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Comment AI indexing the wrong data? (Score 1) 41

conversations on X will make up the core of Grok's summaries. Grok won't look at the article text.

So let me get this straight. You created an AI for the purposes of summarizing information to consumers, and then you pointed it at the comments section to generate that summary?

We usually get entertained by reading the comments, but that is NOT how you deliver the information that’s trying to be disseminated (i.e. the original article). That’s how you find out how quickly AI can confirm Godwins law.

Comment Learn To Vote Better. (Score 1) 10

Waiting to push your Orwellian shit on society until you know they’re desperate enough to not say No, is the kind of shit Civil Wars are made of.

Citizens need to wise the fuck up, put down the political pom poms, and learn to vote better. Greed keeps winning, and citizens keep losing otherwise.

Gonna be rich hearing the excuses as to how this helps address rampant inflation. After Workdcoin gets their data, they’ll give a fuck about Argentina about as much as the Olympics care about the mess they leave behind.

Comment Re:Obvious cause, is obvious. (Score 2) 96

If governments had shut down the sales of booze during the lockdowns, it would have been political suicide.

Ah, not quite. It would have been social suicide.

Would YOU want to live in a world where millions of citizens who are physically and psychologically addicted, were abruptly cut off? With a global pandemic to boot? I sure as hell wouldn’t. Alcoholics raging in the streets would have made BLM riots look like a Disney parade.

Comment Re:This isn't an honest attempt at problem solving (Score 2) 96

There's also a long distance between doing absolutely nothing and an outright ban.

Unlike voting, the US actually wised up by raising the minimum drinking age from 18 to 21. The ATF established considerable taxes on what falls under their purvey. Banned or limited marketing to kids. Hell, we even legalized weed as a safer alternative.

With regards to alcohol, I wouldn’t say we’re doing or have done “absolutely nothing”. And we already tried to ban it with horrific results. We’ve gone that long distance on this.

People also don’t want to admit that a spike in drunk driving issues is likely directly linked to millions of humans enduring a global pandemic shoved into their homes, behind masks and questionable vaccines. Job loss, school stress, social anxiety, disconnects, family loss and death, all of that could have easily turned a casual drinker into a problem drinker, and a problem drinker into a full blown alcoholic. And likely did.

Comment Re:Collecting Data=Business Plan (Score 1) 33

Collecting and selling data is the very core of their business plan.

None of the big tech companies sell data.

Drug dealer media gives the service away for free (no revenue). They keep giving it away for free (no revenue). How exactly are they making money again? If they’re not selling the data, why are they spending millions on infrastructure and storage collecting it all?

Maybe this is one of those situations where The Product (you), doesn’t even realize you are what is being bought and sold. And since that’s not literal, you tell me what they’re selling if not data.

Comment Re:Tracking (Score 1) 33

Make it illegal to sell the data

None of the big tech companies sell tracking data.

Really? You’re telling me none of those apps ask for location service access? Not even Google maps? I find that rather impossible to believe as consumers find their auto insurance companies buying tracking data up to “adjust” rates.

Comment Root Cause of Tracking (Score 1) 33

Tracking is the root problem. Remove tracking and you remove the imbalance and drive behind collecting all that meta data in the first place.

Why do companies track you?

Companies spend millions of dollars on hardware, bandwidth, security, and payroll, and the consumer freaks out if the price tag is anything but free. The end result of that, was a society more than willing to trade their digital soul for a free price tag.

Why are they more than willing? Probably has a lot to do with the drug dealer methodology. You can addict ALL of your customers quickly if you start by giving the service away for free, and then keep giving it away for free. In the end, the consumer become The Product to sell. Not like they’re paying the bills with free price tags otherwise.

I remember a time when you actually had to pay for online services. Either get rid of the service or drop the drug dealer tactics, because citizens sure aren’t going to accept taxation as the alternative. I’m not paying for a social media junkies addiction.

Comment Re:This isn't an honest attempt at problem solving (Score 1) 96

I do not think alcohol should be illegal but I do not believe Coors and Budweiser should get a free pass to sell products that kill people. One kid dies from swallowing a toy and our regulators do the right thing, Thousands die from alcohol every month and the government does nothing.

Sell products that kill people? I take it you do not own anything that could fall into the hands of a child and harm them, else you would be a raging hypocrite.

Forget alcohol for a minute. Thousands die from firearms every year, but the overwhelming majority of those deaths are due to suicide. Who should get the free pass here? Still think Remington and Colt should be punished while Big Pharma and Social Media pimps make an extra trillion or seven peddling psychotropic drugs for kids while destroying self-esteem in favor of spamvertising and clickbait profits? Clearly the latter is getting the free pass, while the former is vilified. Makes about as much sense as banning large buffets and high-capacity cups to solve the obesity epidemic.

As far as the Government not doing anything, we tried Prohibition. The end result of that was more speakeasy’s operating then, than legal bars today. Society has already responded to that request in kind. And the ATF gets their taxes, so no current vendor is really getting a free pass.

Comment Obvious cause, is obvious. (Score 0) 96

Zoomers reaching drinking age + everyone is still driving while on their '$(NO CARRIER)

All jokes aside, COVID turning “two weeks to slow the spread” into entire industries being shuttered for months, did far more to exacerbate alcohol abuse/addiction than anything else we’ve seen this century. Liquor stores being deemed “necessary” during a global pandemic tends to validate the social demand.

Sadly, a spike in related harm was predictable. Sure wish it wasn’t.

Comment Re:This story and many like it (Score 2) 96

were written by the industry that makes car breathalyzers. Another good example is that corporations that own and leave empty huge numbers of single family homes are currently paying for scary stories about squatters because they want to be able to leave houses empty for decades in order to drive up rents and values on their portfolios.

Their greed is literally a driving force behind real estate instability, and no one being able to afford rent or a mortgage. And outside of Florida, few state leaders appear to be doing anything to address why they blatantly ignore their own breaking and entering laws in favor of giving a squatter “rights” to live rent free in that empty house, which often drives down the value of the asset. If they’re paying for scary squatter stories, then it’s money well wasted.

And of course there's all those stories about the "shoplifting epidemic" pushed by retailers that want you the taxpayer to pay for their security...

I prefer to support the right for stores to not have to take such extreme security measures by supporting and voting for the kind of leadership that still respects law enforcement as a valid deterrent instead. After all, I’m already paying those taxes.

And I’m not sure how retailers closing stores and/or removing their local presence altogether, represents me paying for more building security. They literally chose to shut the doors instead. Why do that instead of simply investing? Has a lot more to do with investments being pointless due to a lack of law enforcement. All the security in the world means nothing if you turn jail In processing into a revolving door. Greed is often the first one to see where there is no money to be made.

Comment Pay a criminals tax? No. (Score 2) 96

Suggesting that car “technology” should be responsible is suggesting that technology become mandatory in every new car.

FUCK that. I don’t drive impaired, and I don’t loan my car out to anyone that would. Put that car tax on those earning it. Tired of paying for other stupid fucks irresponsibility.

And if you’re too afraid to execute a traffic stop, then I’m not confident you’re in the right profession.

Comment Missing? (Score 1) 35

The team first examined people who inherited one faulty copy of BRCA2

Wait a minute. Isn’t that the gene that scientists identified years ago as being directly associated with breast cancer? Isn’t it the gene that when broken (mutated) tends to trigger a mastectomy long before it would normally be justified?

What exactly are they implying by “missing” link here? Sure seems this “link” has been known for years.

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