Additionally (re: my first reply) isn't it also falling for the assumption that solely one factor has a particular cause, when you've not evaluated other contributory factors, taken said factors into consideration? IMO "SOLELY X causes Y" is not true in every last case ever.

That's assuming it is actually true in the first place though, doesn't it? Wouldn't just bying into this without question be at the least part of the problem (seeing companies are not immune to bending the truth or outright lying)?

Horseshit.

Asking for more options, more diversity in options isn't necessarily asking for THIS, THIS is a way it manifests itself - but not THE ONLY way it can manifest itself at all.

I'm not sure that's what those words mean - people going about those things in foolish ways, scummy people trying to claim to be working on said technologies, doesn't make the technologies themselves canards.

If lab grown meat can be allowed to develope, I'd take it over the hyper processed alternatives that exist now that's for sure.

If you set the problem at copyright status alone, which is flawed - anything created in a country where copyright is automatic, and not explicitly put in the public domain is copyrighted, even things where permission is graned to redistribute. FFS can we stop using copyrighted as a synonym for bad or wrong? What matters here is licensing or lack thereof, whether licensing is needed, etc.

*Weasely; I accidentally a letter. Ugh.

And because of how it interacts with the hardware, by extension restricting what you can do with it - not that even if it were somehow mystically confined to the software only the argument would be any better IMO.

What a wasely, and cunty justification, IMO.

Heh, reminds me of once when I was a kid. My Dad told me to look both ways while crossing a street. I was looking left and right constantly in response, and ended up running into a traffic cone.

IMO DMCA bullfuckery is a big part of the problem. Another is the duration of copyright.

IMO, the U.S had it right before joining the Berne Convention, and allowing corporate lobbying to expand the duration of copyright. Short durations benefit everyone. Thery give creatorsd an incentive to keep creating (or to find unique qays to use their own works once the rights expire), give the public domain continuous, and consistent updates/increases in size, and allow more elements (not just whole works, but small parts of a work that one argues can fall under copyright protection) to be used in new works without fear of litigation hell.

No more "Life of the author + ." It should be "Life of the author or 28 years, whichever is shorter." That way the rights don't die if the author prematurely dies, but the rights are still clamped to a period well within an author's lifetime. Hell, maybe more controversially, it should be retroactively applied to works based on their date of publishing so that things that should have become public domain a long time ago can finally become public domain like they should be.

Probably not in the US though, or only in limited circumstances. Otherwise the timeshare sales from major companies wouldn't keep doing what they do. Almost no one knows what they bought, and thinks they bought something else, yet they can't get a court to void the written contract.

No one is asking for this AI bullshit, except for the rich.

This just isn't true - if it was, each chatbot wouldn't have millions of monthly users. You know what happens to stuff no one is asking for? No one uses it and it tends to disappear.

I think lots of people have been asking for AI (as it is now) to replace search for instance, because search has gotten so bad. We can debate how well suited each model is for that, but it's clear there's a search problem.

Yea, I always wonder - like do people just completely forget what their life was like when they were 22 (or pick an age)? How they thought? Heck, just think back to before you were a manager or high level individual contributor or whatever.

Yea, you never rolled your eyes at your superiors (and you're surely not doing it now re the C-Suite right?)... You never talked about how to "game the system" (I imagined all the change jobs every 3 years memes for the aughts through 2020ish).

These people really do need to get over themselves or IDK ask their old bosses how they *really* were.

In the US I absolutely bet that. Or more specifically, there are people who can't even remember to keep their cars fueled. They can make it a couple miles with the light on to the gas station, take 5 minutes, and go on whatever else they needed to do that day. IDK, many have untreated or not sufficiently treated ADHD. But people have trouble keeping their phones charged still. I know a bunch. However, they currently can plug their phones in and still use them.

In the worst case scenario they can have some gas cans around or a battery bank for their phone that covers some of their mishaps, especially if someone else makes sure to refill the cans or force them to do so - which is more realistic when it's a once a month or every few months thing than a every day sort of thing.

And if everyone has a vehicle, you now need as many charge plugs as you have vehicles, which is less and less realistic in more places. Or you have a new complicated scheduling system, especially when people don't actually tell the scheduler person what charge level the vehicles are at.

Now, the above is probably limited to people with ADHD or other issues and those dealing with them, but whats worse is the extra hassle on the longer trips. A full gas station is a 10-15 minute wait for a pump to get freed up in most situations, assuming 3 cars deep waiting and not a bunch of assholes. A full charger means an hour+ wait to start and 20 minutes to charge in the same load. This is a big deal, especially if on popular routes (interstates) during busy times (lots of people take road trips at the same time in the summer because of kids schedules). I could see this easily adding a day and an overnight if you have to charge 2x on the trip and both places are busy. I've certainly had multiple waits for a pump with gas cars.

Wait, I have always been told the way to use an EV was to charge it overnight like my cellphone. Doesn't once every 10 days cause a lot of issues with range? Or time? Like, I get it, I don't get gas every day, but that's because I can get down to 30% or so of range and spend 5-10 minutes filling up. If I knew it would take me hours before I could do things, I would absolutely want to do that every night so I am prepared in case something comes up.

I think the argument is more around rural areas, where there aren't a bunch of banks where there are currently post offices. I still don't really see the appeal, but I go by probably 4 post offices in small towns that don't have a bank, or maybe have one bank on a trip to my "local" Sam's Club.

However, for "reasons" many government tasks still need us to mail things in to them, as do a bunch of small businesses (still only take physical checks, or charge a fee to take a digital payment). Maybe this is just a NY issue, but I don't think so - I recall you have to mail in and get in the mail a new passport for instance.

Now, maybe we'll some go digital with IDs, but I have my doubts about that being well done currently for the US. I also can see the arguments that the government should not be allowed to force us to buy some companies services to undertake government required steps. And could you imagine a full open competition for digital IDs like we have to tax software or online shopping? How would that ever be actually secure? Our governments don't really seem to understand digital stuff much yet anyway.

I guess we might get a digital currency under Trump, though until it's treated the same as cash, i.e. your banks can issue it from a paycheck/direct deposit with no extra fees, and all businesses must take it with no extra fees, I see quite a few people likely to be resistant.