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Trump Asked Google To Rename Atlantic Ocean ‘Trump Ocean’
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'Trumping' already means 'breaking wind' in the uk.
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Trump Asked Google To Rename Atlantic Ocean ‘Trump Ocean’
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'Trumping' already means 'breaking wind' in the uk.
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Patreon (ranty question)
If people cant receive my money in a way that is acceptable to me, they dont get it. I dont do recurring fees, i dont want platform accounts. If you cant just make a sale or receive a donation without those things, you are part of the problem.
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Patreon (ranty question)
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My drivers are more focussed on the proposition and payment profile
Private payment is harder. I dont have solution for that except that if i dont truat them enough to use a virtual card then they need to do more work to earn trust if they want paid.
Its not about making a channel that wont pay enough, just picking one with a respectful design that doesnt rely on dark patterns. That should not be that difficult. It is mostly satisfued with a simple one time transaction.
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Researchers drove a Chinese EV into an underground mine. It kept calling China anyway.
Chinese ev bus behaves like every John Deere tractor, Tesla, amazon ring doorbell, windows pc, mac, smart tv, iphone and android device , and probably every other car made since 2020.
"But China bad" is getting pretty old and frail in comparison to the domestic and international predations and privacy invasions of US tech businesses and government
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"Unethical use of Azure" reportedly leads to firing of Microsoft Israel execs — Microsoft has been investigating potential abuse of its products in targeting Palestinians
When microslop withdraw all services from Israel I will pay attention. Until then, its all marketing.
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Trump is paying Iran with taxpayer money
So the agreement could be simpler.... It basically says the US (and allies) stop breaking internationallaw, and pay Iran a fuckload of money to rebuild all the stuff they blew up while breaking international law. Iran must agree to continue to abide by the lawful agreements that were in place before the pointless and illegal US military assault.
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Trump voter angry as ICE take nanny—‘I thought we were targeting criminals’
"Joyce is really the epitome of the American Dream. She's raised two kids on her own. She's worked two jobs for 15 years. She fully supports herself. She's been completely compliant."
Who the fuck dreams of working 2 jobs for 15 years!? - Nobody wants to do that.
Or is it the selfish maga voter's american dream that is being referred to? Having found someone who accepted exploitation and wage slavery without complaint is the dream??
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Man arrested after 'dressing as Grim Reaper' at hospital and staring at patients
"...pleaded guilty to causing a nuisance without reasonable excuse"
thats a crime? And what would constitute a reasonable excuse?
hey, can we arrest trump for that if he comes back to the uk?
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
Can we apply the same logic and principle to self driving cars now please and hold the owners of the proprietary software fully and properly responsible for every poor judgement, traffic violation, accident injury and death that happens in self drive mode.
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WIRED | OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
No airgap = no containment
In all likelihood, this is a BS piece to make people think the models are intelligent.
If its not, then openai are utterly incompetent and reckless.
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Joint statement on Strait of Hormuz by European nations and Japan
Wheres their letter to Israel and their north american colony...?
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UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008
Going to get down voted to hell and back for this I expect, but hey, different opinions generate discussion right?
This is good legislation for the environment, for non-smokers, for the NHS, and has zero negative impact on smokers. The ONLY parties I see really hurt by this are tobacco companies, since retailers make minimal margins on tobacco.
The constant use of the word freedom in the thread comments just seems odd to me. This isn't a question of freedom, and the comments mostly seem to ignore the paradox of tolerance as it applies to antisocial activity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance. Individual freedoms have limits and must end at the boundary of another persons personal space and freedoms. That's why smoking is banned in confined public places.
Its all very well to say tax the shit out of it and fund the NHS, but that will feel pretty shit when your parent/partner/child has to wait for an operation because the queue is full of smokers who are entitled to that spot by having paid for it. Which also veers dangerously close to creating paid tracks within the public national health service.
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US hits International Criminal Court with sweeping sanctions as part of drive to dismantle tribunal
Hopefully this bullshit tactic moves us closer to a post american internet and corporate action to reduce reliance on US tech
US tech has been thinly disguised spware for a long time, now I think we can upgrade that to ransomware.
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Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
This is ridiculous and clearly shows both nefarious intent and complete disregard for the GDPR and it's core principle of data minimisation. There must be a simpler solution to this - maybe through attestation from a trusted third party who has already (legitimately) verified the user's identity - like a bank. Imagine a user creating and providing a token that allows a one-time request through the open banking standards to receive an attestation on whether or not the user is over 18 - without disclosing the users actual dob or any other personal information except who and how the attestation was made. Not sure if it would even be necessary for companies to store precisely when the attestation was made if the banks themselves record the event.
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"We Listened" - Commodore Reduces The Price Of Its Forthcoming Callback 8020 'Dumbphone'
You can't claim privacy first, promise you wont sell user data, then preinstall whatsapp.
These three things cannot all be true. At any price.
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White House weighs ‘250 pardons for 250 years’ to mark America’s birthday: report
So.. 250 people charged in connection with epstein files?
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Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’
An proven moron said something mind numbingly stupid. News at 10...
Why do people keep giving this idiot exposure?
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'The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:' Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans
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You are free to disagree but as a man who wants to be considerate and respectful to all people, this is my take on your comment.
Assuming fake and appreciating anything that doesn't contravene your own boundaries is vastly insufficient. The creation process is irrelevant. The objectification and accompanying dehumanisation is the problem.
That woman was denied agency in a manner that any and all right thinking men should be denouncing as being outside their boundaries, regardless of whether you have ever encountered the person in the images... If you aren't objecting, you're complicit as a member of the audience.
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Ukraine war: Russian forces committed systematic sexual violence against Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war since the start of the full-scale invasion, with victims aged 4 to 82, UN report finds
So the russian military machine has the same definitions of 'moral' as the israeli one...
and both have completely forgotten every blood soaked lesson that should have been learned in ww2.
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Jews nine times more likely than Muslims to be victims of hate crimes
Because if there isn't a report, there wasnt a crime, right?