You’re missing the point, nobody is talking about trusting these companies.

You can tell if a connection is encrypted end to end or not. And if your paying for that service you can sue if you aren’t receiving what your paying for.

In digital security nobody relies on trust if they can help it. And security matters if you want to keep a competitive edge on your competition, so even shitty companies care about that.

I’m right there with you. However, even Nazis are human.

In fact, especially Nazis are human; it takes a human to be that evil. But don’t pretend they’re anything less than typical, this is why you have to engage with them, you can’t write them off worthless scum and pretend they don’t exist or matter, there’s too many of them for that. The only way to beat them is to absorb them back into reasonable society. It’s a shitload of work, and you just have to keep at it until their ideologies are once again a fringe subculture.

The idea that you have anything besides flesh and blood in common with the zombie MAGAts overrunning this planet is dangerously naive.

This is exactly the kind of othering he was just fucking talking about! Like seriously, do you hear yourself? It’s literally dehumanizing language. You can’t fight bigotry by out-bigoting everyone else.

Anyway, I don’t want to see it in my communities, it’s deeply unhelpful.

I have significant doubts about this “any Tesla as robotaxi” idea at least if you’re referring to Musk’s empty promises about how you could make money off your own Tesla while not using it.

Oh man, I have serious doubts about that! But that’s what they’ve claimed they want to do. And I can see the profit motive there, so I have no doubt they’ll try. I’m not saying it’ll work.

I mean, there’s no problem here. In fact, I think it’s super sensible to make this a 2 seater.

Clearly their plan is ultimately for this robotaxi service to be something you can run on any Tesla car. Meaning that the majority of cars on the service will be 5 seaters.

On the other hand, I’d bet anything that the vast majority of rides requested are for a single rider. So if you’re going to make a vehicle specifically to be the optimal car for this purpose, it should definitely be a 2 seater. Smaller, lighter, better mileage, cheaper. If you need to order a ride for more people, a different car can do that and there are more of those available anyway.

The only gripe i have, is that this really could have been a 3 seater. Generally cars have adjustable front seats because the driver needs to be able to reach the pedals comfortably. But since that isn’t an issue here, it would have made a lot of sense to make it a bench seat just like most cars have in the back. Then again, the car does look quite small, so perhaps making it a 2 seater helped them constrain the size a little bit more.

Edit: Oh yeah, don’t refute the post, just down vote it, that’s a sane and well adjusted thing to do. I mean, I’m not even saying anything controversial…

Be careful, that sounds like a form of harassment and Sony may take action against you!

unreasonable demands for apologies

You’re gonna have to explain that one. How is demanding an apology unreasonable? I think you just dug yourself deeper into the wrong side of this.

Oh no, I’m from the US, East Coast. I’ve literally never heard anyone say rental store. But that’s fine, doesn’t really matter.

You could still be right, it would probably be possible to convince a judge that this is just common usage. That said, it might be worth trying anyway. You never get any change if you don’t try. And we have the slight advantage of being right.

(“hey, let’s go to the video store tonight and rent a movie”)

Well that’s interesting. I’ve never actually heard someone call it that. I mean, I get your point, but actually, if anything I think people tended to call it the rental shop.

But then, even at video rental places they at least did also sell things, movies and candy. So even if they did call themselves a store, those rental places would actually qualify more as a store than a digital content distributor would.

Actually this is an alright solution.

They should be forced to change the name of their platform if they want to keep using it. They should be barred from using the term “store”.

They can either continue their business model as is, (as “PlayStation Leasing”) or they can change their policy to include full ownership of games and the right to transfer the games they own to other accounts.

But they don’t get to call it a “store” or use words like “buy” or “sale” if that’s not what they’re actually offering.

Facts.

We would have to stop deporting foreigners for that to work. Also, if everyone doing business with the US moved there, all his precious tariff income would drop to 0.

I know nobody here needs to be convinced of this, but this is just the absolute dumbest thing he’s said in a while…

I recently read somewhere that the total new pollution caused by data centers (more specifically, by the generation of the electricity they require) is now already significantly higher than the total pollution that has been avoided by all EVs.

Well I’d love to see that source. I do care about actually understanding the relative carbon footprints of these industries. You can’t make informed decisions without being informed, so that matters to me.

But that said, the EV industry desperately needed a kickstart, and it wasn’t happening prior to Tesla. You can actually attribute that move to electric to Tesla, as other car companies felt they needed to compete with them or be left behind.

On the other hand, you can’t attribute all AI data centers to Elon musk, he’s not responsible for AI in general. It only really makes sense to blame them for the percentage of carbon emissions generated by xAI. I’m having trouble finding any source to pinpoint what percentage that might be, but it’s very likely that xAI makes up for less than 10% of the global AI data center power consumption, probably much less.

Ah, rather than meaningful data, you want anecdotal data points.

I understand now.

Australia makes up 1.7% of the English speaking world, so you can assume it directly affects that percentage of Lemmy users (when posting in English).

I would argue everybody has benefited from the electric car revolution.

Air quality is better with more EVs. Before Tesla, EVs we’re actively being suppressed by big oil companies, auto companies were being discouraged and disincentivised to make them.

But that’s a different company from SpaceX, if the question is how has SpaceX made life better? It’s probably a lot harder to find positives there. But there are some things that were definitely good. If not for the crew dragon we wouldn’t have had a way to continue supplying the ISS, we almost certainly would have had to deorbit it years ago if the falcon 9 never flew (And in fact there were official plans to do exactly that).

Certainly some people have broadband through starlink in places where it was never an option before. I remember when I first went from dialup to cable Internet, it made my life better.

I’m not saying musk is a good guy, just that his companies have had a lot of effects, some of them positive.

You wouldn’t like that going the other direction, if every time you were quoted it came with an editorial preface, perhaps one you disagree with.

Ok yeah, having admittedly only read the headline, my first thoughts were “this doesn’t seem that unusual”. They’re not the only military to do this kind of recruiting either. Hell, the US army actually made a videogame.

If you say so