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Many algorithms aren’t even doing that in good faith, instead substituting in their low-cost contract cover bands as often as they can.

It’s a false choice. Metal straws are ideal, but cellulose straws are still better than both paper and plastic.

I’ve been saying since GWB cancelled climate action that the US has no continuity of honor in international agreements.

What could be more human than that?

The moratorium is actually since 2000, but only since 2006 in its current form. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technology

Thankfully, no country, much less any multinational corporation, would ever dare cross the UN’s nonbinding, unenforceable moratorium. Can you imagine how stern the tone of the statement of condemnation would be, once it was worded such that a reasonable plurality of countries would agree to back it?

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/

🎤 Tap, tap, is this thing on? Posting again, even though this joke is probably only for me.

Presumably, this is F W DeMorgan’s Law.

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Zero that axis, please.

I didn’t even know they had GPS that long ago.

If voters bear no responsibility, do you really believe in democracy, or are you thinking about this as an issue to be solved by authority?

The self-righteousness of this discussion is a problem. Politics requires some humility, which we seem to be short of.

Criticism still needs to be based on something real in order for it to be valid.

And yet, in the end, yours only amounts to what you consider “likely”.

Let’s hold up on the self-congratulations a second.

There’s a very long way between a multinational corporation’s published policy and the practice at street-level, even if yesterday is the only report (so far). Is this a franchise? What authority does the store have contractually, or in practice? Is the policy enforced? Is there a history of enforcement? Was this a rogue employee, maybe a recent hire, with a political motivation?

Did you check the original thread https://x.com/AmmahStarr/status/1804608613916328334 for the context of the discussion? Did you check the account for a history of “rage-bait” before dismissing this woman’s experience?

Skepticism is important, but caping for corps is seldom necessary. They pay people for that.

I hear you, too many are SUVs or “crossovers” (still “light trucks” for the purposes of scamming gov’t regulations) as well.

But I’m pretty happy with my Leaf. 🤷

Somebody is really pushing an anti-EV narrative.

The Leaf is a reasonable size, the Ioniq 6 as well I think.

Their myopic crusade will doom the whole planet.

Touché. Hit a nerve, I guess.

I’m pretty sure they only care about their performative solipsism.