Tiktok doesn’t cost thousands of dollars?

I guess since they kept getting their asses kicked trying to put one on the Mexico border, they thought this might work. That being said, might this actually also be blatantly illegal, as it impedes free movement between states? The constitution explicitly provides for interstate travel without government abridgement.

Considering what the boomers and Gen x have put the millennials through, I’m not surprised they’re susceptible to romance scams.

I don’t know if I’ve seen one physically last more than 3, so I’m not sure how much this does.

Well, really the only way to do that is to try and fix the underlying problem, which is largely the ignorance and or malice of men IRL. That’s a societal issue though, and one that can’t be fixed by Lemmy on Lemmy.

The best method online is just good moderation and not to let their (harmful actors) disingenuous “but mah free speeeccchh” arguments work.

He has such an outrageous amount of wealth that he’ll never be poor. Not even if all his assets are nationalized. He’s probably squirreled away money in as many holes as possible. He will probably never see any proper justice for any of his actions.

Considering that there are swaths of the population to this day that barely consider (If they consider at all) certain other swaths conscious beings, I don’t have high hopes for us figuring out if an AI is.

I’m partial to “Who’da thunk that was gonna happen?”

Does the distinction even matter in this context? Neither is good and neither should be permitted.

Since that information is supposed to be public knowledge and easily accessible, I don’t think it would fall under the law.

That being said, I don’t exactly expect certain parts of the US to actually apply laws correctly.

Libertarians in the modern US are republicans that figured out saying that gets them no favors. At least that’s what it seems like to me.

How about a feature where it actually shows me things I asked for? That’d be great.

Private ISPs could do it better if they weren’t largely all monopolies. The US average internet speed is a fraction of most other developed countries mostly because of them.

Yup, you never know what the cause of the discrepancy could be. It seems even the original team could only get it to work 10% of the time anyway, and they were familiar with the process. Even with detailed instructions, another unfamiliar team may not be able to recreate it even that often.

Until they determine what factor is leading to the occasional creation of the product, it’s effectively random whether they will create it or not. It could theoretically take 1000 tries to get it to work once. Or 1,000,000 times. But, it will probably take around 10.

That is, of course, if the product they claim to have made is real. If it isn’t real, then they’ll never get it. And, if they can figure out what exactly is making it or not, then they should be able to adapt the process to near perfect odds.

That’s often how it goes. Something doesn’t do what you expect, so you have to keep trying new things until you figure out why it wasn’t what you expect.