No comment on the further context from the rest of the thread, I would simply point out that the ocean is a rich and vibrant place with abundant life that wastes nothing, even more so at the sea floor. Also, the pressure wave from the implosion and subsequent contamination and any other fallout related to the rapid unscheduled disassembly probably harmed more than those just inside the vessel. The sound means more than one thing.
Cameras watching and enforcing traffic laws is giving control to robots instead of people.
Edit to add: look into Clearview AI and then tell me you are still ok with copious public cameras and AI for police use.
Police officers should be people, and they should be seen, especially when patrolling
There's a lot wrong with Tesla's implementation here, so I'm going to zoom in on one in particular. It is outright negligent to decide against using LIDAR on something like a car that you want to be autonomous. Maybe if this car had sensors to map out 3D space, that would help it move more successfully through 3D space?
We've had enforcement without cameras and automation for generations. Gimme a break. You're just advocating for enforcement by robots instead of by actual people. That's not a good future to continue working toward.
Right, it still boils down to: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I get that you're accepting that philosophy. I reject it. Using robots for surveillance state activities is a thing we, as a society, should emphatically take a stand against.
The summoning ritual was a success
That last part really sounds like "Well, what did you do to deserve getting hit in the first place?" to me.
We have rights to privacy and willfully giving them up for policing activities should be met with resistance. As Ben Franklin intimated, those that would give up liberty for security or power deserve none of those things. The founding fathers were pretty pro-privacy and went to a lot of trouble to be very outspoken about it. Not only in the Constitution, but in lots of original state's Declarations of Rights, and they seem pretty into the idea that people shouldn't be being targeted for punitive legal action unless there's a warrant or probable cause, and passive surveillance is targeting anyone and everyone that passes by it all the time.
ETA an Upton Sinclair quote that seems relevant: "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." I think about that a lot. Others should, too.
One more edit, a link to the actual Sinclair text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1558/1558-h/1558-h.htm#link2H_4_0047
No, the decline started decades before COVID... Republicans, as an institution, have been destroying education in the US going back at least to Reagan. This has been a much longer play with a lot of dedication on the GOP side. As was stacking the courts with as many Federalist Society judges as possible. And creating obstacles to allowing people to exercise their Constitutional right and public duty to vote.
I just looked up the Heritage Foundation. They started in 1973. That's when the Christian Right started getting really involved in things, and Project 2025 is their dream project.
I heard reporting earlier (no links handy, sorry) that the US is requiring Iran to stop enriching uranium at all in order to proceed with any sort of negotiations. Not that we are requiring them to simply not enrich any further beyond the point where they can use nuclear energy, but that they cannot do any enrichment whatsoever, "not even one percent." That's gonna be a definite non-starter and set the stage for attacking Iran because "they didn't cooperate."
Apologies, I see mistakenly took your post adversarially
Maybe you haven't noticed the aggressive dismantling of what we have of an education system recently. It's actively being made radioactively worse.
Saw this at the Art Institute of Chicago recently
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This is the forward thinking we need right now.