FriendOfDeSoto

I'm going to exercise my free speech here: what a good job ChatGPT did at summarizing this video. Is this really a thought provoking post or just a way to boost the views over at YT?

If the US model is so great, why is the country so royally fucked right now? The first amendment only tells governments not to limit what people can say. If you have enough money you can buy CBS or the Washington Post and silence critical voices or just scuttle the whole ship respectively. And that's not the government censoring, it's just a good buddy of the big guy or some brownnoser doing it looking for favors at the court of the king. Freedom of speech becomes something you need to be able to afford. When even the big guy files frivolous lawsuits against media outlets that didn't want to get up his ass for a gazillion dollars. Just to tie them down in courts hoping they will settle and in the meantime be extra careful not to incur more wrath. What happens when hate speech and libel laws don't work, you get Alex Joneses who make a business model out of being a despicable excuse for a human being. Your freedom of speech situation is very much like your healthcare system, in that it is very different from lots of other developed nations and the consequences are tragic.

Don't call me Shirley.

It's like with planting trees. The best time was to plant some 50 years ago, the second best time is now. But it is too late in many ways.

Log this: you violated rule #1

IIRC for a while many terrorists and criminals had legitimate Belgian passports because some enterprising criminals had stolen the special printing machine and empty passports from an embassy or something like that.

No.

Why "even?" Even after struggling with privacy concerns you don't think they're the future of wearables. Shouldn't that be "because of?" Normally, privacy concerns aren't a big plus point. I didn't want to buy this hypothetical device but after learning all the data goes directly to an unencrypted database on an open server in the cloud, I was all in?

TL;Dr because of this dumb premise that is the first sentence:

As someone who is largely (if not always) inseparable from my iPhone's camera, the desire to test out Meta's elusive AI glasses was a natural next step.

If that's your natural next step, your opinion doesn't matter to me.

I vote spelling. English spelling makes less sense than French or Danish and they take mothereffing liberties as well. No naturally occurring, alphabet using language will probably score perfect on that but I suspect English will be in the relegation zone of that table.

Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.

Stop fooling around with "he used his private money", it's money he earned with this company, by donations, VPN and services, paid by the users.

What you call fooling around I call a factual distinction. It's also been pointed out that Mullvad money wasn't possibly a big bulk of the donation. Because they're not raking in the dough.

I'm not telling you not to be outraged. If I were a customer of theirs I'd be mad too. You draw your own line and that's just fine with me. Let me draw mine.

I believe facts matter. Facts like Mullvad didn't directly fund a Nazi party, but one of their owners did. And it wasn't per se a Nazi party becausre they are more of the horseshoe persuasion where they try to marry ideas from the extreme right with those from the extreme left, which is an unfortunate trend in European politics right now. And I've pointed this out before: the real threat is already in the Swedish parliament as the 2nd largest fraction. They are the Sweden Democrats and they are probably more deserving of the Nazi label.

Machine translation is not good at tone. So if a friendly fuck you is a different expression from one uttered in anger, I'd be very careful. Puns and slang only if it's established enough. By which I mean is been around for a while and the model could train on it. Hyperbole will also be tough because if it's devoid of tone how would the computer know? And even if you run instant spoken translation I wouldn't trust any assistant to get it right.

Wrong community. Nothing mild about that.