People who work in Child Protection aren’t doing it because they’re power hungry sociopaths. They’re people who do an absolutely horrible job for shit pay because they feel compelled to protect children.

I’m not in NY, but I have a friend who works in Child Protection. The shit her and her friends see is fucked up.

In the case here, the baby was born with measurable levels of THC in their system. It’s not illegal to smoke weed while pregnant, just like it’s not illegal to drink alcohol while pregnant - but both can fuck up a child for life before they’re even born.

Russia and Belarus make sense, but not inviting Iran? There are far worse governments out there than Iran…

A few massive differences:

• You opt-in to targeted tracking with Apple. It’s impossible to opt-out with Google. Apple also enforces per-app opt-in for tracking.

• Apple use your data, but they don’t sell it on

• Apple features protect you from 3rd party tracking at a software level (Private Relay) and hardware level (MAC randomisation)

You gotta watch out for those Lifeguards with Lugers.

You can safely swim in the pool of an operational reactor, the ocean near Fukushima is perfectly safe.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

The proposed legislation:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2832427

(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision © of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code. Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.

For the same reason you need a licence in most places to install fire and security systems. If you make a mistake, people can die.

Wow, you simply stated your own experience, and you get almost as many downvotes as upvotes.

Lemmy is quickly becoming as toxic as reddit.

Yea, but not really. The algorithms are available for free, but they don’t do anything useful by themselves. The RNN is built by training the neural net, which uses grading/classification of training data to increase or decrease millions of coefficients of a multi-layer filter. It’s the training data, the classification feedback and the processing power that actually creates the AI.

You’re the one simping for the companies that are making the planet unliveable for future generations for their own profit.

Plenty of evidence for what I claimed, google it yourself if you want:

https://insideevs.com/news/612567/social-media-influencers-paid-bash-tesla-musk/

That’s not how ChatGPT works.

GPT is an LLM that use RNN. An RNN (Recurrent neural network) is not an algorithm.

Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.

The American system doesn’t care about the centre. They use the media to trick the centre into thinking there’s no difference between the 2 options, then they just have to mobilise more crazies on their side than the other side. If even 10% of non-voters just got off their ass for an hour once every 4 years, they would control most governments in the US.

Those teeth are the stuff of nightmares.

That’s lame. I’ve been to the UK twice since 2010, and while it’s great there, there’s so many amazing places to see basically on your doorstep. If I was lucky enough to live in the UK, I’d be travelling to a different European country every bank holiday weekend.

And Trump lands the quinella, being indicted for a 4th time:

Georgia grand jury probing Trump’s election subversion returns indictment

Paywalled

Where are you gonna go then? Damn near everywhere collects your thumb print at arrivals these days.

Nice work!!

Italy wouldn’t want to start that conversation - the city of Rome has more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt.