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Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by merman »

bsenftner wrote: post #267

This event has been written on the walls of the USA since those smart speakers and cel phones first appeared. The average US citizen has been conditioned to believe the 'regulation' is 'evil government' and not protection from established abusive practices - that's how regulations get created: someone (usually a corporation) abuses a public resource or good so extremely that laws are written to prevent that. Of cours…

Parent comment is nearly diametrically opposed to “intellectual curiosity” and is the top comment. the one-sidedness of this site is quite a big problem. Both the community and the mods need to fight against the current here.

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Post by latexr »

pc86 wrote: post #301
latexr wrote: post #286

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> which is anomalously high in the US for reasons that even experts in maternal death cannot explain Doesn’t seem like a mystery that a country who is so “pro-life” they’d rather let women die than properly treat miscarriages has a high maternal death rate. https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/27/texas-abortion-death...

Abortion has nothing to do with it. Abortion laws vary state to state from very restrictive to very permissive, and even states with much more permissive abortion laws than the majority of Europe, maternal mortality remains higher. Wisconsin's abortion law is from before the Civil War and its maternal mortality is lower than Massachusetts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/mmr-2018-2022-st... Personally I t…

A miscarriage is not a voluntary abortion. The point is not to criticise these cases specifically, but to point out there is a cultural underpinning to the problem. To treat someone appropriately, you have to respect them and not be constantly afraid that what you’re doing will get you in trouble.

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Post by Hikikomori »

bruce511 wrote: post #159
jajko wrote: post #139

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Well, depends what your goals are. Agile economy focused on health of companies, high revenue, and ability to quickly adapt to changing environment? US is great for that. It sucks to be the bottom 70% maybe, OK till maybe 95% and great above. EU focuses more on quality of life of all individuals, free access to healthcare and education, one just doesn't have these potentially very risky or destroying aspects of life…

Trust me, if you own your own company anywhere, 50 days paid vacation is unlikely. Owners tend to work more, not less. Or let me be more flippant- sure I get 50 paid days off a year. I call it Sunday.

If we use Elon as an example regular CEOs probably have 300+ days off.

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Post by tjridesbikes »

AmVess wrote: post #303
ropejumper wrote: post #273

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This requires a justification for why home size is a good indicator of quality of life, or for why it's more important than other indicators.

Small homes just plain suck. No room to do anything, stuffy, cramped. GF and I moved, rented a house for a month. 1400 square feet. 700 up, 700 down. Tiny and cramped, and it only had one very small bathroom. We had to sleep on different floors. Master bedroom was barely larger than the queen bed, and no way 2 people could sleep in there because it would get blazing hot in minutes. Garage was similarly minuscule. GF…

What are you on about? My wife and I live in a total of 1000 square feet in a Boston triple-decker and get along totally fine. We have a basement for storage and a parking space for our car. Somehow, we're both able to work from home without getting in each other's way, have space to do our own things, and temperature regulation is a non-issue with mini-splits. We even have a shared yard!

Maybe the space wasn't laid out well. I would imagine, with only 700 sq ft per floor, a good portion of that is taken up by the stairs. My condo is a flat in a 100-year-old building, built before the "open concept" plans came into vogue. It means out rooms are separated and lets my wife and I do different things in different parts of the house.

People used to raise families in these old buildings with 1000 square feet. Their third-spaces weren't taken over by profit-seeking companies and their interests took them outside the home. 2000 square feet for 2 people seems utterly ridiculous!

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Post by rapind »

balamatom wrote: post #325
influx wrote: post #302

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So should I be sending my kids to government schools or home schooling?

False dichotomy. After a certain age you should let them have a voice in their educational goals, and before they are able to express their preferences you should be helping them figure out what those are. You should be creating a family environment where your kids feel like people, and where they feel safe no matter what happens. You should be teaching your children to think critically and stand up for what they bel…

> If you don't have a self-consistent set of ethical values, and expect everyone else to determine those for you, I hate to break it to you, but you shouldn't have had kids.

Clevon's not listening to this slop and neither should anyone else.

Unless you're a total psycho, go ahead and have kids. They are wonderful and life changing. They'll probably make you a better person. You don't need to be a perfect parent. You don't need to read a bunch of heavily marketed books on how to be a good parent. You don't need to listen to internet hero advice. You'll figure it out.

Re: The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

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Post by balamatom »

crims0n wrote: post #298
bsenftner wrote: post #267

This event has been written on the walls of the USA since those smart speakers and cel phones first appeared. The average US citizen has been conditioned to believe the 'regulation' is 'evil government' and not protection from established abusive practices - that's how regulations get created: someone (usually a corporation) abuses a public resource or good so extremely that laws are written to prevent that. Of cours…

I think you are vastly underestimating how many of us choose to play the game, whilst simultaneously being aware of how shitty it is.

So what does this awareness gain you, other than a constant background suffering of cognitive dissonance?

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Post by hartator »

bsenftner wrote: post #267

This event has been written on the walls of the USA since those smart speakers and cel phones first appeared. The average US citizen has been conditioned to believe the 'regulation' is 'evil government' and not protection from established abusive practices - that's how regulations get created: someone (usually a corporation) abuses a public resource or good so extremely that laws are written to prevent that. Of cours…

> that's how regulations get created: someone (usually a corporation) abuses a public resource or good so extremely that laws are written to prevent that.

You forgot that it’s the usually that very same abusing company that will write these regulations for “ethics” and “protecting the customers”.

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Post by unethical_ban »

robertlagrant wrote: post #211
disattention wrote: post #202

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This is a kind of stoic virtue signal that may make people feel more mature for agreeing, but fails to fix issues while mocking people who try to make a difference. It's ok for people to feel things, and it's ok for people to want laws addressing anti-consumer behavior.

> This is a kind of stoic virtue signal that may make people feel more mature for agreeing, but fails to fix issues while mocking people who try to make a difference. None of these comments are fixing issues or trying to make a difference. Sending the product back is a really good idea, especially if this change in terms means you can get a refund even if you've had it a long time.

"We should have a framework that prohibits companies from selling a product with a certain agreement, then changing the agreement unilaterally"

That isn't trying to make a difference? Excuse me? Read that back.

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Post by pmarreck »

crims0n wrote: post #327
influx wrote: post #302

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So should I be sending my kids to government schools or home schooling?

My wife and I homeschool because we feel we can provide a better education to our kids than the local public schools can - making this decision after giving them a trial run. If you do decide to homeschool, it is important that you never grow complacent in how much responsibility you are taking on. So many families around us homeschool for religious/dogmatic reasons and the quality of their kids education is a second…

> tend to do worse

That's a subjective evaluation, no? ;) I'm sure their parents would say they did way better on the religion/dogmatism ruler!

> So many families around us homeschool

This seems like the "gateway drug" to cult indoctrination and worries me.

I'm going in completely the other way- My son (who will be 4 in June) is going to a good public school system here for socialization reasons, and I will supplement that with whatever I can (such as the critical-thinking skills I have acquired which were never taught to me). Additionally, I refuse (despite having a Catholic family) to indoctrinate him into ANY religion before he learns critical thinking first, because I will make an argument that this is no different than "grooming", except for "worldview control" instead of "sexual control".

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