Today, white males are a tiny minority on the net.

Everything that you experience about it, might be a result of that.

And half of all Indians are still offline, remember that.

as long as the topic is not controversial and political.

The problem is that the Wiki mods are VERY VERY biased. Not just a little. I have run into this personally just trying to make very simple edits. They would not accept simple facts that I had backup sources for.

This was just for movie credits for an actress that at some point had turned conservative...

So for anything political, Wikipide will be factually wrong, sometimes (or often) egregiously so.

But that's ok if it's only for political content right???

But there's the trouble you see. It affects what is political TO THEM in ways you cannot comprehend, so ANY page might be touched by the corruption of the Wikipedia moderator biases. I wouldn't think a simply actress filmography would be affected yet it was. No visitor other than that page would ever know it was inaccurate or incomplete.

So you can trust absolutely nothing from Wikipedia without extensive checking of what facts they refuse to list. Which makes the entire body of work garbage - I have not used it for years now.

If they import one hundred million foreigners driving up competition for housing (housing costs rising) and employment (wages stagnating or decreasing), they also break the social contract.

And if they bribe up all the politicians to further this and buy out all the media to make this palatable to the masses, then they are doing what they have been doing for 3000 years in every society they've ever lived in. And for some reason it's illegal in many places to say that.

If you make me talk to some AI bot, I'm hanging up and calling the competition. Plus, Salesforce is expensive. If a premium product can't deliver a premium experience, the sale is lost.

A more interesting question I think is, does anyone own this AI actress?

That is to say - if a company took her likeness, and used other AI to make porn - could "her" agent sue them?

Or in other words, is a purely AI generated likeness even copyrightable, when technically no human made it?

They are fining companies overseas if they a) allow UK users to connect and b) not comply with UK laws. 4chan for example.

Imagine if the People's Republic of China would enforce Chinese laws to Chinese citizens not through the Chinese firewall, but by fining American companies. Imagine how silly that'd be.

So what happens when Britain, France, Canada, Germany, Japan, etc. decide the American tech companies will be required to sell their local operations to a local investment group at a price-to-sales ratio of 1.4 times? Screaming good deal for the investors.

So if the AI decides it likes beheading videos, what's your defense when the flash bangs start going off and your door explodes?

When a lawyer "attests" to a court filing, the lawyer confirms its authenticity, truthfulness, and legal basis. By signing the document, a lawyer makes a representation to the court that they have conducted a reasonable inquiry and have not submitted the filing for an improper purpose.
"(2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law;"

It's called Rule 11
https://www.law.cornell.edu/ru...

He signed a sworn statement along with the filing that states he stands behind his filing.
If a lawyer falsely signs filings, I'd support 1 warning with a fine much larger than 10k. Second time - disbarred.
We put a huge amount of trust in lawyers. If they abuse that trust, they gotta go.

This requires living in a region with ample sunlight, but yes, that is the way. Only problem is that EVs have a finite commercially viable lifespan because of aging LiPo batteries, but once that is solved - possibly never, but possibly with a standardized semi-replaceable battery cell standards - this can work.

But for the colder and northern climates, fuel that can be stored for months is a neccessity, and it's rather easy with propane / butane, because it doesn't age as fast as gasoline.

They want us to be unable to live autonomously and independently. And they will advance this on several fronts with several topics. It all comes down to one aspect: if X is increasing your independence from the state, the council, the "brigade", then X will be slowly but surely phased out.

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

The correlation between gum / tooth disease and heart disease has been known for many years, but this study provides a mechanism for causation.

For that matter, talk to your veterinarian, and you'll be told that dogs with congestive heart failure and heart murmurs almost always have bad teeth.

I once agreed to participate in a medical study after undergoing a routine medical procedure. I was quite surprised at what I was asked, and how I was asked it.

It wasn't just a matter of self-reporting my information, but also that the survey designers presupposed that I would have a reliable memory of things I had done or eaten going back 6 months to several years, and could provide a meaningful average value. Some questions were asked repeatedly in slightly different ways, perhaps to see if my reponses deviated between them, but it did nothing but add to my annoyance.

About 30 minutes into what was supposed to be a 20-minute survey (with barely half the responses completed), I was shown multiple series of photographs where I had to choose the shade of cooked meat that I consumed, as an indicator of how well-done I liked it. The photos were so disgusting that I couldn't imagine touching anything in them. At that point I gave up.

The signal-to-noise ratio in this type of self-reported medical data must be incredibly low. I don't see how anyone could trust conclusions drawn from such studies.