Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.

The great thing about that is that dead lithium batteries will have value

One day with my mountain of disused electronics, I will strike it rich.

Why is the NYPD helping ICE?

🎶 Some of those that work forces 🎶 Are the same that burn crosses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department#Brutality,_corruption,_and_misconduct_cases

As pointed out elsewhere, Toyota own a sizeable portion of Subaru.

There’s consent from the shopper and the retailer, so it’s not unethical

Two parties can enter an willingly agreement that’s ultimately harmful for both. For the shopper it will limit choice and for the retailer, they’re signing their own death warrant.

Right up until the moment that Comcast does a deal with Facebook to get its agent to not help you get a better rate and perhaps instead lock you into a more expensive contract instead. Remember Facebook’s business model is ads.

The other criticism I’ve seen levelled against them is that they fire almost everyone who works at a company they acquire to run it bare bones.

It’s much, much more complicated than mere rehabilitation VS punishment/salvation. When sometime goes to prison for a minor drug offense—like this guy—what exactly are we “rehabilitating”? I seriously doubt he had a real addiction.

Perhaps for you. For this section of society I’m referring to, they would rather see this person put before their deity in order for ultimate judgement to be rendered.

In medieval England, executions were, as History says, conducted willy-nilly without any legal precedent. Starting with the reign of Henry VIII in the early 1500s, the death penalty became codified into an eventual, expansive 222 crimes. Some 72,000 people were executed in 16th century England alone for crimes such as treason, marrying a Jew, cutting down a tree, and (you ready?) not confessing to a crime.

https://www.grunge.com/305837/which-crimes-merit-the-death-penalty-in-the-united-states/

A lot of people would like to go back to these times.

Foucault’s Discipline and Punish is a rather interesting read. It suggests that cruelty and suffering are the point of prisons for certain parts of society. For them, it is the prisoner who sinned and they must atone for what they did so they can get salvation, in this life or the next. Regardless of the evidence to the contrary that it doesn’t really work and that rehabilitation is much more cost effective.

So instead, here’s a 2019 NIH Study: […]

That study long predates the current fascist crackdown on migrants.

I’m not making any argument, I’m simply correcting your misinformation with relevant scientific studies from the NIH.

You think migrants (and minority groups) being afraid to interact with law enforcement started after 2019?

🎼 🎶 sad trombone 🎶

DirecTV’s screensavers will let a user create an AI avatar of themself by scanning a QR code on the screensaver

You are expected to volunteer your face. And interact with the ads. Because you are getting this device to watch ads. Apparently.

Ah, you’re going for the Pete Townshend defence…

This is why I upgraded my Windows 10 laptop to a Fedora 42 one. 42 is obviously the biggest. And thusly better than Debian.

The only person liable here is the shooter.

On the very specific point of liability, while the shooter is the specific person that pulled the trigger, is there no liability for those that radicalised the person into turning into a shooter? If I was selling foodstuffs that poisoned people I’d be held to account by various regulatory bodies, yet pushing out material to poison people’s minds goes for the most part unpunished. If a preacher at a local religious centre was advocating terrorism, they’d face charges.

The UK government has a whole ream of context about this: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/97976/prevent-strategy-review.pdf

Google’s “common carrier” type of defence takes you only so far, as it’s not a purely neutral party in terms, as it “recommends”, not merely “delivers results”, as @joe points out. That recommendation should come with some editorial responsibility.