Th4tGuyII

Problem is its not actually about the children. As always they’re the excuse. The UK Government will stoop to almost any excuse possible to give itself more surveillance powers - it took 1984 as a goal rather than a warning.

Well that’s gross. I’m just thankful you have to explicitly opt into this for now, cause I’m staying the fuck away

… And both things cannot be true because why?

China is the bad guy in this instance because they’re the ones threatening the sovereignty of another country.

Nobody says it can’t be the US. I certainly think the US’s actions are deplorable when it comes to both Gaza and Iran. You need only check my comment history.

If I were Taiwan, I’d make sure to have a deadman’s switch on TSMC - so if China every tried to take it, the whole thing would suddenly become very worthless to them.

And I’d make sure everybody in the room could hear that, so the world knows what they’d be losing if China ever went for it.

In the latest episode of Trump leaving his allies out to dry, it looks like Trump is trying to trade Taiwan to China for Somethingᵀᴹ

I genuinely feel terrible for Taiwan that they’re stuck in this horrid position of being constantly threatened by China for merely existing, and essentially having to bet on the global value of TSMC to keep the otherwise apathetic US around.

It shouldn’t have to be that way, and its abhorrent that it is.

I’m thankful that the EU managed to (mostly) step in for Ukraine, but Taiwan is simply too far away for Europe to properly defend - so if the US doesn’t stand up, I doubt anybody will.

By that calculation, even on the lower end of only losing $20 billion that’d still be 10 years before it’d cost them anymore than this rancid business decision did.

They’re so determined to not negotiate with the union that they’d rather throw away the shareholder’s money than give it to workers… And that’s just this scheduled strike. If talks fail again, I bet you there will be more to come.

Samsung might have a difficult time explaining that one at their shareholder presentation next year.

What?! A soulless megacorporation pocketed refunds for tariffs that they never actually paid (because they forced the end user to eat the cost)??

I seriously hope this lawsuit works, because it’d set one hell of a precedent for future lawsuits.

Probably - because the amount of money they’re about to lose was probably less than what actually negotiating with the union would’ve cost them

Weirdly enough there’s a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won’t be done.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, daily losses could approach 3 trillion won ($2 billion) if fabrication lines are paused entirely. Professor Kwon Seok-joon at Sungkyunkwan University previously estimated that the 18-day walkout alone would cause 10 trillion to 17 trillion won ($17 billion) in direct losses, while JPMorgan has projected total losses of up to 43 trillion won ($28 billion) when factoring in labor costs and extended production disruption.

Wow. What a huge amount of money to lose just because you won’t pay your highly skilled workers more.

As @[email protected] said, you really have to wonder how much it would cost Samsung to pay their workers more if they’re willing to tank a potentially $20-40 billion loss instead of giving the union what they’re asking for.

A UK government spokesperson said: “UK airlines are clear that they are not currently seeing a shortage of jet or road fuel. We know people value their hard-earned holidays, especially as summer approaches, and we are working closely with industry to keep flights operating and help airlines plan ahead.

This must be the person who responds to the UK Petitions website, as I swear they have literally no reading comprehension - like they’re an obstinent child that absolutely knows better.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that fuel being used while no fuel is coming in will result in a shortage - the idea behind cutting fuel use is to try to delay it long enough that Trump fucks off with operation fuck his ally’s oil supplies.

“While we are not planning to change motorway speed limits, and private aviation accounts for a small proportion of total fuel use, our contingency plans include all options for fuel prioritisation if needed.”

Watch this space, there will be a shortage, holidays will end up being cancelled, and when that happens could someone please throw these words back into the Government’s face. They could’ve tried but chose not to.

This game is so circular as to be ridiculous… Who’s actually making money if everyone’s just passing the same billions of dollars around and around?? At some point something’s gotta give.

Oh, yeah. I’m sure the currently compromised DOJ is totally going to find fault in its own compliance with the law

Is that a good metric??

Isn’t this just stating that you’re letting something with the coding ability of a toddler run amok through your product, having to constantly be bug-fixed by your remaining engineers?

This is exactly what Microsoft started doing, and its so far worked out terribly for them. Loads of their new software updates have had unacceptablely large bugs for even simple things like task manager!

Exactly. It’s not exactly like the right-wing hide their distain for all people of the LGBT spectra.

It’s the classic “but I’m one of the good ones” trope. There’s no such thing, just tokens to be used and tossed away.

No matter how much you try to be a “good one”, you’ll never truly be accepted amongst those who hate your kin. Once you’ve outlived your usefulness, they’ll eat your face just like everyone else.

X argued that if content creators are permitted to sue AI platforms when people use their technology to violate copyright law, the tech companies would “have no choice but to constrain their actions” to avoid the potential liability.

Would’ve been nice to have a win for the average person that didn’t also vicariously benefit AI companies, but that won’t be today.

All of this is fairly obvious to someone not wearing a MAGA hat.

Productivity per person has increased since the 80’s, but wages have not followed - rather they have remained largely stagnant.

As such, the increased profits are instead going into an increasingly small amount of very rich people’s pockets

How did we manage to move almost completely away from Pseudo-random password generation, only to come straight back to it via LLMs again.

People will really just shove these things into anything like they’re a bloody panacea, when really they’re just extremely well-trained parrots.

Honestly I don’t think that would be enough. Some people just can’t put the link between Trump and all this senseless violence together no matter how much it costs them

Who does she think is enabling that?

Trump has literally said that he doesn’t intend to let the DOJ go after any of those bloodthirsty hounds.

He doesn’t want them on a lead, he wants them as a force to weaponise against his dissenters - the more rabid the better, as it makes people more afraid.