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Network effect.

I think Canadians probably feel more directly oppressed by Trump.

I’d love to see Albo tell Trump to fuck off, but if he does, he won’t receive the same adulation that Carney has.

Hanson is doing well enough by emulating Trump.

Do those screens exist though?

Its hard to believe a persons data is worth that much.

Indeed. Nothing I’ve seen thus far gives me the impression LLMs will ever be truly useful outside of a few niche tasks.

I know you’re being sarcastic but I don’t know what you’re getting out.

Do dumb screens exist ? If they’re 4x the price, surely my browsing preferences can’t be worth 3x the price ?

This was my first thought as well.

The vast majority of users couldn’t care less about “the algorithm”, and probably think it’s a good thing.

The people who need this aren’t interested.

I don’t mean to be dismissive, but most of what you’ve described is present elsewhere to varying degrees.

Australia seems comparable on all points, although our pension / super system is not great but not terrible.

Our real estate market is shit, with most people priced out of the market over the last decade.

No way.

Cunts just need to invest the bare minimum of effort required in order to be a member of society and return their trolley to the bay.

The coin lock thingy is shit.

Show me someone who votes for these pricks and I’ll show you someone who needs a punch in the face.

The projects were halted to give officials time to develop new industry regulations, expected to be announced in a month, Danucha Pichayanan, secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council, said at a news briefing on Sept 4.

I think this just means the right people have not yet been paid enough.

That’s… Not what I’ll talking about.

Even if unsubscribe “works”, and you get removed from the list, you just get added to the list again for the next campaign.

If it’s not something you subscribed to then it’s spam.

Yes, but what the law says and what is going on in practice are often (or usually) two different things.

In your own example, a forensic psychiatrist might have interrogated you when you were 17 and concluded that you were of sound mind and had the requisite emotional and logical faculty to “consent” in every reasonable definition of the term.

However, the law says that your consent in this case has no legal baring. This is not to undermine your own agency as a 17 year old, but to protect those 17 year olds who were not as well developed as you, or who might be manipulated some how, and so on.

The trade-off is that there usually has to be a complainant. In your own example you or your parents would (in most jurisdictions), need to ask the police to press charges.

Of course, the age of consent varies between jurisdictions. Here I think it’s 16. I went to school with someone who got married when she was 16 because she had become pregnant when she was 15. I didn’t realise at the time how messed up that was.

I’m reminded of the fascinating and macabre history of Pitcairn Island. The abridged version is that in the 1700’s (?) a sailing ship named the Bounty visited Tahiti for several months where many of the crew became involved with Tahitian ladies. Rather than return to their lives they mutinied, and absconded to an uninhabited island with their brides. Much violence and depravity, and later fanatical religious stuff ensued, but ultimately a tiny community of several dozen people survived to the 1990’s. At that time it emerged that underage sex / rape was a common and even celebrated practice. It’s a truly incredible story for a variety of reasons.

Oh wow a right wing populist candidate who thinks the rules don’t apply to them.

Someone on our team for work lives in the Philippines and it’s no joke. Loads of storms and flooding. The data for rainfall / storm energy backs up the assessment that this year is gonna be wild.

It’s one of those things where some agencies count it as “average surface temp” over <several> weeks, while others count the average over <some bigger number of> weeks. So maybe Australia called it the biggest El Nino several weeks ago, but now some other country is able to agree because more weeks have elapsed.

I mean of course they would say that, but it’s pretty obvious the financial situation in the US is deteriorating.

I hate these glasses but i fear other devices might fulfil a similar purpose, so legislating against them specifically might not be the answer.

I wonder whether it would be possible to create legislative areas where individuals are prohibited from recording video, and proprietors or governments recording video can only distribute it under specific circumstances like criminal onvestigations.

Almost certainly misleading, but the underlying truth is that shits fucked

Ah yes, the hallmark of sophisticated management: everyone has to express an appropriate level of support for all decisions, especially bad ones.