Looks like the primary disagreement is over pensions. As an American with absolutely no pension opportunities (but with older coworkers who have them): fight tooth and nail for every scrap. Once lost, they will be gone forever.
ignirtoq
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I don't think our current system is nearly as robust as you think. Trump's first term laid that bare.
So many laws dictating what the president can and can't do don't have any actual repercussions for breaking them written in them because it was assumed impeachment would be sufficient. Trump showed that with our current system that means if you can't guarantee you'll have 67 votes in the Senate, then those laws may as well not exist. And every week the Supreme Court shows how much "settled case law" isn't anymore, so with a corrupt high court in his league, even the laws that do have teeth may be subverted.
We absolutely need to make changes to shore up the system and plug the gaps, but we have to do so with care that we don't end up handing new, more powerful weapons to the very bad actors we're trying to protect against.
Totally agree. These systems are critically important for our society. They need to be considered with care, and we need to be mindful of the complexities that come with any changes to them.
Super easy for those in power to keep their rivals from being able to run for office. Currently the president and afraid you'll be unseated by the opposing party's candidate? Just start an investigation on them! Boom, no more rivals.
Fun fact: there's some scientific evidence that painkillers actually do reduce emotional pain in addition to reducing physical pain.
they hired a voice actor
This made me think a little too, but then I started thinking about how people talk. Even if a person's tone is similar, the mannerisms are still drastically different. The voice actor had to spoof Scarletts voice well enough to even fool Scarletts friends.
I don't get this. Why are you assuming they constructed the voice with only the samples from another voice actress and didn't use any from Johansson? Why are you assuming they used the samples from that voice actress at all and didn't only use samples of Johansson's voice they scraped from all corners of her prolific history of work?
Any random company I would give the benefit of the doubt, but these AI companies have specifically shown they don't care about copyright law specifically or ethics in general, and they definitely have no qualms lying about where they get their data and what they do with it.
No, that's the opposite of what I want to happen. If they "divest" that means they're selling their stake in the company to someone else, who likely cares less about climate change. The company stock doesn't just disappear. Shareholders are the only ones in our current system who can have a meaningful impact on companies they own shares in. The people who hold companies to climate expectations are exactly the ones I want holding stock in those companies.
I thought this article was a good, brief discussion on cookie banners. The summary is that the EU didn't mandate cookie banners, just acquiring consent. And they forbid common dark patterns making the "no" option more difficult to submit. It's the tech industry that settled on the terrible banners, and many of them (most?) don't actually conform to the law's requirements.
Okay, through the skin, sure, but what about the other 4 words? They go in through the skin into a blood vessel... to where?
I wanted to see exactly where they transplanted the islet cells, because my understanding was that transplanting them to the pancreas was not really viable for a number of reasons:
percutaneous transhepatic portal vein transplantation
Does this mean they implanted them on the surface of the main vein transporting blood out of the liver?
Don't worry, H5N1 is here to save the gaming industry!
To be fair, Costco has acknowledged they lose money on the sausages (and rotisserie chickens) and use those cheaper items to draw in customers to buy other things they do make money on.