“Please use legal paid services” yeah I would if

1. They actually had the content I’d like to buy available for purchase
2. I actually get a copy to keep and not rent for an indefinite period of time until the rights holder and / or vendor forgets to renew and it gets automatically removed.

I think this humanoid robot will be Elon’s 'Sinclair C5" moment.

Sorry citizen, every time you enter the bar we’ve got to take a swab from your genitals to check that since you were last here you haven’t fucked any kids.

Fucking ridiculous. If you want to prevent CSAM spreading across Europe do this instead:

• new funding for a cross boarder specialist taskforce to coordinate law enforcement agencies.
• hide the identity of defendant and victim during trials.
• offer a slightly lighter sentence to offenders if they successfully help with bringing down the rings.
• a large cross-boarder sting operation.
• new funding for therapy for offenders to reform them and during and after they’ve served their time.
• new funding for a confidential service to provide prevention therapy to potential offenders before they commit that horrid act against a child.

Investigation and surgical removal of the whole rotten ring of kid fuckers will curve CSAM creation and distribution in the EU.

Then preventative measures to stop creators/ consumers of CSAM because prevention is more effective than trying to cure it.

Child sexual abuse is one of, if not the most evil act someone can commit and they should face very steep punishment for it. And anyone proposing any policy offering help to reform them is committing political suicide.

But ignoring the fact that people have the capacity to commit an evil act of that magnitude, demonising them, and then offering no support network to prevent them is not going to solve the problem. It doesn’t work for any crime and certainly not this.

Until your knees & thighs start burning.

What y’all are forgetting is that when it comes to dominating a technology space, historically, it’s not proving the better product, is providing the cheapest/widest available product. With the goal being to capture enough of the market to get and retain that dominant position. Nobody knows what the threshold is for that until years later when the dust has settled.

So from Google’s perspective if a new or current rival is going to get there first, then just push it out and fix it live. What are people going to do? Switch to Bing?

So is you want Google to stop doing this dumb broken LLM shite, use the network effect against them. Switch to a different search provider and browser and encourage all of your friends and family to do so as well.

Well y’all decided that finding and keeping zero-day exploits were more important than contacting the companies to fix them because you looked at both approaches and decided that intelligence gathering scale > cyber security robustness.

Or how about you legislate for parental controls on Smartphones.

You know, like how any desktop or laptop has them?

How are you going to enforce this law? Because parents will still buy their kids smartphones. Are you going to have the police arresting under 16s and confiscating their phones?

Like, for example, breaking my ability to back out of this Engadget page on Connect for Lemmy’s default web browser so I had to close the app and reopen it.

I don’t think it’s a deal-breaker for the government employees running the hiring process. Trust me, I know some UK civil servants and after the initial drugs test, most of them were very happy to resume their various indulgences.

The trouble is that you can’t be seen to employ someone to work for the federal government when they are technically committing a federal felony.

I reckon the vast majority from the lower level employees to the higher ups would LOVE to have weed, LSD, and other recreational drugs at least de-scheduled if not legalised, regulated, and taxed.

It’s politically difficult, especially in a country as socially right-wing as the US (on average, I’m aware attitudes vary from state to state).

Climate action doesn’t work unless enough of the most polluting countries act to kurb emissions.

As it turns out, the most developed countries are the largest polluters.

It also turns out that the most developed countries also have the most influence in geopolitics.

Why are you framing the UK like it’s in a vacuum?

If the UK does go fully renewable and carbon neutral or even carbon negative, that does have an impact because it will make the UK a leader in sustainability. That’s a lot of expertise in the whole range of PESTEL (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Evironmental, and Legal) market forces across many industries that will be exported to other countries.

Ditch the Doomerism. When push comes to shove, humans will move heaven and earth to survive and reduce suffering. So start pushing and shoving those with the capital and political connections into making the better choices.

The future is built not gifted.

This whole thing is just a tax write-off.

They’re also betting on Aquaponics, sea-steading, and flying to Mars.

Let’s hope they also make close friends with their bunker guards, else the millionaire residents will be the first to get slaughtered.

I’m guessing via a VPN, but which country do you connect to for the low prices?

A bit difficult to do if where your living you aren’t able to run the charging cable from the inside of your house to the outside.