arc99

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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used to think of the ADL as "good guys", fighting antisemitism etc. But they're just a mouth piece for the Israeli government and the absolute worst, inhumane, atrocities committed to Palestinians in their war against Hamas. Israel is no better to Palestinians than Nazis were to Jews, but everything is a-ok as far as ADL is concerned - Judaism and Israel are conflated. No moral qualms, no historic comparisons, no hypocrisy, no sirreee.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Incel losers clearly have attractiveness that is off the charts and too intimidating for anybody male or female to deal with. It's so bad they can't even fuck each other, because of the sheer levels of attractiveness involved.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

While I don't begrudge them trying to make money from their service, the deleterious effect on people's lives, careers cannot be overlooked. I think it's obvious that most AI companies are incredibly unethical so governments need to impose the ethics onto them and companies tempted to use AI. They should never be considered as powerful as a utility nor invaluable. Never.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It doesn't even makes to collect age on any OS unless the OS is PornOS or something. What exactly is the threat? What exactly does verification do?

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

The thing about "wading" in deep water is the water has to be pushed aside by the vehicle like the bow of a ship. Except in a car, if you go too fast the water won't be pushed aside and will instead rip off bumpers, underside panels, and forcefully enter the vehicle dousing motors, electronics, air intakes etc. Of course the Cybertruck is a terrible truck and was sold on lies and embellishments, but common sense also applies. Even most ICE vehicles including trucks would fare no better unless they had snorkels and other mitigations.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Using an app means more bloat, more ads, more notifications, more forced engagement and more tracking. Since the site very clearly works through a mobile browser there is no technical reason for doing this. It is about forcing people to doom scroll this shit rather than check in from time to time.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

In any sane country Mary Talley Bowden MD would be struck off the medical register for propagating this brain damage.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

The truth, since he wants people to know it, is they assassinated the leaders & military infrastructure hoping Iran would collapse. And when it didn't there was no plan. Generals and regional experts presumably advised on the sheer stupidity of the attack but none had the balls to resign. So now there is an oil crisis, and when the war is over Iran will emerge from this even more entrenched and dominant than ever.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I only use reddit via a web browser on a phone. I would never use some shitty app bloating the phone, tracking me, attempting to increase my engagement or shitting out a stream of ads. The same goes for all social media apps.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I expect my price is through the floor. Living in Ireland with ad blocker enabled and Google set to disable ad tracking and personalized ad delivery. Even when I use their YouTube app and am compelled to see ads, many of them are bottom of the barrel garbage for pay to win games / casinos and outright scams because Google can't match a more lucrative campaign against me.

It's funny because I also listen to podcasts on Spotify and the podcasts are so bereft of matching campaigns the ad break starts and stops almost instantly. The only one that doesn't is Behind the Bastards which repeatedly inflicts 2 minutes of plugs for other Cool Zone Media podcasts that I'm habituated to auto skip through.

[–] arc99@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI can be a useful tool in certain situations. The issue is that humans can become complacent, disinterested and inattentive if an AI appears to be doing their work. We see this too in things like "self driving" - yeah the car seems to be working right up until the moment it isn't and if the driver wasn't paying attention, they're dead.

I could see entirely the same thing playing out with ATC. AI can have uses in an airport but it really does depend on what those uses are.

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