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  • All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes

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  • I'm in the US where this is coming soon enough. My car is a 2012 which seems like kind of a sweet spot, but it's not going to last forever especially with our winters and road salt and pot holes.

    I didn't plan to buy a new car any time soon but have been thinking about my eventual next choice. All this BS has me wondering whether it's better to get something soon without the next level of surveillance, or wait a few years and see how bad it is in practice and how it can be disabled.

    That 2012 I mentioned is fun to drive, has low mileage for its age, and is fuel efficient, plus I have renewed my love of working on my own vehicles after not doing so for a decade or two. I'm currently doing work on the brakes. Maybe I'll just have to try to make it live forever, and not give any more money to the whole damn industry as long as possible. That's the most economically and environmentally friendly option, after all.

  • Ahh - yeah that makes sense

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  • It also makes references to "the before time, in the long long ago" ala South Park / Star Trek a whole lot more relatable.

    Going back a little further than "the inauguration," it just so happened that my kid was born in 2017 very close to the first inauguration that slowly built up the BS until Covid.

    2016 and earlier feels like it could legitimately have been a previous life that I can still remember -- and my wife and I are living in the same house and drive the same two cars as the few years before that!

  • Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

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  • It is one of the worst parts of US culture and one of the greatest accomplishments of capitalists' propaganda that we generally see the rich as noble and admirable while the poor are evil and disgusting.

    Not to be all US-centric about it, but that's where I live and I think this place's reputation speaks for itself.

  • CNN trolls Trump by reporting on the state fair at empty National Mall

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  • I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I remember hearing a lot of references to "The Bicentennial."

  • I'd love to hear them

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  • Oh for sure. One nice part about my current job is feeling like being part of a functioning team.

    Constant isolation isn't necessary or good. But for certain personal projects that I am designing and building from scratch, solo can be so nice.

  • Muh Freeze Peach

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  • End of an era?

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  • It sounds like a lot of good thought and design went into it.

    The biggest problem was/is always going to be consumers wary of trusting a tech company not to mess it up because of greed.

  • (in)visible hand

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  • I keep thinking we need an overhaul where volunteering to be a public servant at a high enough level also means volunteering to surrender all your assets and be barred from owning anything significant for life. You get a stipend that you can spend on food, hobbies, travel, and entertainment, but that's it. You get housing and transportation paid for (or maybe you can own your residence and car) but no businesses, no stocks, etc. I guess you get a pension or salary for life or something.

    People have demonstrated that they generally cannot be trusted to balance governmental power with conflicts of interest. Sure some people can, but ordinary voters picking from candidates filtered for "actively seeks power" have a crappy track record. Here's hoping politicians like Mamdani can teach the voters a re things and start to turn that around.

  • Some medical trivia from Dr. Crusher

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  • hearing was functional two hours after cardiac arrest.

    Regardless of the accuracy of this finding, it sounds so horrifying on the surface but I could see it being a pleasant experience just based on stories of near death experiences and whatnot. I can't imagine you have any consciousness or self-awareness for almost all of that time though.

  • I'd love to hear them

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  • This comment resonates with me big time.

    As far as doing things my own way, I have intentionally taken on some big projects in my hobbies over the past couple years, and I have intentionally avoided getting help on them even if it's offered freely, and even if that means it takes me 5x longer to get it done. The outcome is not only better, but more importantly the process itself is much more rewarding and therapeutic because I did it my way. I redid what I wanted to, I focused on what I wanted to, I took breaks and recharged according to my own body, and I have detailed first principles knowledge of how the entire thing came together.

    I haven't really thought about the difficulty speaking and shortening it to single words, but the difficulty getting out those simple phrases sounds like some of my past experiences. Especially as somebody with a very verbose internal dialogue.

    Same with sometimes just not wanting another person there while I'm getting shit done, even if they are a loved one with a friendly demeanor.

  • I'd love to hear them

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  • This is definitely one for me. My flavor of audio sensitivity seems to mean that aural stimulation satisfies some ADHD part of my AuDHD brain. I can be coding at work or doing some very chill tasks in my yard, being present in the moment and acting with intention and being all zen about it, but there is industrial or thrash metal blasting in my ears that nobody else can hear. (with the setting enabled to keep it below damaging decibel levels)

  • Stephen Miller Wants To Take A Hard Look At Banning Travelers Who Happen To Be Pregnant

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  • This shit is just so openly racist, xenophobic, and hateful because on paper it's against the country's interest. I'd suggest he's just another kompromised asset being leveraged to dismantle the US empire, but we've also known him to be a piece of shit for a long time.

    Pretty much all developed nations are facing birth rates far below the maintenance level.

    The United States is well below-average in population density. Many areas do have too many people, but anybody with experience in the midwest knows that we have a lot of usable land with very few people on it.

    Even if these ghouls kept all of their irrational fears and hatred but were granted a few rational brain cells to plan for the future, they would see that these people they want to remove and keep away are valuable resources. I'm sure they have grand delusions about how they're gonna ban contraception and sex-ed and abortion while having a steady stream of fertile 14 year old girls wheeled into their compound to rape and create their future factory workers, but it ain't good work.

  • Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

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  • I think it's fairly easy to imagine what that would be like, given the limited examples you can see with a VR headset with pass-through. It could be pretty sweet for people to have the option of a digital overlay on reality that's under their own control.

    What's missing are the extremely powerful but also extremely miniaturized and efficient hardware (imagine just constant inside-out tracking of some kind with the storage to remember the 3D layout of basically everywhere you go, but also with 12-24 hour battery life and not generating a noticeable amount of heat with a tiny surface area), and the open technologies and/or lack of enshittification. Who is going to sell such a device but won't stuff it with ads, surveillance, and paywalls?

    The closest we've seen is Apple's headset that was still just a high end VR headset with passthrough and was thousands of dollars while still being locked down.

  • Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

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  • I'd say this is more like the middle of the end, with the beginning of the end being the Meta logo on them.

  • End of an era?

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  • Useful details, thanks.

    I'll just point out that they/we did not have a system like that, but just promises of it from a tech giant. (except of course for whatever they had designed internally up until that time) So even as somebody who doesn't really sell games, I get why people weren't thrilled with the idea of microsoft being the ever-present broker in the transactions.

  • End of an era?

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  • I specifically remember that their plan was essentially CD Keys. You'd buy a physical game and it would have a code inside, or the discs would have unique identifiers that force linked to your account, or whatever.

    So yeah, essentially physical media with a digital license. If you were going to be able to resell your game it was going to have to go through microsoft, or maybe you could lend a friend your disc and that lets them buy their own license for a small discount to play it.

  • 'You are Expected to be Clean' — Oregon Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Due to Smelly Players

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  • Our lives are filled with things we don't "need" that we are not going to do away with any time soon.

  • End of an era?

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  • It won't really affect me, but I understand the appeal of a physical artifact servicing as time game's license for those who like to lend, sell, trade, library, etc.

    And those same benefits are why the corporations can't wait to do away with it. It's been quite a while since Microsoft tried the same thing and people freaked out enough that they reversed course.

  • Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists

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  • Oh boy, just what we need, corpo-wars to go along with the nation-wars.

    It would be nice to see them hurting each other instead of the general populace, but we all know that they do collateral damage to innocents even when weapons aren't involved.