I remember in the late 80s and early 90s multiple kids were killed in the US over their shoes. Usually by people they knew.
When the designer luxury worship culture gets so bad that kids are killing each other over attaining it.. something major has to change.
Solution is to raise minimum wage, increase social support, and raise the poorest up out of poverty. These killings are incredibly rare in the rest of the developed world.
But thanks mostly to conservatives we know that this hasn't happened in the US, and kids who live in borderline poverty are still killing people for their designer sneakers. The only thing that's changed in 30 years is the brands.
Food delivery apps (Uber eats, Deliveroo, Menulog, etc) are just another silicon valley scam 'fixing' a problem that did not exist.
The restaurants get stung for ~30%, yet are pressured to have a presence on the apps lest they lower thier market prescence, the gig worker delivery drivers get paid poorly and have no benefits, and ultimately the costs get shoveled onto the consumer impacting the highest year on year increases in fast food on record.
Opt out. Buy from places that have their own delivery service. Actually walk or drive or public transport to the restaurant and eat out - no waste from the delivery containers. Fuck the tech bros, we had fast food and delivery working just fine before their shitty apps arrived.
Zionist is an explicit term with an explicit meaning, not a euphemism or dogwhistle.
Zionism is an organised ethnocultural nationalist movement for the creation of a Jewish state through the complete colonization of the Palestinian state. The term "Zionist" was explicitly created by Jews - not anyone anti-Judeic or anti-Semitic. See for example the First Zionist Congress created by Theodor Herzl.
Zionism is a political movement, not a religious or race.
Nobody cares much nowadays for hearing the lie that to be anti-Zionist is the same as being anti-Semitic, because it's a lie told to deflect any criticism of Zionist politicians and the Israeli government.
Article author doesn't actually elaborate on what they mean precisely by "cut them loose" but from context it seems to be cut off all their federal funding.
Not even sure how you'd do that to be honest - even Trump's admin has struggled to legally withhold federal funds from states he hates, the funding gets pushed through in the end by legal action. So you wanna out-crime Trump? Dumb article.
If the author wants to make bold demands then along with that comes the requirement of suggesting how to achieve them, else it's just performative whining.
Depends if it's a young tech coming up to fix their computer, or an older tech coming up to elaborate what the recent Capex request is for, because it just takes to damn long to write in email.
The NDIS scam claims are far overstated from what I understand speaking to people in the system.
The biggest scam recently was the payouts to businesses during Covid. Just to scratch the surface for example we paid $13bil to businesses that increased their profits during 2020-21 covid crisis, under the guise of Jobkeeper. I know many businesses that took payment despite knowing they had not had 30% downturn, because there were no clawback methods in the legislation. Free money from the taxpayer.
Should be illegal to use someone else's photograph without permission for the purpose of creating erotic works.
There. Finished. Easy.
If you wanna scribble a charcoal drawing of your crush and upload it to AI to try to make something erotic: legal, not relevant to this law; that's your own art. Same as if you make a painting currently.
If you take someone images off their social media and send it to a sad person's AI to generate porn: illegal.
If they give you permission: legal.
It comes down to consent and what an average person would reasonably expect, and you can be sure that a reasonable person would not expect people to take their images and make Ai porn with it.
High powered lasers don't even have to hit the pilots in the eyes to do damage as they bounce off any reflective or semi-reflective surfaces in the cabin or windows and still enter the eyes with high enough energy to cause effect. Military lasers can be powerful enough that a very short burst does permanent damage to the retina even from hundreds of metres away. Laser weapons should be in the same category as mustard and sarin gas - a warcrime, but instead.. all major powers are developing them.
Regular military flyovers of Taiwan airspace, regular "missile tests" that land near them in their waters or fly over their airspace.. Constant "coastguard" vessels travelling down to ram, bully and occasionally shoot at literally all of their southern neighbors (Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc)... an unannounced Navy exercise recently with a three-ship grouping that went all the way down to Australian and NZ waters (economic zone) and then performed live fire activities with no warning to anyone in the area.
These are just the recent aggressive trolling cunt behaviours I recall of the top of my head.
Oh true, that was overstated based on a graph I misread. I've corrected my comment. Weird of you to lose your shit over one datapoint in a huge comment tho.
I look forward to watching the AI bubble pop, it'll be great seeing a lot of people who think they're really smart get a reality check.
I remember in the late 80s and early 90s multiple kids were killed in the US over their shoes. Usually by people they knew.
When the designer luxury worship culture gets so bad that kids are killing each other over attaining it.. something major has to change.
Solution is to raise minimum wage, increase social support, and raise the poorest up out of poverty. These killings are incredibly rare in the rest of the developed world.
But thanks mostly to conservatives we know that this hasn't happened in the US, and kids who live in borderline poverty are still killing people for their designer sneakers. The only thing that's changed in 30 years is the brands.