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it's almost like, if they didn't invest in that oil, it wouldn't be a crisis...

*** shutting down Sora to redirect research into military drone research for the Pentagon.

surprisingly, it's actually not... there was a study a few years ago before Trump suggesting that fissle material that cannot be used in a dirty bomb and was targeted at energy production, was far more availible if you appeared to be a educator or in the education sector...

not that I'm suggesting anything, but from a purely human discussion standpoint, in the age of AI and deep fakes. the only reason this hasn't happened is people don't want to risk it.

generally speaking those with the means, generally are benefiting from the corruption ATM.

the law wouldn't hold up in court anyway. its not practical for any ecosystem outside online sites.

accounts and users are the same thing, despite what the law says. it also doesn't different a person from a user, meaning a compromised system that is complying with the law, its actions represent the user, and the account holder is held responsible.

its made to absolve meta/Microsoft/google from their actions in targeting kids with intentionally addictive content and making the "account holder" at fault.

they will anyways. first person that gets found lying or disables it, they target the distro.

the law was written to make compliance the metric for dissidence. all "users" are minors. identities flagged as not a minor is a lie, as users cannot be minors only "account holders".

it's not written to support the Linux ecosystem. it's specifically worded to exclude and target the Linux ecosystem if it tries to comply without using meta/google/Microsoft to handle accounts.

are you sure it's even a person, not a bot? because this all screams either bot or seeking internet fame as the "hero to kids".

because it's all part of a larger project to collect usable data. you can't force standards, but you can force laws.

if you build a standard and no one follows it. then it's wasted time and money. Meta, Google and Microsoft all have a vested interest in user data. more so with law enforcement buying it in bulk to build identity profiles of /individuals/.

if tomorrow they got added to the law to store and transmit a string of your government ID, would you be more resistant?

the issue is, VPNs hide your ISPs assigned IP. till now there has been a higher difficulty in differentiating traffic from the same IP with similar metadata. the more user specific metadata that's added, the easier it is to differentiate devices and users.

this makes targeting specific devices with malware for spying significantly easier. at the very least.

but at a bigger point of view, it gives provable cause because the way the law is written implies every user that installs the OS becomes a OS distributor and every user is a minor by definition, even if the API flag says otherwise.

I recommend you read that again and if the words "probable cause" don't come to mind you don't understand the risk of a "minor" identifying as a adult.

yes. every time in the history of gnu software when a function is added without a purpose its for a later feature.

otherwise there is no need for the form? since when do we leave empty forms in software that can be used to store strings, that hold no meaning...

only two uses for this. to implement the full API later or to have a string the user normally does not see that becomes a perfect place to store malware. full stop.

complying with the API is a act of absolute stupidity...

not really, the law is written that complaince makes you complicit. every user is a child. there is no adult users.

it's a really messed up law...

above all else, even if the API is used properly, unless it's giving false positives, it creates a metric that can be tracked to form patterns. these are all a advanced method to identify individuals to unmask online identities...

depends on how it's declared and transported. as there is classes for each type.

surprisingly, I believe jewelry and personal goods is the lowest tax bracket. which technically applies to alot of things even electronics.

obviously every nation is different, but you have to be careful in how things are declared, otherwise they may be just flat out rejected because it wasn't bought inside your nation. (censorship controls apply to imported goods like media, toys, magazines, electronics goods, and household items. it's best to treat each thing not as what it actually is but what it's made from to avoid refusals and overtax due to poor import system that blindly denies.)

so this again lol

there no benifits to this. extreme bacterial contaminations and mold/fungus concerns aside, there is simply too much unprocessed food available that goes unsold and is wasted as a result to ever need to recort to this.

it's not a ecology issue, there has never been a shortage of "food". when people say there is a "Shortage of food", what they mean is there is a shortage of food /given/ to them.

it's a economic shortage of food. they do not have enough wealth to acquire food and therefore they are not getting any. greed is the reason there is so much food wasted. not at the table, but at the market.

governments should be subsidising the poor and supporting their food needs by taking excess from markets at value, not margin.