Social media and news is overwhelmingly controlled or otherwise influenced/flooded by the right or those acting on their behalf.

Nothing is going to change until there are real punitive measures that are enforced as well as regulatory changes.

To drive while using one’s cellphone is to risk killing other people around you. And the punishment for doing such is usually only a couple hundred dollars, assuming you are even pulled over in the first place.

That fine needs a few more 0’s as well as the nullification of ones licence. Once people understand that getting caught while driving on the phone will financially ruin them then they might stop and think before doing it.

Ehhhh I see people with Nitro-included cosmetics but not a lot that have the individually-purchased cosmetics. They exist, sure, but not even close to as many.

I mod a server with 40,000 users and I’m scrolling through the member list as I type this. Majority are either unsubbed accounts or they have the cheap basic Nitro. A lot of the cosmetics I am seeing are the free ones they’ve given away in recent events. Not many users have full Nitro and have their profiles all decked out with additional cosmetics.

They truly have zero clue how users actually use their software. Not a single person is going to use this just like every other stupid gimmick feature they’ve added in the past and then promptly removed.

You’re not wrong, but that is not the point I was making.

Adblocking YouTube is 100% the best option. I agree there. But if someone does want to pay for membership then YouTube is, by far, the best deal. Their competitors are absolutely horrendous.

And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads. Many of the competitors have paid options that still include ads.

Whether or not Premium is worth it is another debate entirely, but the fact of the matter is that it is simply a better deal compared to other streaming services.

Don’t forget the cost and time investment in getting your pilots licence.

Also there is no way this is going to be legal to drive on public roads in most countries - just look at the massive tail boom that sticks out. This is just a fancy aircraft for people that want an overcomplicated Cessna.

I’m sure they will. It’s Microsoft, so I’d expect nothing less than that.

Don’t get me wrong - this is awful and is just another misstep in a long line of missteps by Microsoft.

But I also can’t help but chuckle at this. It is so clear that “AI” as it has been developed today is hitting a peak of what it can do. These corporations are desperate to shove it in every product they possibly can to drive sales and valuations to make shareholders wet and yet the only things they ever advertise AI being capable of are crap like summaries, background removal, background insertion, grammar/typo checking, list making, web searching, etc. Most of it being crap that I have never once heard of a person being even remotely interested in… and why would they be? Why would someone want to edit their photos to add a different sky, new people, etc to create memories that never happened?

Sorry, but I have to say it. What the heck does this have to do with technology? This is just US politics again.

And then sending those “perfect” children off to die in their many wars.

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It isn’t. Not yet, at least.

Most Americans still have jobs, can afford food, can find food, and have their cars and homes. Some have lost some of the former, it’s true, but not enough to ignite any real change.

Imagine a scenario of Trump enacting martial law and beginning to mass arrest and imprison US citizens in detention camps. Not immigrants, refugees, or tourists - actual US citizens taken from their homes. Imagine the US government gathering troops on the Canadian border. Imagine the government disappearing members of the Democrat party. Imagine the government enacting a China-styled internet blockade.

Those are the things that will likely spark some kind of call for change.

The guaranteed abuse of this technology far FAR outweighs the benefits, imo.

A better solution to combat those disorders would be to prevent their formation in the first place with early detection and improved medical sciences and procedures.

The human brain is one of the last places we have left that isn’t entirely owned and controlled by some corporation or state agency. I do not trust any government to regulate it properly and I do not trust a single corporation to develop it with good intentions. It would be abused instantly as shareholders pitch tents in their pants over selling it to law enforcement and advertisers.

Totally unsurprising. Calgary is a car-centric urban sprawl of the worst sort. Entire urban districts are completely cut off and surrounded by either large stroads or actual highways. There are some houses near my grandparents place that literally live on a highway exit ramp. My sister came with us once while we were visiting and I took her for a drive around the city - she was in awe at how poorly planned the city is, and we are both from Vancouver which is a circus even on the best days.

$1mil isn’t even going to make a dent in this. Not even make a scratch. It won’t even pay for 1/8th of the initial investigation to determine where to best place the scratch. Calgary has sunk billions into horrible urban planning decisions and they continue to do so every day. That entire city is one giant web of stroads.

One really nice thing to come out of this election is that Joly is sticking around. Her personality and handling of the Trump admin has been fantastic.

The general populace isn’t going to switch to Linux. They’re just not.

The path of least resistance is to continue using Win10

I’ve always thought of fat-tire bikes as being the Dodge Ram pickups of the bicycle world. They absolutely have their place and their uses but a lot of people get them because they look cool and “tough”.

The amount of fatbikes I see in my city, being ridden on on the road and paved paths, is mindboggling. Even more mindboggling is the incredible road noise coming from their tires as I pass them as their riders struggle to move the damn things without high levels of electric assist. I have also seen several riders fall off their fatbikes as they try to take sharp corners.

There is a place for fatbikes but I don’t think a busy urban city is that place.

Affinity Photo is an excellent Photoshop alternative. I switched a while ago and have used it for all of my major projects since.

This is by design. Decades of eroding education and critical thinking have produced a populace that is highly ignorant and extremely easy to manipulate.

There is a reason why attacking education is the first thing any right-wing government does.