IMHO you didn’t make it sound less mad.
If coffee is made by pouring boiling water over coffee beans grinds, I would expect the temperature of the final product to be scalding hot. I would even go so far as to call it a feature.
Warning: Knives may cause injury. Well, yes, the whole point of them is to be sharp enough to cut something.
I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.
I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.
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I sat next to a teacher the other day who did just that. Every single paper was graded by an AI. It actually shocked me.
Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game.
I play that at least twice on a long flight.
Hang in there dude. It’s over before you know it.
I wouldn’t ban. I would make it liable for anything that gets written on it unless it can positively identitfy the user writing it. The supply it with the identify framework that allows it to anonymously identify the users and require it to only show identified users. I guarantee it that 99% of the bullshit, bots, AI slop disappears overnight and real people might actually be able to interact with each other again.
Russia Today commenting about X, the EU and Musk, posted by jackeroni.
It’s a turducken of misinformation.
Ja men det vil den amerikanske regering jo også officielt, så han passer ind i skabelonen.
Love them both for who they are and never compare them.
In the EU framework, the certifying authorities are the same that issue your passport, your driving license; the state. I fail to see the issue with allowing them to issue another proof of who I am.
The risk is tracking. The way the EU mandates this framework is built requires zero knowledge built into the system. Then you can definitely say “they lie”, but if you believe your government would lie about this, then you already believe they would lie about all the other million ways they could track you, if it wasn’t illegal for them to do so. You’re really not giving up anything you haven’t already given up when the national state was formed as a concept. And in this case we gain a lot, namely keeping profit and “engagement” out of having a conversation online. Eventually you have to trust someone - I’d prefer my democratically elected government (but I acknowledge that I live in places where I have that luxury).
I’m super calm about this. This is based on rational analysis and technical knowledge about how the framework for this can work.
I wish to clip the wing feathers of every single US tech giant spewing their right wing, authoritarian bullshit straight into the eyeballs of every democratic citizen in Europe. I wish to do it calmly, and I am convinced it can be done.
There is 100% a route to verifying identity without privacy invasion. EU’s framework mandates ZKPs and the trial states are building it accordingly. No one will know who is verifying, where they verify, when or what they verify. The site itself will simply know “this is a legit person”.
I’m giving you an upvote, of course, because I believe in rational debate even if we disagree.
I’m not willing to sacrifice our democracy and the health of our children (I’ve got four, ages 4-18, I see the impact amongst them and their friends) on the altar of tech giants’ profit.
We hold press accountable. We ourselves are held to account for what we say IRL. Why does all that look different on social media just so Zuckerberg and Musk can line their pockets and enable platforms for non-democratic actors to involve themselves in our democracies?
It’s now official US policy to undermine European unity and support right wing nationalists.
I say bring those US tech giants to heel. We don’t have to turn into another America here, by making the same mistakes.
If Musk is against it, I’m almost always for it.
Who do you believe would form a government then?
(I lament at our de facto two party system and our laughable first past the post voting system)
“MetaAlphabetAmazon once again refuses calls for universal basic income: ‘if people wanted handouts they should have stolen the world’s IP like we did’”
My wife and I have four kids. I’m speaking with a thousand yard stare here.
First of all, having kids is BY FAR the best thing that ever happened to me.
But it didn’t feel that way in the beginning.
I won’t use “you”, but “I”. I can’t guarantee that my experience will be mirrored by you. But I can say that the fathers I know well enough to have open conversations with on this topic broadly agree with this.
It’s great you’re asking these questions. You’ll no doubt get lots of good answers. So I won’t pile on.
But I wish to tell you something I completely didn’t understand.
The first year of the first kid is HARD. It’s hard for mummy; even harder if she’s breastfeeding.
But it will be super hard for you too. Because everyone will just expect you to be “supportive daddy” and buck up. Meanwhile you’ll be going through your own journey. Your journey isn’t visible. Your stomach isn’t contracting. Your weight isn’t shifting (well, only by reaching for easy meal options at least) and (if mummy is breastfeeding) you’re not the one with sore nipples or mastitis.
There were times when I quietly, in the dark, trying to lull baby to sleep, asked myself “what have I done?” … “is this my life now?!”
I felt I completely disappeared. My end credits had rolled. I was a supporting actor in somebody else’s film.
And the crucial experience I missed was this: It doesn’t last long.
But man it felt endless. I felt utterly worn out and with no “tour of duty” end date ahead.
It’s over before it even begins. Each day today is the hardest day you’ll do on this. Tomorrow will be easier. Next week easier than that. In a month even easier.
And gradually, slowly, I returned. “I” became an entity again. I had time do something for me.
What I wished someone had told me was this very thing: It won’t be long. It’s hard but it’ll be much easier soon.
Enjoy it! Kids are just the very best thing you’ll ever do. (But only after a while).
Hvor er du et dejligt menneske! Jeg glæder mig allerede
No of course I wouldn’t prefer living in a place where legal safety standards are ignored or non-existent. But that isn’t what I said either, so I refute your false dilemma argument :)
I don’t know the details of the lawsuit. I was merely commenting that the description of the case from the post I replied to didn’t make it make more sense. Your post did, though, so thank you for that. For what it’s worth in the UK and Denmark, the two countries I know well enough, the temperature of hot drinks don’t have a legal maximum and any liability would fall under “protecting customers from foreseeable harm” broad health and safety regulations.
So the question, at least from a legal perspective is what is foreseeable. Can coffee made with boiling water be foreseen to be scalding?
Certainly in the UK, case law suggest exactly that a hot drink should be foreseen to be scalding and therefore it is not negligent to serve it at scalding temperatures; see Bogle v McDonalds (2002) - https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2002/05/recent-case-on-the-supply-of-hot-drinks