taladar

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The flaw in the analogy is that it assumes that those effects are limited to some companies when in reality every single company that existed in history has behaved this way if they weren't stopped by regulation.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Not that I necessarily disagree that China would do it on a huge scale but what makes you think the US under Trump and his billionaire buddy psychopaths wouldn't do it on a catastrophic scale already?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Well, maybe desert is a bit much for SF but among the cities where they are active it seems noticeable that there isn't anything in a more humid or colder part of the country or really anywhere very green (where road signs might be obscured by growing trees, that kind of thing).

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 35 points 6 hours ago

What if you don’t have mainstream social media?

That is literally inconceivable by the self-centered assholes who make policies like this.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Was hoping at this point in time Waymo would be expanding more aggressively.

I suspect the tech doesn't really work anywhere but in the bright sunny desert climate of the cities where they are active now.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

So the hybrid in the name refers to the combined function as a vehicle and a psychological crutch? Would that make those aggressive looking pickup trucks hybrids as well?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

Is that different from the unencrypted email we have now that is 99% spam and the other 99% are delivery problems due to anti-spam technologies?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

Not all of them, some are averages of many people's guesstimates.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

IMAP

Speaking of something that needs tearing down and building anew, email is a good candidate for that.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.

Depends, if it is an ad for an orbital laser that targets marketing executives it might work on me.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago

It doesn't really matter if Israel became news, the only thing relevant to the election should have been if voting Harris, Trump or not voting was likely to have different outcomes for the topic of the genocide and there was no reason to believe that there was a chance of that.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Especially the ones who refused to vote for her on the basis of the genocide in Palestine as if Trump wasn't just as bad or worse in supporting Israel and as if the American establishment hadn't always supported Israel. That idea that somehow not voting for her in that election would improve a single thing about that genocide was so stupid.

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