FriendOfDeSoto

joined 3 years ago

Why are we doing this again? CPS can't do anything useful outside the US.

They're fighting in Japanese courts ostensibly because their lives were centered in Japan. So Japanese rules apply, which probably favor the mother. Shared custody is unfortunately a new concept. For that, it depends on many things. None of them fall within the purview of US CPS.

I think it's the same everywhere in the developed world. There are things that will just keep virtually forever, like honey or tea bags, but they come with an expiry date of some sort. Because at some point, allegedly, ol' moneybags himself lobbied for legislation like that to make people buy more stuff.

I'm in Japan and if I didn't blatantly disregard the dates and guidance they print on bread I'd never finish a pack.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Did you hear about that curved building in London that reflected light so well you could cook an egg in the street a block away? I think you could make an argument for white surfaces to reflect light into buildings but full blown mirrors are probably a fire hazard.

I'm going to exercise my free speech here: what a good job ChatGPT did at summarizing this video. Is this really a thought provoking post or just a way to boost the views over at YT?

If the US model is so great, why is the country so royally fucked right now? The first amendment only tells governments not to limit what people can say. If you have enough money you can buy CBS or the Washington Post and silence critical voices or just scuttle the whole ship respectively. And that's not the government censoring, it's just a good buddy of the big guy or some brownnoser doing it looking for favors at the court of the king. Freedom of speech becomes something you need to be able to afford. When even the big guy files frivolous lawsuits against media outlets that didn't want to get up his ass for a gazillion dollars. Just to tie them down in courts hoping they will settle and in the meantime be extra careful not to incur more wrath. What happens when hate speech and libel laws don't work, you get Alex Joneses who make a business model out of being a despicable excuse for a human being. Your freedom of speech situation is very much like your healthcare system, in that it is very different from lots of other developed nations and the consequences are tragic.

Don't call me Shirley.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Log this: you violated rule #1

IIRC for a while many terrorists and criminals had legitimate Belgian passports because some enterprising criminals had stolen the special printing machine and empty passports from an embassy or something like that.

No. And not likely at all.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why "even?" Even after struggling with privacy concerns you don't think they're the future of wearables. Shouldn't that be "because of?" Normally, privacy concerns aren't a big plus point. I didn't want to buy this hypothetical device but after learning all the data goes directly to an unencrypted database on an open server in the cloud, I was all in?

TL;Dr because of this dumb premise that is the first sentence:

As someone who is largely (if not always) inseparable from my iPhone's camera, the desire to test out Meta's elusive AI glasses was a natural next step.

If that's your natural next step, your opinion doesn't matter to me.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do you post the same stuff under different titles in different communities? What's the weirdest thing in english?

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