So at this point you know what it is, you know how to avoid being scammed, and you are aware that the most optimal way to deal with these people is to just block them and move on.

With all these things known, you can waste their time by pretending to have trouble depositing the check, saying the deposit went through while doing nothing, saying it worked and then playing hard to get with their “overpayment return” (usually they play on good Samaritan/pay it forward kind of guilt, so just pretend to be an asshole), and fucking with them every step of the way.

Atomic Shrimp on YouTube has done a bunch of these, if you’d rather live vicariously rather than expose yourself.

I would too, unfortunately, but it’s not you, its them.

It’s fine. All this really means is together you have generated multiple posts worthy of this sub with a single photo. Very efficient of you, I appreciate it.

Yeah. Any Co2/other climate change regressions that the US makes affect everyone globally, and while water use is local, its also as-needed, so post-collapse you have to use up all your water anyway.

AI could use solely graywater/non-water cooling and renewable energies, and that’s the answer, just takes slowing down, building specific and rigorous facilities, . Letting the US speed along just hurts everyone due to climate change.

That and every major company economically depends on each other, and disconnecting from the US in a way that doesn’t cause backlash also takes time.

Fuck america but don’t let them drill holes in the boat we’re all riding.

Then you’ve killed the man you told and the court will have a terribly difficult time producing him, but if they manage it, you’ll have to marry him to apply any kind of privilege.

A lawyer is considered an extension of your (legal) self. The reason is that if your lawyer can be compelled to talk about your private communications, then a client won’t actually get a fair trial, as they needed that lawyer aware of everything to defend them properly, but if prosecution could just call your lawyer to the stand and go “did they do it?”, no one would tell lawyers anything incriminating.

Your spouse is also considered to be part of you, legally. You have a right to confide in them, they are part of your life.

Same for a priest, many religions require confessions and have religious consequences for not confessing or a priest telling what they heard. The right for them protects them from being forced to break religious rules, although notably this one doesn’t exist everywhere.

Nurses and doctors are covered in the same way, actually. Revealing your medical information improperly is a HIPAA violation.

Aside from spousal privilege, all of these relate to their job. Your lawyer defends you, your priest hears your confessions, your doctors and nurses treat you. If you tell your priest about your heart condition and your lawyer about your blaspheming against god and your doctor about that time you murdered a man back in '03, then no privilege protects you at all.

Did they lose their positions? I haven’t read anything indicating that, just that they weren’t allowed back into the conference.

No.

That’s true for people. Corporations don’t learn from mistakes and cannot improve over time, they’re legally obligated to seek shareholder value.

Expecting a corporation to do things for the right reasons is like expecting AI to do things for the right reason.

If we must interact with either, we must simply be glad when the answer is correct. If we want corporations to act more like people and be able to have real values, we need to bake a corporation’s values into law in some way.

Private businesses can still have morals and can learn and all that good stuff where the method matters, but public ones will always dehumanize.

So I’m happy they hit the right result. I’m also happy they’re talking about it like this even though this talk is also just a publicity response, because other companies might see this and also do the right thing for the wrong (purely financial) reason.

But this is also why corporations shouldn’t be people and should be barred from everything involving government and all that, if not abolished altogether.

Reading the article, it sounds more like a comment on advertising as a whole and not their AI ads specifically. Polished videos vs relatively unpolished hand filming it.

Either way, they got to the correct answer.

Ooh it does. So yeah, options. Hiver would also be more subtle than Hoarfrost, less “Zephyr”

Alliteration sounds great, mostly. Hanna Frost wouldn’t sound as good as Hanna Hoarfrost, at least in my opinion.

And there aren’t that many H cold words.

Plus, hoarfrost looks awesome, too.

Hoarfrost is cold-themed. I think its unique but shouldn’t raise too many eyebrows, and you get alliteration.

Hannah Hoarfrost, or Heather Hoarfrost, both sound neat. Does it sound good with your particular H name?

What’s the first letter of your first name? Perfect chance for some alliteration. Esther Essington, Gretchen Gesundheit, etc.

Yes. Don’t put people in uncomfortable situations.

But also, if they don’t know about the real cause, you may still hurt their feelings. If you can find another reason to decline it may go better.

That’s his point though, he does expect them to be able to set up themselves, and apparently Plex is good for that.

I dont know of any specific ones, but in my experience, I haven’t had one that wouldn’t, as long as the charger could match the voltage the device needs.

Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.

I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.

If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.

What didn’t you like about the expansion?

Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.

Honestly, I don’t know exactly what google can or can’t track if the app developer doesn’t specifically enable them. I don’t have specific evidence that they’ll even be able to tell if the user was verified or not

What I do know is they have repeatedly shown that they’re happy to hide or lie about what and how they track people, and more broadly about their business as a whole.

Again I cite the drug analogy. Google is in the business of tracking people and harvesting data for ads. It’s like inviting the cartel to the DARE program and expecting everything to go swimmingly.

If they want their age verification app to actually be anonymous, they shouldn’t force people to use a tracking service to use it. The app specifically won’t be functional on degoogled android phones and won’t be offered on desktop computers. Maybe Google can’t spy on anything going on in the app, but even so, they could correlate “used verification app, roblox usage went up” or “used verification app, continued to use Tinder, concluded adult, ignoring ‘do not track’ preference as it doesn’t violate laws about tracking minors”.

It’s true that a minority of users have taken the steps where this inferred information would be particularly helpful to google, but not having the option to opt out is going to get harder and harder, and this service doesn’t provide enough good to give the information cartel that is Google any more information, even inferred, in my opinion.

It can’t be anonymous if you need a google or apple account to use. I’m not concerned about what the government tracks (well, not in this context at least), I’m concerned about who and what they’re working with to do the tracking. If the app verifies me as an adult but I couldn’t use the app without google butting in, google now has yet another data point in a secret ad profile that the government should be putting a stop to, not helping them build up. It’d be like announcing a plan to stop illegal drug usage by partnering with the cartel.

If they wanted a government-sponsored age verification sort of thing, it should’ve been an app whose only job was to type in a code you got from going in person to some government body and verifying in person. Town office, DMV, somewhere like that.

More fundamentally, though, “protecting the children” shouldn’t go anywhere near anything that can be used for identity theft. Showing my ID to the cashier at the cigarette shop is significantly safer than showing it to any business on the internet, because sharing a high-quality picture of something is giving them a copy. The cashier gets to see it, but it never leaves my sight and isn’t recorded in any way except probably some dodgy security camera where you can’t read it anyway.