Fucking finally!

Nope.

I’m terrified to come to the realization that Trump took a gamble; rolled the dice on the idea that he could do whatever he wanted, and the rest of the world would be so terrified of economic chaos that they would just shut up and let him do it with only “sternly worded” statements to the contrary.

And the fucker was absolutely right. He know’s he was right. The moment no one immediately did anything about Maduro, he knew it was okay to do it again to any other country that he wants to.

We’re fucked. Not because of Trump. Trump could be done in fast and easy by a global embargo. His regime would last a week at most when faced with getting nothing from overseas.

We’re fucked because the rest of the world is to feckless to do that.

Technically, PS2 was better. But PS2 was also the beginning of the end for proper single player narrative games like the Final Fantasy Series, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Colony Wars, Wing Commander, etc…

The PS2 kept those going early on, but I feel like later into it’s life cycle it started to move down the “everything has to be multiplayer now” route.

Which is why, for me, my list of emulated games skews FAR heavier to old PS1 classics.

Just my opinion though. Don’t shoot me, please.

Hey. It’s been a lonely year. Don’t shame me, bro.

Clearly hubby got caught with a side-piece in the nest when mom came home early.

Actually there is an expectation of privacy.

The argument that “if you’re in public and are filmed” it’s not an invasion of your privacy specifically relates to things that are considered “legitimate public insterest”,. If you’re tangentially caught on a news-report about a house fire, or an event, or something like that, for example. Of if you’re in the background on a cop’s dash cam during a traffic stop, etc…

Beyond that, no one can use your image without your consent. There’s a reason that members of the press need credentials and will usually walk around in a jacket that says PRESS on it; so that people know that they are in a place where they are likely to be recorded and can move away from it.

There’s a reason that, if a movie is shooting a scene and they catch a few background people, they have to send a poor production assistant running around with release forms so that those people can give their permission…other wise the film can’t use the footage.

Some incel recording a woman for his own personal spank-bank doesn’t fall into either of those categories. And anyone who is trying to claim that they’re all the same thing is a fucking creep.

This is the correct headline.

Then you’re a part of the problem.

Billionaires won’t protect our privacy. The Law and the government won’t protect our privacy because they’re bought by the billionaires. So it’s up to each of us. If we want our privacy and our right to not have our images used in some server without our consent, it’s up to us to smash the fucking things whenever we see it happening. Make the fuckers afraid to pull them out in public and make the sales tank.

You know as well as I do that the intended customer for these is influencer creeps with no regard for anyone’s privacy; so fuck 'em.

I’m so sick of people who are content to give away their privacy in exchange for every shiny new fucking toy.

You’re correct. I should have worded it better. I meant “Stored” rather than recorded. Much like streaming a video has a temp file in your hard-drive while you’re watching the stream, but which ceases to exist after a certain amount of time to prevent you from pirating the content by saving a copy.

Glasses should operate much the same way (if at all…as I said…I’d still prefer the not at all option.)

That’s not a fail. That’s just french.

In the places where tech like this would be helpful, there’s no reason that “recording” needs to be a part of it.

Colorblind person needs help identifying colors…great. Doesn’t mean the video needs to be stored. Face-blind people need help recognizing faces, it can access a local database. If the entire point of AI is to do real-time computing, there’s no reason for any image/video to be permanently stored anywhere.

Frankly, make the fucking things illegal in public, and allowed only in private settings where recording a member of the public won’t be a concern. They’re useful for doctors who are performing an operation and interacting with another doctor via the internet at the same time. They’re useful for things like that. But there is ZERO reason you need to be recording strangers in public without authorization.

But failing that, at least scrap the ability to record to a server. Shit’s just creepy. It was creepy when Google tried it. It’s even more creepy when it’s from a company that is open about using AI to create “personalized” ads using the images of people in it’s servers.

The doubebag smile on his face in the left pic tells me everything I need to know about who’s in the right here.

I get that. I just mean that I don’t spend time trying to tailor an answer to try to get the most number of upvotes. I’ll say what i want to say, and if people want to upvote me for it or downvote me for it makes no difference whatsoever.

giving a shit about “upvotes” seems like such a reddit thing to do.

I’m here for replies and conversation and yes…sometimes getting into arguments with dickheads (and…I’ll be honest…sometimes being said dickhead when I’m having a bad day)

I don’t actually care how many internet strangers are giving me made up internet points or not. It’s always just seemed to me to be vacuous and silly as something to “chase”

I always just end up staying with Breeze or Breeze Dark depending on my wallpaper.

Privacy. I don’t need Google recording my keystrokes.

It was the seventies.

There was never a fire in Nibelheim. It was all fake.

#Sephirothdidnothingwrong

FF7 (original) FF8 Fallout NV Crusader Kings 2 (with dlc and mods) Rimworld (with mods)

If a seagull lives to it’s thirties I imagine it’s flying around with nothing but Smashmouth banging around it’s brain all day.