This is the kind of brat I can get behind. 😏

Courts have ruled that using AI allows companies to avoid liability.

Schrödinger’s corporations: corporations are people and and not people, depending on how much money they stand to gain or lose.

I’m not in the autistic spectrum. They aren’t equals and they are barely tools.

One of the last posts I read on Reddit was a student in a CompSci class where the professor put a pair of googly eyes on a pencil and said, “I’m Petie the Pencil! I’m not sentient but you think I am because I can say full sentences.” The professor then snapped the pencil in half that made the students gasp.

The point was that humans anamorphize things that seem human, assigning them characteristics that make us bond to things that aren’t real.

No I mean our electoral system. I’m not saying voters aren’t at fault. They completely are.

But fear is a much more powerful motivator than hope or even the future. (Read: conservatives)

It’s much easier to get people scared about some nameless boogyman who is going to invade your house than it is to get people excited about a future of rainbows and lollipops.

I was talking to a friend of mine a while back who was interning with a state legislator. We got on the topic of bake sales for schools and my friend just about flipped his lid.

He went on a good 5 minute rant about how school budgets take these “bake sales” into account, with goals and measures. So in essence, bake sales allow for states to lower the amount of money they would normally get. (Let’s ignore the fact that schools in affluent districts often have the time and resources to even have bake sales.)

No one wants to pay for schools. Schools don’t win elections. Public safety does. You can still win an election if you don’t fund a school but you won’t win an election if you’re “soft on crime”.

Our entire system is fucked up.

I’m a JavaScript developer. But it is fully possible to create a site with no frontend JavaScript

Like many things, you should use JavaScript if you need it. If you don’t need remote data sources or live refreshes, pure html and css work perfectly fine and, I would go so far as to say, may even be necessary for resistance web pages.

This is especially true if you’re using tor. JavaScript can leak your IP address and sites will work more reliability if you have static content that’s refreshed on the back end than using a bloated next.js app taking up RAM.

I’m so thankful for content like this. I’ve been in the market for an electric car and he’s covered topics that seem to stop me and others:

• range anxiety
• recharge anxiety
• and now charging bandwidth

It’s becoming clear that we can’t continue to compare electric cars to gas cars. They are different enough that you can’t just do a side by side comparison.

Cars seem to be good “general use” vehicles whereas electric cars are more geared toward commuting. I’ve had to learn to measure an electric car based on my daily use vs the occasional road trip.

The problem with body cameras or camcorders is that they can be confiscated.

You have to decide before going to the protests if it’s more important for you to participate or more important to document. Each has its pros and cons and you might have the chance to do both, but you will need to prioritize one over the other when push literally comes to shove.

Decide your priorities and then adjust your OpSec accordingly.

¿Por que los dos?

It’s not about blocking porn.

It’s always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

Oprah supported known child rapist John of God.

Because the rules for conservative and liberals are very different.

Democrats, by in large, respect the rule of law and their base will reject candidates that don’t. Conservatives simply want to be the ones giving orders and not necessarily following them. So the Venn diagram of mutual interests only intersects when a democrat does something that both sides disagree with.

Republicans cry foul whenever a Democrat exceeds the debt ceiling but you don’t hear a fucking peep from them when Trump causes the national debt to lower our credit rating.

We need to purge ourselves from conservatives. And the window to do so is closing quickly.

There is a psychological term for it but essentially we as humans are fucking dumb when it comes to money and even though we tip, a higher price on the menu hits us differently than a lower price with a 20% tip later.

Iirc the experiment was done under different types of service as well and consistently across the board people preferred to see a lower price even though the overall cost was the same.

I’ll do you one better: we should have return free filing: the government sends you a bill saying what they think you owe. If you agree, you send them a check. If you don’t agree, you send in your paperwork.

Most countries have figured this out.

If this got made, I would proudly NOT pirate the movie and make sure I and everyone I know paid full price for it.

Target is a data company. They literally have petabytes of data that tracks and monitors their customers to know what they buy and what makes them spend more time in stores.

They knew their customers supported DEI initiatives. They have the numbers. They have data show the boycott is working and yet they are doubling down on removing rainbow merchandise.

Target removing DEI was to bend a knee and not based on any logical business decision.

If you want to listen to a near hour long video of how Target royally fucked up, here ya go

All the risk without the fun

You’ve summarized religion in one phrase.

I’ll believe a corporation is a person when Texas kills one through lethal injection lets one adopt a child.