Plot twist: His smart fridge is running an AI girlfriend he has fallen in love with

The only thing special about Is Lemmy is it hasn’t attracted the masses yet. People love to complain there is not enough people here, but coming from Reddit, Dig, Facebook, Myspace, etc I can say more people will just make this place worse.

There is plenty of love but also plenty of hate. There is a reason politics and religion discussion are banned in bars.

As always your take is garbage, but that is the result of GIGO. You are a product of what you see and interact with. You can’t rise above the quagmire of shit we are all in, and that is the point. You are a product of what you are around and putting on the blinders does not help.

We are all stuck in this together, we can’t exist without each other. People much greater than me have already laid all this out. Take a break, step back, and make some room to breathe. We are only here for a short time and the only thing that you can truly moderate is your life for brief moments.

The world is going to take you for a ride whether you like it or not. You will be influenced whether you like it or not. Your life will come crashing down through no fault of your own. Take what little control you have and run with it. Here is wishing a little bit of peace and happiness in your life, good luck and goodbye.

Propaganda works yo, you ain’t changing minds yourself. A swell of like minded people could turn some heads, but without proper amplification this isn’t going to happen either. To put it perfectly, those in charge of our media have us over a barrel.

This one is nothing new though and has been happening since the inception of the US and before it in other countries. Separating fact from fiction, reality from propaganda, objective reality from the one we have constructed in our head is an incredible undertaking. It takes a lifetime to do this and no one cares if you accomplish it.

Unfortunately, it is too late. They don’t need your specific genetic code to extrapolate about you, just the code of one of your relatives who wanted to find out their heritage for fun.

Without serious privacy laws we will be used and abused by corporations, get ready to experience Gattaca in real life.

I am thinking the Alien with his mini mouth sticking out. But yes, the predator looks fine as well.

Great work! Somehow I feel like it would look better reversed though with the alien at the table and two predator chicks.

The most obvious example would be the recent antitrust litigation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2023)

But I think that falls into fighting to continue their terrible business practices.

The second is Google refusing warrants due to inadequacies. Google has stated they no longer respond to geofencing warrants although I am having a hard time finding data to back up this statement.

The third is a couple different cases involving private parties and state governments suing Google over violating privacy and illegally collecting data. Once again though, this probably falls under you definition of terrible business practices.

The fourth is Google’s transparency reports that expose request from the government. They have certainly received government pushback from this but I can’t really quantify this in any meaningful way.

Google should show what they think is right, stop giving them a free pass just because you want to. Companies have long resisted decisions issued by governments. Google has gone to court to fight many times but this does not even rise to that level.

The fact is this is the Gulf of Mexico and we should not be renaming bodies of water on someone’s racist whims. We may just have to respectfully disagree here.

Google is wrong here and no one is forcing them to do anything. They are now part of the problem along with anyone else conceding to this madman.

I do agree Aotus is the source, but everyone who goes along with it shares the blame and more importantly the shame.

So your entire point is discredited and all you can do is point fingers. By having even an ounce of self respect and just saying no would help end all this. Google and Apple are not beholden to this administration unless they want to be.

By your logic we should all load ourselves onto the trains willingly because they said so and, after all, we don’t want to get “political”

The real solution is to resist and not roll over. Pretending that act is anything other than resignation is denying the truth of what is happening.

Content creators are not protected by copyright unless they have anywhere between $50k-300k and months of their time to waste an litigation.

The average cost for a federal copyright case is $278,000. Let’s stop pretending this is for the little guy.

Most importantly you are only looking at the utility of Intellectual property to make money. Art and science exist outside this realm for thousands of years without it.

We are to sacrifice the way science and art have always worked so supposedly content creators can make money. If this is your argument I will have to take a hard pass.

Intellectual property are rights for the rich. A perversion of science and art used to commercialize our culture. Creating artificial scarcity while denying that all science and art are built from copying and iterative development.

We could abolish it completely and it would cause an explosion of creativity and innovation like we have never seen before.

I mean their logo is a fucking red target. Not exactly what I think of when I hear “gay friendly”.

I am sure he is very smart about a lot of things. Unfortunately US politics are not one of those things. I also suspect he is not that good at business considering he just alienated a lot of his customers.

There is a certain logic to this. I tend to agree that I would like to know. I also think I would probably find out I would have to be self sufficient if I truly did not want to give to bad actors.

Whether you agree with my character or not what I said was accurate for any business person/enterprise. It is really not beneficial and increases risk unnecessarily.

No, he should stay out of either side because business is about making money. I don’t want to know what politics you support. I don’t care for politicizing everything. It is a fucking turn off.

You want my money, do your job, sell me your product, give me your service, but don’t talk to me about your hot takes on politics. Also religion as well. I and many many other people don’t want to hear it.

Yes I was stupid to bring up the fact you would have to ignore that for the last fifty years the Republican party has been on the same trajectory. This is in reference to the Southern Strategy and it is the driving force behind their party to this day.

This fucking tard burger says there has been a change in the last ten. That the sides have flipped and now Republicans represent the little guy.

What I said was an obviously sarcastic comment because this foreigner has no fucking clue about what is going on politically in the US.

As I already said. In order to believe what Andy and company have said you would have to ignore the last 50 years of the Republican party and also be lobotomized.

He should have just stayed the fuck out of Americans politics being a provider of a secure service that many Americans of all political persuasions use.

He is an idiot who cost his company business. The only spin is trying to downplay it at this point. The consequences are lost profits.

Sounds like someone is getting primed…