Correct, as anyone can see by looking at who they rounded up.

"Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist "

But in the next state over, the next company will also treat you as badly as they can get away with.

The natural model for a programmer's union is the Screen Actor's Guild. That's another field with a wide range of talent. SAG members can get the best pay their agents can negotiate, lots for stars. But everyone is protected from exploitation.

That's a little over-simplified. The Chinese aren't trying to compete. BYD has, and continues to lose, a metric shit-ton of money. If the Chinese would, you know attempt to compete fairly then you might be on to something but as it stands now they aren't. https://electrek.co/2024/04/12...

Personally I give people a lot of camera slack. Where I live we often have a chance to photograph wildlife, and some of those things might only give you 7, maybe 9 seconds to react. There are some animals I've seen fairly often but have yet to get a reat pic of. It sounds a lot easier than it really is .

The definition of consciousness you're using mostly describes the attributes that consciousness displays, but doesn't actually define it. Consciousness is the emergent quality of direct perception. Instead of asking "Are you conscious?" You should change the question to be "What are you conscious of?" The difference is more than semantics. I am in a room, and I feel the temperature. I do not need to be told whether or not I'm hot, cold or comfortable. I also know that you are somewhere in a room but I am not conscious of the temperature there I'm only aware that the room your in has a temperature. An AI can never be conscious because you have to tell it what the temperature is and how to react. You are conscious because you do not have to be told those things. Yes, animals are conscious of the things they perceive, and so are plants. Dogs are conscious of a world of scents you cannot perceive. Plants are conscious of the direction sunlight is coming from and move to intercept it. The last point I want to make is that there is no such a thing as general consciousness you are merely conscious of something things and not others.

Where is one of the last places you'd expect a rear-view mirror?

The SR-71 had one.

The practical use case was checking the deployment of the landing parachute.

Speaking of forensics, if you're a law-abiding citizen who just wants to keep private information private, iOS lockdown mode will reported halt the Coruna forensics tool in its tracks. Source, Eva Galperin at EFF. It's a royal PITA to use though.

Or, as Robert Morris Sr. said about breaking confidential communications, "Look for plaintext. It comes up in the darnedest place", or words to that effect.

And how is that different than what the elected idiots are already doing ? : )

Not sure there's much difference between a worthless AI scripts and a vote buyer.

They've spent decades abusing their customers (and everyone else) with their endless corporate bullshit, network abuse, price hikes, service outages, etc...

And when people start finding reasonable alternatives, SURPRISE.... They take advantage of them.

Thats what happens when you lose your monopoly spamcast. The second I was able to get fiber at my premise, I dropped them the same day.

Got 3 times the speed, for half the price. Latency also dropped quite a bit too.

Just a reminder that the Jew Ghislaine Maxwell, whose father helped to found Israel, was a powermod on Reddit who had the power to censor /news, /worldnews, /politics and a few others.

The real party is on X, if you're not there you're missing out.

Remember when Digg chimped out and everyone left to join Reddit?

That moment passed some years ago. Now Reddit mods have been caught red-handed luring children to their houses to inject them with SUPER GIRL JUICE aka trans hormones. Without parental knowledge or consent, kind of like how California public schools do.

Is Al Gore a scientist?

Nope. STFU nerd

acetaldehyde is a Class A carcinogen, which means it does nothing but mutate cells.

If you drink, support ALDH enzyme activity. The enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) converts acetaldehyde into harmless acetate. Nutrients help your liver metabolize the harmful alcohol. Vitamin B1. Alcohol depletes thiamine, which supports liver function. Take a B-complex vitamin before drinking.

Zinc and Magnesium: These minerals support ALDH activity. Eat zinc-rich foods (e.g., oysters, nuts) or take 15-30 mg zinc, 200-400 mg magnesium.

The science and research that couldn't tell us what a woman is?

The one that prescribed chemical castration drugs to little boys?The science that performed elective cosmetic pediatric double mastectomies on healthy girls?

It also couldn't identify that covid came from a lab, despite the fact it contains genetic sequences not found in nature.

That science and research?

Besides, the planet is overpopulated, especially by high-consumption AmeriKKKans, especially racist white males. How is having fewer of them a bad thing?

In the last invasion of Russia, this happened too. Hydraulic fluid became thick and caused engines to seize up, tank treads were thin instead of wide and got bogged down in snow and especially mud. We had to light fires under our dive bomber engines to heat them up to even get them to start.

And to top it all off, our leaders didn't even equip our armies with winter coats, thinking that we'd take Moscow before summer was over. That turned into a disaster, Russia seized half of Europe and America had to fight a Cold War to get it back and make sure the loans our banks had extended would be repaid.