If you need a service and every competing service has the same practice, then yes they are.

The t&c are not a separate contract, though. Its a “take it or leave it” signing here gets you the car and the agreement to be spied upon.

It can be very lonely being one of the only “good ones” in the world. It may be wise to consider the possibility that fewer creatures will suffer overall if you can get some legal wins toward that end, and legal wins cannot be gained by a tiny group with no allies.

Calling out good faith points made by people that essentially agree with your premise as intellectually dishonest is false, combative, and discourages any meaningful coalition that can do something about your cause. Acting out in a bitter fashion makes you more alone and politically powerless.

I am not saying they are sentient. I am more saying that it is impossible to establish an objective valuation scale for the lives of creatures. You can choose whatever subjective one you want, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that it is just our own, and even getting an army of like minded people doesn’t make you any more objectively right or wrong.

The one I choose for myself is to do what I can to minimize the suffering of any living thing I can, and avoid excess consumption. Some others are more absolute, choosing to abstain entirely from any part of the meat industry until every part of it has its act together. Others refuse to eat anything but beans and leaves, leaving the most minimal environmental impact possible. All of those and any that avoid waste and needless suffering seem valid to me and not worth the division.

Lacking photosynthesis, we have to kill to eat. The fact that plants don’t have faces and lack any common means of communication with us does not make them any less evolved than any other creature.

It is easy to think of them as inert objects that lack any sense of the world around them, but we already know that not to be the case. I think that understanding that makes it impossible to distinguish killing a plant or an animal. The best we can do is hold the lives we have to take in high regard by being humane, including to plants, and to avoid waste and frivolous killing.

Maybe not, but at least in part because they don’t understand what the previous poster said. If their scrapers were more efficient at data harvesting by employing API calls instead of scraping your whole domain, it would be much less burdensome on the target’s server resources and one would think they would be less annoyed by that than if the same thing had happened without that burden.

Their grievances with LLMs and their owners may not be limited to that, but they are certainly likely to include it.

They ware widely regarded as among the most villainous companies in history along with DeBeers and the East India Trading Company. Among their more infamous crimes against humanity include bribing the leaders of developing nations to sign over water rights to aquifers their people are using, which they take completely for bottling, destroying the local ecosystem and population. When the malnourished mothers can’t produce milk to feed their babies, they say things like “use our baby formula instead then, which is much healthier than natural milk”. If there’s not already a Behind he Bastards on them, someone could make a whole podcast just on their villainy.

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In this case, “doing your part” is probably accelerating the downfall of platforms you disapprove of by not participating in them. They have influence because of their critical mass, so leaving hurts them. They just don’t care or notice until they no longer have critical mass. No social media has ever regained it once lost.

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“What do you get for the guy that has everything?” 😂

Mr. “Platinum Yendorian Express” over here!

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I’m pulling for you over here! I never made it past the fortress right after Medusa.

Imagine my great sorrow when I discovered that turning Perseus back to a man didn’t make him tame! 🥺

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Are there actual phone games that would benefit from this? I haven’t had much luck finding games that are actually even much of a game at all, let alone ones that would benefit from gaming hardware.

Does anyone know of actual cool Android games to look at?

For the most part, the answer seems to be yes. Some products did also ship with missing or reduced feature sets for a time, too.

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While that’s true, world leaders and those backing them have learned well the known weaknesses in human psychology. They’ve figured out how to use this knowledge to make large groups of individuals believe falsehoods, and even convinced them that those stating the truth are the liars, despite what all evidence shows.

I think that to return the world to a state of stability, one of the first steps must include criminalizing and enforcement of public figures knowingly making false statements and those with no evidentiary backing.

I think that any victories for the common man gained before that can and will be temporary. The problem is that these ideologues have is much power as we want to allow them to have, but we as a group have been convinced/fooled/hacked into thinking that we want them to have as much power as they say they need, which is clearly to much to allow for a stable global society.

If we concentrate power so much that one person is all it takes to, say, tear up a treaty or trade agreement, we’re always one temper tantrum away from global unrest.

I just saw an ad for Alexa+ at a family member’s house and was a bit surprised initially. The last I had known about the personal home assistant market was that both Google and Amazon were growing bored with its lack of annually doubling revenue and were slow-walking their whole participation in it to the grave, slashing those departments and walking back forecasted products.

To the home automators like you and others, am I mistaken or has it seen a resurgence now that they realize they can take another crack at it with LLMs this time?