/hj

My brain always reads this as “/handjob” and it breaks my brain for a sec. :)

And that has what to do with anything I said?

Break out the guillotines. Wealth inequality has to go.

Let’s have a bit of real talk here.

Why were flying cars a failure? Because on the ground, if something goes wrong, you can just stop. Pull over and stop. In the air, you have to have a trained pilot to handle problems and even then people still do occasionally die. So flying cars were never going to be a thing.

Self-driving cars, however, just requires time and research. We will get there, it’s just early. The tech is not ready for prime time yet. But it will eventually be.

And in fact, to wrap it back around to flying cars: At some point, we will have self-flying transportation of some sort.

Once the safety improves to something like 10x that of humans driving/piloting, it’ll all be self-driving.

We’re just not there yet.

That’s the thing - they are not driving them, they’re telling the cars where to go to get out of the situation. It’s not great, but it’s tired seeing the hype of “FERR’N PEOPLE DRIVIN’ CARS ON OUR ROADS”.

My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access. In turn, that sensitive material is viewed by more Alpha School employees than students and parents may realize.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I’m gonna stop you right there with a huge huge WHAT the FUCK. That is an incredible decision to have made. Stunning.

I saw that Alpha School maintains a spreadsheet which contains a list of student names, their grade, and an archive of their recordings which shows what’s happening on their screen, their remote tutor, and a video of the student taken via their webcam. This spreadsheet is not only available to anyone at the company, but is also shared in such a way that anyone on the internet who has the link can access the spreadsheet and the videos of students. “If I wanted to, I could go there and just watch students. Anybody who worked in this capacity could watch the videos of students working on their laptops,” one Alpha School employee told me. “So many hours of just students’ faces […] I’m not sure parents understand exactly what’s going on with that data […] I don’t think that this is clearly communicated, because I’m sure there’d be a lot more opt outs if it was.”

Wonder how many pedos work for the company.

https://archive.ph/XO6Pn

Dunno if that’ll be better, but I created it to see if it helped :)

I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don’t care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.

Ahhhhhh, gotcha. Well, something like that can indirectly hurt because lower wages means shittier employees who care less and make crappier food slower. Many fast food locations across all the brands suffer from this. But if you have a good one with good service and food quality, it’s more likely you’ll patronize them.

For a long time I didn’t eat Burger King because the only ones near me were crappy. But we’ve moved to a place where we have one that’s decent, so it’s something I get very occasionally.

But yeah, most of fast food’s problem is the larger problem of companies in our country: Nobody can afford to buy anything. Or rather, at all levels, budgets are tighter. :)

/r/PyongYang for example. heh.

The saddest part about our descent into fascism is that this story is no longer shocking, but merely infuriating.

Villages are great. Food to eat, supplies to repair and replenish our own, even women to entertain!

Eh, the Mongols were really just horsin’ around.

There’s a joke in here about some Hispanic chief of transporting goods on the Enterprise. Someone points at all the boxes of snails and asks, “Should that be here?” and he says, “¡Si! ¡Es cargo!”

In addition to other trivial arguments to disprove this, my method is four letters: DPRK.

It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like “Holy shit that’s amazing, let’s give you ALL our data and video and privacy!”. They actually thought we would go for it. lol.

When I want to reply and tell someone to fuck off because I disagree with them, I try to remember the pleasant results of NOT doing that, so a reply like this helps me be a better person, thank you <3

Yeah, why are you two still here on my lawn‽ ;-)

Richard Simmons.

Y’know, I grew up making fun of him, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that homophobia isn’t funny, and the more I read about him, the more I realize he was generally a pretty sweet and caring dude trying to help people. All the hate he got was really unjustified. Our society sucks sometimes.

I’ve upvoted you, but it worries me that one might lose that much humanity. Fascists are our enemies, but I don’t wish torture on any human. Punish them - take their freedom away permanently, or even execute them if society agrees the death penalty should exist and apply. But causing harm to people only truly harms the people doing the torture.