Read their own web site, they do online surveys, mostly distributed through the aforementioned US-government supplied VPN. Their methodology is roundly criticized throughout the industry.

To make a bunch of lawyers even richer? Instead we have a different school of sharks getting rich passing laws preventing the first school of sharks from gouging their financial benefactors.

And as always, whoever wins we in the general public lose.

OK, they do online surveys only, and don't verify the originating IP address. About as non-scientific as it gets. Just go somewhere besides Google and search 'Funding Gamaan' and you'll find that they're funded through the typical US/UK regime change NGO cutouts like the Tony Blair Foundation, they work with USAID and Voice of America, use a US government-supplied VPN, and generally are a fairly transparent US/UK intel op.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/...

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Really. I've never heard any such thing except from the fanatics who think everyone would be a Mormon/Baptist/Wahabist/Hindu/whatever if they only "knew the truth".

You've obviously given a lot more time to thinking about/researching this than I or most other people have and it shows. I'm just inclined to look at it from the techno-social aspect, and see that something like it has to happen or we're soon going to have people starving in the streets worse than during the Great Depression. Formerly the farmhand displaced by the tractor could go work in a factory, when the factory moved overseas they could work in retail or fast food. I don't see any new low skill/low education jobs opening up on the horizon any time soon, especially for people who aren't smart enough to do anything more complex than walk a security guard patrol.

Tomorrow is not always like yesterday.

UBI.

When Spot can walk a security patrol, ABB can build bots to sort recycling, Seimens robots are picking strawberries, and McDonalds finally builds its burger-flipper robot, what are the stupid or unambitious people going to do? There are only so many jobs cleaning Port-A-Pottys and tearing off roofs, and those jobs are already full anyway. Hungry people pick up torches and pitchforks, the rich are going to have to embrace UBI out of self defense. (Or we'll see a deliberately manufactured version of Ebola thinning the herd.)

Way, way behind the Chinese, they have coal mines that are fully robotic (and 100% electric) already. As in almost every other segment of our economy today, the US is playing catch-up. This is especially true in application of AI. Here in the US the tech sector is busily recreating the Dot Bomb with its absurd valuations for ChatGPT and the like, while in China AI is being applied to actual industrial processes with great success and immense returns on investment.

https://kdwalmsley.substack.co...

Shaanxi is a huge coal-mining part of the country, and the CEO of the Dahaize mine there made an all-or-nothing bet on AI. Artificial and 5G telecom is everywhere in their operations, and it’s now the smartest coal mine ever built.

The company has fewer than a thousand employees, processing 20 million tons of coal output per year. Their workforce is tiny, given that production volume. They need fewer people because the machines do everything: Robots for autonomous tunneling, coal extraction, loading the railcars. A small crew of four is enough to identify new coal seams and start digging them out. Drones are used to inspect shafts in eight minutes, compared to hours in traditional mines. Self-driving trucks are everywhere, underground and above. . .

Coal prices in China dropped 18% last year, yet this mine earned over a billion USD in revenues—that’s over $1 million, per employee.

They rarely do now, they just look at which industry wrote the bill and handed it to them and if it's one they get bribes, err, I mean "campaign contributions" from then they vote for it.

Can't be worse than their regular work output. Who knows, we might accidentally even get a law proposed that benefits someone besides the ultra-rich. (I know, I know, but I can dream, can't i?)

Adam Smith wrote 'Wealth of Nations' long before Karl Marx was even born.

98% of the rest of the US Strategic Mineral Reserve has been sold off over the last quarter century, including Gallium. China controls 99% of the world supply of gallium, which is necessary to build advanced radars used by the THAAD air defense system, and China refuses to sell more to be used by manufacturers of military hardware. Iranian attacks have destroyed all of the major US/Israeli radar installations in the region, which is why they're moving the THAAD install from South Korea to Israel.

So Rump's war has cost South Korea its helium source, and the THAAD system they paid part of the cost of, and most of the reloads for their Patriot batteries have also been sent to the Middle East. I can't imagine that they're too pleased.

With over a decade and a half of work in physical security I could probably count on two hands and one foot the number of security cameras that I've seen which give a good enough image that they could reliably be fed into a facial recognition system and get a valid result. They almost certainly fed an inadequate image into the software and declared the case solved.

From rural Tennessee she probably couldn't afford a "remotely competent lawyer" and had to rely on Public Defender's office, which almost certainly told her to try to plea bargain a relatively low penalty no matter if they thought she did it or not.

With 16 years setting up and maintaining physical security systems I can confidently say that most security camera video is crap and absolutely not a valid image to submit to facial recognition software.

Facial recognition software doesn't actually match an image of a face to another image of a face. Instead it works like fingerprint readers, it selects what the algorithm decides are important points on the face and matches that pattern of points to the points extracted from another image. Quality of the source image is exceedingly important, and second is that the lighting of the two images be similar as well as the orientation of the face. (The latter two used to need to be identical, but newer systems aren't as strict.)

That's very generous of you,from what I've seen I'm not quite so optimistic.