Eh, that’s their software side. Google doesn’t do that with hardware infrastructure like data centers.

To be honest, I’m surprised Google/Alphabet hasn’t tried to get into running their own reactor by this point. Energy seems like the one thing they haven’t touched yet.

But then you can’t sell your customer’s data for profit. Even if you don’t now, you still have that option in the future.

Amazing what happens with adequate funding. How long until Republicans open some sort of bullshit Congressional investigation that won’t find anything but waste time and money, and as usual try to reduce funding by obviously punitive levels?

Surprisingly fast for a government organization to react to something new.

Oh I’m sure that’s the case for nearly all large social media and network systems based on the US. I’m also willing to bet that for some of these companies, almost no one even knows it’s there, either because a 3 letter agency put it there themselves without being noticed, or an employee implemented it for them without corporate approval.

The US is worried about other countries doing this because we 100% are doing it ourselves. From a national security perspective, it’s basically common sense. Ensure you have access to everything, even if you don’t use it now, you might in the future and it will save time.

A wiretap is different than having something like backdoor access at will for military use.

The problem is that not all of those terminals are being purchased by Ukraine, or supplied through official channels. There are tons of equipment being donated from third parties not directly affiliated, including Starlink terminals.

That’s great if the Ukraine military were the only users in the region, but they aren’t. Regular Starlink service is available in the country, outside military use. Even though the Ukraine military is using it, Starlink is not designed to be a military network. It is a civilian network that just happens to be available and extremely useful in this case, even with the Russian attempts to interfere with signals in the region.

Yeah, but it’s not a government satellite system, it’s an independent Internet provider. It is always possible that the US government/military has access on the back end, but that’s not guaranteed. And since Ukraine is using Starlink, they can’t exactly just disable all access in the region.

Kind of makes sense for Russia to try and use Starlink at least a bit to test the waters and see what sort of Intel the US has access to directly through it.

They do, but Ukraine uses Starlink, so they can’t really disable usage entirely in the contested areas. They could disable the individual terminals, but that would require knowing which ones the Russians were using in the first place.

It was everywhere when the process first started. But like most news after a couple days it gets replaced. Especially with all the other crazy shit in modern society.

You know guys, I’m starting to think what we heard about Altman when he was removed a while ago might actually have been real.

/s

Polanco, Mansour and Reilly are three of five police officers the city has fired for testing positive for cannabis, despite a state law that made cannabis legal and another law that stated police officers cannot be disciplined in any way for off-duty cannabis use.

None of the five officers were accused of using cannabis on the job or being under the influence while working.

If I’m reading this correctly, the issue is really just a federal law about Schedule I drug use. Cannabis is in the process of being rescheduled out of Schedule I by the DEA, currently in a mandatory 60 day public comment period. So if that were completed already, this wouldn’t even be an issue now.

Seems pretty straightforward that this is the right call of what to do here since the only reason we’re even talking about it is bureaucratic delays with the federal process. Unless I’m missing some additional context here.

And what would the Republican response be? The exact same, or even worse, they care even less about people in general unless they are millionaire donors.

Because no third party is winning this election, so those are the two actual results possible. Any other choice won’t accomplish anything at all, no matter what you keep telling yourself. In the real world, at this time, voting for a 3rd party doesn’t teach the major parties anything. It just throws your vote away. Which you are free to do, but don’t think you’re somehow better than others voting for a candidate that could actually be in office. 3rd party candidates can say whatever they want, they’ll never have to actually follow through on any of it.

Because nobody with the ability to change it wants to change it. They don’t see criminals as people. And it doesn’t matter that the person is not actually a criminal. They somehow think that innocent people being free shows them as somehow being soft on crime, because it requires compassion which is clearly a weakness, or something they just don’t experience, because they’re a sociopath. There’s a reason so many “successful” people show sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies, it lets them do things others aren’t willing to do.

Tariffs in general aren’t new, but Trump’s tariffs were applied haphazardly and poorly determined because he doesn’t understand what they are. Avoiding that uncertainty entirely is a good idea.

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Unless you’re posting radical left propaganda (actual radical, not what the Republicans say is radical) you’ll be downvoted to hell and never get any actual conversation or discussion out of it. Trying to have an actual discussion here is a waste of time and effort that would be more effectively used elsewhere.

That won’t stop them either. They’ll just use it anyway. These companies never delete anything they might be able to use. At least not willingly.

You think that will stop them? They’ll just do it and pay a comparatively small fine to the government in a decade after they get around to investigating it. And that’s the best case scenario. More realistically nothing will ever happen.

For all we know it could have been requested years ago by developers who have apps that get pirated but there was no mechanism in place to implement it at the time, and wasn’t a priority.

Just because it’s beneficial to Google maintaining more direct control now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the origin.