Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the slowest man in America.
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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life"
"we have inconvenienced our end user for the purpose of begging for data, and we will assume that whatever we collect was given in good faith" is an absolutely wild opinion to hold in this year of our lord 2025.
Powerful people feeding that data into an AI in order to outsource decision-making is both predictable and insane. We are about to enter an epic era of rake-stepping.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but there is *no* "preferred ad experience". WTF. It's like asking me which ear I would prefer to get an infection in or whether I would "recommend excel to a friend". Data science folks at every company have lost their collective minds.
@radicalrobit Betteridge's law comes to mind here
@hajovonta @randahl it's a central conceit of conservatism that there is an in group who the law must protect but not bind and an outgroup who the law must bind but not protect.
@stux Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'
-- Terry Pratchett
@godpod I'm pretty sure the folks calling up to buy a couple thousand of them understand they are not buying phones.
@Euan the first season of the reboot got me the same way with The Weakest Link episode.
Sometimes I wish I had the patience to see people the way Terry Pratchett did.
Lol, why is my version of The Atlantic app the Staging version. That does not seem right...
