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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

The victim's statement here ends with an oddly volunteered tangent and specific praise of driverless vehicles, before it finally takes an eerie turn in the last sentence...

"...With that said, I think the Human Factor in this issue is going to be a lot harder to solve than anything else.” ....FREEZE CITIZEN!

I do hope she's okay, and those two folks seem to be clowns, but this thing also all reads as likely guerilla marketing for Waymo - who the article informs me, in a very capitalism-friendly turn of events, that they now have their service open to the public in 3 cities, cars have a safety feature that checked in with her multiple times and they "rewarded" her with an extra ride. It's a light enough "crime", with a very engineered feeling and enough to feel "real" while providing ready fodder for morning radio talk shows, Jimmy Fallon and good morning America talking heads to drone on about this morning across America as time filler that quietly advertises waymo "saving" a person from the scary outside world.

Note: Also, was very funny that throughout drafting my comment here "waymo" was constantly being autocorrected to "say no" :)

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Competitive failure race between trump and musk.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

A.k.a. Twitter and the elon filtering moment

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ghoulish non-lawyer and cousin fucker, rudy guilianni farted on a woman in court.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"We're going to auction off this poison, so then other people will own that poison. The new owner will be the type of person very motivated to spend a significant amount of money on poison."

I get that the money is needed for restitution, but some things just need to be encased in concrete and blasted into the earth's core. They need to go get Disney's IP lawyers so that they can keep the brand alive forever, only to never be used again by anyone.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Man... That land was pristine too... Wild horses used to roam free there in the Texas moonlight. I remember how strongly it reinforced my consumer opinion of cards against humanity - I knew that as long as they kept maintaining that parcel, I could freely buy their products. If spacex is allowed to just invade that land unchecked though, and justice isn't restored to CAH, I imagine that would impact my potential future purchasing potential by at least $1,000,000... And that's only speaking for me. I imagine at least 100,000 of you feel the same as I do, I think damages should asking for that amount and make CAH whole again considering their lost earning potential. Those unrealized profits were callously stolen by musk.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Republican appointed judge - put it in the FUCKING headline. Stop pretending that the idea of an impartial judiciary is possible today. The context matters.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Wasn't talking IP, meant more generally like how orgs like EA and Activision are the go to assholes in gaming, generally. Feel like I don't hear about Nintendo in the more meaningful (In my opinion) microtransactions, mass layoffs, ridiculous price increases, attempts to kill physical media optionality, etc conversations...

As long as IP is the law we live under, I don't really mind them enforcing that part. I think it was a bit lazy for palworld to blatantly ripoff Pokemon when they could be creative and make their own character universe. If you're mad at IP law, go after your reps in government.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"They are eating throw pillows and ottomans!"

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Trump and vance just destroyed a whole quiet town... And in the couch fucker's own state? Really fucked the couch on this one. Because he's a couch fucker. And I don't mean that figuratively, he literally has sex with innocent non-consenting couches.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean, Nintendo isn't typically the bad guy though, right? And palworld is a pretty clear like 1:1 rip, so....

I mean, good to challenge the "big" guy generally, but wrong target here specifically and weak case, right?

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it. “What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying. Contacted by the New York Post, Wilson denied bringing her two daughters on trips or encouraging staff members to bring their children. Wilson called the special commissioner’s probe “a witch hunt.”

Queens. The same place that gave the world donald trump.

I haven't been, but Queens sounds like America's festering asshole, with little demons crawling out of it? Can anyone with first hand experiences there elaborate?

 

So obviously we're all on Lemmy for a complicated combination of reasons, but we all likely share some common ground, namely...

  • need for privacy
  • need to own/control/access the data we produce
  • healthy skepticism about the trustworthiness of for-profit corporations, in general

So if we don't want meta to know even innocuous things; like how many times/when we message our grandma, and we don't google to know when we're searching for remedies to a rash, and we don't want reddit to... Well we just don't want reddit - we don't want them to profit from or weaponize that data against us in a myriad ways.

We also don't want them artificially removing features and creating tiered layers of service/value hidden behind a paywall (I understand this is very present in the some of the commercially available DNA services).

So that brings me to DNA testing services. Since they started to emerge in the mainstream they were immediately an interesting, exciting novelty and I also knew it was data I wouldn't feel safe trusting with a for-profit org - with broken systems like law enforcement and health insurers on speed dial and just salivating for the goodies they collect.

So all that considered, any groups that provide this type of service that you do trust/use, and why?

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