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by Frieren 1mo ago
> Amazon... The company that looks like a medieval food shop with meat warming in the sun and a big sign that says "caveat emptor" and manned by a slave with very dirty hands. The fact that it still operates in the EU is prove
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by Frieren 1mo ago
As a not American, why does freedom of speech include corporations giving money that are not citizens nor talking. But even that Congress has the power to spend "to provide for the common defence and general welfare" given by the
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> Intent requires at least that you were deliberately doing the criminal act So, they did something that benefits them by mistake. I would like to see a person would be judged in that situation. I can imagine that the bar to put someone
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> That all relies on American platforms. Totally true. The EU needs its own platforms, I hope that better regulated than their USA counterparts. Linux started in Europe, it should have been promoted more for internal usage. But privatiza
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> two years, we will be all writing and talking like this I have seen kids talking like youtubers: the top 10 things I like, or what I need to do before I die (the kids is 9 years old), ... not great (like repeating ad tunes or slogans)
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> Yeah, but do you control international banking the way they do? This is why Europe needs to detach itself from the American banking system. It used to be very practical to use it. Countries renounced to some sovereignty in exchange for
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> Intention matter a lot in US law. They hacked a competition company. The intention was implicit when there is economic gain to be had. > People are not charged with hacking when their unsecured box is taken over by a botnet and doe
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> Even when humans have a friendship—or something that feels like it—with a crow, the relationship happens on the wild animal’s terms. They visit when they want to, and they may disappear from our life suddenly. It goes also the other wa
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by Frieren 1mo ago
> "oh, you're drowning?? but you're IN WATER.."? I laughed so hard at that. Best argument is good argument but funny.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
AI coding is for my lazy days. If I do not want to do a task I will use AI. I tell it what to do and I wait. I have to put less mental effort into it even if takes a few re-tries and several times the amount of time. Is it addictive? Yes. L
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> no consequences Usually if you are extremely poor or extremely rich there are no consequences for you. The extremely poor are desperate and have nothing to lose, society already took everything from them. The extremely rich are above t
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by Frieren 2mo ago
Anna's Archive is what TV told me in the 2000s that the future was. An online database with all published books one click away. Far from the dystopian reality than the corporate internet has become.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> it encourages a sense of hopelessness and disregard for laws and civility. That is true. I hope that people sees my comment as a push to do better, not a reason to give up. Things are never perfect, anywhere. And that's why we sho
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> "criminal's have rights, victims doesn't" Straw man argument. Everybody has rights in the EU, including people suspected of being criminals, and of course victims. Arguing that in the EU victims have no rights is in
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> ... and autistic obsession with detail ... Why do people glorify autism? I have seen this mostly on CEOs that want workers that are hyper-focused, intelligent and do not complain. The ideal employee from which extract value and a minim
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> They literally cannot comprehend what living in a corrupt and mostly lawless society is like. I doubt that most Americans comprehend what is living in a well managed citizens-first country were people are represented and many laws are
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> I think we need to accept that AI causes cognitive decline That is catastrophic because I heard several CEOs that said that we cannot do anything about it and that the technology is here to stay. So, I suppose that we will just need to
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> prevent the sale of lots of US products Not only USA products. Most countries with low safety standards and known for dangerous products are barred from trading with the EU, or at least many of their products. Recently, even big Chines
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> I think the same will happen with tokens. As the cost of tokens comes down, these models will just consume more tokens. That sounds a race to the bottom for AI companies profits. I do not think that LEDs are high profit margin items.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Legislators squashing monopolies and making rules to keep competition intact You need both. Even restaurants are heavily regulated to avoid making people sick. To let restaurants make people sick until they go out of business seems a q
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by Frieren 2mo ago
No regulations -> fraud and scams Expecting that the rich will do the right thing out of their good hearts is not just naive but actively damaging for society.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> I cannot figure out if this data center panic is legit or trumped up. That is using FUD to avoid accountability. In this case is the last one "doubt". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_an
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Should multinational corporations instruct local executives to be loyal to their parent company or the rulers of the country they live in? Legally, to the rules of the country. That is not even a question. But if we talk about morality
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> preferably contain the letters Å, Ä or Ö I'm 100% för this.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Species die off all the time, This species didn't just die, it was exterminated by humans. It is the difference between someone dying fro a sickness and from a bulled to the head. > overindexing How can be stop fishing species
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> because the ecological niche that the cod fish occupied has been taken over to some extent by a small shark species. That is very interesting, I wish this kind of things were taught in school. Too many people think that animals just ex
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> It’s the story of two sides.. American artists and the religious right That is such a simplification that is just a lie. The two sides are capital and the working class. Because their interests are opposite of each other. There are rel
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by Frieren 2mo ago
It is a gambling site.
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> I just read uber is rolling out driverless rides. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You made me laugh. Each time a industry unionizes corporations try to downplay the need of labor. Executives think th
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by Frieren 2mo ago
> Ads are an attack, aimed at your brain. Ads are an attack aimed at your computer too. They download malicious code to spy on you and gather intelligence data about everything you like, you visit, you buy,... it is malicious software ha

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