As they say, power corrupts. So, really we should ask what psychopathic tendencies the CEO had before and after his/her rise to power.

Start playing around with Tor and VPNs.

Took me a while to figure this one out - FAANG to MAANA: Facebook --> Meta Apple Amazon Netflix Google --> Alphabet

Should probably be “slaps”. That’s more commonly used when talking about penalties and fines.

So, all those European countries combined have about the same population as the US, but spend a combined 1.2T, whereas US spends 1.8T?

The world is currently witnessing the many many cases of IDF abuses and war crimes. There are already many clips and recordings of Israeli people and politicians openly calling for genocide of the Palestinians.

And how do I know it’s not some kind of Jewish blood libel ritual? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

You’re doing the same thing that people have done to Jews in times past.

Came here looking for a Stranger Things 4 reference.

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And how can you claim it for fact if you hadn’t been there to see it yourself? Please look into how confirmation bias is deluding your views.

Carbon tax deals with industries that creates emissions by taxing the fuels that cause the emissions. All businesses involved in making EVs and EV parts can choose between using taxed GhG-emitting fuels, or non-taxed cheaper renewable sources. Free markets will pick the winner, but at least all winners will be producing EVs only.

Love this, but fucking hate having to deal with all the push back from Polievre, the Conservatives, Alberta, etc. Just hate seeing political ads masquerading as polls, or oil and gas companies trying to greenwash themselves, or the endless amount of idiotic comments from people who still don’t believe in climate change.

2Billion? Seriously? I’m not a fan of the military-industrial complex, but 2 billion sounds like the annual military budget for a well to-do developing nation.

The 40 dead baby story is Israeli propaganda. I’ve found more authentic sources debunking it than any claiming it as fact. I’m not even sure that you’re not just an IDF stooge spreading the false narratives that allow Israel to keep committing its atrocities.

Large tech companies have been known to buy out smaller competitors before they become a threat or before somebody else buys them out. Not being able to do so with a government-funded Chinese company, I imagine killing the idea before it takes shape is a prudent business decision.

OTF funding is also not a direct indication of funding from US intelligence or backdoors in the code. OTF could just be promoting development of software that breaks free of repressive regimes, which indirectly benefits US foreign policy.

It’s more like BEV reality. They (car manufacturers, oil & gas, etc) have been trying to get hydrogen to work for ages now, but BEVs have made much more progress instead.

Hydrogen fuel-cells: Everyone (consumers, manufacturers, etc) has been waiting for this to come into mass-production and used in cars. Hasn’t happened yet.

Hydrogen combustion engines: Good idea, but still not as feasible at sounds. I’ve heard of problems with efficiency of the engines, dangers in storing and transporting the fuel, leakage, etc. It still hasn’t happened to scale.

Hydrogen production is still very energy and CO2 intensive. The small amount of hydrogen that can be produced using green methods or with carbon-capture, should be used towards planes and rockets.

BEVs won’t be a cure all for every machine on earth, and not immediately either. But over time, it should become the most cost-appropriate solution if you factor in the cost of emitting CO2 and other GhGs.

For “intent recognition”, I agree. A system trained on data of mostly black committing crimes might flag more black people with ill intent.

But for the sake of identification at security checkpoints, if a man named Omar - who has an eerie resemblance to Haani the terrorist - walks through the gates, then they probably need to do a more thorough check. If they confirm with secondary data that Omar is who he says he is, then the system needs to be retrained on more images of Omar. The bias was only that they didn’t have enough images of Haani and Omar for the system to make a good enough distinction. With more training, it will probably be less biased and more accurate than a human.

Oh no. No social media site should ever claim that a post, story, or image is legit.

For some viral pics/posts, it should probably show a warning that the image doesn’t have any signatures, no valid signatures, or a revoked signature. Otherwise, it probably just shows a verified signature chain, for example: BleedingHeartInfluencer*[edited]* → NyTimes*[edited]* → AP*[story]* → AhmedMohammed*[photographer,2023-12-03]*.

We can always assume nation states and other powerful people will know how to fake images, GPS, reality, etc. We can also always assume fakes will still be shared by many people without any proper authentication.

The main goal here would just be to reduce proliferation.

The video of the injured girl is a behind-the-scenes clip from a movie. Way to fall for your own propaganda:

Israeli Diplomat Busted Spreading Blatant Disinfo About Palestinians https://www.thedailybeast.com/israeli-diplomat-ofir-gendelman-busted-spreading-disinfo-about-palestinians-amid-gaza-war