Is that to say that it’s no longer valid? Or just that it’s old news? The list of apps associated with the software is still pretty extensive; Google Assistant even showed up.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/732387-buddy-dyer-backs-down-on-immigration-enforcement-after-threat-from-james-uthmeier/

Yep. Certainly wouldn’t be the first time that something is made to seem altruistic but ultimately gets used in questionably-ethical ways.

Yes. It’s utterly useless now (and they aren’t being introduced into existing ecosystem to my knowledge). They view it as a proof of concept for more recently extinct species as well as a potential tool for restoring species to ecosystems in the future as extinction events pick up speed.

However, it should be noted that extinction events are a symptom, not the core problem, so I’m not sure exactly where we’d restore extinct species to, since human use of the land is the root cause of most ecosystem collapses, and it’s unlikely that they can rebuild populations in the places they died out of (and the land probably won’t be yielded back anyway).

Super cool stuff that they did regardless, but can’t figure out how it’s going to accomplish what they seem to want to accomplish.

Why would someone waste their money on this poll?

It’s not even the people; it’s their actions. If we could figure out how to regulate its use so its profit-generation capacity doesn’t build on itself exponentially at the expense of the fair treatment of others and instead actively proliferate the models that help people, I’m all for it, for the record.

That is entirely true and one of my favorite things about it. I just wish there was a way to nurture more of that and less of the, “Hi, I’m Alvin and my job is to make your Fortune-500 company even more profitable…the key is to pay people less!” type of AI.

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But the people with the money for the hardware are the ones training it to put more money in their pockets. That’s mostly what it’s being trained to do: make rich people richer.

Please correct if inaccurate, but I don’t see in that article where the folks at Espressif refer to it as a backdoor, only the security company. This seems to me as though it is no more vulnerable than any other device which can be compromised by physical access, which is most of devices. The vulnerability really looks to be more in the ability to pivot to other devices remotely after one has been compromised physically, which isn’t ideal, but still doesn’t seem to me to be any less secure than most other devices.

I was recently considering replacing my color laser printer from 2006…sounds like I’m keeping it a little longer. It’s coincidentally made by brother, but I doubt they’re updating that firmware anytime soon.

That’s a fantastic point I hadn’t considered. Thank you!

Pure conjecture here, but I certainly do wonder if the number of lawsuits would decrease if healthcare wasn’t cost-prohibitive to people. I don’t expect they’d go away entirely (legitimate grievances, greed, etc), but I imagine they’d probably go down quite a bit if people didn’t have to wonder how to pay rent and pay to have their broken leg treated.

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Yep. Worked there for a bit. They’re contractually obligated to show ads on certain content. Doesn’t matter what tier you’re on. As a paying customer (a rather long time ago), my partner became so incensed at the ads that played even though he paid for ad-free that he rage-cancelled his membership.

You’re 100% correct and I wish the article would call that out. I was pretty disappointed when I read that at first, but I think that, not only are the union workers going to see a victory here as well, but I also suspect that we have the union to thank for the non-union pay… idustries with solid union presence tend to see improvements to both pay and work environments merely because the union is there, effectively setting a standard that has to be at least loosely followed in order to be competitive. In this case, the union isn’t strong in this industry per se, but it is strong within Costco, driving the worker satisfaction up right along with it…which is a pretty great phenomenon.

This is what happens when you have good union representation and collective bargaining agreements. Great job, Teamsters!

Stay and risk having to work for a leadership committing atrocities. Leave and risk there only being loyalists working for the them, further enabling the atrocities.

Hey, there. It sounds like you’re less concerned about your genetic proclivity to an autoimmune arthritis and more looking for ways to stave off any kind of arthritic degeneration, including your standard-issue osteoarthritis. I’m a 38-year-old who is embarking on a race against the progression of arthritis and other skeletal/connective tissue maladies due to a genetic joint hypermobility disorder that I’m similarly trying to get out in front of. Here’s what I’ve found so far, with the obligatory “I am not a doctor,” and, “Your mileage may vary.”:

1. Keep baseline-inflammation down wherever you can. It sounds like woo-woo crap, but finding things specific to your body that cause inflammation and cutting them out will go further than you think. That goes for both diet and activities. Consider an elimination diet to help you figure out what those things are. For me, anything that’s particularly acidic makes me feel like crap, as does sugar and processed meats. I go through phases of being good at avoiding these things followed by phases where I completely fail at it. A lot of people swear by ginger/turmeric for anti-inflammatory properties but I try to avoid taking supplements of it because there have been recent studies that show a lot of the supplements made from dried/ground down fibers like that tend to keep your kidneys from functioning as well as they should.
2. Omega 3s and 6s are great for maintaining (and possibly also repairing?) cartilage. Glucosamine, too.
3. Strengthen your muscles so you aren’t relying so much on your tendons and bones to support you as you age, thus reducing the overall load on them and keeping them healthy for longer. Probably want to do low-impact stuff. I’m personally doing Pilates because yoga over-stretches my hypermobile joints and I also just find it boring. Lifting weights is also proven to increase your bone density, so it’s just good for you overall. And I feel like this part is obvious, but the less weight you carry, the less you’ll tax your body.
4. This may be less applicable to you, but the things I take to keep my bones and connective tissue as healthy as possible include: Multivitamin, an extra Vitamin D supplement, a manganese B12 supplement, and collagen-based protein powder (though be careful of lead levels in protein powders in general).

I wish you luck in your quest. I personally am just holding out for a full-body exoskeleton. That’d be pretty badass.

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