Everyone has a wish list.

Some union jobs that are not government also have pensions. Not all of them, but some. Mine does and it's looking like I'll need it when Congress "fixes" social security.

Ahh my bad, I was talking about the US states doing a similar lawsuit, but you are right we are talking about Europe in this particular thread.

From what I've read, US really isn't doing anything about prediction markets. There may be hints of a fart somewhere, but nothing serious purposed by anyone.

I get we can do more then one thing at a time, but seems rather hypocritcal when we turn a blind eye on so many things. This is a major societal issue, and not just for our narrow topic.

I'm fine with META/social media in general, being told how they may run the kind of platform they are running. I'm less okay with the fines, unless there was already a legalized framework for how Social Media is suppose to run. I'm not aware of one, but I don't know everything so maybe this legal framework does exist?

Fair enough, but I'd still like the remain the forgotten part of the "old" Internet that the kids won't even be interested in ruining, ahem, I mean using. Yeah. And get off my lawn!

100% this. It's amazing you haven't been modded into oblivion yet but your post is spot on.

Wait wait wait. You just linked to a fox affiliate as a source. You want us to take that as credible? Would you yourself believe ANYTHING from Fox? I think not. So why are you using that as your credible source? Just saying.

It's free. Bitch all you want about it. Don't like ads? Then pay for it. I always pay extra for no ads. I'm glad it's an option, as I can't stand wasting my time with the ads.

I'd also ignore all bitching from people on the free model because, you aren't paying anyway. Enjoy your ads, mooches.

Luckily for us, Disney doesn't really offer anything interesting to watch anyway. You'd have to pay me to waste time on Disney.

Obviously it was a viable business model before and it can continue to be one today. Their is literally no failings here and being "doomed" into a profitable business model, well gee, what a hardship upon them. Can someone please "doom" me into a profitable business model, please?!

I'd say the burning of fossil fuels has done much more harm to humanity then facebook ever did. You don't have to care about facebook (I don't even have an account). Climate change because of fossil fuels directly impact everyone. It's impossible to opt out.

So maybe social media is second to the fossil fuel industry. Of course, there are benefits to the fossil fuel industry where as, I'm not sure there are any benefits to Facebook. Then again, I'm not a narcissistic social butterfly that needs constant validation to feel good about myself either.

From the article, the real risk isn't to the person in the AC (autonomous car) but rather the people that emergency response teams are trying to assist. Also, driving is dangerous.

A quick search for fatal car accidents shows me this.

"In 2024, there were 39,254 deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States. This corresponds to a fatality rate of 11.5 deaths per 100,000 people."

A quick search for how many US military deaths in 2024: "In 2024, there were approximately 225 active-duty military deaths reported. Most of these deaths were due to accidents, illness, and suicides, rather than combat."

Turns out, being in the military is orders of magnitude safer then being in any car at all, let alone an autonomous one.

And a final remark, didn't Starlink let Ukraine use it's network for military applications? If it's safe enough for their military to use, then wireless is definitely safe enough for a citizen to use in a car.

Of course, NONE of this has anything to do with ACs not properly responding to emergency response teams directions. The engineers will have to work on that.

The article didn't mention anything about a warrant, but this was an operation to recover a reported stolen vehicle. Nothing malicious is taking place. The Range Rover was reported stolen due to a mix up with the original plates.

Flock is just another tool for the police to use. It worked. They found the reported stolen car. The police also worked with the individual and determined that this was a clerical error. It cost this journal 5 minutes. He wasn't even cuffed and most certainly not arrested.

So be mad at the person who entered the data into the system wrong, but the system did exactly what we wanted it to do. It helped track down reported stolen property. I don't know about you, but I happen to want criminals caught when they steal stuff, especially cars.

The cops quickly figured things out once they pulled this person over. Obviously, they were given improper information and once that was discovered, everything was wrapped up and that was that. It cost this journalist maybe 5 minutes of his life.

What we REALLY should be mad about is the absolute waste of city resources because of this misinformation. The city should be quite mad at whoever did the wrong data-entry, which sounds like someone out of LA.

It's rarely reported. Most cops are just human beings, same as yourself. You only hear of the ones that are assholes because that's much more rage-inducing, just how the news wants it to be.

This entire article seems to be blowing this way out of proportion. The car was flagged as stolen due to data-entry error. This isn't Flocks fault. This isn't the local PDs fault either.

It sounds like this more or less worked as it was suppose to but when incorrect information was entered into the system, it misled the local PD. Had the car actually been stolen, this would of been a success story and we would not be hearing about it because clearly the agenda is "cops bad, flock bad".

The vast majority of the information from this article wasn't even important. I don't care what job this guy has. So what if you are a journalist. If you are in a car that has been flagged as illegal, it's a good thing for cops to invest this.

Yes, it sucks that this individual and his wife had to deal with this and none of it was their fault.

The headline should of wrote, improper data entry leads to police mistakenly thinking a car was stolen when it was not.

Guess that's less click-baity though.