kerrigan778 @ kerrigan778 @lemmy.world

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Ok, it didn't sit right with me (still doesnt) so I looked up how the heck this is even allowed. Turns out Uber in their infinite wisdom is allowing teens 13-17 to make uber profiles in select cities. Personally I am far from ok with that BUT, I did find out some relevant information. Turns out you can only create an uber account as a teen if the account is linked to a guardians uber account that gives you permission, and gives notifications and live trip tracking to that guardian. So this absolute clown is either lying or when his kid went missing he reached for his gun before and without reaching for his phone and actually checking his notifications to see if his parent tracking stuff knew anything about where his kid was, or maybe a friends parents knew where she was or even the police. Nope, just got the gun even though he would have had to have known his kid had an uber account and that he had access to its tracking.

Y'know, everything else aside it is profoundly inappropriate for rideshare contractors to be driving unaccompanied minors. They are not background checked at all the same way taxi drivers need to be. I'm kind of shocked uber allows it and that drivers feel comfortable with it. Obviously first and foremost this is an incredibly irresponsible (and dangerous to society) parent but holy shit, a rideshare corporation go ahead is not adequate for a kid to get into a strangers car.

It has been a long time since people only lived at home because they didn't have real jobs or are in school. Many are also likely to need cars so they can get to work (because most places in America you need a car), there is a decent chance they are paying for some amount of healthcare out of pocket as well. Rent is unaffordable as hell.

I don't disagree but it's frustrating to somebody who cares and is knowledgeable about a topic to have people militantly try to outlaw and poorly regulate it while not having critical knowledge and understanding on the topic. There's a reason gun people tend to be very irritated by a lot of the anti-gun crowd.

If your suburban/urban neighbor knows what model of gun you have and you aren't hunting/shooting buddies then you're doing something horribly wrong and are definitely a scary neighbor regardless of what type of gun it is.

Rephrased: 54% of young Americans live with their parents or in large communal housing and still struggle to afford food.

Ethically and logically it seems like output based on training data is clearly derivative work. Legally I suspect AI will continue to be the new powerful tool that enables corporations to shit on and exploit the works of countless people.

That license would require chatgpt to provide attribution every time it used training data of anyone there and also would require every output using that training data to be placed under the same license. This would actually legally prevent anything chatgpt created even in part using this training data from being closed source. Assuming they obviously aren't planning on doing that this is massively shitting on the concept of licensing.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/bearattacks.htm Nope, black fight back, brown lay down is still the recommendation. Cover the back of your neck however you can and curl up and play dead.

Yeah and black bears are skittish enough and small enough that you have a good chance of scaring it away or hurting it. A brown bear is just too big for you to have any use in fighting back, but luckily brown bears are territorial and most of the time they just want to scare you away or get rid of a rival, so play dead and they'll usually leave you unscathed enough to live.

I know this is mostly a joke post but if a black bear (or any color man) attacks you the best move IS generally to fight back.

Threatening use of nukes is a decent scare tactic to make the western bloc hesitant to get more involved. Actually doing it would virtually guarantee the hammer was dropped on them.

Oh that's what they did with the Active series, thank goodness I thought they'd stopped doing them.

They're all sealed theoretically, but shit goes wrong like in Flint, still having the lead pipes with sealers is theoretically not dangerous but is considered a bit of a ticking time bomb.

Ah yes, China, a well known bastion of civil liberties.

I meant padding their numbers like that yes.

That would be pretty obvious fraud, I doubt that.

That doesn't change that we simply don't have ways of curing or treating lots of things. If he's developing Alzheimer's for example no amount of money can do much of anything.

As a Jew I have never felt less respected by Congress than them appropriating the concept of antisemitism to further their own oppressive political ends. Fuck it's so gross.

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