No, it isn't. It's the fucking spaceship from WALL-E. Don't pretend they are powerless.

Almost everybody in the states (and to a certain extent in other developed countries) is just way too comfortable to get up off their ass and do something about anything. It's not as if they will be gunned down like Iranian protesters if they take to the streets. Still they mostly just lie there, bent over and taking the abuse up the ass without lube.

Yeah, it is very much a question if they will be successful in their attempts. But we all know they'll going to try as hard as they can.

"United States of America" has been a confusing and unwieldy name for a country for a while now.

I suggest we just call it "Trumpistan".

No, it is siloization happening. We've seen it before and it has been predicted for this market as well. It's just capitalism in action, as much as people want it to be salacious drama.

What the fuck are you doing on a tech forum like Slashdot?

Yeah, this is kind of an outdated article and this is most certainly misleading: "And in recent years, established brands like Mazda and Mercedes-Benz have moved more and more functions to touchscreens."

In actual recent years, the backlash against touchscreens has caused "established brands" (including Mercedes) to move _back_ to physical buttons:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j...

The interview mainly shows a CEO out of touch with his consumers and reasoning based on shiny looking designs and his own 'vision' of how the world 'is evolving'. So par for the CEO course. Notably this guy is also the CEO of BMW _Australia_, who pretty certainly doesn't influence BMW interior design significantly.

Patriarchy? What does that have to do with anything?

This is about bad greedy people profiting off the vulnerabilities of humans and civilizations. There are lot of women in studies like psychology and marketing, so it is an interesting question whether they also participate in the aforementioned behavior (in which case we need a better term than the gender-specific "tech bro") or whether they somehow act more morally in these spaces (and then following that why and how we can structure society so that everybody behaves more morally).

Honest question: Do you think there are women involved in these schemes?

They do so constantly. Trump supporters don't watch or trust media that show that, however. They're deeply, deeply committed to the cult and see whatever the hell they want to see. At this point even solipsists are more grounded in objective reality than Trump supporters.

The thread started with this:

That people crossing the border died is again, tragic, but not a failure of the Spanish government towards its citizens. That would be more or less like calling the Ukranian government a failure to their citizens because Russian soldiers die in their attacks on Ukraine.

I would say that on second thought a bit of failure on the side of Spain was lack of monitoring by intelligence services of Moroccan social media for signals of these kinds of attacks, but remember that this is unprecedented: Previous 'mass' border crossings were in the thousands, not ten thousands of people. Hindsight is 20/20 here.

The only significant problem that remains is that apparently a bunch of the crossing Moroccans were unaccompanied adolescent boys and you can't just say to minors "tough shit, go back" according to Spanish law. It's up to you whether you think that is well-intended and necessary protection of children or merely a weakness to be exploited by children. In the latter case you have to make the argument whether and how, outside of these coordinated efforts, it is actually a big problem. I personally think it very much does NOT warrant saying "Spanish government failed its citizens."

Who died? Spanish citizens? Sources, please.

I'm not saying it isn't tragic that so many of the people suckered into this operation drowned, but that was not the point of contention. Read the thread again, carefully.

Sources, please. Reliable ones.

Nonsense. Except from the right-wing vultures abusing the images for politics and undermining EU unity (which was the intent of this campaign), there were no consequences Spain could have prevented with the border security or army. In no time, pretty much all those who had crossed were back in Morocco and everything was back to normal.

I've seen this in a movie, I believe.

Maybe some average guy from the 90s will step out of a time capsule, fix the retarded state of the US, and then become president.

The _reporting_ makes it feel like deja vu. The reality is that Meta has sold _millions_ of these.

I'm betting that there are orders of magnitude more benign videos made with these than there are instances of people being harassed/secretly recorded with them. Remember how popular it is to make videos of everything and put them on Instagram, TikTok or Facebook. Most people love this shit, whether we like it or not.