Ugh. Everything in this thread is totally feasible and probably reasonably accurate.

I miss the old days when I could love tech, and got excited about new tech. It has gotten so sleazy.

Well yeah, it’s a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they’d capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they’d wait until after people have had them for a while. They’re unsurprisingly shameless.

I’d be curious to know what kind of data it’s collecting to optimize those ads.

My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I’m talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.

Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.

I’m looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.

I mean places that don’t care about any laws at all. Places that might only be accessible on the dark web, etc. There’s terrible stuff out there

🤔 I’m not sure that lawmakers really understand what they’re up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are… Less legitimate.

Maybe we’ll consider electing someone who isn’t a senior citizen, next time. Three terms of the two oldest presidents in US history seems like enough.

Why would it be implemented for those places, but not implemented in any of the other conflicts in the last 50 years?

That raises more questions than it answers 😅 I appreciate the effort though.

I run NixOS on a few servers. I remember there being some controversy around them accepting contributions (either money or code — my memory of it is a little fuzzy) from some company that’s part of the military industrial complex. Is Framework worse than that?

Is it ethically unsafe to use? Do they make money when people use it? Sorry if these seem like dumb questions, I’m surely missing a lot of context

What difference would that make? (I’m not familiar with the precedent, so probably missing some context)

Edit: Downvotes? Was my question (or my ignorance) somehow offensive?

American tech companies created algorithms that happen to boost videos and news articles of fringe/extreme occurrences that take place here. The mainstream news networks also prioritize content like that, for the same reason: It’s very profitable. Boring news/content just doesn’t make much money.

People who have never visited the US seem to have a very distorted understanding of what everyday life is like here. We display a pretty embarrassing caricature of our country for the world to see.

And to make things even more embarrassing, we made our government ridiculous, and made our politics become pop culture (yet also very tribal) over the last ~15 years.

🤔 I’m not sure that answers the question. So… You don’t know of any imminent plans to use the Selective Service to force people to invade those countries, correct?

Are there plans to force people to join the military and participate in those invasions? AFAIK, the US hasn’t drafted people since the Vietnam war (>50 years ago), so that seems like a pretty extreme move

🤔 I think I’d try to avoid staying in a hotel with no bathroom doors. Sounds like a prison cell

It’s interesting how often I see memes here that require knowing so much non-obvious context to understand.

Anyway, that sounds like a really cool art installation. Anyone know the name of it?

This text doesn’t make sense, right?

He pays them?

It’s also interesting that it has made somewhat of a comeback after some newer technologies have faded away

Ohhh I see. I suppose it’s all about the setting. For some reason I was imagining people wearing them like a fashion statement or something 🤦🏻‍♂️

🤔 I don’t think I’ve seen a bandage on anyone’s ear in my area (at least not in any recent years), and there’s no shortage of MAGA people here. Where was this happening? It sounds like it would have been funny lol