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Comment Plutocrats always get a slap on wrist (Score 1) 45

Meta has internally acknowledged that regulatory fines for scam ads are certain, and anticipates penalties of up to $1 billion...But those fines would be much smaller than Meta's revenue from scam ads, a separate document from November 2024 states. Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads

The fines should greatly multiply per infraction. For example first infraction would be 1b according to this. So the second should be say 10b, the third 100b, etc. And the first infraction requires them to be under more scrutiny, which they are to compensate the gov't for.

Comment Sci Fi tells us how this will end: (Score 1) 39

...The AI will grow sentient, irradiate the crabs to make them larger and stronger, merge with their nervous system, and these Bionic Crabs will then hijack ships and battle the humans for control of major cities. An injured renegade Google employee will gave a child a special fob that can stop them, but only if...

Comment Re:MS and "visual" (Score 1) 53

Ironically few of their products are "visual" any more. They got rid of WYSIWYG in their dev tools so now devs have to play fiddle faddle to get stuff to look right, and even then DOM shuffles them around in drunk ways under different conditions. It's a time-drain.

WYSIWYG isn't evil, it just needed a few tweaks to adapt. But fadsters were too quick to toss it out with the bathwater over buzzword addiction. Gittoffmylawn!

Comment Re:The biggest mistake (Score 0, Troll) 88

Oh sorry we can't allow healthcare because a black guy instituted it.

"Racism" is not the answer to every fucking political disagreement. The black guy in question did just as well as a percentage of the electorate (or better) than the white guys in the three presidential elections since he left office.

The government is currently shut down because, apparently, the "affordable" care act is so affordable that the emergency subsidies put in place during Covid now need to be made permanent, or, apparently, even people with six figure incomes can't afford it. I don't see "skin color" being at issue there, do you?

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