Comments by "Traveller" (@traveller23e) on "LastWeekTonight" channel.

@MegaLokopo if there are violent riots all over the country with clear political messages attached, it probably means you should maybe think about starting to pay attention. Especially when the goals of said rioters and all the associated peaceful protests align with your own laws fairly well, particularly the fundamental ones.
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Same reason I steer clear of "unlimited PTO" situations.
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@Emilioooo17 if a worker protections law causes a company known to have all kinds of negative effects to shut down, isn't that a greater incentive to pass the law asap?
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My first thought was to wonder how tf they did not get arrested on assault charges.
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Hang on a sec, isn't it always the bad guys who say "evil is a matter of perspective"?
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Yeah, I have to wonder which genius thought that training AI on the entire contents of the internet would result in a chatbot capable of emulating a mentally-stable human being.
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@CMDKeenCZ Except they aren't, because you deny access to your factory by the inspectors and the government more or less just shrugs.
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@weemeemoo Not only is it legal in the US, it's common practice. I'm pretty sure suing Microsoft as a user isn't allowed either.
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@Scrantonman95 Arguably if the cop were armed with a police shield they wouldn't need guns or tasers most of the time either. As a general rule of thumb, if you're using deadly force on your own citizens you've failed them.
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@seanhouser4510 I would be curious to know what prevented the cop from finding out who the kid was or just following her to her house and then speaking with her parents.
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@guaposneeze If that. Hosting these days is really cheap, depending on your needs and how you go about it.
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@pennengineer That is correct. You need a licence (obtainable via a lot of money and a couple weeks of online training followed by a written and oral exam) and what's in Italy known as a certificato complementare (obtainable via a longer in-person course often funded by companies for junior roles, sorry I don't know the English name) which is specific to the locomotives and routes you are allowed to operate. You will also need certified fluency in the language of whatever country you go to (unlike airlines, railways use the local language for operations). It's also worth noting that moving to Europe from the US will almost guarantee a significant pay cut, however living costs also tend to be lower so how it pans out will depend on the situation. You will also want to be prepared to completely change your way of life; trying to live the stereotypical American dream in some randomly selected european city is bound to lead to disappointment.
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AWS, Google web services (don't remember the name), and Azure. That last one owned by Microsoft. Yay. And yes, they do need to be regulated as a utility ASAP, as at this point they bear all the hallmarks of one.
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My country has an utter lack of political parties with a real environmental plan. We have a green party (with extremely little support), but they haven't ever to my knowledge come out with a comprehensive proposal. Thinking about it though, I'm not aware of any party anywhere in the world with such a plan. Maybe due to the (likely correct) assumption that publicizing such a plan would be political suicide, or maybe because they haven't been able to come up with a plan that doesn't involve plunging the entire country into a massive recession leading to many people starving. It's pretty depressing though that the "green" parties don't seem to be keen on offering any sort of drastic action which at this point is sorely needed. Please let me know if you've heard of such a party anywhere (or any group, actually) with a thorough and detailed plan.
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@jtylermcclendon Although a law requiring the farmer to sequester carbon rather than just allowing airlines to pay them to do so would be more effective. Best if funded at least in part through the government, to prevent food prices from immediately skyrocketing. Better yet if the government got the money necessary through high taxes on corporations involved in large carbon emissions. Consider it a mechanism to force the airline to pay the farmer to do this, without letting the airline claim to be carbon-neutral.
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Same with healthcare
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@Praisethesunson To be fair though, it never did...Remember how helpful a number of native groups were right at the very beginning? That went well.
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As a dev myself, this is exactly what makes me wary of tools like copilot. It might be writing what you're wanting it to, but at some point it's going to bite you in the butt. A common use for it I see claimed is if you don't remember regex syntax off the top of your head you can ask it to help you out, but ultimately there you are trusting it to accept/reject what you expect it to and not designing the filter yourself. For this reason, I'm of the opinion that the sorts of code generations that can be used and trusted with confidence must have deterministic and well-understood outcomes, i.e. basically a compiler.
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@trumpet12345 do you not have harnesses attaching you to your bucket?
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@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles That's certainly valid, but a random slice of the population getting educated on tech by major tech CEOs with a vested interest is I think the main issue here. Most of these tech CEOs no nothing of the technologies they use (they're CEOs, not devs) and are just treating Congress like a roomful of stakeholders to tremendous success.
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Changing the ways we use the roads would also help.
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@orakulos8421 That's not...really how those technologies work. I mean, yes if they decide you breach their terms of service they can take your site down and that's kinda the end of that, but they can't feasibly block individual users from going to the site (That's Google's job, as search engine). As a web developer starting a new site though, the options of framework are severely limited to basically those three. Otherwise you're probably dealing with far more expensive and absolutely terrible traditional web hosting (like Hostinger or similar).
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That's a cool idea. It would require dividing businesses up into predefined types, as well as regulation to prevent a business from acting in a manner different to its type. This would also have the advantage of allowing different tax rates for different types of businesses, and if you had a working framework it would make regulating industry far easier.
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Their appearing to be doing something is just because it's fashionable. In a few years either they'll be continuing the same bullshit claims or they'll have moved on to something else. "ongoing public criticism and getting called out on their ineffective bullshit will eventually lead to better practices": We don't have eventually. We need change now. Actually, we needed change ten years ago, but that didn't happen either. We're fucked and there's no way around it, especially if we continue to trust that eventually solutions will magically present themselves. What remains to be seen is merely whether we're just "extremely" fucked or "irrevocably" fucked. And that comes down to what we do now, which judging by current trends and the lack of any government anywhere supporting real change, is absolutely nothing.
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They don't think it'll make major change. They just see it as a good marketing tactic.
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Thank you. This whole comment section seems to be full of that false assumption. Weird mine was your first like. Or perhaps horrifying might be a better word.
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Planting trees isn't carbon-negative though, it's carbon neutral. The only way it could be carbon negative is if when the tree died the carbon in it somehow didn't end up back in the atmosphere.
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@wintertrooper7918 And also probably isn't worth it regardless.
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Constructing wooden houses doesn't keep the carbon inside long-term.
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Yeah, exactly. Like the people that claim that with new upcoming (read: nonexistant) technologies, we'll be able to make a smooth transition to a carbon-neutral future. Bullshit. Honestly, corporations typically can't plan more than a couple years in the future, so I'd say give corporations exactly two years to present a 5-year plan with 6-monthly checkpoints to reach a isolated net-zero future, as well as getting the plan approved by a board of climate experts. By "isolated net-zero" I mean they'd have to physically capture any emitted carbon themselves, not pay other companies to do it. Once the two-year deadline was up, the government would start hunting down companies with insufficient plans starting with the largest, liquidating them and keeping the assets. In the case of companies running operations considered essential, the government would instead keep them running temporarily and create a task-force to make them either carbon-neutral or unnecessary, and then either shut them down, keep running them as government agencies, or privatize them again as appropriate. Would it crash the economy? Yes, it would. But crashing the existing economy is pretty much unavoidable as it is completely unsustainable. Hence the government would also need large-scale projects to provide better housing (including relocating as many people as possible to where they don't need a car) as well as provide work for anyone who needed it, regardless of skill level, such as manual labor building the aforementioned housing, building new railways, and so on. These projects would have to be done using manual labor as much as possible- way more expensive than more modern equipment, but keeps people employed and is necessary for cutting emissions.
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@someguy2135 Yet that's still not a huge change if we still allow internal combustion vehicles (or even any universal personal motor vehicles, since electric cars can't save us), if we're still ordering plastic shit we don't need made in china and shipped around the world overnight to wherever we are, if companies are allowed to continue to organize their supply chains around highest profit margin with no regard for the environment... I'm not against people becoming vegan by any means, but it does annoy me when veganism is presented as a magic solution that'll fix the planet. In much the same way as I'm not against electric cars or turning off the lights when you leave a room, but neither will come close to saving us from much.
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