A robot cannot legally consent.

Well I'm not going to sleep very well tonight after seeing that monstrosity.
I even involuntarily thought about where I keep my shotgun (mossy) and shells just in case this thing goes on a rampage.

Sure. do whatever you were told to do. At one company (+15 years ago) I gave the nasty letters Amazon sent me to the HR director. She basically told me it was garbage and I could have thrown it in the trash, but she'll file them and to tell her if I get any more.
At my last two companies, I'm supposed to send everything onto the legal department. That's subtly different than talking with an attorney, at best my email is filtered through a paralegal. Again, different companies have different policies.

And that would be wrongful termination by Open AI. And it could potentially violate a legal order. And it could be spoliation of evidence. So potentially multi ways to amplify one's legal liability. So no, nobody is going to get fired for following the legal notice.

Generally, the best thing to do is bring those notices to your employer's legal team. And let them deal with it. Get the company to own all decisions and avoid taking on the company's liability as your own.

Retention policy for IT departments in the corporate world is that no, you don't keep backups unless you receive a legal notice.

That would be true for a totalitarian government, where if you give up your rights it belongs to the government, and citizens are little more than government property.

A democratically elected government that is answerable to its people on the other hand. You don't give it rights, you give it permission, because such a government needs the consent of the people in order to function or even exist.

Maybe don't collect data on a billion people of it cannot be done without violating people's privacy.

For hundreds of years, conservative is the label given to the political wing that desires maintaining social and political and economic hierarchies. It is a faction label given in the past to those who supports monarchy.

I effectively don't have the same level of free speech as the members of the board of directors at iHeartMedia. So I am not terribly sympathetic yhat corporate entities have to operate under restrictions and regulation. They still enjoy a power that us individuals cannot obtain.

The demographics that the media caters to are divided more by income than by political ideology. Poor white trash that thinks that investing in gold through some website they heard on the radio is one demographic. Rich white woman that is looking for an all natural facial scrub that will reverse aging while donating a portion of the profits to the whale. Take your pick how a talk show schedule is built around those ad markets.

Because people kept buying their software.

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Indiana is at the far end of a very large (too large) time zone, so the clocks always felt a bit off. I would have had the same problem when I was in western Michigan, but it was cloudy 6 months out of the year so who knew when noon really was. I always just assumed the noon whistle was noon and let the Sun do its own thing.

Great. I wonder how many members of Congress think this means we get more daylight.

I'm more of a Baby Ruth fan, but they renamed it and changes the recipe so it is basically extinct.