This is the death of freedom in America. We've traded the land of the free and the home of the brave for a place children are arrested, strip-searched, and jailed overnight for making jokes. That's not the disease, it's a symptom. The child faced house arrest and a psychological evaluation not because surveillance tech failed, but because the system treats every minor infraction as a crisis. This isn't about tech companies or their tools. The real problem lies with a culture that encourages schools and states to enforce draconian policies by no means limited to turning private conversations into criminal cases.

Tech companies guard their data on false positives, but that secrecy isn't the root issue; it's the broader erosion of rights under the guise of safety. We've let fear of rare tragedies justify a surveillance state that assumes every child is a suspect, policed by unyielding laws and overzealous administrators. The First Amendment crumbles when words are criminalized without due process. The Fourth Amendment vanishes in strip-searches over bad jokes. This is a deliberate stripping of liberties, using tech as a convenient excuse. The blame falls squarely on the systems and people who wield it recklessly. Liberty won't return until we dismantle these policies, not the tools they hide behind. In fact liberty won't return until we do away with the safety/panic/cancel culture injected by idiots misled by authoritarians.

The real problem is that electricity prices arenâ(TM)t based on the actual cost of delivering it. To match costs, the fixed infrastructure fee (just for having the hookup) would need to be much higher, while the price per kWh would be lower. But if that happened, demand would increase, environmentalists would object, and low-income households would struggle to pay their bills.

Without restructuring pricing, the real cost of having the hookup stays hidden. This keeps the per-kWh price artificially high for buyers and artificially low for sellers. When individuals feed electricity back into the grid, theyâ(TM)re only paid the actual generation value of that power. But when they buy electricity, theyâ(TM)re paying both the hookup and generation costsâ"while thinking theyâ(TM)re just paying for generation.

Not only is it a dupe, but I added a comment to the firehose snippet telling them it was a dupe and they posted it anyway. This isn't your normal incompetence. This kind of incompetence needs to go all the way to the White House.

Correction: deepfakes in ads are probably there to slander. Existing laws against slander are more than sufficient to keep that illegal. New laws against deepfakes in general are about a lot more than that. It's the usual anti-sex Christians teaming up with antisex Feminists given a boost by the many, many authoritarians that want to ban deepfakes in general.

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Americans are increasingly not voting for parties for president but for whoever seems like he might actually change ANYTHING in Washington. Running on a campaign of change before not changing anything is common to the last how many presidents? Apathy is at an all time high, but somehow Americans don't know how to get angry at their own politicians anymore, not if they're not literally starving.

They're outraged that wealthy entities could access their customer's information without paying them for it.

>when they have to finally admit what people actually want to see.

They never will have to admit that. Even science will never admit that. Anyone who proves such a thing will be declared and ist and never publish again. Fashion companies have been bouncing off of that red line for decades already, it's just not going to happen.

As for the subject at hand, fashion models haven't been realistic for 60 or 70 years. Going full artificial isn't a leap. Fashion models are just going to have to find other work, aside from catwalk work. So will leg models, hand models, and all the rest of them. Body building is going to get a lot less profitable as well, as there will be no lucrative modeling and many fewer modeling, advertising and movie gigs to go around.

Obviously anything I want is a need. Or does that only work if I have boobs?

Imagine a person with more money than he knows what to do with who loves space and has a little space museum. Even he has better things to buy for 200k than this thing. Or 300k if he wanted to restore it. Or 600k if he wanted to rebuild the original radios, computers and programming.
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I'm happy to see someone is working on the other side of the real use of the first androids.

After I saw Superman I realized I never had been tired of superhero movies. I was tired of BAD superhero movies. Speeches about how men are evil. 1 cut per second. cartoony CG. Bad acting. Nonsensical or nonexistent character development. Lazy writing. Obvious egos in the directors chair.

Superman had none of that. (well maybe lazy writing if you call being faithful to the original lazy) I'm not going to watch FF because I have no hope it will be as good as Superman.

You're right about everything but which political party has the fascists.

I would throw trump under the bus in a heartbeat to get rule of law restored and the people who did evil things on Epstein Island prosecuted. He is, after all, assisting the cover-up. But by focusing on him you're playing into their game. They want this to be left vs right when you should know damn well politicians on both sides, and a lot of them, are culpable.

An American heavy hauler has to haul much further than a European one. That economic element accounts for the discrepancy.