They're paperclip optimizers. We've designed an economy that said "make people compete for dollars, it'll give us the best products" and sure enough the people who rise to the top do nothing but ruthlessly compete on getting dollars. And just like the thought experiment, in the race to gather more dollars, they trample the human race.
Not-a-lawyer, but I’m quite sure I haven’t signed any TOS allowing Flock to capture or retain my data for any amount of time. Just by driving through a city where some other idiot signed away my rights probably shouldn’t hold up in court.
Also not a lawyer, but once a journalist, and one thing we were made aware of in college was that streets were public property, and anything done on them (or even done from the view of them - e.g., in your house but visible from the street*) was considered public. So unfortunately even if the city hadn't signed it, if someone recorded you on the street doing it, they could keep it on their servers and/or publish it to the world without worry.
- I meant to ask but never found out if this meant getting drunk in your house in view of the street is public drunkenness.
Oh, I was being advised about a "Mediterranean diet" back in the early 2000s for my epilepsy. But mass adoption at this level - like, "Protein Chocolate Milk" - bro, do you know how much protein is already in chocolate milk, before you add more? - is absolutely grifters gathering around a new fad, and RFK and the current admin is nothing if not on the grifter train, or "economics and politics" if you want to call it that. The GLP-1 note from others is actually a good point as well.
The US secretary of health, RFK Jr., pushes an uptake in protein as part of his "MAHA" - "Make America Healthy Again" - messaging. See example tote bags for an event here.
One you can't back up in an interview without pulling up chatgpt, and only if you have no prior work experience.
After you've had a job for a year or two every degree question is just "did they get a degree," and even then rarely is there a care; the post-grad job performance is what matters.
This is coming from a Journalism major/English minor who got a job in programming a decade and change ago by getting an internship at a company that later hired them (I was familiar with Linux and cross-platform tools the CS majors wouldn't usually touch and which mattered to this company).
Of course, things are always changing. But fundamentally if you can't back up your BA/S it won't matter what it is.
Doubtless accurate, even here in the US I grew up in an area that pronounces water "wuhter", and had to unlearn that when I moved to a city where that would confuse people. That said, I also picked up "y'all" from a friend in college, so it's a mixed bag.
But when I visit home for a week and come back, definitely some "wuhter"s slip out before I get back into full city mode.
Fuck that, use vlc and turn on volume normalization in the audio settings, or turn the volume down to barely audible and use subtitles if you're doing some weird "paid service" to play your video files.
You might enjoy the book 1491 a lot - it goes over what populations existed before contact, and even explores the period when people would make decisions between whether they would stay a colonial resident or join a native country - and vice versa. Turns out it was very much down to the person.
Of course, it also has the mind-blowing fact that we lost roughly 92% of the population of the Americas to disease - which is how the Europeans walked into the "New World" so easily, but also why they had to start importing slaves from Africa. The author frames it as if we just suddenly lost all of China - and laments the cultural exchange we've lost as a result.
10/10 read, would recommend if you like the topic.
I actually still enjoyed it for the most part last time I went through. Jerry's standup is terrible and I have no clue how he ever got an audience, but the actual show I enjoyed most of, even if nowadays pretty much all the plots would be solved because everyone would have a cell phone.
They're paperclip optimizers. We've designed an economy that said "make people compete for dollars, it'll give us the best products" and sure enough the people who rise to the top do nothing but ruthlessly compete on getting dollars. And just like the thought experiment, in the race to gather more dollars, they trample the human race.