Yup it’s mostly bullshit. Someone, somewhere might benefit, but certainly not any of the people within two thousands miles of where the rich guy lived. Which is still better than nothing, but Bill Gates could end homelessness in America immediately if he chose to do so. (I’m not saying it would be easy or fast, just that he has the money to make it happen.) He could make ALL COLLEGE FREE for students. Musk could have too, likely for less than he spent on Twitter.
It sounds like Klarna is a nightmare that should be avoided as much as possible.
At this point if you’re buying their stuff, you’re the reason they get away with it and you’re the problem because you can’t control them, you can only control you… and you didn’t.
Me too. You mean out of a giant cannon to the sun, right? And it’s still Ajit Pai, right? This guy here can make the top ten though.
Wow what brave American heroes they are.
I wonder how they’re able to sleep at night.
Easy solution: Don’t buy one. Play games on a PC. Nintendo isn’t your friend.
I disagree with the same person, but without respecting them.
Some of us are face blind and this could be helpful.
No fucking way I’d trust meta not to exploit it though, so this is a hard pass.
“Paid search engine” <— no thanks.
I’m never giving epic games a dime, I can assure you if that.
This is one of those things many people seem to think will be a win but will actually suck once every app is able to charge you directly.
All that surveillance and they let all the criminals go free anyways…so, what’s the point?
They’re not using these to catch criminals - that’d be like expecting anti-gun laws to give murderers pause. No, they use them to make people like you and me pay hundreds of dollars when the light goes from yellow to red while we’re in the intersection or close enough to it that we couldn’t safely stop without stopping literally in the middle of it all. That’s what this is about - making people like us pay. Not actual criminals who commit a crime that they would be arrested for.
the move is a first step toward the broader deployment of those cameras, a tool that has the potential to dramatically improve traffic safety across the city if implemented well.
It’s Seattle. It will not, sadly, be implemented well.
Agreed. I have a compromise. They can put in all the cameras they want - but absolutely cannot, upon pain of losing 50% of their total budget for a year per violation - outsource or subcontract the operations or anything akin to the operations of the system at all. Hire IT staff to run it, pay people to process the data. No you can’t use AI. Do this or fuck off, Seattle.
I will never ever forget when a red light camera came to Redmond, at the turn leading to driving through Microsoft’s campus. Can you guess what happens when you piss of a bunch of smart motivated people who have money and aren’t necessarily the kindest people? That shit got challenged and removed after about six months. I still see the stump/the concrete it was embedded when when I go to my buddy’s house, and it warms my heart literally every. single. fucking. time.
Why do so many people constantly just misframe this argument as “it’s the people who didn’t vote’s fault!”
That’s easy, it goes like this:
If you and people like you had all voted for the Democratic candidate instead of witholding your vote because she wasn’t anti-Israel enough, Trump would have lost.
Then it continues:
If Trump had lost, this wouldn’t be happening.
Therefore:
It’s most directly Trump and his Nazi party’s fault, but voters who didn’t vote for Harris 100% share the blame for helping to elect Trump.
Easy motherfucking peasy.
Oh, you don’t like genocide? Then why’d you help enable it? And if you can pull your head out of Gaza’s asshole for a minute, why’d you enable the equivalent in the US with millions of deportations?
I suppose you think it’s Democratic voters’ fault. What, should have have all boycotted the vote so Trump could win harder? Do you think that’d have helped? If Harris came out as super anti-Israel, so that such voters would deign to vote for her, that she’d still have carried enough swing states to win? Because she wouldn’t have, that’s just reality.
Congrats to everyone who pulled this off; now Gaza, the USA, AND Ukraine are fucked. Well done! Xi and Vlad applaud you too!
Sure don’t.
I do remember thinking that any of my fellow Americans who refused to vote for Kamala because she wasn’t anti-Israel enough for them were super fucking stupid because electing Trump obviously OBVIOUSLY O B V I O U S L Y would lead to this exact outcome.
That’s what I remember.
Factorio.
That’s why I play using a PC and not a console. Though PC components have also been overpriced for years.
Different brand but apparently it is a thing that was done previously: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/05/30/corelle-responds-to-viral-post-about-its-vintage-dishware-lead-exposure/
I found very few news stories, mostly just people discussing the topic.
Sorry I don’t buy games that sold out to Epic.
Or I do, but I wait until they’re $8 on Steam.
Hey remember when Google used to have a motto, “Don’t be evil”?
Used to.