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Comment Why the US? (Score 1) 242

Why don't they strike their beloved South Korean home market with these "value-strengthening" ads first? :-/

Does it violate an unspoken social contract the Korean people have with their chaebols?

A few weeks ago, my 2 year-old Samsung 'The Frame' TV proposed new TOS to me. I think I rejected it... :-\

Comment Re:OpenAI is the new crypto - All hype no value (Score 1) 75

Your first assumption is correct, my usual ingredient panels are in English. Allergens are helpfully highlighed.

Yes, I occasionally point my phone at English ingredient panels - but only to blow up minute fonts, not interpret their information.

(No, I am not willing to learn Korean - I have an AI for that. Even if I did learn, a little knowledge can be a dangerous. Say I recognized Korean representations for milk and cheese and whey. But then missed the significance of the Korean word for sodium caseinate)

Comment Re:Charlie Kirk's killer wasn't radicalized. (Score 1) 137

Instead of shooting someone, why not go to your safe-room and play with your bubble-wrap /s

Well, for a few people, they feel more empowered by taking other people's lives. It's the ultimate sense of control. A sense of power that is enabled by access to firearms without necessary background checks and ongoing certification and training.

Are their campaigns on how to recognize when you aren't able to use a firearm safely because of your emotional state? Mental health resources to call to help you de-escalate and manage your emotions better? Laws that would allow people to report their concerns to authorities so that intervention could occur?

Never mind resources that would help you with those things before you ever thought about getting a gun or getting access to one, because feelings are for snowflakes, I guess.

Comment Re:Oh My GOD! (Score 1) 62

If I watch you drown and do nothing, even though I'm a capable swimmer standing next to a bunch of flotation devices, and all of this is caught on camera, your family could probably sue me for causing your death even though I'm not a lifeguard and do not own the pool.

The equivalent here is suing the camera manufacturer, as if the camera should have done something when it saw the drowning.

Comment Re:What do they expect... (Score 1) 79

Silicon Valley tech people not finishing college is more Fire in the Valley era than anything more recent. Gates and Allen, Jobs, and Wozniak all dropped out. Ballmer was the only major connection made at college for any of them, so far as I know. Page, Brin, Bezos, Randolph, and Hastings all finished college, some with graduate degrees. Zuckerberg dropped out, but his going to college was central to his business model.

Comment The BLS jobs data is not from a survey of the publ (Score 1) 159

The BLS jobs data is from the CES (Current Employment Survey). This is a survey of firms, not of the public. That's what Trump was complaining about. Whatever is wrong with that survey seems to be very new -- it used to be revisions were fairly evenly distributed, but since 2023 the revisions have been very biased downward. It seems unlikely this has anything to do with public survey fatigure.

The unemployment numbers come from a public survey (Current Population Survey), but those are different from the jobs numbers.

Comment Re:AI is designed to allow wealth to access skill (Score 1) 78

There are literally millions of people doing nothing today, what you are advocating here has already happened, why aren't you happy anyway, is it because it's never enough? AFAIC everyone who can work should be taking care of himself/herself, government must not steal from one to subsidize another, especially in the system basically designed for complete corruption (and it is designed for complete corruption).

It is up to everyone individually to survive on this planet, if there are too many people unable to survive then it's a self correcting issue - they will not survive.

Comment Exactly Forward (Score 1) 39

I don't give a shit if some Russian/Kazakh/Malaysian bot farmer wants to take over my phone.

So you do no banking on your phone? Unlikely.

For the 99% of people that do in fact use a phone for banking, protection from lower level criminals is invaluable. For most people there is real financial loss possible from a phone being taken over, at the very least to monitor banking access mechanisms.

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