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I noted it. That is why I said that the problem is the punishment.

Only thing that will stop it is heavy regulation.

Would you agree if someone told you that the only thing to resolve some political problem is heavy artillery?

Well, if everything else failed…

“Regulation” of the “property rights protection” kind is needed. Providing a service presented as a good that doesn’t work without dancing to a certain tune is simply cheating, it’s theft. Providing a “communication platform” augmenting and weighing your words for recommendation system leading to some intended effect is cheating, theft and impersonation at the same time. These should be prosecuted. But that’s not heavy regulation, that’s an update to pretty light regulation.

The problem with light regulation is that it would probably be too easy to workaround, not that a heavy regulation do not have the same problem btw, but more than the regulation itself is the punishment (and the certainty and timeliness of it) that is important.

I am unfamiliar with rules regarding traffic-worthiness of a bicycle, but in germany, your bike requires certain equipment to be fitted to the bike - reflectors on the spokes, front and rear light at night, etc. Additionally, you’re not allowed to drive in the wrong direction, unless specifically allowed to with a street sign (one-way-streets often allow for ciclysts to drive against the direction)

Basically the same rules we have in Italy except the wrong direction one, which state basically that cyclists can go the wrong direction if the road is wide enough. No specification about the enough part btw.

If those rules do exist in a similar fashion already: cyclists are apparently not following those rules, adding another rule for high-viz-gear is most likely not going to be followed either. Maybe consider enforcing the existing rules before adding another rule.

Agree here. But I still think that a high viz jacket is better than the small light and reflector you use on a bicycles, expecially in low light conditions

I agree. But the problem is not to connect a small town with the larger one, is to connect the small town with the next small one where maybe there is the mall, or the other one where there is the school (higher level) or other services you need.

The point is that normally you have a relatively good connection to the big city of the area, but the connections between the small towns around it are patchy, that is what make you drive to the next small town instead of using the train or bus.

Nah, just tell him that in exchange of 10% tariff all the big tech companies will pay the taxes for the profits they do in EU.

Renewable energies,

And where do you think we buy solar panels ? (Yes, I know, not the only renewable energy)

But in the general sense he is right

And thern EU will impose fines… and I am afraid that EU could impose fines that are way higher than what Elon can pay…

But Hungary has this coming…

The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don’t drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.

To be honest I don’t think this is a specific problem of Ireland, outside the urban centers the only option to move is to drive. There is not a critical mass for a public transportation system, expecially if you need to connect many small (< 20k people) urban centers.

That would be stupid, but that a bicyclists use a high visibility jacket is not, too many time on the road (in Italy, but I suppose everywhere else) you cross bicyclists at night or late evening that are basically invisible until the last moment: no light, wear black clothes (and often in the wrong direction).

True, maybe also the road should be better illuminated, but that a bicyclists make himself visible is not a stupid idea.

Yes, FOSS has always been political, just not the politics Debian dipped itself.

That’s can be true and it is ok.

But from the “don’t buy the bullshit” to “be a decent worker” there is a very big difference.

How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod?

The same way a bulb end up in someone ass…

Children were never eating tide pods either.

Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.

But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.

Not the stores don’t use this trick during sales… This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else…

While you are rigth, it is not about that.

Tha article point out that they were able to fix an issue in mere six weeks. But the point is that the other brand they cited would have not done the mistake in the first place.

So yes, they could be faster and more flexible, but that speed and flexibility comes with a price.

more accurate.

Until it’s not…then what. Who’s liable? Google…Amazon …Microsoft …chatgpt… Look, I like ai because it’s fun to make stupid memes and pictures without any effort but I do not trust this nonsense to do ANYTHING with accuracy especially my medical.

The doctor who review the case, maybe ?
In some cases the AI can effectively “see” things a doctor can miss and direct him to check for a particular disease. Even if the AI is only able to rule out some cases it would be usefull.

It is interesting that you are not answering my point… Good work

On both sides of what? What are you even talking about?

The misogynist and the peope who think to have some special right just because they are from $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY

And what other media, exactly, is providing not only a public mouthpiece to, but also driving steady streams of traffic directly toward, unabashed misogynists and bigots? I’ll wait… 🙄

TV for one, or you are saying that channels like Fo New are harmless ?
But more generally every media is suitable to spread misinformation, some better than other, and I agree that currently social media are better at the “work”, but it is not that before social media we have not misinformations, misogyny and violent extremism.

Social media is only a big resonance chamber for the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that cry louder (and I am sure that you would understand why if you were not blinded by hate for tech companies) and they are getting more credit than they deserve.

To make you understand a little better (I hope) look at all the “go woke, go broke” rethoric. It is obvious that if you make a product following the demands of, say, 5% of the potential audience you cannot expect more than 5% of the potential audience like the product (ok, maybe a little more) and everyone who can think understand this.

But no, the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY must blame the social media if the product bomb, when often not even the majority of $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that demanded the product “use” it (be a movie, a game or whatever else) and then start to call else (the remaining 95% of the audience) misogynist and everything else just becasue they don’t like what $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY like.

You can definitely take your dogwhistles and white supremacist apologism and fuck right off with it tho 😁

Probably better than to discuss with you about this.

I think that the only point you can hold against the big tech is that they are profiting from it. They provide one platform to disseminate but it is not that suche ideas need a social network to spread. Hitler had not social networks and like him every war/discrimination act against one group or another up until, say, 20 years ago did not need a social network.

We can agree that maybe a social network is easier and the dissemination is faster, but in itself a social network is not strictly needed.

You want to fix the problem ? Fix the people on both sides, it is the only option

What happens if someone is illegitimately removed from this database?

That the someone cannot vote. But you can design system resilient to this.

How can you show whether it was a glitch, or deliberate?

Paper trail.

How do you know if the information they have about you is even right, or get it changed if you need to?

You check it. I mean, when I ask for a document I expect to receive it. And I check if it is correct, after all human error can happen anyway.

Where’s the accountability?

Every document from the state (any level) I have has a signature that indicate who is ultimately accountable for it.