Is the code open source and inspectable? If not, you are trusting the people who developed the code.

And people are doing just that - growing their own tobacco, and rolling cigars out of the results.

This is not in contradiction to what you wrote, just a question of how far we go to protect people. Somehow I ended up in a Youtube rabbit hole for a while of people growing tobacco and rolling cigars. I haven't smoked for 50 years, but it was interesting. Fun fact - it takes two different types of leaves, one for the wrap and one for the filler. And Tobacco is actually an attractive ornamental plant as well.

But where we stop protecting others makes for an interesting discussion. And another rabbit hole. Do we want people to be protected from other people? How do we address the heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons created when we barbecue meat, or smoke foods? If we ever give another person any of those products, they are ingesting carcinogens that we intentionally created.

Cured meat like bacon Nitrate - Cancer risk, Problem is, most nitrate exposure in humans is from vegetables. Uncured bacon? A lie, because it uses celery juice, which is high in nitrates, which cures the meat.

In the end, I can't resolve the issues completely, because it is a spectrum. And even becoming a raw food vegan doesn't eliminate the risk of ingesting things that can eventually cause a life ending illness.

So in the end, while smoking tobacco isn't a good habit, and chewing it is disgusting, as long as a person doesn't do it around others who object, I'm cool with it. And we'll never eliminate it anyhow.

All keeping the straight closed does is drastically increase the price of everything hurting consumers and people who work for a living. It doesn't create more jobs and it doesn't slow the deployment of AI. If anything the energy crunch and the food shortages caused by missed planting seasons due to shortages of fertilizer means fewer jobs.

What Is worse, the puritans end up actually creating more issues as pushback happens. I started smoking at 13 because I was rebelling against those who would determine what I was allowed to do. Fortunately, I stopped when I was 19 because it is stupid. But I see people today lighting up, and if you talk to the a little while, they universally don't like people telling them what they are allowed to do as long as they aren't harming anyone else.

I get some of it, but the EU is now going to control scrolling? I mean what is that. Are people hurt by scrolling? What is the amount of scrolling that people must be protected from? none at all? Just open the app and see one thing? Would a limit of one result be. the allowable schooling in web searches now?

Please! Protect everyone from scrolling - people are dying from the uncontrolled and life ending scrolling..... Won't somebody think of something something?

to do anything that inconveniences Rich assholes. -



By: some rich asshole. "

I have said it before and I will say it again, if the Private industry refuses to make the economy go the government should step in and do it. If Private industry will not hire then we have to organize together and form organizations that will hire. That organization is called government. It's the name of the organization that isn't private and is composed of basically everyone.

You can't just keep saying that everything we would try to do that might slightly inconvenience a rich asshole can't be done because they will just make things worse for us.

That is technically true however it's only true because we refuse to take away the power that comes from their billions and billions of dollars.

I mean we are literally about to give all of space to Elon Musk for fucks sake. You would think that would be pissing nerds off more but it's not.

What impresses me the most is that anyone would not understand what happens when AI starts referencing itself, because ot itself and other AI swamping everything else out. At that point, it becomes truth irrelevant and either worthless or a sort of religion.

In this scenario, the hostage is the company who's data was stolen... the data is the gun being held to their head and the victims are the people identifiable by the data.

Your negotiation strategy would kill both the hostage and irreparably harm the victims.

A better strategy is to ensure that your dangerous gun is kept secure and away from children. Prevention is always better than cure.

Why is it, when my wealth is transferred to the already wealthy it's never called "wealth redistribution". Like class warfare... it's only called that when we fight back.

If you don't punish companies for firing, you end up with both less hiring and more firing... And those that are left have to do the work of 3 people because if they don't, they'll be fired too.

Countries with strong labour protection tend not to have higher unemployment but they do have a better quality of life.

Well done!

Often the hardware is the same, but they have software locks in place to e.g. stop you using WiFi bands that are not legal in the US. On top of that they have to provide support for new firmware, and TP Link often replace devices that are out of warranty but which were bricked by a firmware update.

They can't win. If they don't pay they get sued by students for not securing their data. If they do pay they encourage further attacks.

The time to win was before the hack. Now all they can do is pay, and hope they picked the cheaper option.

Android has had this for years. I'm not sure if it's the same on every phone, but on Pixel long press the bar at the bottom of the screen and it opens Google Lens or whatever it's called now. From there you circle what you are interested on screen, and it invokes Gemini AI on it. It can also do stuff like copy text or translate it for you, which is handy when you need to use an app in a language you don't read.

Chromebooks are great. They just work, they are cheap, and they cover many people's needs easily. My mum is on her second one and went from monthly tech support issues with Windows to smooth sailing for years.