quickly noticed military presence. “We saw the Israeli soldiers in full military uniform standing next to their armored vehicles. We arrived knowing the place was dangerous. But, there was no clash, no threat to them,” Khalil said.
Imagine the fear, waiting for food distribution, surrounded by the enemy that has been indiscriminately killing your people for years, nay decades.
He stood in line with hundreds of others. There were children, women, and elderly men. “Some were barefoot, some had been waiting since the night before,” he recalled.As his group inched closer to the point where they hoped they would be able to grab a parcel of items, gunshots rang out. Khalil ran for his life.
“They began shooting directly at unarmed civilians,” he said. “The bullets were chasing us as if we were targets on a shooting range, and not just hungry people. We scattered under a hail of bullets. I got closer to death that day than a piece of bread.”
Khalil survived that quest for food — alive to starve another day instead. But at least 36 Palestinians did not, and 207 more were wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Since Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas in mid-March, more than 875 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food.
Calling this humanitarian aid is "Ministry of Truth" level cynicism.
Further:
Usually during war, the distribution of medical care and food to a besieged population would not be administered by any party waging war against it, much less by an illegally occupying military. And in most situations, aid operations would closely involve established organizations already active in the area.But that’s not the case in Gaza. Israel has effectively banned the biggest and longest-running aid group in the region: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA. And by gutting the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, a critical funding vehicle for aid groups including UNRWA, U.S. President Donald Trump has strangled international aid in Gaza.
Israel and the U.S. have instead rolled out a new scheme centered around a fledgling U.S.-based nonprofit that operates alongside the same Israeli military responsible for killing more than 230 journalists, 1,400 health care workers, and 17,000 Palestinian children in the last two years.
With a few small exceptions, all aid reaching Gaza since May has moved through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was established in Delaware in February. The organization has received tens of millions from the U.S. to distribute aid in Gaza — and, reportedly, some $100 million from an unnamed country.
There it is again. Government-funded terror and mass murder under the guise of humanitarian aid.
WHO says residence and main warehouse in Gaza hit by Israeli forces
Staff quarters attacked three times and four people detained, three temporarily, as IDF tanks enter Deir al-Balah
The World Health Organization has said the Israeli military attacked its staff residence and main warehouse in Deir al-Balah on Monday, compromising its operations in Gaza.
The UN agency said the WHO staff residence was attacked three times, with airstrikes causing a fire and extensive damage, and endangering staff and their families, including children.
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Palestinians desperate for in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood of central Gaza City, on Sunday. Israel has routinely attacked Palestinians seeking food aid.
I'm really glad The Guardian's not whitewashing what Israel is doing and actually calling it out. It's getting harder and harder for news outlets to cover up the genocide
Russian Photographer Gets 16 Years For Sharing Public Soviet Bunker Data
In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, sharing details of publications openly sold in bookstores can result in a 16-year prison sentence.
This has been the fate of Grigory Skvortsov, a 35-year-old photographer and musician from Perm.
Skvortsov was one of thousands across Russia who purchased the 2021 publication Secret Soviet Bunkers by historian Dmitry Yurkov. The book reproduced scores of once secret diagrams of Soviet installations that had recently been declassified.
Some supplementary scans were made available with the book, which Skvortsov purchased. He later shared some of those documents with an unnamed American journalist.
Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has drastically expanded the scope of what can be deemed a "state secret."
In letters to friends, Skvortsov says the Russian authorities opened the case against him in order to hide their own failures in not noticing potentially sensitive information was being freely sold and passed around online.
“I did not have access to state secrets and had no malicious intent," the photographer wrote from detention. “The data was not protected by the state.... These facts are being ignored by the prosecution and the courts, who are treating the case formally, clearly out of fear of repression from the FSB."
Russian Photographer Gets 16 Years For Sharing Public Soviet Bunker Data
Grigory Skvortsov sent an American journalist diagrams of a Soviet-era bunker included in a widely available book.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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The band’s music is described as niche, but it was released by a British record label, and attracted attention from Sonic Seducer Magazine, a German music publication. It was during an interview with that magazine that Skvortsov voiced his opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
That's the real reason right there.
We are protesting frequently, lemmy just stopped getting posts about it. However, these protests aren’t like LA, which I assume is what you mean?
But yes, UZA is soon to be like Ruzzia
publications openly sold in bookstores can result in a 16-year prison sentence.
For those who are interested. Secret Data is not something secret, it is something mentioned in the Secret Data List which itself is also in the Secret Data List.
Source: had 3rd level access to the secret data
Secret Data is not something secret, it is something mentioned in the Secret Data List which itself is also in the Secret Data List.
"They don't have to show us Catch-22," the old woman answered. "The law says they don't have to."
"What law says they don't have to?"
"Catch-22."
good argument (/s)
if you want to provide an actual argument, better provide the whole argument, instead of basically just saying "you're wrong lol"
what causes it instead?
I know why you got downvoted, but you are right, it's not about tourists, it's about the USA immigrants (the so called expats), since the goverment made changes to privately benefit from all the airbnb shit, we have people earning in dollars, that pay 0 taxes to México and of course the market tries to squeeze out their dollars, rising prices and changing the environment to appeal to those migrants, leaving out and even kicking out the nationals.
People are right to be angry about it, but they are aiming to the wrong part, this was allowed (and boosted) by the past and present administration (even when they were warned about it) to fill their own pockets even if it meant stepping on their own people.
The people in power allow the rich to become richer on the backs of the poor.
“I’m not the problem!” Says the rich man, “it’s those immigrants, whose money I’m taking, who are the problem. Fight amongst yourselves”
This is how demand works. If the population of an area want a Starbucks, they get a Starbucks. I’ve lived in many areas that were cool until they became “cool,” if you catch my meaning. Prices went up and I had to leave. It’s tempting to blame the people who came in and were willing to spend money. But while trying to find the root cause of the problem, they quickly become… Not the problem.
I’d say few people go into a new area and think, gosh I want to make this different. They went there because they wanted to be there. If a Starbucks pops up, they aren’t exactly upset, but they probably could live without it.
The problem is the people who own these places. Those people aren’t the ones protesting. And if you want to think of it from a purely ownership standpoint, the people protesting have no right to complain what the people who own the land want to do with it.
I have no idea what the solution is beyond rent control and price caps. Those two things will keep costs down regardless of tourism, discouraging landowners from changing the area to suit the demand of tourism.
Additionally, preventing foreign companies from establishing their businesses in the region would preserve the local culture. However, as previously mentioned, it is the individuals who own this land—both in a literal and a political sense—who are facilitating this occurrence.
Pfeiffer: The shooting that we heard earlier that's happening so close to your hospital, are we hearing fighting? Are we hearing defense? What is happening that is so audible in the background?Maynard: This is through fighting almost certainly between gangs or families who are fighting over food. We've seen this on several occasions. This is not the Israeli military and it's not Hamas, we're told very reliably. It's fighting gangs or fighting families who are trying to get food, and this is born out of desperation for food because they are all starving.
Gunshot wounds like that could also be results from these fights between Palestinians.
They're doing some Rape of Nanking shit over there, aren't they?
How long til we learn that they've been performing vivisections, and kicking human heads around like footballs?
Earth will spin faster on July 22 to create 2nd-shortest day in history
Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.Jamie Carter (Space)
According to a 2023 study, a day on Earth was approximately 19 hours for a significant part of Earth's early history
That headline plays fast and loose with “history” — history supposedly started in 1973?
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We just call her Scarlett for short.
I used to think that those recovery questions are stupid, but no. The user is the stupid one, entering the expected information. A few years ago I just decided to enter another generated password in each of the recovery questions, and store them alongside the main one in my password manager. Yes, the school I attended in the fourth grade was nVKuq&zo5BiCOc*0JY5JZHsgRPqcJEumBKV5tt%uSk#acN60s!uLh5MIGwobA3YyHIq3dQxm8r0Yhloloc&3a3BLm!nNbAZ%Vzut - it's worked for every site I've tried it on, too.
Uno reverse the hackers, 4 passwords instead of 1. 😎
Nice. My bank lets me pick my own questions, too. The answers are a transformation of the question which, itself, is just some ASCII. My wife uses the same login for the bank, and she hates it.
Now, you got me thinking. I could make the questions cryptographic hashes that I decrypt to an answer. My wife is going to kill me.
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Relevant XKCD | Thomas Park
Footnotes An xkcd tribute inspired by what has become a meme. Also inspired by all things recursive like We Become What We Behold and xkcd itself. Made with the official xkcd font.Thomas (Thomas Park)
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"The cause of this acceleration is not explained," Leonid Zotov, a leading authority on Earth rotation at Moscow State University, told Timeanddate.com. "Most scientists believe it is something inside the Earth. Ocean and atmospheric models don't explain this huge acceleration."Zotov predicts Earth’s rotation may soon decelerate once again. If he’s right, this sudden speeding-up could prove to be just a temporary anomaly in the planet’s long-term trend toward slower rotation and longer days.
"Something" in the core is "happening" "in a way" that's speeding us up. Temporarily.
This is just minor trivia in Earth's history. 🤷♂️
How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
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I don't remember the exact search, but it had something to do with Star Citizen. A link to a post from that Lemmy.world community was fairly high on a DuckDuckGo search result.
Along with a few other users, I've posted some useful links and info in the community over there. It looks like that work is starting to pay off.
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Be the change you want to see, I've been sending links like piefed.social/post/1062918 to friends and family when I see interesting things or funny memes
How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
I'm curious as to why Lemmy rarely shows up in search results on the main internet even if there is a post related to the search input. I've only ever seen a Lemmy result if Lemmy is specified. Is this because we're still relatively small or some other reason?
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Sure but it creates tragic, and they might click around and subscribe, maybe search for it in the future.
It's a marathon not a sprint
Be the change you want to see
On my flashlight review website, every article links to a corresponding post on !flashlight@lemmy.world and displays comments from there.
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Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?
I'd like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you'd say "Yep, that's a community alright."?
Depends on the search engine you use. I started giving Kagi a try and it has options to increase visibility of fediverse content in your searches.
I'd guess it's a mix of fediverse being a poor fit for ad-oriented SEO and relatively low adoption.
Golden Age of Iraq
Before war and hardship reshaped its destiny, Iraq flourished in a golden era of art, architecture, and modern life.
Baghdad in the 1950s to '70s was a beacon of culture and intellect where poets, professors, and families shared spaces with sculpted monuments and bustling cafés. Red double-decker buses cruised wide boulevards, fashion echoed European trends, and the spirit of progress filled the air.
This was a nation confidently looking to the future, rich in history and proud of its identity, an Iraq now remembered through photos, memories, and the enduring resilience of its people.
Artificial Saliva Market Surges as Demand for Oral Health Solutions Rises
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Nel tardo Medioevo in guerra, la concentrica innovazione serba del santo castello
Nel tardo Medioevo in guerra, la concentrica innovazione serba del santo castello - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Crescere all’ombra di una dominazione straniera non era facile nei tempi antichi per nessun abitante di un particolare contesto sociale, ma chi trovava le maggiori difficoltà a riconciliarsi con la quotidianità inerente era spesso l’effettivo sovrano…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
I need a new language, and have the resources to translate it!
I need the Urdu language. I have made a request on Transifex, and I want to know how long it will take until I hear from those in charge. I have a loose schedule nowadays and would like to start and finish translation for my language. Thanks.
As Urdu is an RTL language, I also want to know if any other contribution is required on the code/styles side, or just completing the translation will finish the job
Re: I need a new language, and have the resources to translate it!
raza2022 hello! I'll approve it now.
Just do the translations! When you're about 80% complete let me know and I'll pull it into the NodeBB codebase 😀
Re: I need a new language, and have the resources to translate it!
raza2022 done, you may now begin translating NodeBB into Urdu :pray:
Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster
Hertz' new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it's not the only company deploying the shoddy tech.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
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Yes. And yes. And a short search shows quite a few blunders.
Edit. Autocorrect
Hertz Still Can't Keep Track Of Cars, Threatens Reader Who Returned Vehicle On Time - View from the Wing
It seemed like Hertz really got this under control, after bringing in Palantir to help track its rental fleet. So it was pretty jarring to me that a reader recently received the scariest letter than anyone who frequents this blog can get.Gary Leff (View from the Wing)
I've had from Hertz is they just told me to fuck off and didn't give me my reserved vehicle.
And here I thought they just didn't like me... WTF kind of business is this lol
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I think it's generally a brilliant solution but there are a couple of problems here:
- The scanner seems to flag fucking everything and charge for minor damage where a human would probably flag it as wear.
- No one is allowed to correct the scanner:
Perturbed by the apparent mistake, the user tried to speak to employees and managers at the Hertz counter, but none were able to help, and all "pointed fingers at the 'AI scanner.'" They were told to contact customer support — but even that proved futile after representatives claimed they "can’t do anything."
Sounds to me like they're just trying to replace those employees. That's why they won't let them interfere.
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Sometimes there's no competition. Many times there is. And still customers will ignore them.
Look where we all are right now. Was it hard leaving Reddit? Did it cost you anything? And yet millions of people return there every day. Reddit fucked them, they protested for 2 days, and then almost everyone went back to business as usual.
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I'm not sure how you can make the points you make, and still call it a "generally brilliant solution"
The entire point of this system - like anything a giant company like Hertz does - is not to be fair to the customer. The point is to screw the customer over to make money.
Not allowing human employees to challenge the incorrect AI decision is very intentional, because it defers your complaint to a later time when you have to phone customer support.
This means you no longer have the persuasion power of being there in person at the time of the assessment, with the car still there too, and means you have to muster the time and effort to call customer services - which they are hoping you won't bother doing. Even if you do call, CS hold all the cards at that point and can easily swerve you over the phone.
It's all part of the business strategy.
I'm not sure how you can make the points you make, and still call it a "generally brilliant solution"
Because the technology itself is not the problem, it's the application. Not complicated.
Do you hold everything to such a standard?
Stop lights are meant to direct traffic. If someone runs a red light, is the technology not working as it should?
The technology here, using computer vision to automatically flag potential damage, needed to be implemented alongside human supervision - an employee should be able to walk by the car, see that the flagged damage doesn't actually exist, and override the algorithm.
The technology itself isn't bad, it's how hertz is using it that is.
I believe the unfortunate miscommunication here is that when @Ulrich@feddit.org said the solution was brilliant, they were referring to the technology as the "solution", and others are referring to the implementation as a whole as the "solution"
The stop light analogy would require the stop light be doing something wrong not the human element doing something wrong because.
There is no human element to this implantation, it is the technology itself malfunctioning. There was no damage but the system thinks there is damage.
There is no human element to this implantation
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. That's the problem.
There is no human element to this implantation, it is the technology itself malfunctioning. There was no damage but the system thinks there is damage.
Let's make sure we're building up from the same foundation. My assumptions are:
1. Algorithms will make mistakes.
2. There's an acceptable level of error for all algorithms.
3. If an algorithm is making too many mistakes, that can be mitigated with human supervision and overrides.
Let me know if you disagree with any of these assumptions.
In this case, the lack of human override discussed in assumption 3 is, itself, a human-made decision that I am claiming is an error in implementing this technology. That is the human element. As management, you can either go on a snipe hunt trying to find an algorithm that is perfect, or you can make sure that trained employees can verify and correct the algorithm when needed. Instead hertz management chose option 3 - run an imperfect algorithm with absolutely 0 employee oversight. THAT is where they fucked up. THAT is where the human element screwed a potentially useful technology.
I work with machine learning algorithms. You will not, ever, find a practical machine learning algorithm that gets something right 100% of the time and is never wrong. But we don't say "the technology is malfunctioning" when it gets something wrong, otherwise there's a ton of invisible technology that we all rely on in our day to day lives that is "malfunctioning".
Stop light analogy is completely unequivocal
You’re admitting the technology is in fact flawed if you think it needed to be implemented with supervision. An uno reverse is, every set of traffic lights needs a traffic controller to stop drivers running red lights. Unequivocal, right?
Just stop because you’re wrong, lol
You’re admitting the technology is in fact flawed if you think it needed to be implemented with supervision.
You're absolutely right. The technology isn't perfect if it needs to be implemented with supervision, but it can be good enough to have a role in everyday society.
Great examples are self checkout lanes, where there's always an employee watching, and speed cameras, which always have an officer reviewing and signing off on tickets.
An uno reverse is, every set of traffic lights needs a traffic controller to stop drivers running red lights.
Traffic lights are meant to direct traffic. Yet you don't expect them to prevent folks from running red lights. Folks don't expect them to, because that's not their role in their implementation - they are meant to be used alongside folks who will enforce traffic laws, and, maybe in fact, traffic controllers. This is arguably an example of an implementation done right.
This technology is meant to flag car damage. If there was a correct implementation, I would be able to say "folks don't expect them to be perfect, because that's not their role in their implementation - they are meant to be used alongside employees trained to verify damage exists, who can correct the algorithm if needed", but the implementation in this case is sadly bad.
At the end of the day, you will never have a "perfect" computer vision algorithm. But you can have many "good enough" ones, depending on how they're implemented.
The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.
In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn't fly here. Even though I'm not a lawyer.
If you literally can't get a hold of them, they're breaking Australian Consumer Law, that's a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state's relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you're low-income, it's literally free.
They don't want to waste money on fighting you. If you're confident you're clearly in the right, it's very easy to get a company to back down.
This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it's your word against them.
You are spot on here. AI is great for sensitivity (noticing potential issues), but terrible for specivity (giving many false positives).
The issue is how AI is used, not the AI itself. They don't have a human in the checking process. They should use AI scanner to check the car. If it's fine, then you have saved the employee from manually checking, which is a time-consuming process and prone to error.
If the AI spots something, then get an employee to look at the issues highlighted. If it's just a water drop or other false positive, then it should be a one click 'ignore', and the customer goes on their way without charge. If it is genuine, then show the evidence to the customer and discuss charges in person. Company still saves time over a manual check and has much improved accuracy and evidence collection.
They are being greedy by trying to eliminate the employee altogether. This probably doesn't actually save any money, if anything it costs more in dealing with complaints, not to mention the loss of sales due to building a poor image.
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I will bring this up again like I did my last post concerning Hertz.
While I was in Albuquerque, NM getting off the Amtrak train, I reserved our rental car from their website and went to the nonexistent address with no phone number or anything. After half an hour we called another Hertz and they basically told us to piss off and call the location we booked the car. I have few brands that I boycott and now they will be Nestle products (and sub companies) and Hertz.
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That's a tall order. And just to be clear, not saying we should just give up against those numbers. It's not an all-or-nothing situation.
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I'm interested in examples of when name-brand is worse quality, but yes, name-brand isn't always objectively better, and is often produced in the same facility.
As usual, it depends, so don't knee-jerk to all one or the other, if it matters to you, compare the packaging (it'll say where it was produced, so you can guess when it's the same product).
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I used Avis in a different state for a short car rental and they sent me a hefty bill for some kind of damage below the vehicle a couple months after returning it.
I refused to pay and will refuse to use them ever again. Your mileage may vary.
I rent through Costco and try to pick Alamo when possible. Avis is decent but they often share a line with Budget which can take forever.
I’m not a loyalty member of any brand for reference.
The term AI itself is a shifting of goalposts. What was AI 50 years ago* is now AGI, so we can call this shit AI though it's nothing of the sort. And everybody's falling for the hype: governments, militaries, police forces, care providers, hospitals... not to speak of the insane amounts of energy & resources this wastes, and other highly problematic, erm, problems. What a fucking disaster.
If it wasn't for those huge caveats I'd be all for it. Use it for what it can do (which isn't all that much), research it. But don't fall for the shit some tech bro envisions for us.
* tbf fucking around with that term probably isn't a new thing either, and science itself is divided on how to define it.
Agreed. But most people have neither the time nor capacity to track all of these specifics, so popular discussions of AI-related technologies inevitably break down into a mud pit of people talking past each other about various different topics.
Which, if you think about it, is true of most public discussions about any complex topic. It almost invariably devolves into a miscommunication or a discussion about semantics.
People have the capacity to track genres and whatnot, what's so different about this?
I think people could understand if explained probably, but unfortunately journalists rarely dive deeply enough to do that. It really doesn't need to get too involved:
- machine learning - tell an algorithm what it's allowed to change and what a "good" output is and it'll handle the rest to find the best solution
- Bayesian networks - probability of an event given a previous event; this is the underpinnings of LLMs
- LLM - similar to Bayesian networks, but with a lot more data
And so on. If people can associate a technology with common applications, it'll work a lot more like genres and people will start to intuit limitations of various technologies.
What's different is that most people will see it as "tech stuff" and mentally file it in a drawer with spare extension cords and adapters. They don't care to deeply study or catalog things. Nerds care about that, and most people here, including me, are nerds, but most people are not nerds and consider learning to be a form of torture.
People writ-large don't care about proper genre labels either, they just kinda pick a vibe and guess off of it. Look at all the -core suffixed aesthetic names that cropped up in the last decade.
What was AI 50 years ago is now AGI,
You’re not wrong, but that’s also a bit misleading. “AI” is all-encompassing while terms like AGI and ASI are subsets. From the 1950s onward AI was expected to evolve quickly as computing evolved, that never happened. Instead, AI mostly topped out with decision trees, like those used for AI in videogames. ML pried the field back open, but not in the ways we expected.
AGI and ASI were coined in the early 2000s to set apart the goal of human-level intelligence from other kinds of AI like videogame AI. This is a natural result of the field advancing in unexpected, divergent directions. It’s not meant to move the goal post, but to clarify future goals against past progress.
It is entirely possible that we develop multiple approaches to AGI that necessitate new terminology to differentiate them. It’s the nature of all evolution, including technology and language.
The current situation is a bubble based on an over hyped extension of the cloud compute boom. Nearly a trillion dollars of capital expenditure over the past 5 years from major tech companies chasing down this white whale and filling up new data centers with Nvidia GPUs. With revenue caping out at maybe 45 billion annually across all of them for “AI” products and services, and that’s before even talking about ongoing operation costs such as power for the data centers, wages for people working on them, or the wages of people working to develop services to run on them.
None of this is making any fucking profit, and every attempt to find new revenue ether increases their costs even more or falls flat on its face the moment it is actually shipped. No one wants to call it out at higher levels because NVIDIA is holding up the whole fucking stock market right now, and them crashing out because everyone stoped buying new GPUs will hurt everyone else’s growth narrative.
what do you think is driving the image recognition take that comes from the computer vision hardware?
it's an LLM.
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How do Large Language Models Integrate with Computer Vision
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Computer Vision is teaching enterprise AI how to both see and speak.Chooch AI Team (Chooch Intelligence Corp)
Too many people these days don't use or have access to credit cards for services like this. Many people I know only use bank debit cards, or worse, use the debit preloaded cash cards issued by their employers' payroll service provider.
Credit cards motivate banks to help you, because if you won't pay, and the business doesn't pay, the bank has to take the hit.
Debit cards will work as well if your bank values it's reputation - but not all banks do.
And I would not trust a preloaded card provider to assist. You are neither their business partner nor their customer and that puts your interests at the bottom of a very long list. You have to hope some law is on your side or that your issue is so trivial that resolving it is more cost effective then dealing with you.
I don't understand how this works out badly for the person using a debit card. You pay for the vehicle and if they try to make you pay more you ask for proof and if you don't get it you walk away.
Or do they require a collateral fee when renting?
It's about who's lawyers you can rally to your defense in a dispute.
With a credit card you're spending the bank's money. If you can convince the bank you're in the right, it's you and the bank's lawyers recovering the bank's money.
As a debit card user, the banks will support your legal rights, because it's good business for your clients to prosper. While the bank's lawyers won't go to bat for you, many will be willing to give you quasi-legal and quasi-financial tidbits or point you in the right direction.
As the bank's client's employee, you're basically on your own. Good luck.
it's because with credit cards they can check the credit limit, then be sure that the card can pay the insurance deductible in case of crash
instead with debit i can rent a car, close or deativate the card, crash/total the rental car and then avoid paying any extra fee
most rentals don't rent with debit cards because they want to be sure, and who accepts debit:
- they preauthorize thousands of dollars instead of hundreds
- they only rent the lowest end of the available cars
I paid a $300 deposit to reserve a moving company in five days.
The associate on the phone told me to read the terms carefully online
I said sure and skimmed it. Then paid the emailed invoice. I shopped around and found a rate 40% cheaper.
So I called the next day. 20 hours later. Spoke to the same associate and she said no refund because it's within 7 days of the appointment.
I wasn't having it. Yes it's in the terms. Don't care. She knew the booking was not refundable and said read the terms instead of fucking telling me that on our phone call.
I called her right the fuck out. We spoke on the phone. I didn't self service online.
I told her I saw the terms and I don't care. I called 20 hours after our previous call and she knew the deposit was not refundable. That's shady as fuck.
I demanded a refund. She pointed to terms.
I said I was going to issue a charge back and blast them online in every platform I could find.
She spoke to the owner and I got my refund.
Oh, so Hertz has gotten wise to... every online platform that exists: Outsourcing all responsibility for their user-hostile bullshit to some vague "system" that cannot be held accountable.
I'm so sorry but the advertised cost has doubled because... Computer says so! No, sir, there's nothing I can do, sir, you see it's the system.
And you can't go anywhere else, because everyone else is doing it (or soon will be) too!
just wait till they start denying health insurance with it
I'm sorry ma'am I know you're upset, but the AI said it's not covered. The AI is numbers, and numbers don't lie.
United Health is way ahead of you. 1000 use cases, they tout. it's one of the things that lead to the luigi-ing.
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UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
Families of former beneficiaries claim UnitedHealth's AI system "aggressively" rejected claims for medically necessary expenses.Elizabeth Napolitano (CBS News)
Oh, this is a thing. It's called an accountability sink.
There is a really interesting book called the unaccountability machine by Rory Sutherland (if my memory is working). Worth a read
I get why they'd use something like this to save money and time but, is suspect that correct use would include a human check before charging people.
We need to start pushing for laws on this kind of thing. Automated checks are fine if you, as the company, trust they won't have too many false negatives. If you aren't checking for false positives, though, you should be heavily fined for each false report. $25,000 per false report sounds like a good place to start. Hopefully that would be large enough to not just be the cost of doing business.
Hertz has also called the cops on their customers for a variety of asinine reasons.
I steer clear of them and Enterprise (Enterprise has been working the whole shaft for ICE).
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‘No filter can fix that face’: how online body shaming harms teenage girls
‘No filter can fix that face’: how online body shaming harms teenage girls
Research shows almost one-third of teenage girls have experienced body shaming online.The Conversation
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Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks
Newag, maker of Polish trains, is suing ethical hackers who exposed its anti-repair software, threatening independent repair and consumer rights.Charlie Sorrel (iFixit)
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Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology
Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology
It is yet another sign of a looming ‘tech cold war’.Jasim Al-Azzawi (Al Jazeera)
Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology
Iran’s plan to abandon GPS is about much more than technology
It is yet another sign of a looming ‘tech cold war’.Jasim Al-Azzawi (Al Jazeera)
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Thailand sees US offering ‘very good’ trade deal after ceasefire
The truce was reached after Mr Trump threatened to block trade deals with both countries.
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Thailand sees US offering ‘very good’ trade deal after ceasefire
The truce was reached after Mr Trump threatened to block trade deals with both countries. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
Qobuz & Tidal Downloaders - Web Extensions
Hello hi-res music sailors !
Today I renewed my Qobuz and Tidal one month trials for the 12th time. Seems too easy to be true, but it just works.
Here are my two homemade web extensions to download files directly from the browser.
Unstable testing versions. Active subscription required.
Based on qobuz-dl and tidal-dl-ng
~~Still not sure if this is piracy or not 😀~~
GitHub - nicopowa/qobuzext: qobuz downloader web extension
qobuz downloader web extension. Contribute to nicopowa/qobuzext development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
You don't pay for files and still download them that's piracy.
I guess they make it easy because, they hope when they treat their customers with respect, the customers return the favor with paying for the service.
But in deathspiral-capitalism I get that people are not paying for anything anymore.
"In a world full of thieves, the only real sin is to get caught."
Main differences : it does not need credentials (attached to browser session), and no additional software required.
Just the web extension. And bugs.
Drone from Belarus breaches Lithuanian airspace
An unidentified drone has entered Lithuania from Belarus, the country's authorities said on Monday morning.
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Recognizing Palestine state before established could be ‘counterproductive,’ Italian premier says
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Saturday that “now is not the right time” to recognize a Palestinian state, warning that premature recognition could be counterproductive and risk masking unresolved issues.
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Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples
Solar-powered units reciting biblical passages have appeared in the Javari valley, despite strict laws protecting Indigenous groups
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Commission pushes to partially suspend Israel from EU research fund
The block would affect funding of Israeli tech by the EU startup scheme.
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Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update
Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update
Google’s Battery Performance Program update was supposed to stop this.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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Well that's just great.
Here's the website to see if your PIxel6a is an "impacted device". Mine isn't, not sure why... zero transparency on this.
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Thanks for the link. I put my phone's info in and it told me I'm eligible. But the color of the phone was completely wrong.
I'm done with Pixels. The first one was amazing. But the quality has been going gradually downhill for both the main series and the A series phones.
I love how they just make things worse indiscriminately now. Like you'd expect that if a company turns evil, they make things worse for profit, but google often doesn't even care about that and makes everything worse randomly.
The clearest example I have is the maps app, which used to let you tap once to clear the search and directions bars off the screen. They removed that in one update for absolutely no fucking reason, so now a third+ of the screen is blocked at all times. If that space displayed ads or something at least I'd get that they were making an app shittier for profit, but nowadays more often than not everything just seems to be shitty because they don't give a fuck anymore.
Due to the risk of battery fires, Google said that devices with more than 400 charge cycles could see their capacity and charging speed drastically reduced.
Apparently they design phones that'll last just over a year before self-igniting.
Does 400 charge cycles really amount to just over a year of use for most people? I’m assuming one cycle means a full power cycle, not just a top up.
For reference (and I understand it’s a bit apples to oranges) I’ve had my iPhone 15 since Dec 2023 and charge it every night and it’s currently showing 125 charge cycles.
Oh well they were forced to acknowledge a problem that needed a fix and what they did was they asked Gemini how do we fix this which Gemini had zero problems at all, not even an inconvenience, in giving them it's fix so that's what they went with without a single further thought employed in the matter
They really liked it when the response started with it's super easy
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I want a fairphone 4 with either e/OS or Ubuntu touch. It's still a little out of my price range though.
I would love to run grapheneOS on my phone, but I'm not willing to pay Google to not use Android.
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And then you indirectly pay google as you fund the people who buy google phones every time a new one comes out.
Yes it is the best way to buy a google phone, but you are still supporting google in most cases.
Arguably, 2nd hand private sellers would have bought it anyway and you are just saving e-waste at that point
You can donate to GrapheneOS and I highly doubt that the hardware of the Fairphone is open
e/OS is a joke btw
Of course: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134…
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Yo, from one type 1 to another, get yourself some xdrip to replace the dexcom app, its miles ahead and more configurable.
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And depending on which omnipod you got, and how technical you are, check out AndroidAPS if you want an open source closed-loop solution.
androidaps.readthedocs.io/en/l…
If you got the omnipod dash you can use it directly with AndroidAPS via Bluetooth.
I use both of these with dexcom G6 and an accu-chek Bluetooth insulin pump, and its amazing vs the commercial solutions.
GitHub - NightscoutFoundation/xDrip: Nightscout version of xDrip+
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Sometimes in the darkness of the internet where all our worst sides come out and I get trampled by the evil of governments, corporations, and people in general...a small beam of light shines through illuminating the beauty of this world.
Today, your comment is that beam of light. You didn't mean it to be, but sometimes little things have bigger impacts. Thank you. Have a great day.
I just got rid of my Pixel 6a because it had one of the bad batteries. Tip to anyone taking advantage of the trade in rebate, DO NOT get the $150 Google Store credit and be like me thinking you can use it on the Google Fi Store to purchase a new Pixel. The $150 store credit is only towards the purchase of a Pixel phone via the Google Store. Take the $100 cash rebate option instead because it tells you once you choose either option, you cannot change it.
My hope was to get the Pixel 9a on my account for $249 (activation discount) on my account and then use the $150 store credit... nope.
It's all well and good being oh so principled like you're making yourself out to be, but phones are expensive, and the above user is being completely rational for wanting to settle on a Pixel 9a for $250, especially when the other OEMs have plenty of their own problems.
Get off your moral high horse.
I too don't understand why you would be responsible for THEM breaking the screen.
Imagine your mechanic breaks a part while changing your oil then says you're responsible for the cost of it.
If the carmaker has a recall on the airbags, and the dealer breaks the instrument cluster in the process of replacing the airbag assembly, you're goddamn right I'm not paying for the instrument cluster. I don't care if the car is ten years old. It's a recall, which means it's bad design and always was. That is 100% on the mechanic, the manufacturer, and the engineer that designed the instrument cluster to break if the airbag is replaced.
They can fuck right off with that shit
Didn't HMD make a couple of those too?
Yes, the HMD Skyline has an easily removable backplate and battery.
Samsung locks the bootloader, even for carrier unlocked versions traight from samsung's website. (At least for those sold in the US, not sure about other places)
If you don't intend to use a custom RON like Lineage OS, you wouldn't notice a difference. But if you do, then it might be a dealbreaker. As for the Xcover series in particularx the specs are worse for the amount you're paying. Camera is worse, SoC is slower, assuming if you are conparing the price of a brand new mainstream S or A series phones to a brand new Xcover series. But if you don't care about worse specs for the swappable battery, then sure, go ahead. I personally wouldn't get the Xcover series, doesn't seem like a good deal, the screen is LCD and I'm way too used to OLED/AMOLED of the more mainstream phones.
The EU will require all smartphones to have replaceable batteries by 2027
The decision could have a global impact.Cecily Mauran (Mashable)
That's for "easily replaceable" batteries, not necessarily swappable, as in pop off the cover and insert new battery.
The new Fairphone 6, for example, requires a screw driver to open up the phone, and that would meet the legal requirements of the EU law.
The battery of my Pixel 6 started to bloat and leak last week. I contacted support. After a bit of back and forth where they asked me to provide proof of purchase and pictures of the phone, they sent me a brand new Pixel 6 and told me to just recycle the old one.
I reported the issue on Tuesday, received the new phone on Friday. That's not bad support for a 4 year old device that's long out of warranty. I fully expected them to tell me to go F my self.
Old? I have a 7a and i just bought it from Google…
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Two years ago.
Shit. I guess that is old in phone years
Next you'll be saying people born in the eighties are old
I think, but 100% on this, that not all 6a's were affected.
Patch it to the latest update. If you get a notification about your battery then it's probably fucked.
Oh, was it $452? They didn't email a confirmation and I forgot to screenshot it.
Can someone screenshot it? That would be great.
People in this thread mentions setting the phone to only charge to 80%, it will hell extend battery life.
Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization
I put my IMEI in and it said I was eligible. But then it gets stuck in an infinite loop of support links with no option out (at least when I selected to get a replacement battery). Edit: I got free of the loop, but the nearest place to take my phone into to get the battery replaced is 100 miles away!
I think I'm just going to get a new phone and move on. Not a Pixel though. Fuck this noise. My wife had a Pixel 5a and the motherboard fried itself after a couple of years. Google sent her a Pixel 6a replacement about 2 months later (long after we'd found her a non-Pixel replacement). So I upgraded to that replacement for in a 4a. But now this battery/fire bullshit? I'm done with their shitty products and their shitty support!
I have owned 3 pixels.
5a - bricked randomly
8 - screen failed within 6 months
6a - stuck in a bootloop, gave up on fixing it just before the battery issue made headlines
I gave them a fair shake. Never again.
Before the pixel existed I owned a Google Nexus ~~5~~ 4 which was manufactured by LG and to date that was the worst phone I've ever owned. I guess my point is it doesn't matter who is manufacturing the hardware; if Google is involved it's gonna be junk.
Edit: it was a 4 not a 5 but either way it was such an awful experience I've never bought another piece of Google hardware since
I had a Nexus 5 (also LG) and it was the best I'd had for years. Ran lineageOS on it (maybe it was CyanogenMod still I can't remember) but that thing was the shit.
I left it on top of my car once and ended up destroying it. Swapped the modem into an EU model (the modem and GPS module survived, all other components failed) and had basically a brand new phone afterwards.
The Nexus 4 was a great phone in my opinion.
Had it rooted and everything for about 6 years.
The 8 had known screen issues, and they were fixed even out of warranty. After six months it would have been within warranty, so you definitely should have been able to get that fixed. I know, I had to have mine replaced too.
I've had a 4, 6, and 8. No issues. But I know that if I do have hardware issues, Google will address them like these screen and battery issues.
Cool. I'm not going to do that another three times when I can spend less money on phones that don't break.
Not to mention Google doesn't do stores where I live.
I went to the nearest Google stor
A "Google Store" doesn't even exist in my country lol
Honestly, I got the 6a because it was going to be supported for a long time compared to other phones. This rubs me the wrong way.
That took me about a week to get my money.
Got a fairphone now instead 😎
Considering it is a Google phone their long term support is still crap compared to things like Fairphone or even iPhone.
But it sucks that this happens and I hope they contact you for a trade in. Rules are also changing so all phones need to have a minimum lifespan of 5 years or so
Considering it is a Google phone their long term support is still crap compared to things like Fairphone or even iPhone.
At least it beats Samsung, I'm not buying any product from them ever again
Oh shit I didn't hear about the 6a also being fucked.
I lost my 4a to their shenanigans, couldn't get it repaired and have now a Xcover 6 pro which I bought refurbished.
Best modern phone: swappable battery, headphone jack, long software support, micro sd
I got an extra 30% battery life after switching to GrapheneOS. I'm guessing whatever is saving my battery, would also bring down the load on the system.
I did notice my phone heats up much less after switching to GrapheneOS.
I've been runnnng GrapheneOS with charge capped at 80%. Phone has not emulated thermite.
I haven't found any discussion about the battery issues at GrapheneOS yet.
Yep. It's the capacity.
Anyone can cap the charging speed by using a garbage $2 700mA charger from 2008.
I have no recommendations for versions. Depends in your case.
Although I'll mention that some people don't like that Pixel by default doesn't include the bottom menu on the screen, and uses other swiping features on the screen to do the same thing.
However in your system settings you can change the UI to gave the navigation menu at the bottom of the screen similar to Samsung.
Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io
Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io
Payment platforms demand services remove NSFW content after open letter from Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, triggering accusations of censorshipJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
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Feels like we're going back to the 90s/00s "Christian parents against video games" moral panic era. But this time, they're being appeased more heavily.
I despise conservatism. It destroys everything it touches.
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Ugh... This shit again....
The fucking Bible is FULL OF FUCKING HATE. Hate for women, hate for blacks, hate for gays, hate for the "other".
I'm really sick of people trotting out two lines from that book of fairytales and doing a pikachu face "how could people read this and be evil?!?"
Easily, because the Bible is filled with vile shit. Because it's made up bullshit that let's you argue every side of every point because it's a amalgam of garbage written by idiots with the occasional line of wisdom sprinkled in.
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Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by... well ... A bank.
Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.
How hard can you throw?
Amex gift cards. Cashapp uses Block(Square) for their payment processing, which is easier to use because you can transfer funds to that from your bank.
You can in Japan apparently. They have a system where you can go to convenience store and pay by scanning a code
You can also sorta use zelle, but the technical integration is not great. It's a very manual process as it is
Ultimately, the problem is we let two companies dominate commerce itself. We just need to let the governmet do payment processing, and require compatibility
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They had to leave empty-handed.
Discover and Diners Club merged a few years ago btw. Discover also has an alliance with JCB.
So Discover network is actually really, really big.
In Italy, there's a debit card circuit called PagoBancomat.
Italy also has a digital-only payment system called Satispay. Denmark and Finland have MobilePay (which is way better than Satispay). Sweden has Swish.
Your country may have something similar, look it up. And then you can always pay with PayPal by connecting your bank account directly, with no cards involved (at least in Europe).
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Ledger Crypto Wallet - Security for DeFi & Web3
Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safeLedger
How is an even more niche process that involves having to go to an exchange to buy crypto then safe guard it and it being a taxable event when buying goods with it in some countries a solution?
People are wanting a mainstream alternative that the companies that they buy from use, and if the companies don't care to use it then it doesn't matter for the average person.
Even people actually into crypto are less interested in spending it because it exposes their balance if they aren't using coin mixers or monero which can make them a target. Not to mention most just see it as stock they hope goes to the moon as opposed to going through the cumbersome process of buying for the purpose of spending it like a depreciating asset.
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Unfortunately crypto is already complicated as is. And as the other user said bitcoin isn't the best choice. Monero would be as close to the overall goal as it is possible.
Now using monero would be more anonymous than credit/debit cards making it a better option - but not many vendors support it, and cash is just simpler than any other option.
In Canada, I'd like to see Interac develop into one. Hopefully more prominence wouldn't ruin it
Edit:
Following several aborted merger attempts which were either blocked by the Competition Bureau or by some of the co-owners between 2008 and 2013, Interac and Acxsys were combined into a single for-profit organization, Interac Corporation, on 1 February 2018.
Never mind. It would be inevitable.
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Keep the pressure on.
Collective Shout got them to change their position and they're a small group. We are legion, as the kids say
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I'm not saying there is illegal content. Read my comment.
I'm saying the possibility of there being illegal content only exists if they allow the reintroduction of those titles. They'd need trust in the store moderation, in the lack of bad faith actors, in a lot of things.
And it would be an absolutely stupid business decision for them.
I am NOT condoning what they did, nor what they are doing. I am explaining, from their business perspective, why allowing potentially illegal content back on the platform is a non-argument and you cannot convince them otherwise.
I'm saying the possibility of there being illegal content only exists if they allow the reintroduction of those titles.
Again, no. If there were illegal content before then it's already breaking the rules. If you're breaking rules once, why would adding more rules change anything?
They'd need trust in the store moderation, in the lack of bad faith actors, in a lot of things.
What? Yeah, the store moderators have to enforce the rules. I don't know what this has to do with anything. Illegal or just banned, they have to be removed by the moderators. What difference does it make? This doesn't make any sense. Adding more rules doesn't magically remove the content. Moderators still have to do it. If they weren't doing it for illegal content, why would they do it for only banned but legal content?
The reason they did it is because they were pressured by a weird group who has a lot of influence. It wasn't because they were worried about illegal content, which is obvious because that's not the rule they applied. If the rule was "you're not allowed to sell illegal content" (which is obviously always true) then it'd be fine. Instead they made a rule for not allowing specific types of legal content.
You're not great at risk assessment, are you?
They have a risky move, which in 1/10000 cases leads to an illegal game being paid for through their payment platform.
And they have a safe move, where this never happens. Literally.
If the expected risk is positive in case 1, they will opt for case 2.
You must at least be able to understand this simple logic, right? If not, then I'm afraid this conversation is over because you're not even remotely trying to understand their logic, and you're just looking for a reason to be mad. Your irrationality makes me nauseous.
We are legion, as the kids say
God I'm old lmao
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Batman and Robin are a way better duo.
I mean, they actually try to do good and oppose nazis instead of be them.
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Maybe it’s just because I’m so focused on my own issues as a US citizen… But how the hell did some Australian Christofascist group get this powerful? Like, the RIAA and MPAA combined couldn’t get the United States government to make this much movement on “objectionable content” (piracy at the time, and also now, and all of the time between then and now), but even the crypto fascists of yesterday year couldn’t get this much traction. Probably because people like Frank Zappa and Fred Rogers came forth to criticize the ridiculousness and the consequences of such a position and search policies.
May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
And 16 years later:
Frank Zappa at PMRC Senate Hearing on Rock Lyrics
STAND UP!!! FIGHT BACK!! Citizen complacency is the most powerful weapon the fascist have – – relying on that you will be paralyzed with fear and do nothing to stop them.
RISE UP! RESIST! REVOLT!!
And show us the fucking Epstein files already, you fucking rapist, con man, felon, pedo, traitor!
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They got together enough people to mass email, that is all it took.
Companies tend to multiply received responses to represent the total number of people who were to lazy to complain, so Visa and MasterCard saw 1,000 emails as 10,000,000 in their risk averse actions.
Now 4chan is pissed and have started their own mass email and phonecall campaign, so we shall see where this goes...
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Visa also have a fairly well documented history of kowtowing to Christian groups. The CEO of their Asian division is a right-wing religious fanatic who hates, well he's a religious fanatic so you know what he hates, but it's basically everything and everybody.
They don't like Japanese anime very much as well, probably because they think it's all pornography (anime does tend to have that bent, but it's not all pornography).
The thing is on their website they claim not to make moral judgements about purchasers, they claim to authorise anything that isn't actually illegal, so they should be totally fine with pornography and anime. If they are going to be right-wing religious fundamentalists at least they could be honest about it on their website.
Mass emailed didn’t exist in 1969 nor in 1985.
Wherever you went to school, those teachers should be shot.
Maybe read those two comments again, then read your response.
Your reading skills are not what you think they are.
I think you should take your own advice. Just because you lack the intelligence to understand my comment doesn’t mean I’m the one to blame.
Blocked for having shit for brains
But how the hell did some Australian Christofascist group get this powerful?
It's Australia, we only laugh when China does it, otherwise it must be good if we're doing it.
Want to have backdoors to chat apps, done, allow the siezure and forced unlocking of computers and phones at the border, done. Inter refigees in our own offshore concentrarion camps for decades until they suicide and make it illegal to report on, done. Regularly kill our first nations peoples amd have the jailed ? Done. We're a fucken' embarrassment!
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Yeah there doesn't seem to be any alternatives in my country other than cash which doesn't work for online purchases.
Apparently there is a complicated thing I can do where I have to go to the post office and then I can send money directly to a company. But that's really inconvenient (it's like a 30-second walk from my house, I'm not doing that) and I don't think steam accepts that payment method anyway. In fact I've never heard of anyone except that payment method so I don't really understand why it exists.
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What's even the argument here? Steam already has parental control options, age gates, and content filters... if you don't want your kids seeing that shit on steam, then, like, don't let em?
...meanwhile, let's just continue shoving blatant gambling down minors' throats in the form of lootboxes.
And the reason sexual things had to be filtered was that they are harmful and skew kids' perception of healthy sexuality.
Gambling wasn't considered healthy even where and when marrying a toddler was normal. After all, a traumatized person with unhealthy sexuality does generally understand they are traumatized, a person taught that addiction is normal - not.
This group isn't interested in protecting children they're just interested in pushing their own beliefs on everybody else. The easiest way they can do that is to pretend that they're interested in children. Which I'm sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.
It's a classic right-wing tactic. Because nobody wants to be against a law that protects children.
Which I'm sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.
I laughed, then I cried :_(
People like them used to go after books, now games.
“ All dem queer books are hurtin our kids, makin em all gay and shit! “
Says the man standing in front of his trailer with a deep five o’clock shadow spanning his double chin, a permanently stained wife-beating tank top and a prominent beer gut, who has five scrawny & bruised kids, and a wife that bears an eerie resemblance to himself but can’t quite look anyone in the eye.
That's their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?
There's usually some on-paper benevolent veneer to wrap their hateful bullshit up with.
For example, they hate trans people, but they don't campaign on that out loud - they justify that hated under the guise of shit like protecting bathrooms.
But this is fucking Steam - access to that bathroom is already under lock and key behind an armed guard. They can't just pull the "think of the children!" card when the children already have a myriad of protections.
...or maybe they can, considering what just happened. We live in stupid times.
"[Elon Musk] said he wanted to get his own X payments platform «going soon»".
Surely that's going to solve the problem. There's absolutely no censorship on Twitter. /s
When there are enough competing parties, the argument of "I live in country A and I don't care about B's special services reading my messages", where A and B are in a state of adversity, starts working.
By competing parties I mean not just A and B, but a plethora of snakes in that pit.
So - do it Elon. It's fine.
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That's their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?
The same way they always do: "WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!1111"
An alternative to PayPal, called WERO is currently in it's rollout process in Germany, Belgium and France. In October the next step will be activated, allowing payments in e-commerce. Later down the road, you'll be able to pay in real shops. Luxembourg and Netherlands are to join in next. More and more banks start to adopt WERO.
I urge everyone to use WERO as much as you can. It's flying a bit under the radar at the moment and this must be a success. Hopefully more EU members will join soon.
Sounds great, but as with so many of these projects, they sound overly complicated for the masses. Wero is already a thing and it's straight forward. Even that is too complicated for many people, but it's gaining traction at least.
Anywho, I'm rooting for both!
shiiiit I wouldn't count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.
I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.
Do you mean digital euro?
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This would be the only thing that could break visa mastercard duopol. Hopefully 2028
Parola filtrata: nsfw
While Collective Shout solely targeted games it said violated policies held by payment platforms, Itch.io's move to temporarily remove all NSFW content resulted in games with LGBTQ+ themes being removed.One petition signer who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community said they were concerned that banning sexual-based games would be the start of cracking down on LGBTQ+ content.
There it is.
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Yeah but Jesus definitely preached love thy neighbor, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and also, ew gay people not in my back yard.
I'm pretty confident on two of those anyway
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I'm sorry, but that is just a blatant misunderstanding of how economics work. It wouldn't combat blatant consumerism, it would literally destroy the economy. Not to be replaced by something better, but just destroy it. There would be no reason to invest in literally anything, including people, no reason to repair your house or feed the poor, because the money it would cost, would be worth more tomorrow.
Why would I buy a car, or bike, or proper nutritional food, if I could save that money for tomorrow, and buy more? Only tomorrow it's the same thing, so I'll live like shit until the next day, then the next day, and then the next....
The only people who would have any quality of life, would be the rich cunts. They'd live like the do now, because they don't actually need more money.
Deflation is never a good thing, I'm saying this as a socialist.
They're not misunderstanding; you're using Keynesian economics. "The economy" as described today is rich people's wealth, not the wellbeing of the poor.
If people saved instead of building up credit scores, it would be much easier to strike. We don't need to be forced to invest somehow or become even poorer (which is what actually happened). You'll repair your house because you need a house and buy food because you need food. You're more likely to participate in mutual aid with savings than with credit.
I would be for a state owned chain, does not have to be completely decentralized, it's just good tech that can make the payment processors of today obselete.
Basically require each bank to run nodes, while letting the central bank of the country hold the keys to mint new coins.
I mean one could also have verifying nodes run independent.
The tech is there, doesn't have to mean use anarchy moneys, it just means an overhaul of our ways of transferring value around.
“The internet has no borders. Women and girls everywhere are impacted by male violence against women and misogyny in general which we believed these games perpetuated,” she said.
Yet the fictional violence against men and boys is A-Ok!
everything you don’t like
On issues like these, conservatives will discover the magic of actual reasons. It's only "things you don't like" when we're talking about banning hate speech or something.
Governments and some religious nutjobs.
They only pretend to care about children. It is about power and control. Always has been, always will.
"Face backlash" = about 160,000 people signed a petition saying they disagreed with it, then went about their daily lives and totally, 100% without a doubt continued using their Visa or Mastercard credit cards.
They don't care, there are no alternatives. They can do whatever they want.
Are people actually complying with Age Verification laws?
Are there people really whipping out their ID prior to scrolling Reddit or masturbating?
This Is a joke right? Pretend VPNs don't exist. How are citizens in these areas responding and navigating these laws in Texas or the UK?
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Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss? - Android Authority
While our phones have gotten more advanced, many compromises had to made along the way. Which one was the most difficult for you to forget?Tushar Mehta (Android Authority)
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Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah
A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.In an email sent to WKMS, General Matter said that the company intends to make a “historic investment in American nuclear infrastructure” by restoring a shuttered facility in Paducah. The gaseous diffusion plant in McCracken County, which ceased operations in 2013, was built by the U.S. government in the 1950s to bolster national defense efforts – and later to generate fuel for nuclear power plants.
Oh wow, good to see California and Kentucky working so closely together these days on so many important things.
Massie, Khanna hammer Republican leadership for thwarting Epstein transparency push
It just goes to show that no matter who you are, Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, we can all come together over as ~~recipients of Thiel money~~ Americans.
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Why do all y'all jump to nukes with this story!? He clearly wants more power for his AI schemes. No conspiracy, the motivation is simple.
U235 enrichment:
Power plant: 3-5%.
Weapons grade: 90%+
Even a bugfuck administration like Trump's isn't going to allow private enterprise to produce weapons-grade fissile material without serious fucking oversight and total control over every step. Why would any government give up their most powerful weapons?
On top of that, it takes hella tech to assemble a thermonuclear weapon. Every government that has a solid intelligence apparatus tracks the tools, scientists and materials involved. An atom bomb is not a hydrogen bomb, not by an order of magnitude, and you can't exactly hide the means for rolling your own Little Boy.
Not trying to bag on you OP, just feel like I'm taking crazy pills when we think a billionaire could get access to nukes.
Ever read Clancy's The Sum of all Fears? Even having obfuscated some facts, building a nuke is simply impossible without every intelligence agency on Earth knowing about it.
Terrorists dropping a "fizzle" on the Super Bowl required many narrative acrobatics. 1,532 things had to go wrong for them to slip that through. And it still fizzled.
Are we still talking about nuclear?
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What is Superfund? | US EPA
Learn about Superfund, EPA's nationwide program to identify, clean up, and return contaminated sites to productive use.US EPA
WTF I Hate X Now
WTF I Hate X Now is a phrasal template expressing a sudden distaste for something or someone, which is often sarcastically used in various discussions on 4chan’s /pol/ (politically incorrect), /int/ (international) and /tv/ (television and film) boar…Essence (Know Your Meme)
Martyr for what? You have to deeply stand for something very popular (amongst a group of people with beliefs) that is very unpopular with another group. Of all the people in the world, Peter is not running the risc of becoming a martyr - dead or alive.
I see this mistake as a comment more and more often. I'm not saying anything on him remaining alive or not; that's a completely different set of questions.
I just mean victimhood is usually the go to for far right assholes, and all assholes really. Especially the ultra wealthy ones who have the money and influence to spin the truth into whatever they want. Like you leave them no choice but to be even more evil the next time.
I could totally see whoever comes in his footsteps saying some shit like, "You saw what they did to Thiel. I had to crack down early on to protect myself."
Thiel is all-in an AI. AI requires monstrous amounts of power. Nothing to see here.
I can't stop these animals from pursuing AI, but I'm happy they're going all out for nuclear power. Anything but fossil fuels is a win in my book.
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Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming.
The question was posed in a safe environment. Douthat, one of the Times’ most reliable conservatives, offered Thiel sufficient context to escape with an easy answer. Douthat prefaced his question by saying: “a number of people deeply involved in artificial intelligence see it as a mechanism for transhumanism—for transcendence of our mortal flesh—and either some kind of creation of a successor species or some kind of merger of mind and machine.” He was referencing the movement to radically enhance and evolve humans to achieve immortality. Transhumanist adherents advocate for a range of innovations, from genetic biohacking to uploading our consciousness to a computer to merge with A.I., freezing ourselves through cryonics, and robotically adapting our bodies through expansive bionics that reach the level of cyborgs.Douthat clearly thought that Thiel would choose human over machine. But Thiel responded with a long hesitation. In a video of the exchange, Douthat—to his credit—is clearly taken aback.
Thiel has long been cagey and ambiguous about his beliefs—likely a strategic play for his career as an investor—but he has clearly been fascinated with transhumanism for a long time. This recent interview, though, seems more direct and dangerous. Thiel seems unwilling to answer the question: Does he eventually want to be a literal, honest-to-god brain in a jar wired to a Macbook Pro?
Yes... That's been the plan the whole fucking time. I thought we all knew this already?
There is just something about watching the slow, but inevitable collapse of the U.S. and eventually humanity as we know it, due to the very deliberate actions of one billionaire who was born in another country and who has been playing both sides against each other, while all other silicon valley billionaires have just accepted this as inevitable and are holding brainstorming sessions about what they can do following the collapse, rather than just stopping the guy who is orchestrating the whole thing.
Transhumanism is our inevitable fate, but this was all kicked off by a movement thar coerced Americans into believing they had to organize against secular humanism before things got anymore out of hand.
Thank God (can I still say God or do I have to say Thank Thiel?) we didn't let that happen.
He Was Laughed Out of Academia for This Take About Technology. Turns Out He Was Right.
He was laughed out of academia for this take about the internet. Turns out he was right.Nick Ripatrazone (Slate)
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Thiel is a piece of shit...
But so is this author for writing an article about a pause proceeding and answer, and never saying the answer
Yeah totally, now is not the time to bring this up. Just like Trump saying "you'll never need to vote again." Or that Nazi salute that Musk did that wasn't really a Nazi salute when he did it, but now we all can acknowledge it was.
Once our Lord and Savior Peter Thiel has ascended after sacrificing us all for our mortal sins, then we can acknowledge this.
Simping is the least we can do for our Lord and savior, who has never done anything else to indicate his ultimate goal in life is to achieve immortality no matter the cost, other than hesitate when asked directly during this specific interview if he was rooting for survival of humanity.
Perspective: A future for me and not for thee — the hubris of transhumanism (2023)
If we simp our hardest we might have the privilege of being frozen and placed in his space coffin with him in order to serve him into the next life, or chosen to be ground up in order to serve as his personal biofuel as he travels through space. 🚀
It's like that old saying, ~~shoot~~ simp for the 🌝
Even if you miss, you'll still land among the ✨
Perspective: A future for me and not for thee — the hubris of transhumanism
Billionaires like Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos are investing in companies that are trying to slow or stop aging.Scott Raines (Deseret News)
i for one appreciated your well intended farce
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the art is not dead.
Good job spooking the ground show.
Plausibly, I would deny you.
Thanks! Just calls em like I sees em. Not defending or criticizing a sports team, or anything else I could see somebody might reasonably take personal.
Just the facts about an evil piece of shit psychotic billionaire who would rather use you and me for biofuel before he would bother to spend a penny or lift a finger to do anything positive for humanity if it didn't also benefit him in some way.
The host asked Thiel ‘You would prefer the human race to endure, right?’Thiel hesitated, doing some umm-ing and ahh-ing, even at one point saying ‘I don’t know’.
The billionaire went on to clarify and said: “Yes [I would like us to endure] but I also would like us to radically solve these problems.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel gives ‘sociopathic’ response about humanities future
People on Reddit have been creeped out by how he answered a simple question about humanity and the futureGerrard Kaonga (unilad)
You're right. The link below is not the only place I've seen the quote cited, just the first I found in a hurry.
The host asked Thiel ‘You would prefer the human race to endure, right?’Thiel hesitated, doing some umm-ing and ahh-ing, even at one point saying ‘I don’t know’.
The billionaire went on to clarify and said: “Yes [I would like us to endure] but I also would like us to radically solve these problems.
Billionaire Peter Thiel gives ‘sociopathic’ response about humanities future
People on Reddit have been creeped out by how he answered a simple question about humanity and the futureGerrard Kaonga (unilad)
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The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in an interview last July that the decision to build a supercomputer in Memphis evoked references, at least in part, to the Memphis of ancient Egypt and its pantheon of gods.“Perhaps that’s where our new god will come from,” Musk said.
We asked Elon Musk's Grok whether its new logo is a broken cross. Here’s what the AI chatbot told us
What happens when the world s richest man introduces a new AI tool that some users say has a satanic symbol When asked why its new logo resembles a broken cross, the Grok chatbot told CP Thursday theIan M. Giatti (The Christian Post)
Yeah, an oracle for the masses is something very convenient.
Just remind me, who had the power - Alexander or his fortunetellers? Caesar or his fortunetellers? Or whether Delphi oracle ever managed to turn the religious part into power?
BTW - I understand how such ideas can be out of sincere desire to help humanity. Magic thinking is natural, and some perception of the world is natural, and evolution is just not fast enough for the technical developments we have.
And what I'd want in the future to account for that (sort of a panopticon, not because I'm an exhibitionist, but because you can't make a subset of society always tracked and visible without making everyone always tracked and visible ; and lack of banking privacy, for example, in Scandinavian countries doesn't seem to hurt them that much) might well be worse than what they want. A bit like Zamyatin's book.
It's just that "might" doesn't negate the fact that they are already doing a few very bad things, like genocide. Perhaps their mitigation is just not worth such sacrifices. Perhaps mine is better then.
I just want to make this very clear.
What began as right wing fear mongering in the 1970s under the message of protecting traditional family values against secular humanism, and involved a film literally called "Whatever happened to the human race?" might very well end with the extinction of the human race, at the hands of an evil gay villain who has funded hateful racist and anti LGBTQ policy, while spreading all kinds of nonsense about population decline, reducing overall quality of life in America, replacing jobs with AI, making healthcare and birth control inaccessible to many Americans, preventing gay couples from adopting (while also quietly raising his own adopted children with his husband, and let's be honest, likely murdering his kept boyfriend on the side when he started speaking out about Thiel's hypocrisy), and is intentionally trying to collapse the entire economy bc he knows that once that happens, he will control the majority of resources and power. Following human extinction, he (or at least his name) will live on eternally via transhumanism as the one representative of all humankind and all it's earthly achievements. Just really let that all sink in.
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I know what you mean. At least that would make Thiel's evil bullshit all for naught. Just Thiel's stupid ugly fucking face floating through an empty void for all eternity. How fitting.
He's bringing us closer and closer to destruction in order to make this a reality. In the meantime to reach that point, two of the leaders of Epstein's sex trafficking ring are about to be subpoenaed by Congress while they continuing to make money from Epstein's investments in Thiel's companies.
For some reason, the media keeps giving them the euphemism of "Epstein's estate" rather than alerting the public that these are the indispensable captains of his trafficking network.
Government contracts keep providing Thiel's company with money in exchange for use of his technology to round up families and separate parents from their children. Often the children become lost in the system...
The money Thiel makes through these contracts goes into the pockets of the captains of Epstein's network and members of the White House administration via their investments, or the pockets of democratic and Republican congressmen via donations for their campaign or state projects, and for some reason America just keeps pretending they don't see this happening right in front of them, on their streets, with their tax dollars.
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That's why I feel like people need to be aware of this, and understand there are Republicans and Democrats taking Thiel's money.
It doesn't matter how he gets there, this is his ultimate goal. He would prefer the far right Nazi way, but if he has to hide behind a moderate Democrat he'll do that too.
Ro Kahnna is definitely setting himself up to run for president in 2028. Either that or possibly vice president to Gavin Newsome. Newsome also has taken Thiel money in the past.
Thiel's private Uranium mine just happens to be in the home state of Thomas Massie, the Republican who is partnering with Kahnna to take on the Trump Epstein files in a bipartisan tag team.
I'm glad they're exposing rich pedophiles, but don't give them fucking brownie points when it's clear they've been sitting on this shit the whole fucking time. The same with Vance going to Rupert Murdoch before all of this dropped.
They definitely could have exposed Trump before he even ran for president the second time, but they didn't bc this is just part of their evil bullshit plans. This is just a game to them, and the people who have been hurt and exploited mean nothing. Fuck these evil pieces of shit. All of them.
I'm surprised to see someone so supportive of Peter Thiel on Lemmy.
I feel like you're so lovestruck you've somehow confused Thiel and his money with the technology he's attached his name to, but I will loop you in on this hot take and very well kept secret: You can oppose Peter Thiel and the broligarchy trying to control the technology most of them played no role in creating, and not be opposed to technology.
Especially when you realize that the rush to this is bc Thiel just wants to attach his name to a very lackluster final product before anyone else can improve it out make it their own.
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I'm not necessarily supportive of Thiel - he does some things that I oppose, and also some things that I think are silly. He's not a very likeable man overall. I'm supportive of transhumanism. The substance of this article is merely that:
Peter Thiel hesitated when asked if he “would prefer the human race to endure.”
The article doesn't even say what his reply ultimately was, but the implication is that even considering that a transhuman future would be better is somehow horrifying, and that's the implication I'm surprised to see supported here.
You can find the video interview. I'll spoil it for you: He didn't say he would prefer the human race endure following that very concerning pregnant pause. Rather, he hemmed and hawed.
Thiel isn't just a transhumanist, he's an accelerationist, and he has a fuckton of money.
Technology is a great thing that can assist us, when it changes who we are it goes too far.
I love chocolate. I don't eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nuance is indeed a thing.
There's a difference between the want for convergence with tech for all, if they want
Vs.
We're going to transfer your consciousness into a virtual world and use you for biofuel while we, the powerful enjoy the wealth of your sacrifice.
lemmy.ca/post/34658048/1329082…
It’s called the dark enlightenment.
This article warns from way back in 2017 qz.com/1007144/the-neo-fascist…
They also want to use you for biofuel.
No, I’m not fucking kidding. These people are pure evil
“The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”
newrepublic.com/article/183971…
Transhumanism—if it happens at all—is not happening anytime soon. Like, not for thousands of years if ever.
Listening to people talk about transhumanism today is like seeing people imagine flying cars in the 1950s. “Oh we’ve got this cool technology surely it means this wild extrapolation is right around the corner.”
Give me a break.
Not it. People are worried about what their brand of authoritarin capitalism will do with transhumnism.
Whenever you see technoligical skepticism, it's almost always about its effects on the working class as used by the ruling class of the time. If for example you opened up a new public research agency for AI (like NASA but NAIA) with the short term goal of developing open source AI and the long term promise to reduce the work week for all through AI productivity advancement, I think you'd get broad support.
Today however we hear private execs left front and centre salivating over the layoffs they'd be able to achieve thanks to AI, or over the new profit growth they're gonna achieve. Most people know they ain't getting any of that profit and would instead be stuck with the layoffs and inequality, among other negative effects. And history tells us this is a well founded concern.
This breed of trans humanists are simple garbage because they are not about trans humanism - they are about staying oligarchs forever.
Let them upload themselves into an iridium and unobtainum machine with nuclear fusion batteries and then we drop it into the Mariana Trench and let them watch the spectacle from inside.
They imagine themselves as the Titans from the Dune universe.
Is any of our current AI tech even making significant strides towards achieving this? I really don't think the current crop or billionaires will live to see this being viable even if they live another 100 years.
It's always fascinating to me how depictions of cyberpunk-style implants have evolved since the 80's.
The 80's stuff certainly has corporate spyware and such, but modern reimaginings has it an ever-present and practically undefeatable threat.
How can you beat it, after all? They make the implants.
He really does just look so much more relaxed and carefree. Like one picture says 1000 words and tells the story of the life that could have been had he followed his heart rather than becoming a murderous dictator.
Theil looks roughly the same, but with a fun captains hat.
The world would probably be a better more peaceful place if he could find a pair of heels that fit, and the right place to rock them at.
Even if he's not into that, there's still more lifestyle options he may have missed.
The new age verifying app for the EU will only accept Google Play integrity for Android, de-facto banning any aftermarket OS like GrapheneOS
Taken from the readme of the app on github:
The current release provides only basic functionality, with several key features to be introduced in future versions, including:App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation
Additional issuance methods beyond the currently implemented eID based method.
These planned features align with the requirements and methods described in the Age Verification Profile.
There is an issue opened to remove this as it's basically telling us that to verify our age in the EU an American corporation has the last word, making it not only a privacy nightmare but a de-facto monopoly on the phone market that will leave out of the verification checks even the fairphone (european) with /e/os.
GitHub - eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui
Contribute to eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating
The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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in reply to floofloof • • •Canada had a Trump clone run in its last election. He faceplanted because Trump started threatening to annex Canada during the election. Maybe Farage’s endorsement of the worst Trump policies will have a similar effect.
Coincidentally, Canada’s Trump clone also had a punchable face. Maybe being full of shit naturally makes you look constipated and ill-tempered.
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in reply to Lee Duna • • •Does Farage want another Australia?
Because the last time the British government tried this shit, we got Australia.
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And by Trump's arsehole, I am not referring to J D Vance.