It’s heartwarming when you see genuine emotions like this. Yet when you learn about evolution, you realize the sad fact that it is all a consequence of survivor pressure. Instincts were optimized throughout ages for this kind of behavior.
2 Likes
Ha.
9 Likes
I always find it amusing that every possible solution is imaginable for some people, except “smaller profit margins”… 
This is dope 
3 Likes
Very interesting:
2 Likes
It’s just a game of Monopoly after all currency in the world is shifted off of backing with something tangible. It doesn’t matter if it’s gold or copper or tobacco. When the currency is just printed as a loan by a banking cartel it is guaranteed to fail and we all know who will gets the short end of the stick. There is one worldwide banking cartel represented by “central banks”. They robbed all they could from the present so now they are aggressively robbing the future as well, and preparing for their families to be safely out of the country (if they aren’t already) when the chickens come home to roost. If this wasn’t clear to everybody in 1913 and 1933 and 1971 it should be very obvious now to anyone who chooses to think about it.
2 Likes
Meteorite Crashes In Germany – No Dinosaurs Were Killed
See also: Spectacular fireball: Meteorite crashes into Koblenz house | heise online
6 Likes
What gives me a bit hope in the desescalation of actual conflicts in middle east, if any, is the coming mid term elections in US.
1 Like
Oh we don’t do those anymore
4 Likes
Goodness, this is so, so, SO dark 
1 Like
2 Likes
Wow these celebrities are really jacking my style.
1 Like
I’ve been using wired headphones for a long time because it’s one less thing that needs to be charged.
Not to mention if you had something like AirPods or similar you can just lose one or both of them, and they’re not exactly cheap to replace.
But sure it could be just a trend thing, or Bluetooth connectivity being hit or miss etc.
1 Like
5 Likes
Hey this seems like slightly good news! BBC is paywalled (since when?) but elsewhere I read
Meta must pay $4.2 million in combined compensatory and punitive damages, and YouTube must pay $1.8 million.
That’s nothing to them but pretty good for one person who was harmed. Now let’s see them compensate everyone who was subjected to harmful mental and social manipulation, including non-consensual experimentation …
4 Likes
Not for me, at least not at the moment, but you can use the archive.
2 Likes
The last gasp for the idea of personal responsibility. Now the floodgates are open unless this is reversed. Just imagine all those go-addicted people suing the go servers. And confectioners, look out!
It is highly unlikely that this is the case.
Unless we can review the actual legal documents and see the decision in detail, the most possible assumption is that the companies where found liable not for providing a service (which is perfectly legal and harmless), but maliciously pushing that service via their algorithms to young/vulnerable people with the explicit intent to create an addiction to them.
Without proving that the other party had intent and maliciousness, it is very hard to get convicted and since they were, it is a safe assumption that those were proven in the court and they will be the basis of whatever appeal might come afterwards.
The article indicates this was probably so:
So, this is vastly different than a Go server or a confectionary business, even if Go and sugar can be addicting.
2 Likes
You are kidding yourself, both in your conclusion and in your rationalizations (or excuse making).
The go example was a reductio ad absurdum to be provocative. However, the addition of sugar to a vast range of processed foods, to take a real example, has been a comparable issue for decades. Now people opposed to that have a strong foundation to go forward with legal or legislative action. Similarly, casinos and other gambling enterprises become a ripe target for legal looting.
You underestimate the appetite of individuals and governments for legalized looting of people, businesses, and corporations, through taxes, fees, corrupt laws, lawsuits and other almost innumerable means.
However, I remain optimistic, perhaps naively, that this decision will be reversed.
2 Likes