> The 2025 egg price crisis was a cascading failure equivalent to a left-pad incident, except it affected breakfast.

I notice and think about the astroturfing from time to time.

It seems so gross.

But I guess with all of the trillions of investor dollars being dumped into the businesses, it would be irresponsible to not run guerrilla PR campaigns

Uuh easy fire them all and replace with said agents

Kinda tangental, but the headline gave me a laugh, even has the emdash

What Google is talking about seems way worse https://www.levernews.com/googles-ai-knows-what-youll-pay/

Pretty soon you will see people marketing models as more ethical and artisanal than the competitors.

If I pay anthropic will my money go towards disrupting the mid term elections?

0. We will have to enforce blocking technology against printing printer components to bypass blocking technology

Goto 0

If you lost your ID while traveling, what would another option be?

...how? California doesn't have an embassy in New York.

Surely New York has enough police stations to visit and declare a loss of ID.

IDs are a state-level concern in the US federal system. California IDs are issued by California. It’s like going into a Spanish government building to get your Belgian passport replaced. They will have no records of you, and nothing to do.

>It’s like going into a Spanish government building to get your Belgian passport replaced.

The police are not expected to replace the ID. They are expected to give you a proof that you have indeed lost one. In fact Russian embassy won't give you a "returnee permit" unless you go to a Spanish police station and declare your loss of a document.

Even foreign police cannot be expected to just generate documents on a whim.

In the US states don't have embassies, but surely a police station in New York can ask the registration office in California to send them your picture by WhatsApp and have at least a vague kind of proof that you are who you claim to be.

IMHO as a user I prefer purchasing via app store because it avoids all of the dark patterns companies use to prevent subscriptions or returns.

I get that it sucks that the honest folks have to pay a 30% fees

I'd be happy to pay a 30% premium on my app store purchases just for the ability to unsubscribe without dark patterns.

I like the fact that when deleting an app, it reminds you about existing subscriptions related to that app, and offers to take you to the subscriptions page to unsubscribe.

In saying that, I don't think I'm personally prepared to pay an additional 30% for that. It should just be what is expected as part of good business practice.

Probably close to zero. American voters vote defensively, always for the candidate that has the best chance of winning against the other guy.

Totally agree. But I mean: supposing that we had a voting system where minor parties were more viable and didn't play spoiler. What % of independents would register as Greens, or Libertarians, etc, in that system?