The victim’s statement here ends with an oddly volunteered tangent and specific praise of driverless vehicles, before it finally takes an eerie turn in the last sentence…

"…With that said, I think the Human Factor in this issue is going to be a lot harder to solve than anything else.” …FREEZE CITIZEN!

I do hope she’s okay, and those two folks seem to be clowns, but this thing also all reads as likely guerilla marketing for Waymo - who the article informs me, in a very capitalism-friendly turn of events, that they now have their service open to the public in 3 cities, cars have a safety feature that checked in with her multiple times and they “rewarded” her with an extra ride. It’s a light enough “crime”, with a very engineered feeling and enough to feel “real” while providing ready fodder for morning radio talk shows, Jimmy Fallon and good morning America talking heads to drone on about this morning across America as time filler that quietly advertises waymo “saving” a person from the scary outside world.

Note: Also, was very funny that throughout drafting my comment here “waymo” was constantly being autocorrected to “say no” :)

A.k.a. Twitter and the elon filtering moment

Wasn’t talking IP, meant more generally like how orgs like EA and Activision are the go to assholes in gaming, generally. Feel like I don’t hear about Nintendo in the more meaningful (In my opinion) microtransactions, mass layoffs, ridiculous price increases, attempts to kill physical media optionality, etc conversations…

As long as IP is the law we live under, I don’t really mind them enforcing that part. I think it was a bit lazy for palworld to blatantly ripoff Pokemon when they could be creative and make their own character universe. If you’re mad at IP law, go after your reps in government.

I mean, Nintendo isn’t typically the bad guy though, right? And palworld is a pretty clear like 1:1 rip, so…

I mean, good to challenge the “big” guy generally, but wrong target here specifically and weak case, right?

And none of the forced tech support “AI” replacements work. And the companies don’t give a shit.

They have actually started serving ads with a skip button… That only skips to the next ad.

This is specifically about TV apps.

Steam didn’t start with physical hardware and then try to remove it. And stream doesn’t design, own and operate the hardware for the most part.

Was always inching closer, but looks like android has fully outstayed its welcome. The revolving door of executives hit its last person with any integrity on the ass on their way out the door.

Physical media or full rejection. Fuck you business school zombies squeezing blood from rocks

Its subtle, but the tone of that article’s coverage actually sucks… Is futurism a piece of shit?

What a waste of my tax dollars by the DOJ to try to recover spotify´s money for a broken system that they left open and are honestly probably exploiting themselves in parallel to inflate engagement numbers and take streams away from legit artists that they have to play. Remember, they want you in their app, they don’t give a shit about actual music. If you’ll just listen to random boops, they save cost in the middle. Not where I want the justice systems effort to go.

What’s the last “bombshell scandal that would ruin a company” that actually ruined a company?

You wouldn’t download a collection of all the art and knowledge ever documented in the entire history of the known universe…

So funny that all the musk brigaders on here, in full force, can only collectively muster 4 downvotes…

You are the wet farts of humanity.

1000%, we need to demand minimum functionality or stop perpetuating these fucking things by purchasing flawed products from flawed companies.

You just risk staying in limbo if not direct/literal effigy IMO… All young males in general have the earned reputation of typically being oblivious of expressed female romantic advances (just search Reddit, you’ll see 300 posts speaking to this per day). On top of that general difficulty, you have the compounding factor of their atypical mental processing.

So do what you think is right. Hope it works out for you both.

Yes to fuck musk, but also…

“Commanding lead” equals other manufacturers also didn’t have a functioning feature (and still don’t now).

Freedom rations are going up this week from 10 to 8!

The nuerodivergent part suggests you’re going to just need to be direct.

“I really enjoy our friendship, it’s important to me. I want to make sure we keep that friendship regardless, but I’ve also realized I might be developing more romantic feelings for you that I’d like to explore together - maybe you’ve had thoughts/feelings like that about me before? If not, that’s cool, I just feel better having said it to you so it’s out of my head :) but yeah, I like you and I’d like us to get dinner on an actual date date sometime and see how we both feel. What do you think?”

Or there’s always Margaret Cho’s technique…

No worries. Just phrase as “What are some android games that are good for kids, age X - X, with a traditionally feminine or “girly” aesthetic?”

That asks your same question, without implying (intentionally or not) that all girls are a “princess that likes pink”