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absolutely. but i think there's at least some evidence that lack of appropriate fluoridation is beneficial. certainly in my anecdotal example (ofc, i didn't grow up in this town and every town in the US has wildly different fluoride levels in the municipal water systems).

i agree with this esp. when the parent linked a wiki page that, if you go beyond the single photo on the page and read it, is completely counter to the comment.

i'm confused too, but ty parent for making me aware of vision zero.

you mean the company that spent $9B to make $4B in 2024? that openai?

i agree with you on this - it seems that openai hallucinates reality as much as their products do :-/

when kids during the napster era were downloading music, the mega-corporations yelled that their bottom-lines to shareholders were being destroyed.

now, when the mega-corporations do it, it is 'just the cost of doing business'.

in both cases, the mega-corporations win because...they have the most money. law, and certainly justice, is not for the poor. at least not in america.

this was the comment i was looking for! i remember those red pages and found them annoying on even legitimately purchased games (which is how copy protection has always been IME - makes it so legitimate purchasers of a game got annoyed and hence, got cracks for games to just not be as annoyed!)

> but over time it became clear it didn't.

are profits spiralling downward? are these businesses, overall, making less profit? because of remote workers?

or is it closer to the truth to say that no amount of profit - or asserting authority over workers - is ever enough and since companies are in a position of power to squeeze blood from a stone, they will?

> Many organizations seem to believe they can sidestep this conflict by remaining neutral.

you can't be neutral on a moving train.

if you think it is bad now, and this will 'blow over,' history is there to prove you wrong.

let's be more direct and truthful - ibm directly aided the third reich in their despicable actions. full stop.

for sure. but if ANY of that kind of thing gets in the way of profits, well then that's not OK. in capitalism, profit is the only thing that matters. CSAM? drugs? underage use? pfft.

until this country gets serious about this stuff - and don't hold your breath on that - this is the absolute acceptable norm.

i'm an american and it is is exactly stuff like this that causes me to avoid using services like this like the plague if i can avoid them.

despite living here, privacy to me is important. if i were this woman, i'd not let it go at all - don't give these scumbag companies agency to do what they want with impunity.

> Because empathy isn't useful to society.

things that lack empathy: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths things that are problematic to society: corporations, machines, AI, psychopaths

would WSL work? (sorry, not used windows in a hot minute...)

this. and let's not forget that these....officers always receive the best, most top notch training to use these things safely. (/s)

yet another reason to ensure footage looks like 'nothing terrible happened to these people' as expertly trained cop uses a weapon of war against civilians.

the GOP: "states' rights! states' rights!!"

also the GOP: "not those rights! only the rights we want to share"