It might be that bad. Most ‘damage’ (as publishers see it) comes from distribution, not the download itself. Depending on how they acquired the books, it might be not be much of a problem.

If productivity increases by x% they are going to fire x% of the workforce and give the saved money to themselves.

Or more realistically, they fire x+5 percent, just to see if you work slaves can’t be worked a bit harder.

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM “decided” that you probably are a terrorist…

I hope everyone always calls ICE on them, whenever someone notices these rich immigrants.

Even if they don’t take them into custody, wasting both their time would be a good start.

There is a reason a lot of countries have travel warnings against the US

I hope she finds the strength to leave the US and find a job and home outside of the US. The jobs in the USA are mostly exploitative - not surprising with the labor laws as weak as they are.

Yes, I think a lot of Americans are not aware that there are official travel warnings against going to the United States and for good reasons.

See, moderate Democrats are just right wing. Republicans are closer to fascist. Your whole political spectrum has been wandering to the right for quite a while now. “Radical left” Democrats would be centrist anywhere else.

It’s an elder scrolls game… It’s going to be modded into … Oblivion

What we need is a police force of negotiators and social workers.

A police officer should only get a job after a mandatory time spent as a social worker and a expensive study of law and peaceful conflict resolving.

Before that: no weapons and no authority.

Also accountability: every bullet and every taser use has to be explained. Cams 24/7 on the job, disabling them should be a grounds for immediate expulsion.

Oh and of course, cops should no longer be above the law.

I think this would also scare away a lot of the people who become police officers for the wrong reasons.

Yes, I believe it could be possible to have good cops - it’s just not possible under the current system. Hell, the current system is a deterrent to good cops.

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

How the hell are we supposed to install it without a Internet connection? I worked in a company that was so hard on security that only certified machines were allowed access to the net, so virtual machines were not allowed to access the LAN and therefore the Internet. Generally not a problem as we just used them to test software on different OS versions, so no Internet required.

This change disallows all offline installs. What is their gain? Are they that keen on our data or are they planning to use the connection to a Microsoft account for something even worse than just selling personal information? I could think of a few reasons and none are nice…

Reminds me of this joke:

Two worker see their boss arrive in a fancy car. The older worker sees the envy in his younger colleges eyes and says “You like the car? Well, if you really put in the time - you know, really work hard and do a lot of overtime - for a few years? Just work yourself to the bone. And that might just be enough… for him to buy another.”

You can understand Peterson better if you remember that he is very Christian. If you believe that God personally looks out for humanity, how could climate change be happening?

Tech could make our life easier, if only the fruits of increased efficiency would go towards us all instead of the few rich people at the top.

Ha! That was one of the things I did in the Sims (don’t remember which version). Ended up dating the mail(wo)man.

Power corrupts. It’s human nature to test out the limits of what you are allowed to do. No limits? Then the only limit is your conscience, if you have one.

He who mostly works with his head is a office drone.

I would love to just use signal and nothing else, but I would loose contact to most of my friends and family.

I tried to convince them, without success.

Well it’s a fucking ghost, I would keep it, too.