Yeah i think recycling plastic is possible, we just have to pay for it. If the market won’t bear it, simply make it a public service.
We can’t really tackle the climate and keep capitalism at the same time, they are completely contrary.
I know but that doesn’t have much to do with suppressing their own people, IMO.
What they do with dissidents and Uyghurs is pretty bad.
No, literally no. They went from empires to warlords to the CCP.
This is why they think it’s the only way. The CCP is really afraid of the people organising themselves (which makes some sense because it’s also how they themselves came to power)
But the CCP truly believes that they are doing it for the best.
It’s mostly actual people. I know some of them at different platforms (for some reason this city has become a bit of a moderation hub). Most of these companies take moderation very seriously and if AI is involved it’s so far just in an advisory capacity. Twitter being the exception because… well, Elon.
But their work is strictly internally regulated based on a myriad of policies (most of which are not made public especially to prevent bad actors from working around them). There usually isn’t much to discuss with a user nor could it really go anywhere. Before a ban gets issued the case has already been reviewed by at least 2 people and their ‘accuracy’ is constantly monitored by QA people.
Most are also very strict to their employees. No remote work, no phones on the workfloor, strong oversight etc… To make sure cases are handled personally and employees don’t share screenshots of private data.
And most of them have a psychologist on site 24/7. It’s not much fun watching the stuff these people get to deal with on a daily basis. I don’t envy them.
Unfortunately there’s another problem with archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today . Their owner has some beef with Cloudflare DNS and returns bogus results to them so anyone using 1.1.1.1 as DNS can’t visit them.
The Cloudflare side of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702 The archive side: https://twitter.com/archiveis/status/1018691421182791680
Note that that discussion was from 2019 but the situation was never resolved and the issue persists to this day.
Yet these companies do allow Google et al to index their stuff, otherwise the paywall bypass addons, archive.ph etc wouldn’t work. They want their cake and eat it. It’s super annoying to find something on Google and then be hit with a paywall. Totally bait and switch.
If there weren’t such great paywall-bypassing plugins I’d want a plugin that removes paywall sites from Google results, Lemmy submissions etc.
Also you really can’t expect a user to subscribe to a full subscription to read a handful articles a month.
At least offer a once off small payment but almost nobody does that.
And I’ll bet you use adblock too (I sure do) making it even more impossible.
Yes though the tracking is the most important reason there. If they just used untargeted ads it wouldn’t be such a problem.
Experts told the Vancouver Sun that Air Canada may have succeeded in avoiding liability in Moffatt’s case if its chatbot had warned customers that the information that the chatbot provided may not be accurate.
Just no.
If you can’t guarantee it’s accurate then don’t offer it.
I as a customer don’t want to have to deal with lying chatbots and then having to figure out whether it’s true or not.
Of course Elon is free to close twitter like this, as sad as it is. It’s his company (which already halved in value since he bought it…)
BUT, governments and officials really must stop using twitter for official communication at this point. It’s not OK to require people to make an account just to view their communication.
Our Dutch government actually set up their own Mastodon instance, but many politicians still continue to use twitter.
And they were built in Ireland where rain is not exactly rare. During a time when acid rain was a thing (unlike some people claim these days, acid rain was not a hoax, it was just pretty easy to solve with things like cat converters and regulations on industry and it was solved pretty quickly)
there’s a reason modern vehicles have rounded edges
Rounded edges and soft panels that crumple easily yes.
I’m glad these things aren’t permitted here in Europe.
Crude oil isn’t really something you’d find outside the shipping or refining industry though.
I think they’re just covering their assess with the oil thing.
It’s a typical status symbol, nothing else.
Usually defended with excuses like “I have kids so I must protect them with a 2 tonne tank”
Only small services with fewer than 50 employees and annual turnover of under €10 million (around $10.8 million) are exempt.
Wow. Great that this exception is there otherwise it would have killed all hobby forums and things like Mastodon and Lemmy.
Teflon aka PFAS that we now know we really don’t want crumbling off into the environment. Please no
There was a time when yes it did. Back when the manufacturers switched to more environmentally safe paints in the late 90s/early 00s.
But they got their ducks in a row quickly, these days it’s fine. Similar to the many solder ball cracking issues caused by lead free solder when it first appeared.
Full Self Destaining :)
Rust is just iron oxide, it’s not a big deal in food in small quantities.
Though alloys containing chromium might be a different story.
Also, iMessage will become even more irrelevant now because the other platforms like WhatsApp will be forced to interoperate. By not being part of this “hive”, iMessage will become even less appealing than the others.
They forgot to include the Nigerian prince in the story! Now nobody will believe it.