D'oh, but DarkOx, I actually do agree with you on something: the license plates are there and they're visible in public. We don't need Flock to have our privacy compromised; everyone can do it.

We haven't denied our adversaries the capability; we're just trying to regulate their good intentions. That strategy doesn't work.

Flock is the symptom not the disease. People either need to demand anonymity and insist we stop displaying things like plates at all, and actually limit public photography, or just accept we will be tracked everywhere. There is no middle ground to be had.

Indeed. We seem pretty conflicted about that, so we're getting the worst of both worlds.

A lot of people are intentionally commiting crimes of various severity and they don't actually want police to have a more effective enforcement tool

This set of people is dwarfed into insignificance be non-criminals who are also being caught on camera. And the problem with that isn't false positives, it's true positives: non-criminal John Doe's car was spotted at a certain place at a certain time, so let's make that fact available on the market. That way, we can target him with ads, increase his insurance premiums, let his wife's PI know what neighborhood he had lunch in, let assassins when he's home, and let burglars (or his wife's rapist) know when he's not home.

The sheer amount of not-quite-what-consumers-need RAM that is going to be auctioned after the AI companies' bankruptcies will be unprecedented. Remember we're literally talking about an amount equal to what the entire consumer market was using. It's going to be a few years worth of the entire RAM manufacturing industry!

The scale of not-quite-right RAM we're going to see, makes me imagine (warning: red flag for talking out my ass) consumer motherboards specifically made for the mountains of weirdly-packaged cheap-but-fast-as-fuck RAM at hyperscale data center auctions. We'd end up calling them "AI bankruptcy rigs" or something like that. Yes, they'll perform differently (more throughput than you need, more latency than you want), but it still ought to be usable. IGPs usually included, I suspect.

And they will just be a product of the times; ten years later no one would want one and bankruptcy rigs would be seen as odd late-2020s relics; the lemonade from Sam Altman's lemon industry. It would be a dead-end tech. But during those late 2020s? Could be a neat-o opportunity.

You're saying workers coops want to acquire more power? That trade unions want cameras on every street corner?

I appreciate that half the people here, probably because they're American, think "socialismimsm means anything I don't like that involves the government" but that's not what it means. And the people self identifying as socialists in government right now, from AOC to Bernie, are not, actually, in favor of cameras on every street corner.

Some political parties, especially in Eastern Europe, identifying as socialist formed governments that were dictatorships. Others, such as those in Western Europe, were and still are democratic, and fought hard for your rights to be unrelated to your wealth.

I know it's hard when you've been subjected to this kind of propaganda about socialists since you were capable of understanding English, but stop believing propaganda.

In the end the politicians don't give a fuck about what people want or being moral or anything like that. They have an agenda. They're acting the exact same way that conspiracy theorists have been claiming all politicians think like for decades, except it looks to me like now the conspiracy theorists have gotten into government they feel this is a way they have a right to act, rather than something they should be changing.

Add to that the rampant corruption in American politics that's always been there, but the public has largely ignored for a half century or more, and we're reaching what you might call a techno-corruption singularity.

And that's coming with consequences. In an extreme case, we've seen the murder of an insurance CEO because nobody has been keeping the insurance industry in check. The Democrats even had a chance to when passing the ACA, but instead gave them perverse incentives to negotiate higher prices with healthcare providers and likewise find excuses to decline expensive treatments. I'm not saying Brian Thompson was a saint, far from it, I'm saying Brian Thompson would never have been CEO had the ACA not had the 10% profit cap without simultaneously addressing the effective need for publicly traded corporations to increase profits year on year.

But we also see smaller attacks on the system like this one. And I don't see the situation getting any better. Not only will we need to stop electing politicians who don't care, but it's going to take 25 years or more of electing politicians who do, and who dismantle the giant pile of shit we're all in, before people start to have any trust in the system any more, trust enough to elect the type of people who can be trusted. Yes, they won't elect people who can fix the system until those people have already been elected. How's that for a Catch 22?

> However, your data completely ignores if the suspects are being compliant or not

Then

> due to the suspects being non-compliant/hostile/violent/dangerous

This expansion of non-compliance with violent/dangerous is what makes you a bootlicking fascist.

In a civilized democratic society, non-compliance with a police officer is not an excuse for summary execution. The only case in which it is legitimate for an officer to kill a person is to prevent a loss of life caused by that person's likely actions. No other reason.

Did the suspect say mean words and refuse to let you handcuff them? Pull up your fucking big boy pants you sniveling shit and find a way to resolve the issue peacefully, don't stick your hand on your gun like it's your fucking penis.

Toxoplasma gondii infection can lead to a variety of neuropsychiatric conditions.

It wouldn't have even been a problem if they were transgender mice. What is the problem with studying transgenderism, especially in a safe, controlled, environment that doesn't cause harm to people?

Leaving aside that dementia is not a mental illness, I'm unaware of any caused by viruses that aren't a side effect.

For example Alzheimers can be caused indirectly by viruses, but its cause isn't a virus, it's likely neuroinflammation, which can be caused by all kinds of things including bacteria and certain types of plaque.

Worse, the latter is generally because the brain's own immune system is causing the inflammation fighting said virus when it is a virus, and so a vaccine would cause more problems rather than help.

Using vaccines here is just not a practical course of action and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what dementia is. And mental illnesses? They're even less likely to have clear causes outside of genetics and exposure to various environmental factors not generally considered biological.

If mental illnesses were caused by viruses, sure. But the entire point of a vaccine is to stimulate your immune system into creating antibodies to fight specific viruses. I've pretty sure no mental illnesses have been found to have a viral cause (well, social media "viral" may be, but not biological...)

I think you vastly over-estimate how much MAGA cares. If the COVID vaccine had been conventional, they'd have been just as loud and angry and anti, but they wouldn't have put "UnPrOvEn tEcHnOlOgY" in their list of annoying arguments.