TheObviousSolution

A man after my own incompetence.

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You mean like my PC suddenly stops working when it doesn’t receive updates, or how it suddenly falls apart when the warranty goes out? Funny thing, the people tried to use the same argument when purchasing US planes to try to claim the opposite, that they would still be useful regardless of US attempts at intervention. Decide which is which, maybe?

Anyway, points aside, doesn’t stop from these theories actually existing, as your “All these backdoor fantasies” allude to, so I’m not sure whom you are trying to argue against since in this comment I’m not even pushing them. It’s just making a light-hearted jest that went “whoooosh” past you.

Guess we will know if these weapons have hidden backdoors to disable them soon enough. If anyone would trigger them for such a trivial disagreement, it’s Trump.

Where’s Lavos when you need it.

The data set and the algorithm are still there, it’s just not available to the public anymore. I wonder who will still get access to it. This just seems to follow the general trend of oligarchs encouraging startups to do anything and everything to disrupt an industry, go as far as they can, and then pull them out through any pressure, government or corporate, as they try to scavenge what they want.

Besides that, there’s still alternatives alive, local or otherwise, and I doubt the people who were using Sora are suddenly going to stop without trying to search for alternatives first. People are celebrating after just chopping off the first head of the hydra.

Downvote OP, you say? Downvote given!

Good thing you will never have to worry about that!

A. Another comment (and my own observations - not even in the US, so no idiocracy factor either) prove otherwise. They claim it’s to deal with bodily fluids (I guess sweat doesn’t count for them). B. Not a shared reality. Your market, your choices I guess, but even amazon.com (US market) disagrees on the prices you are claiming.

The only draft I would accept is a police instead of a military one. Force some civilian eyes on how cops handle themselves, wash the profession enough so that it has to survive public scrutiny or otherwise get eventually called out on it.

I don’t know if you have another definition of cheap, or just live in a different worse off market.

There’s basically two sorts of people: the one’s willing to overlook the aesthetics and the one’s who aren’t. There’s a reason hospital staff wear them. They are not designed to look good, they are designed to let the humidity from your sweat evaporate instead of letting it accumulate into a damp breeding ground ripe for a host of foot conditions. For some people it will matter more than others.

There’s plenty of Crocs designs that don’t look ugly, but I hope they continue to be unpopular as that keeps them cheap. It’s risky to switch to other brands with this sort of design, Crocs got it right.

You just proved you haven’t, but you are going to stick to your stereotypes regardless of what I tell you. You are going to reply to this comment, but don’t expect a reply back.

I mean America has plenty of industries the rest of the world depends on. Unfortunately, a lot of the good takes involve ignoring a lot of the bad ones that helped obtain them.

Don’t be proud of your country, be proud of the societies you are willing to participate in and contribute towards. If you don’t find yourself living inside a good one, go and search it out.

You fail to understand the difference between correlation and causation. That they have wealth and power is different from how it is used. Having said that, yeah, my definition is sort of different because I also consider the social bubble aspect that they live in (hence my Trump comment).

Let me ask you, what happens when your revolution is successful, and it is you that has wealth and power. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination, the CCP is sort of this.

It all depends on the definition of class, and it is such an arbitrary one. What I meant was that if your definition is arbitrary enough, it tends to include a lot of false positives. There are a number of rich people who have said that they should be taxed more and have not shown any indication of contradicting themselves, for example.

I have no problem with security cameras either. Asshole like Elon make a car with cameras, and suddenly the GDPR doesn’t apply and judges switch to issuing subpoenas to their owners in case they might have caught a nearby crime instead of issuing fines.

Having some decent surveillance that you aren’t an asshole with (hint: if you are using to track and profile people and you are the sort of person who likes to doxx, you probably are) brings ease of mind. You no longer have to suppose who or when some crime might have been committed, and even if it’s not useful for catching them they can effectively help you make your prevention more effective. If governments cared about our security, they would just make sure they had no backdoors or mass surveillance capabilities, they would at least allow for personal, localized usage for our property a lot more.

Didn’t know about the term sousveillance, that’s awesome because that’s what I’ve been arguing for all along.

Basically poisoning the well for augmented reality glasses.

They aren’t using “class”, there is no such thing as “class”, Trump is the biggest example of it - he has none, it’s just a big scam to him. They are using wealth and power, but correlation does not imply causation, no matter how big that correlation may be.

Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don’t even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.

You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what’s actually an arbitrary definition, don’t forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.