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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't hang my hat on that statistic until after autonomous cars make up a significant portion of cars on the road.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Jimmy Gibbs, Jr!

[–] [email protected] 185 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

The Verge reported that CEO Sundar Pichai defended the layoffs and claimed that workers sometimes reach out to express gratitude for the cuts. “And I just want to clarify that, through these changes, people feel it on the ground and sometimes people write back and say, ‘Thank you for simplifying.’ Sometimes we have a complicated, duplicative structure,” he said, per the Verge.

Chalmers: People send thank you's for lay offs?

Pichai: Yes.

Chalmers: May I see one?

Pichai: No.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 10 months ago (31 children)

This popped up over the weekend on my work PC. It was an emergency and I absolutely needed to get to my desktop ASAP.

Nope. Full screen advertisement for Windows 11 demanding my immediate and undivided attention. Blocking all other functions, commands, and inputs. I must interact with this ad or else I cannot use my computer.

Fuck. That.

I am never installing Windows 11. I am never buying another Microsoft operating system. Specifically because of this sort of heavy-handed dark patterned bullshit. Not to mention the fact that Windows 10 is dog shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Bible condones slavery. And many slave holders invoked the Bible to justify slavery.

From Frederick Douglas' first autobiography:

Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to that enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Full blown de jure chattel slavery? Yes, I would be surprised.

Slavery didn't end because people realized it was bad. They always knew that. It ended because of the industrial revolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The idea of checks and balances on the exercise of government powers extends to even the state/federal relationship.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cybersecurity != Safety Critical

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