extant

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[–] extant 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

People who grow it outside the US and want to profit off selling it in the US is who is smuggling it. Why is it even still worth doing with legalized weed, simple it's cheap to grow so it can be sold for a low price that legal markets don't want to give up their high profit margins and governments who tax the legal sales are percentage based so they have no incentive to encourage lower prices and thus the illegal market is still profitable.

[–] extant 8 points 8 months ago

And you know the cars aren't going to stop generating the data either for when they decide they want it.

[–] extant 1 points 8 months ago

Your qualifications are quite impressive, can you tell me more about the potato's and why I shouldn't befriend them?

[–] extant 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I had to really think hard about what happened in 2010 for him to allege such a thing and for the life of me I couldn't think of anything until I realized that we elected a black president in 2008, so perhaps I just didn't watch enough conservative media which presumably was giving it's users a constant barrage of your "under attack" fud.

[–] extant 4 points 8 months ago

More like good news for foreign non-adversarial middlemen who have no problem selling it to those nations for a cut. If you don't prevent the data collection from taking place it will still get passed around.

[–] extant 3 points 8 months ago

My favorite was a rudimentary military scenario where they asked the AI to destroy a target so it just bombs it. Then operator said you can't bomb it because there are civilians. So it opted to kill the operator who applied the limitation and then bomb the target again.

[–] extant 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don't think paying bills is a flex he'd understand, in fact he probably thinks anyone that doesn't cheat the system is a fool.

[–] extant 1 points 8 months ago
[–] extant 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I too would like to know of any multi room audio setups that aren't absurdly expensive for a speaker.

[–] extant 2 points 8 months ago

Currently each steam account is given a unique steam id number which is how most steam games identify the player and when you family share you are just associating that new steamid with your steamid so you can share certain purchases with if the developer allows it. Since each account is unique if I ban one it doesn't ban the other. In the past you could use the steam public web API to query a steamid to see if it was a family shared and it would respond with the parent account and you could compare that to your ban list and then ban the new account. A few years ago steam removed that capability for privacy protection and moved it to the game developers partner only access so a game developer could implement that same check but very few did and older or abandoned games are rife with cheaters now.

Now it would steam they are automagically making that check now or instead of a steam id it's a family id, I have no idea but if it prevents account whack-a-mole and brings back automation I'm all for it.

[–] extant 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It won't go away unless the company decides to just ban Americans from using it, they are only banning it in hopes the company will sell the rights to the highest bidder which is going to be one of the two political mouthpieces so they can use it as a propaganda tool since the younger generations don't use their current propaganda outlets. If this had been about protecting Americans they would have written legislation that does exactly thatfrom the next company to come along.

[–] extant 2 points 8 months ago

How many wealthy corporations or oligarchs are chomping at the bit hoping that TikTok sells instead of just blocking the country? Surely that decision didn't incentivise their decision to ban this specific software instead of writing legislation that would protect Americans?

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