>These assholes have not worked a forty hour week in a long time

I had to read that twice before I realized you were talking about the CEOs and not the people you hired.

I recently read an inspiring book on this subject. The author is such a weirdo.

Didn’t know that the bar for democracy and freedom was mirroring a totalitarian society.

But after reading the restrict act, looks like the USA would Rather look to China’s great firewall as inspiration instead of European GDPR, that is much more effective at protecting citizens.

But you know, can’t give up on the surveillance state that started with the patriot act.

it’s what the foundation series by asimov earned us about, too. the trader faction

If you understand upper management compensation, salary is very small %. The bigger % is in shares. Meaning they can take a pay cut but their total comp might increase if they can get the share price up.

The real tug of war

The Pope looked Dope, has he made a statement?

Thought experiment - would China let the US run their own version of TikTok in China?

Power systems engineer here. The renewable energy source may be cheaper, but there's a hidden (for now) cost in the intermittent nature of them. Right now we still burn enough fossil fuels that we can dispatch them up and down to balance the system without huge quantities of energy storage, but those days are numbered if we're serious about de-carbonization. Between large scale and long-term energy storage and the transmission reinforcement that will be required to de-carbonize building heat especially in northern climates, there is some serious sticker shock brewing to get us to our 2050 goals.

Meanwhile there have been thousands (and im grossly underestimating that number) of security leaks on Facebook and Twitter.

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Mom? I thought you said you would stay off reddit...

Typically if a union doesn’t want you there, attendance is the way they do it. A minute late or a minute over can spell doom.

Dude is obviously mentally ill

It's fairly common for someone to make a demonstration of a power in order to prove the need to regulate it.

Whether or not he did this deliberately, the fact that the image has gained so much attention has obviously made him realise the danger here and now he's using his brief new platform to try and highlight that danger. I don't see the issue.

It's about a decade ago now that I first recall conversations about this problem.

Back then we knew this was going to happen.

And there are many solutions to this problem which existed back then, including the use of digital signing for images and videos to verify when they were produced and by whom.

We've had at least a decade to prepare for this and nobody in the media or tech sectors have been bothered doing fucking anything.

So now we get a couple of years of pure chaos as fake images get produced which are virtually indistinguishable from reality, and everyone is scrambling to put measures in place to fix this.

We need to add batteries. Lots of batteries to store power when generation exceeds demand, to draw from when demand exceeds supply. Need batteries to really make system as available as coal.

Do you have a group of people who are incredibly powerful, don't have to work any more yet often do, gravitating to getting involved in politics, and can pass that power to their family? Does that family power wax and wane over time as they fight with the other families in similar exulted positions?

You have an aristocracy.

> People need to be scared and frightened. Or they won't change.

People who are scared and frightened don't tend to change. They horde, they embrace authoritarians, they try to go back to the good old times, they fight - mostly with each other. The one thing they do not do is fix the problem.

People who are hopeful and optimistic tend to embrace change. They work with others for a better future instead of fighting over what ever is left.

Imo it actually may not get banned now, the hearing put a lot of attention on it and people just realized it actually might happen

Since the hearing, left wing democrats have come out against the ban, Fox News came out against the TikTok banning bill, and also people think that the TikTok CEO is hot lmao. It could still happen, but there isn't really a way to ban an app without running into the issues that people have with the bill

Incredibly likely. The CCP really did not have much access to US user data and they were already in the process of moving all data centers for US users into America, which would also be run by Americans.

They're no different than tencent, just making a metric ton of money for CCP investors. There's basically zero chance or even motive for them to hand over any more user data than American companies are also collecting and selling to whoever wants it.

There are copyrighted colors that Photoshop refuses to display without a $15 permonth subscription. Thanks Pantone.

Also Photoshop refuses to work on images of American currency.

the real reason is actually geopolytics and dependence on chinese manufacturing. also slave labour in China… is China’s problem to solve, not Apple or FoxConn.

I live in Europe and practically everyone I know owns at least a car. I'd love not to, but the public infrastructure here just unfortunately isn't set up for everyone to use it, especially away from major cities or suburbs.