Most people here: Yes, I bought an advertiser’s device, hooked up in a million ways to that advertiser’s services, who’s well known for monitoring every aspect of the life of every person they can, but how dare they monitor this part?

“No give, only take“ - stack overflow’s license.

All of it, they’re human estimates.

I’m not sure it’s a winning argument that’s all.

Most people aren’t political if they don’t have to be, the only time they think of politics when they have to vote or something is taken from them.

To call them the opposite of what you are just because they feel like they are unsure because they haven’t thought about it as a way to shame them into your position is to lose them and play into your opposition’s hands - “these crazy people are calling you Nazis/Communists”.

Two sides can play the centrist card to grab the unsure while driving a different agenda - I don’t see what’s stopping the left.

Eg Most people are not aware of how much damage France is doing in west Africa through proxy colonialism - if you ask them they’ll probably shrug. If you ask them to vote on it they’ll pick someone that seems somewhere in the middle. Are they colonialist oppressors? Seems like a far fetch.

Now try to strong arm them into a position, how do you think it’s going to go?

I’m not trying to cause or win an argument, I’ll stop here.

Seems a bit suspect and authoritarian…

Does it work in reverse? If not, why not?

My first thought was, that’s just GWB’s “if you are not with us you are against us”, with different words.

Indeed - but that’s not the central issue here.

Traffic casualties, like running a reverse casino and deciding which games to include, are a matter of statistics.

Something that will kill you 9 times / 10 vs 4/10 will simply cause less deaths, the same for lesser injuries, less cost on society in general.

I don’t see the value of equivocating the two by ignoring their statistics.

It seems to me that so long as a human adds a competitive edge to a product above and beyond to what the ai will produce nothing much will change other than some companies going bust after they made the mistake of firing people only to produce Gordian knots of slop that need to be torn down to be fixed. Productivity might increase for some sectors but it will also increase for their competitors- so where’s the competitive advantage? In the talent, again.

Basic physics says that lighter vehicles have less inertia, that carries less force, that stops faster and causes less damage. Let alone the host of other benefits of smaller cars, environmental, psychological, societal etc.

Fascinating, even if a gruesome thought if you reverse the analogy.

The system is geared towards negative presumption of the recent past even as it glorifies and reveres the long past (ancient philosophers and religious figures).

Just in case most of us figure out that anything we think of as new or intractable problems are things that we knew about and were deliberately ignored or actively campaigned against by the same forces that do it now.

It seems to me that the US is unfortunately too “-ist” to elect AOC.

Greece banned golden dawn as a criminal organisation and while a lot of members splintered into other parties it was overall a success in nearly removing all their influence as a political organisation from Greek politics - so, overall banning the fascist party, at least in one instance, worked.

I mean but he also told them that others would pay for the tariffs and that prices would fall from day one. You take the whole incoherent rumbling and you could credibly argue that that they didn’t vote for one part of it but for all of it - an all or nothing proposition.

PowerPDF or Kofax or whatever it’s called now was very close to parity if not exceed functionality for most office jobs.

Filing this under “Choice openings for certain success”

I doubt it would be a problem for Australia where 30% of the population is foreign born.

Also, having been to a hospital a few times during the last year for friends and relatives I’m pretty sure more than 60% of doctors were not white.

And either way, even if a small portion of the population would choose to avoid the imported specialists, their mere presence in the marketplace and being used by the vast number of people that don’t care would lower the prices for everyone.

The real problem is the choke hold the doctors’ lobby has on the numbers of specialists.

As a contrast, Australia has 1440 specialists per million people while Greece has 2700 per million. No other profession in Australia is insulated from competition as much as doctors.

I bet you if you told any doctor in Europe they could earn 1/5th of what the doctors here are earning they’d fall over themselves to come to Australia.

We’re importing low wage workers like they’re going out of fashion let’s open the floodgates in Universities and hospitals and create and import specialists instead with the same tempo.

There’s something obscenely wrong here when we talk about costs of healthcare and no political party raises the central issue.

It’s all fun and games until Hansel and Gretel show up at your elderly grandmother’s sugarcrete house.

Not fruit and veg, but frozen sliced bread ftw.

It seems a bit like a fool’s errand to buy a phone running an advertiser’s OS and then try to stop it from tracking you.