There is a record, but there’s no central database unless you get an MMIC card which is different than what probably 99.9% of people do (but also larger tax benenfits)

Less taxes in most places if you have a med card. Financially sensible if you buy a certain amount per year.

Most of this seems very serious and concerning, but…

Nexus also claimed to provide scans of marijuana dispensary cards

What could anyone possibly do with that? It costs like $50 to get one in California, not sure about other states.

Did you read the article? They were renting a car. A car rental place isn’t going to let you just not show your ID.

Pirating was illegal? When?

Not worse than the people issuing their orders, which was kind of the point I think.

You got downvoted but this is just true lol

(Fuck AI slop though)

Unless it’s Larry Ellison, or Elon Musk again, or one of the other many technofascist billionaires with money to burn in pursuit of social engineering.

Perfect is the enemy of good, but so is the desire for convenience.

Mastodon gains less traction because it doesn’t have an advertising budget, unlike Bluesky. Because Bluesky is owned by a corporation.

Is Bluesky federated? I thought it wasn’t. Tumblr also said they were going to, but then just… didn’t.

Bluesky is also owned by a corporation and, like Twitter, could sell to a fascist billionaire whenever they find it profitable to do so.

X vs Bluesky is a great microcosm of American team-sports politics. Mastodon is something actually new.

3rd’d, sort of. Too young for PS1 but Sony consoles have been my primary since PS2 days. I’ll probably be switching to PC next week.

Yep, this is why my security cameras are all from Chinese companies. Though I guess the NSA still owns the Wifi lol

Abolitionists are an easy example.

Now if you mean a majority of people, yeah not really. But people in general, it happens.

This was a conversation about artist’s alley which is for, you know, art. Not kitsch slop. And no, the world really doesn’t have a place for more useless plastic garbage.

You’re describing 3D kitsch, not 3D art

Don’t plankton mostly release that back into the atmosphere when they die though? Trees sequester it underground as roots and above ground as wood (assuming it doesnt burn, which is an increasingly ambitious assumption)

Most “we plant a tree for every _____” things are just scams. They plant the trees, sometimes as monocrops that could never become a healthy forest, and usually without monitoring the trees or guaranteeing their survival into at least early-maturity.

aight debate class, you do your thing

Leave it to an AI cultist to equate slop-generation carbon footprint with the carbon footprint of actual lifeforms 🤡 Fuck outta here with that bullshit. Fuck your AI.

Who said “cat videos”? I said incel slop and CSAM. That’s literally mostly what Grok is used for.

Good for your customers for being the exception and using it for something that matters, but it’s still “fuck AI” in general.