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or just use the drive through and pay with cash and avoid all of this

I get that they keep trying to eliminate humans that take drive through orders, but there will always be an escalation path for a real human. Just takes a single car blocking the lane lol.

Was thinking more about the looking over your shoulder aspect.

You use a credit card right? probably one with the same number you use in other places with your name and address attached right? They know what you buy man. Odds are some commercial source has every possible detail about your life attached to it like your wage history, purchasing history, web viewing/commenting history…

Maybe if you used pre-paid gift gift cards or something you could be somewhat anonymous, but nowadays with how cheap and easy facial recognition tech, walking gait tech and license plate reader tech is… doubt that will work for long.

Edit: Mcdonalds is using cameras to verify the accuracy of orders before they are handed to customers. Do you REALLY think they aren’t going to go a step further and record license plates, faces and gait? Verkada, a commercial brand of cameras I manage, already does this publicly for plates and faces. Gait is not new and as unique as a fingerprint. Nobody is going to admit they are tracking your biomechanics, even if they do it every single day.

AI/ML gets shit wrong and sure, maybe in rare instances you’ll be mistaken for someone else… but they’re going hard into surveillance tech. They already have surveillance promotions where different people get different promotions at the same store for the exact same products.

Why would you ever use the kiosk when you can use the mobile app?

It’s just a shitty version of the same thing with zero privacy and completely filthy with other people’s kids’ nastiness all over it. Don’t get me wrong, all of our phones are disgusting but it only takes a few minutes of being in earshot of a public bathroom to realize how few people actually wash their hands after they shit all over the stall, floor, doors, walls and selves.

And like most mmo launches, it’s really just an EA launch with the real content to be reworked and added later.

Condos generally won’t let you have chargers. HOA hate everyone.

Not everyone can afford the boomer American dream of detached housing.

Yeah fucking right.

I’ve seen what happens to ethics teams in orgs. It’s always a joke. They generally mean well and often times there really is a whole team trying to get a company to do the right thing, but nobody at the C level gives a shit when personal enrichment is on the line. If they did, they wouldn’t be C level at a company with that kind of wealth.

Their testing the waters of $949 steam decks has resulted in outcomes that have opened the gates to much higher prices than what they initially thought. That’s the takeaway imo.

I know a lot of people really wanted to see a $400-600 price point, but i’m honestly assuming closer to $1200 now. The controller won’t have a bundle savings unless it’s $20 or less, odds are it’ll just be $100 more to have one bundled, since they’re still on backorder and scalped endlessly (completed+sold us ebay listings is showing a range of $200-300 right now.)

I bet the thing will be scalped for $2500 by the time they are delivered to the first customers. Valve is the new apple and there’s no shortage of demand for every single product they sell. Cult followings are nuts.

The law is not equal. It’s that protect the in crowd and bind the outsiders that is mentioned all the time.

That’s why the wealthy never really seem to face consequences even when convicted of felonies. They just brush it off and get elected president and pardon anybody willing to bribe them or undertake illegal actions against our constitution on their behest.

That’s justice today. I wonder who has been manipulating the judicial branch decisions and warping justice even further? Must be some society starting with F…

The technofacists are the advertisers man. All that data is what fuels ads, surveillance and all the rest. They built the platforms and the intelligence capabilities. Whoever has the most data drives the most effective ads, surveillance pricing, targeted promotions, etc.

If they didn’t start off early on using the data for advertisement, they wouldn’t have continued their journey to use the same data for big brother tech. There’s a ton of extra steps and things along the way, but at some point once a company starts making billions of dollars they all get into politics and lobbying (we really need to call lobbying political bribes.) They’re just taking things a few more steps further nowadays. They are ALL complicit with what is going on.

Oh, serving you more relevant ads based on who you are so you purchase products isn’t about you? :P

Okay, here’s a stupid realistic answer: It might help stop kids from making purchases on adults phones without the actual adult.

But that’s not a good answer even if it may be a side effect, because they aren’t doing it to help us, they’re doing it to own us. We rent our time here and have to work for it. They were born to never have to do anything but take our money, time, lifeblood, sanity, leisure, resources and potential. Simple really.

You don’t say!??!?! A tech company? Building something they contain total control over and hoarding all the information and renting it out to people who then start relying on it and then MUST pay the price increase?

That’s UNHEARD of! How dare they! It’s never been done before! Next they’ll be devious and start charging fee-fees! Check processing fee, electronic transfer fee, automated support call handling fee, interaction fee, query fee and government lobbying fee!

At work? Crowdstrike is kind of the training wheels for people who don’t want to use application whitelisting or group policy that disables users running various terminals.

Training isn’t the answer, because training is basically an industry propped up by knowbe4 from convincing cybersecurity insurance that it’s the right thing. We do training where I work and everyone falls for the same old shit, raise information, pay information, promotion information and performance review content. Doesn’t matter how many indicators of compromise are hidden in the message, but they’ll gladly just keep clicking along or running code that is prompted because the desire sensor overrides the training.

Anywho, nowadays not giving users admin rights is simply not enough. The script creating people often know how to use privilege escalation exploits without issue to gain control even when a user can’t. Really need a tool that can detect behavior and block it, or lock the system down somehow.

There’s not enough money for AI to actually get that big. Don’t misunderstand me, I know they are spending hundreds of billions of dollars / trillions on blowing this up on the stock market and doing phyiscal hardware installs and building big ass data centers and power generation plants, but nobody can afford to pay them. There’s no cost savings, only a transfer of income from individual workers to companies that basically don’t sell a product, they rent it out.

Should be 100% nonprofit and owned by the public. Totally worthless to humanity that they remain as businesses.

Most of what they do should just be FOSS anyway or the equivalent.

Don’t worry, we’ll take public ownership of the bailouts, costs and losses. It’s the American Dream!

Advertisers REALLY want to know what age groups are into what.

Oh, and uploading your ID or whatever to do this guarantees they know who posted those pesky comments that do not align with the party values.

“We’re protecting the children” per usual

Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on - Larry Ellison, 2024

Privatize the profits and socialize the losses man.

Maybe but I haven’t really followed the gerrymandering closely. After the SC decided to remove the black caucus i’m not sure where it all stands. I doubt democrats will have majority in both houses under any circumstance though as long as the judicial branch of the government is compromised.

This is literally the easiest thing to jump ship from.

It depends how heavily you are leaning on ML tools to do business processes honestly.

It’s easy to implement something that mostly works and doesn’t need a ton of baby sitting, but moving from one solution to another is like rebuilding an ERP if you have gotten deep enough into the weeds.

This bubble is super scary though. The only things I can see propping it up would be world governments once the tech companies and other large enterprises halt spending. I don’t think the US can shoulder the costs and nobody else is gonna lol