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The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don’t drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.

To be honest I don't think this is a specific problem of Ireland, outside the urban centers the only option to move is to drive. There is not a critical mass for a public transportation system, expecially if you need to connect many small (< 20k people) urban centers.

That would be stupid, but that a bicyclists use a high visibility jacket is not, too many time on the road (in Italy, but I suppose everywhere else) you cross bicyclists at night or late evening that are basically invisible until the last moment: no light, wear black clothes (and often in the wrong direction).

True, maybe also the road should be better illuminated, but that a bicyclists make himself visible is not a stupid idea.

Yes, FOSS has always been political, just not the politics Debian dipped itself.

That's can be true and it is ok.

But from the "don't buy the bullshit" to "be a decent worker" there is a very big difference.

How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?

The same way a bulb end up in someone ass...

Children were never eating tide pods either.

Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.

But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.

Not the stores don't use this trick during sales... This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else...

While you are rigth, it is not about that.

Tha article point out that they were able to fix an issue in mere six weeks. But the point is that the other brand they cited would have not done the mistake in the first place.

So yes, they could be faster and more flexible, but that speed and flexibility comes with a price.

more accurate.

Until it’s not…then what. Who’s liable? Google…Amazon …Microsoft …chatgpt… Look, I like ai because it’s fun to make stupid memes and pictures without any effort but I do not trust this nonsense to do ANYTHING with accuracy especially my medical.

The doctor who review the case, maybe ?
In some cases the AI can effectively "see" things a doctor can miss and direct him to check for a particular disease. Even if the AI is only able to rule out some cases it would be usefull.

It is interesting that you are not answering my point... Good work

On both sides of what? What are you even talking about?

The misogynist and the peope who think to have some special right just because they are from $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY

And what other media, exactly, is providing not only a public mouthpiece to, but also driving steady streams of traffic directly toward, unabashed misogynists and bigots? I’ll wait… 🙄

TV for one, or you are saying that channels like Fo New are harmless ?
But more generally every media is suitable to spread misinformation, some better than other, and I agree that currently social media are better at the "work", but it is not that before social media we have not misinformations, misogyny and violent extremism.

Social media is only a big resonance chamber for the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that cry louder (and I am sure that you would understand why if you were not blinded by hate for tech companies) and they are getting more credit than they deserve.

To make you understand a little better (I hope) look at all the "go woke, go broke" rethoric. It is obvious that if you make a product following the demands of, say, 5% of the potential audience you cannot expect more than 5% of the potential audience like the product (ok, maybe a little more) and everyone who can think understand this.

But no, the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY must blame the social media if the product bomb, when often not even the majority of $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that demanded the product "use" it (be a movie, a game or whatever else) and then start to call else (the remaining 95% of the audience) misogynist and everything else just becasue they don't like what $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY like.

You can definitely take your dogwhistles and white supremacist apologism and fuck right off with it tho 😁

Probably better than to discuss with you about this.

I think that the only point you can hold against the big tech is that they are profiting from it. They provide one platform to disseminate but it is not that suche ideas need a social network to spread. Hitler had not social networks and like him every war/discrimination act against one group or another up until, say, 20 years ago did not need a social network.

We can agree that maybe a social network is easier and the dissemination is faster, but in itself a social network is not strictly needed.

You want to fix the problem ? Fix the people on both sides, it is the only option

What happens if someone is illegitimately removed from this database?

That the someone cannot vote. But you can design system resilient to this.

How can you show whether it was a glitch, or deliberate?

Paper trail.

How do you know if the information they have about you is even right, or get it changed if you need to?

You check it. I mean, when I ask for a document I expect to receive it. And I check if it is correct, after all human error can happen anyway.

Where’s the accountability?

Every document from the state (any level) I have has a signature that indicate who is ultimately accountable for it.

Part of Trump’s grand plan is to make federal elections span only a single day.

Don't see the problem. For years in Italy elections were a one day only events (normally a Sunday) and everything worked fine.

So maybe you check your status the day before and everything is fine, but the day of voting a glitch in the system says it can’t verify your citizenship. That’s it! No votes for you this year!

There are solutions since the system need to be resilient, note that the glitch could be even not "wanted" so while you can think that $HATED_CANDIDATE want to keep his opponents away from the voting, in the same way $HATED_CANDIDATE want to make sure that his supporters can vote.

Not to demoralize you, but it seems a pretty stupid solution. First because you need to implement it world wide to hope to have some effect and second simply because this way nobody will ever try to go over the limit so your

This would absolutely fund UBI, and climate change solutions.

will get exactly 0 funds. So the guy that have 100.000.000 $ in personal wealth is still rich and you don't have any other resource for your UBI or whatever thing you want to do with them.

It is what is happening here were we have a lower limit to pay taxes, if you earn less than that you don't pay taxes (or a very small amount) and people simply avoid to go over the limit. BTW, the limit was introduced exactly with a similar reasoning, even if for different reasons.

At least formally, with US companies there are agreements that the data on european citizen need to stay in EU, with China no

It is my memory at fault or it was discovered, various times, that Google (and all the others obviously) tracked people also when they opted out ?

What are they so afraid of?

The drug lord or mafia boss that sends killers to eliminate their families ?

The police yes, but he is speaking about a convicted criminal that want revenge when he get out of jail. Or even without getting out of jail, sending some of his accomplices to do the job.

Good that there’s an opt-out.

A supposed opt-out