jmcs

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Almost all dystopic sci-fi movies and books (including Blade Runner) are documentaries once you move past the visuals.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which makes the process go faster because they don't have to spend time arguing about something that the judge was going to force them to do anyway.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Brand recognition. Which apparently is the only thing that matters these days.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Posted on checks notes Google's Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Now we just need to either massively water down EU citizen and consumer protections or get the CPTPP members, including Singapore, to adopt and implement compatible rules.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

On top of that they are firing half of their workers and expect the other half to do all of the work because of ✨️AI✨️.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, until the Trump slashed the foreign aid to Pakistan in 2018. Since then they got much closer to China because they need someone to balance out Russian support for India.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Am I the only one getting deja vu? This sounds a lot like David Cameron in the lead up to the brexit referendum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce "engagement".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It says that the president of the US has immunity for official acts which fall within their "exclusive sphere of constitutional authority". This aligns with the executive privileges in other democracies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In theory yes. In practice like all social conventions they change based on what most people believe they are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Of course it matters. States and laws work the way the general consensus says they work. One of the reasons Trump can get away with 90% of what he does is because public servants got fed the idea that the president of the US is above the law.

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