TheObviousSolution

A1, where it’s always April Fools’.

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You mean like my PC suddenly stops working when it doesn’t receive updates, or how it suddenly falls apart when the warranty goes out? Funny thing, the people tried to use the same argument when purchasing US planes to try to claim the opposite, that they would still be useful regardless of US attempts at intervention. Decide which is which, maybe?

Anyway, points aside, doesn’t stop from these theories actually existing, as your “All these backdoor fantasies” allude to, so I’m not sure whom you are trying to argue against since in this comment I’m not even pushing them. It’s just making a light-hearted jest that went “whoooosh” past you.

Guess we will know if these weapons have hidden backdoors to disable them soon enough. If anyone would trigger them for such a trivial disagreement, it’s Trump.

The only thing that makes the EU bureaucracy seem like it’s functional are competing national interests. When all nations are being targeted by foreign automated propaganda through their social networks to promote shifts in their governments to allow this sort of bull, it doesn’t even matter that the US is directly issuing threats against the EU, only just what corrupt long time career politicians can get out of it.

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Where’s Lavos when you need it.

I’m sorry, I cannot understand your comment.

Does a good parent place restrictions on what their child can and can’t do? Yes. The thing about bad parents is that they are notoriously irresponsible. They would be the least likely to utilize such a feature.

He shouldn’t even have gotten Machado’s, that was a dumb gamble from her.

I wonder what tipped the balances. Was it the threat of Epstein prosecutions? Was it the threat that the oligarchy might be taken down a few places? Or was it just pure greed? Because it certainly wasn’t out of ideals, feigning loyalty to bullshit populist grass roots movements was just the means to an end.

Hint: it was all three.

You are talking about going against a cartel of oligopolies that have locked down the technology sector with the IP they control and who have cutthroat control over where the latest technology is deployed. What we at home can do is playact “It’s back to the 90s!” and go back to the technology we had several decades ago, which is more viable than it sounds.

If they want to act like cartels with the greatest and latest, nothing is forcing people to use it. Unfortunately, the technological divide will still be there. Tech minimalism, go human, recycle old tech, we have a lot of crap we’ve disposed off over the years that would otherwise still run fine. To create competition, there needs to be the breeding grounds for it, and if that means having to do with what the lunar lander did, then do so and exercise that brain in the process too.

Devil’s advocate, is it really that bad for someone who is a parent to be able to easily zone of their Linux distro for their children? And yeah, I get there are a number of methods to do this like locking down accounts, but something like this would have the potential of automating whom the rules apply to.

The data set and the algorithm are still there, it’s just not available to the public anymore. I wonder who will still get access to it. This just seems to follow the general trend of oligarchs encouraging startups to do anything and everything to disrupt an industry, go as far as they can, and then pull them out through any pressure, government or corporate, as they try to scavenge what they want.

Besides that, there’s still alternatives alive, local or otherwise, and I doubt the people who were using Sora are suddenly going to stop without trying to search for alternatives first. People are celebrating after just chopping off the first head of the hydra.

While many of them continue to suck up to the pedophile-in-chief. The irony. It’s very telling that they place all the blame to the last link in the chain, they may very well be able to include entrapment in their defense.

The only draft I would accept is a police instead of a military one. Force some civilian eyes on how cops handle themselves, wash the profession enough so that it has to survive public scrutiny or otherwise get eventually called out on it.

All devs should be doing something like this. From what you are describing, you are basically dealing with cylon accounts waiting to get activated.

That’s true, but there’s several problems with that: the social bubble of the people who serve in those military usually have some distance from the societal norm, violence and chaos makes the country susceptible to be picked off by special interests, and it basically means that at the end of the day their leaders have to be willing to relinquish power.

From my understanding, the pedophilia was used as a means, not the ends. They wanted to be influential, and trying to get socially awkward scientific leaders who probably didn’t have great relationships with the opposite sex was probably particularly effective.

They tried to create an exclusive “social elite” men’s club, using prostitution and pedophilia as their tools, and sure it’s an example of misogyny and power imbalance, but frankly, I still wouldn’t respect them if we flipped around the genders or evened them out. Science doesn’t have an Epstein problem, it has a misogyny and power imbalance problem.

Maybe it also has a pedophilia and prostitution problem, but the article doesn’t really explore that, it’s just guilt by association. Which, fair enough, it’s Epstein, but I doubt being as manipulative as they were that they tried to sell themselves the same to everybody.

I have no problem with security cameras either. Asshole like Elon make a car with cameras, and suddenly the GDPR doesn’t apply and judges switch to issuing subpoenas to their owners in case they might have caught a nearby crime instead of issuing fines.

Having some decent surveillance that you aren’t an asshole with (hint: if you are using to track and profile people and you are the sort of person who likes to doxx, you probably are) brings ease of mind. You no longer have to suppose who or when some crime might have been committed, and even if it’s not useful for catching them they can effectively help you make your prevention more effective. If governments cared about our security, they would just make sure they had no backdoors or mass surveillance capabilities, they would at least allow for personal, localized usage for our property a lot more.

Didn’t know about the term sousveillance, that’s awesome because that’s what I’ve been arguing for all along.