The meme of Flock cameras' greatly exaggerated scrap value exists because everyone wants to feel like there's those beneath them to be exploited for their own benefit. Instead of the mentality that we should be trying to make things better for folks who drew the shortest sticks in life, it's "fuck you, I got mine" all the way down.

We collectively don't want to foot the bill to build a society that doesn't need Flock cameras.

Have they considered giving the students some magic mushrooms?

Sure, some people do enjoy education for the sake of bettering one's self, but I'd venture that for most folks education is a means to an end (earning a living). I mean think about it, how'd you feel if the majority of your education consisted of learning how to do things that machines already do better?

Hell, it drove me up a wall having to struggle through math problems that a calculator could solve instantly. Yeah, I get that there is value in understanding how an answer is derived, but it feels more than a little tedious to have to demonstrate that understanding by solving pages of math problems that again, technology can already do in the blink of an eye and with perfect accuracy (well, provided you're not asking a LLM - those do sometimes goof a bit when it comes to math, ironically).

It ultimately comes down to a matter of prospective. If you see education just as a series of hurdles you have to get through to become employable, the idea that there may not be a well paying job waiting for you at the end can be quite a morale killer.

I think that's actually the point - target something highly visible so it appears you're doing something (even if it accomplishes nothing meaningful to address the underlying issue). It's like how here in the US we have states with scary looking gun bans. Never mind some psychopath can still go on his shooting spree with a gun that isn't on the banned list.

Or, as they say on Reddit, Reddit isn't real life, and the normies don't really hate AI. I think most people are aware thet it gets things hilariously wrong sometimes, but as you're quite familiar with - that doesn't seem to be a dealbreaker when it comes to politicians.

I'm fairly certain you can still turn Apple Intelligence off. Lemme go ask ChatGPT just to be sure...

I don't have the privacy settings enabled on my account. If someone really wants to read through my post history on Reddit, it's their sanity to lose.

Moving the goalposts? It's a damn boat, if you don't have the money to maintain it you're not going to be sailing it for very long. Granted, living in Florida, I've certainly seen my share of boats kept as glorified lawn ornaments because the owner couldn't afford the upkeep. Still, I don't think anyone starts out with the idea that they'll just buy a boat and then never dump another penny into it. I'm gonna assume that since these people were actually out on their boat that they probably didn't just buy it with the intention of parking it on the side of their house just to annoy their HOA.

Point is, if you can afford the boat, just smile and nod at the billionaire's mega yacht. Capitalism still did right by you. It ain't as if you're sitting on the bench waiting for the bus, watching the Waynos zip by.

The TCO of having a boat is more than just the purchase price of the boat. There's the massive pickup truck you'll need to tow it, or slip rental costs if you keep it docked at a marina. Maintenance gets expensive too, as there's always something on a boat that needs to be cleaned, repainted, repaired, or replaced. If you can comfortably fit all that into your budget, you're probably in the 95th-98th percentile of U.S. household income, rather than just “upper middle class.”

To be fair, have you seen the prices of boats lately? This was not as if the people in the stranded boat were on food stamps. Yeah, there's still a massive wealth gap between them and Zuck, but compared to the rest of us they're probably doing alright.

Or start your own. Just perhaps not in some country where you can get fined for running a free service that people are unhappy with. /s

No, it's not defending shit - it's pointing out the absurdity of someone being upset that the free plate 'o shit they'd ordered actually turned out to contain shit.

Plus, the problem with these sort of laws is that they disincentivize the actions necessary to create more competition. Why would you start your own forum to compete with the existing cesspits if you have to worry about getting sued every time you nuke somebody's account?

You do know Reddit has privacy settings now to prevent people from browsing through your post history? Ironically, Slashdot doesn't, so now everyone who looks at your post history here will know you were asking some sort of awkward question on Reddit.

The ultimate irony would be someone using Meta glasses to live stream their vandalism of Flock cameras.

This really does feel like deja vu. The only thing that's changed is this time around the glasses look less dorky to the casual observer. Though, once you get right up in someone's face and see the camera lens on their glasses, that old familiar glasshole alarm starts ringing again.