I’m just this guy. You know?
Well, here in Florida, the winter is the only time to go outside, the rest of the year is so hot and humid you can’t breathe. We are at least fortunate enough to not be so far north so our days are still longer. However, it is especially frustrating as everyone voted to have permanent daylight savings time year round years ago and the politicians have found a way to not enact it. That also highlights how fake the whole “Democracy” thing is.
You need sunlight to do things outside like jog safely, hike, fly RC planes or yardwork. You don’t need sunlight to get ready for work in the morning. Moving the work day so that there are no daylight hours after work is one step down from slavery.
Wasted light. People get off work and can’t do anything outside. If you want light to wake up but a lamp.
Before they found a way to make Covid 19 political, they were reporting on that lab that was selling and buying animals at the local market. They were reporting it in an informative way, not even blaming china in general. Then people on both sides went crazy, and all real reporting got sidelined for rhetoric. Either way, I doubt there is anything the world’s governments could do about either random bio labs in China being too lax or China itself researching bio weapons. (Two of my grandparents died on the same day of covid 3 years ago, so I definitely don’t dismiss either option as completely not mattering, but I also don’t think either thing would make any real difference as I couldn’t do anything about it either way personally and it is laughable to think any government will.)
Barely matters, but I would bet on the latter but people always read lab leak like it is the former and usually call it crazy, as of a natural virus leaking from a lab that researches them is impossible.
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If they reprinted those scanned books and sold them or even gave them away, they would be in more trouble than you would by sharing on limewire by dent of numbers. That isn’t what they are doing with these books. In fact, they did get in trouble for using the books they didn’t buy.
When a bookstore goes out of business or just can’t sell a book, they don’t return it to the printers, they tear off the cover, return that and by law have to throw the rest of the book in the trash and destroy it. So books are already destroyed by the millions. When I was a kid our hometown bookstore went out of business and I watched them throw away 2 metal dumpsters full of coverless books. If they were destroying ancient texts or valuable copies, that would be more something to get excited about. I doubt that they were doing that though.
I mean, really, you probably have $0 worth of damages to worry about. If something in particular happens, like corporate espionage hurting your business that causes real damage, then you have the freedom to sue for that particular thing. (Supposing you aren’t locked out by the settlement.)
These are civil cases, buying your way out is all that happens in the best of circumstances in a civil case. It is just a matter of how much you have to pay to buy out. Punitive damages might do some extra justice, but what would that be? In the end you have to imagine that some radom person has sued you unjustly and decide how you want an innocent person to be treated, or perhaps they sued you with some small real point to their lawsuit, do you want the default to be that you are ruined? Maybe you didn’t intend harm, but want to either make amends or at least get past the lawsuit so you can get on with your life, do you want no recourse possible?
In the end, if Google was forced out of business, many(most) of us would be way worse off. That is not the ideal outcome. Ideally, the case brings enough money to the plaintiff to right any hardship caused and, in the case of punitive damages, does just enough hardship to the defendant that they are dissuaded from pursuing that course of action, but you aren’t trying to kill them.
Good gravy. 1984 wasn’t a guidebook.
Settlements only happen with the consent of both parties. I don’t see that as a problem. If you really don’t want a settlement, then opt out of the class action and bring your own case or do what you can to make sure the lawyer for the class action won’t settle. That I suppose is unlikely, as the lawyer will do whatever ends up being the most likely win case scenario in their opinion and the number of people in the class action will probably mean you have no individual say in it (not sure how that particular piece works but no class action suit that approached me gave me any options for what I wanted out of it).
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I’m not anti-AI at all, but their LLM definitely isn’t ready for the top of a google search as if it is real information. Of course, posting promoted search results at the top of the searches as if it was a real result already devalued them. They at least need the LLM result to be an opt-in option with caveats. I would probably opt-in but I would like off to be the default.
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Yeah, it isn’t even a partisan argument. Everybody, no matter their politics, wants the permanent time shift.
It is either pure laziness or just Florida’s government purposefully thumbing their nose at their slaves.Hanlon’s Razor says it is likely laziness or the inability to figure out how to legislate it. Still, it feels malicious. (I looked it up and they did sign it into law, but the federal goverment has to change the Uniform Time Act of 1966. Florida could change the time to remove daylight savings time like Hawaii did, but they can’t make the permanent DST shift that was voted in.) So it isn’t Florida’s government I should be mad at, just the federal government.