I’ll tell you what I told the other guy because you clearly didn’t read the article carefully, as is obvious from your comment.

Actually, I’ll word it a bit differently: based on the description of the image, show me beyond a reasonable doubt that there was ongoing “phone use”, as you just claimed. Those are your words, its what you just claimed, so you should have absolutely no issue explaining to me. Right?

Well, that is unless you go back and reread the article and realize that you won’t be able to. Not in a reasonable, legally sound manner anyway.

You need to go back and read the article because you obviously don’t understand what actually happened.

I mean, holy hell batman, people are actually losing their ability to read and comprehend what they just read and then go on weird tyrades while totally misrepresenting the substance of the article because they were too lazy to read more than every 50th word.

This is fucking scary guys. Get a fucking grip. It’s not that long and the language used is not that complex. Adults should be able to read and comprehend this short basic article, for fucks sake.

We are SO doomed as a species.

Calm down, Pol Pot. Before dehumizing everyone else and declaring yourself the guardian of all truth, consider this: admitting you made a basic mistake instead of going on an infantile tyrade about how people don’t deserve rights will go a long way for you personally. Do it for yourself, not for something or someone else.

Thank me later. Or don’t. Just as long as you try. There is no shame in making a mistake. Even less so in admitting it and apologising (quite the opposite actually). But there is a lot of shame in knowingly doubling down. It’s clear what happened. Just own up to it. With time, you will discover it’s almost like a super power. Your anxiety levels are also bound to go down.

Now go have a cold one and try and contemplate on the message without spewing vitriol toward the messengers.

I think reading comprehension mihht be a prerequisite for being an “enemy of the panoptic surveillance state”. You should look into that.

Yes, let’s just make the worst possible assumptions about every person in every situation ever. I mean, what could possibly be wrong with that?!

You might as well be saying “PLEASE SIR, TAKE MY RIGHTS AWAY, I’M TOO STUPID TO EXERCISE THEM ANYWAY”

From the way the image is described, there is no obvious reason to think the driver was distracted or otherwise impaired while driving. Moreover, the decision as to whether the driver was distracted by a phone wasn’t made by a law enforcement official. We most definitely don’t want to make this out to be “normal”.

Did you even read the article? Even the title gives some of this away…

While I agree with your overall sentiment, I also think that calling the article “useless and stupid” kind of ignores that the author explicitly states in the very first sentence that they can only present the perpesective of a long-time exclusive Linux user. Undoubtedly, had the author been a longtime user of both Linux and Windows, as is your case, then surely they would have had a different experience and conslusions all together.

I’m not saying the author isn’t biased in favour of Linux - all I am saying is that they seem to be pretty upfront about it from the very get go. Had they pretended to supposedly be writing an objective, scientifically valid comparison, then I would concede there is an element of stupidity. But that’s not the case - they’re pretty transparent as to who they are and what perspective they are describing their experience from.

Tldr: arguably its more like some sort of guilty-pleasure entertainment for Linux users rather than “stupid”

Exactly what I was thinking. Regardless of what one thinks about AI, it seems to me that only a long series of really bad a decisions could lead to something like this happening.

I’ve been waiting for Ubisoft’s collapse for years now. Unfortunately, the consumer has proved me wrong time and time again.

It’s a bull taking a s**t. Pretty cool

PS: Afaik*

Wait, is this a metaphore for billionaire CEOs?

And people say abortion is bad.

Not accoridng to them. They rightfully consider themselves Euroasian, and a growing number of Europeans see them that way too.

Thanks, good to know

Out of curiosity, is this something that can be circumvented by playing in a Windows VM?

It can be even nore basic than that. They just want to feel good about themselves and this is a sure-fire way. In the short-term. Terrible for long-term happiness.

Your intellectual disability helped me with my case study on information integrity! Thank you for not deleting these.

I think you are just repeating the same old talking points and conspiracy theories that we’re all well-familiar with without actually adding anything of substance or factology to the conversation.

Russia does not do the same. In fact, it does the exact opposite. It would be fantastic if Russia actually supported human rights and the rule of law instead of bombing children’s hospitals like Israel does.

I won’t touch the entertainement / Hollywood reference to soft power as that deserves a discussion in its own right.

But as someone who works with … or used to work with US diplomats abroad on a daily basis, I would urge you to educate yourself and people around you about the myriad of activities that US diplomats are engaged in. Contrary to conventional ‘wisdom’, US foreign policy consists of a lot more than bombing the Middle East and supporting Israel. Nobody talks or knows about all of the other things but I can tell you for a fact that American diplomats were (and in some cases still are) helping a lot of people in Eastern Europe. We were helping a lot of people. Shelters for the homeless, schools and museums for kids, whole new campuses for universities, orphanages, adn the list goes on, and on. There’s a reason why over 75% of state department employees working abroad are not republicans. They are not the people most think they are.

We were doing good work with the Americans here. We were helping children, we were exposing corrupt oligarchs. We were in this fight together, not just in Eastern Europe but all over the world. Yes, even the US Marines stationed at Constanza and Novo Selo, ready to fight should the Russkies anything, deserve respect. As one marine told me recently “Don’t worry, come what may, we will stay and fight with you”.

Then everything changed this year. My old American friends were replaced with incompetent political commissars sent by the new idiocratic regime in DC.

The US marines are still here though, and they are still ready to die. I’m just not sure if its worth it anymore.

TLDR: Educate yourself and resist the temptation to parrot oversimplified narratives. Just because you only know about the bad and don’t care to learn about the good, doesn’t mean the latter doesn’t exist.

Edit: in an attempt to preempt incoming windmills: I detest Trump, Netanyahu and imperialism in general. But that does not mean anything American (or whatever nationality) should be presented as black and white. There are 340 million Americans. Each one of them here is proof that America is not black and white, and neither are its citizens.