I’m OOTL, what happened to Kbin?

Why is that car so comically big? Shouldn’t your shoulders be in line with the roof, not the hood?

Well, taxation means fewer billionaires meaning less money in politics meaning more chance for sane people to be elected meaning less guns and genocide.

Take the case of self-checkouts.

Money is missing from the tally at the end of the day.

In one case, you have an employee as cashier. You can reprimand them, in some jurisdictions even take it from their pay.

What do you do with a machine if money is missing? It may be a tricky customer/thief, it may be just that the machine is not always 100% accurate in certain circumstances, maybe you skimped out on maintenance one too many times. Who do you blame?

That’s why there are no vending machines for certain types of goods, or no self-checkouts at car dealerships or “bad neighbourhoods”. Sometimes the risk component is too high.

Obviously, automation is changing work, and you can make cheaper robots that will be cheaper than working someone to do the same thing. All I’m saying is there is a significant component next to the direct “pay vs. machine maintenance costs” question.

My point is that companies and employers have got used to a ton of leeway with workers, where they can offload a ton of risk to people just because they are employees.

See for example that one case when that US airline wanted to weasel out of honouring a deal offered by their chatbot. That’s them realizing they can no longer just say it’s been a mistake made by an employee, as there is no separate legal entity to push responsibility on.

The same with paying a wage lower than living wage. If they pay sub-living wages, then the onus to make up the rest needed to lead a life that enables you to work long term, thus the risk is on you instead of the employer. If they replace you with a robot, and skimp on its requirements, it will break, and there is nowhere to push the responsibility.

Maybe the manufacturing materials, but Israel has built its own tanks since forever.

And if he can, who else can?

You do actually have to pay them more than minimum wage, if you think about it.

Minimum wage in many countries is so low it’s not enough to sustain a human. You can’t do it to a robot, since it will just not do its job, no matter how many regulators you capture or how many middle management manipulations you pull. You have to pay a living wage to a robot.

This is why “people are still cheaper than robots”. What happens if there’s a 20% wave of inflation? With workers, it’s “we don’t give out 20% pay raises, grow up”, with robots, it’s “here is your power bill, it’s 30% higher to cover for any further fluctuations in inflation, pay it or shut your factory down”.

Robots need breaks too, if they are not regularly maintained they will start to make mistakes, costly mistakes, and they might break, and when one breaks, you don’t just recruit one more wage slave from the fucked up job market, you shell out a lot of money for a new robot.

And what about bacteria? Hope they disinfect the brick beforehand.

And viruses? Do viruses live?

Well, the US is phasing out AR rifles in favour of German HK rifles anyway, so they have to put those stockpiles somewhere.

That tank looks more like an M48 Patton (judging by the turret) than a Sherman, or an M60 Patton (judging by the track shape).

The Sherman is WWII, the M48 is Korean War era, the M60 would be Vietnam, so it would make sense in 1967 that it’s an M48.

So then, it was never about the hostages, and always about the genocide and territorial gains?

I imagine it’s a recessive trait, so even if all the first settlers had it, most people a few generations down would not have it, only if there was an external force driving evolution, meaning people with other eye colours couldn’t reproduce as well.

They have always been racist, but the populists taking advantage of them use Russian tactics and are backed by Russia.

Stuff like Trump and Brexit is not normal, and it’s not just happening spontaneously because all the racists decided to be more overt at the same time around the world.

Russia created a network of wannabe autocrats, and they are pushing each other all across the globe.

That’s it, that’s most of all of it.

Lol, yes.

The real question is, what if you commission a work from another, and they make you something in a completely automated way. Let’s say a vending machine. Are you responsible for what the vending machine does if you use it as it’s supposed to be used? Or is it the owner of the machine?

Why is it different for LLM text generators?

To be honest, most news outlets. You never know who owns what.

For example, Euronews was bought by Orbán aligned peeps a few years back. It’s not blatant propaganda now, but something similar has happened in Hungary before, where a news site (index.hu) has been bought and continued to be sane, only to go on full blast at critical moments.

It’s insanely insidious.

Is this not about South Asia? Like India?

Good.

Passing something like this would have been incredibly damaging to the EU.