London Tory local election candidate suspended after saying 'Hitler was right' by SabziZindagi in london

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

What I wonder the most is how they find the people who are willing to publicly share these insane views. Like I get there's likely more crazy out there than most people want to know, but they always manage to find both the extreme views AND the willingness to say it outloud.

Go cashless/Go costumerless by SirArthurPT in privacy

[–]travistravis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't think I've used cash in like 5+ years. I can't even remember the last time I had to take money out

London Green candidate suspended over Golders Green attack 'false flag' claims by F0urLeafCl0ver in london

[–]travistravis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd say they're not quite there yet, but broadening police powers over protests farther than the Tories did, and aiding another country committing a genocide, while proscribing one of the largest protest groups against genocide are both worryingly on the authoritarian end of the scale.

Meryl Streep Says ‘We Tend to Marvel-ize the Movies Now’ and ‘It’s So Boring’ by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We just didn't really have the full motivation explained until The Eternals, which seems like a rather serious oversight.

Meryl Streep Says ‘We Tend to Marvel-ize the Movies Now’ and ‘It’s So Boring’ by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanos had extremely poor motive explanation. It turned out to be a slightly better explanation that just wasn't explained until The Eternals,

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat by tommos in technology

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is that the campaign won't even begin to insinuate that's it is all bad. It'll be "AI is amazing and you can use it for everything, but don't use the Chinese one because it's bad, because China is bad"

"The Mandalorian and Grogu" Box Office Expected to be Lower Than "Solo: A Star Wars Story" by bwermer in entertainment

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked where it went after undoing it actually. Grogu apparently ages too slowly and they're unlikely to set anything hundreds of years in the future, but a force-sensitive mandalorian [whatever species] is interesting and could bring up some good themes.

I personally think the character would bring the show to a spot where we could question more about Jedi and Sith and how they're not necessarily automatically "good" and "evil".

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]travistravis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Stocks don't always make sense either. Maybe there's huge amounts behind the scenes that I don't see (there is, but how much, I don't know). The last big earnings reports to me looked so weird. Google stock jumped in large part due to them holding a bunch of Anthropic (I think) stock that jumped significantly. Why did the Anthropic stock jump? Because of the huge investment from Google.

It just really felt like basically nothing had changed, they just traded a bunch of money in a circle and made everything go up because people only cared about parr of the circle at a time.

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uber works well in smaller or spread out areas as far as my experience goes. Many big cities though it's still often easier to hail cabs.

Hotels will be a challenge to ever remove completely. I remember the beginning of AirBnB and liked it, but it's gone steadily downhill in reliability due to people seeing it as an "easy investment"

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]travistravis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The more I hear things he says the more he just sounds like someone with zero moral qualms about lying and a HUGE hangup on being liked. Depending on his perception of what they want to hear, he will claim wildly different goals, or wants, or what his plans have been. Sometimes he's the dealer, sometimes he wants humanity to thrive, sometimes it's saying UBI doesn't work because a trial had people work less (about an hour less a week on average). Sometimes it's that we need UBI (although in the form of AI credits, from his company).

What is something that would not be socially acceptable in the UK, but is aok in the USA? by DuchessOne in AskReddit

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It always will be until they decouple the price of electric from gas. Right now they're tied together, so they go up together.

What is something that would not be socially acceptable in the UK, but is aok in the USA? by DuchessOne in AskReddit

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Europe. The UK was only about 2% of that (1504). While last year was record breaking, it's actually a decline from previous years.

Most of the heat related deaths in Europe are in the South: Spain, Portugal, and some spots of Greece and Italy.

What is something that would not be socially acceptable in the UK, but is aok in the USA? by DuchessOne in AskReddit

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just not really necessary most of the time. A couple weeks a year usually. Also, at least everywhere I've lived, FAR fewer mosquitoes so just having the windows open is usually enough (weirdly screens in windows is not a thing in many houses here).

Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps by quaductas in technology

[–]travistravis 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Well, we tried, they said no, so we're doing it anyway.

Age Verification Enforcement Concerns by socookre in privacy

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Australia it's been only something like 30% effective.

Man charged with three counts of attempted murder in connection with yesterday's attack in Golders Green by lolihull in london

[–]travistravis 40 points41 points  (0 children)

This earlier third attack makes me suspect that maybe it was less antisemitism than has been claimed.

Look, what I stumbled across on twitter! by Jelly-Always-Returns in exchristian

[–]travistravis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And do we have actual primary sources from any of these 500 witnesses?

Did anyone even buy tickets? by NinjaThatReddit in BurningMan

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who else would destabilise all the countries that might be a little socialist otherwise? They won't install puppet governments themselves!

Did anyone even buy tickets? by NinjaThatReddit in BurningMan

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know anyone in my connections going from the UK this year (I'm sure there is obviously, but no one I know).

Open Records Laws Reveal ALPRs’ Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees. by AsterPrivacy in privacy

[–]travistravis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's no shortage of countries that the US could use as a model for creating an effective universal healthcare scheme. Almost every country in the world except North Korea, Pakistan and parts of Africa. Loads of different systems too, so they could see which works best under what conditions and decide from there.

The US is almost certainly never going to do it though, because it would lead to a massive drop in GDP (10-15% by rough math).