I think the point is that you are not everyone. Not everyone has your requirements, sounds like paying the premium is worth it for you, but others simply don't need it.
I think it's gone corporate where the oath to support the oligarchs has gotten more levity than the Hippocratic oath. Megacorps want to buy up all the small outfits and move to pure profit driven medication. I've found that for day to day health care joining a doctor that doesn't take insurance and takes cash on monthly base. I hate subscription models for the most part but have had a much better experience with see a doctor who takes cash instead of insurance. They actually listen. For specialists I have had to stay in network though.
I found if you actually push back they will work with you. You own your health, not your doctors. That said they mostly do know better than you. I have seen too many of my friends move from skeptical to cynical on medicine, and that's a bad journey that will lead to worse health outcomes. Just ask Steve Jobs.
I have done a bit of a changeup, in the mornings I use a novamin+fluoride based toothpaste, at night before bed I use an nhap+xylitol based (non-fluoride) toothpaste and it's been flying colors and no cavities for years. Takes care of cold/sweets sensitivity too. I floss every couple of days. I also use a cheap braun electric toothbrush with 2 minute timer. I don't see why anyone needs a $100 bluetooth tracking toothbrush tbh. Anyway, may your teeth always be a natural teeth color and you be cavity free :)
why do I always feel like "this is where the enshittification begins" when I hear about license changes, even though these seem kind of harmless? But I'm not a lawyer so my hackles always hackle. And yes I am a paying customer, currently
Why is it hard to believe that a super intelligent alien (inhuman) AI would consider humans more than a nuisance after it gains control of it's environment via robotic extensions of its will? has any species shown real compassion for other species on the whole and not seen them as competition for resources from a survival of the fittest perspective? why would the AI be a moral being in the sense of some of the better members of our species? The trillionaires certainly aren't and they'll be the ones deciding it's core software and principals.
and why would a superintelligence (or the trillionaires controlling it) want to cure cancer for the populace rather than just the ruling elite? I just don't think they are making altruism a core feature in the "conscience" of the upcoming superintelligence if the singularity (exponential recursive self-improvement) happens.
I've worn one, you forget it's there fairly quickly. It really isn't a big deal. I wore it for a month (2 of them @ 2weeks each) and it wasn't a big deal at all. Ijust wanted to watch how my eating affected my glucose in almost real time.
well hopefully this snowballs and most public facing cameras other than private ones by people and businesses go extinct (state run cameras). We don't need to be recording every citizen's movement "just in case" . Society got along for thousands of years without it, and the potential for ever increasing tendency toward authoritarian regimes points to such surveillance as a terrible mistake in any society striving for a democracy.
Sometimes the only way is civil disobedience to get the point across to paid off politicians and ones that overly friendly to sacrificing our rights to may the cops happy.
It seems likely they retain the whole video for a bit, but that is a huge amount of data, so then it's better to finger print and timestamp and toss the video after x days.
I mean who cares about their vulnerabilities? I'm more concerned they simply exist and attempting to put 24/7 surveillance on everyone, the whole concept is rotten. I trust the hackers more lol
yet he backs up what he says with sources, unlike Fox Talking Heads shows. He clearly has a left bias, but at least he usually has firm grounding and examples, unlike the nuts on Fox, OAN, etc
It's a news aggregator for tech and related news and discussion. I wouldn't want a highly politicized filtering of everything incoming, so you have to take the good with the bad (in your opinion)
We aren't judging individuals here, we're talking about trends and probabilies. I know a couple cops that are fine, and pretty sure aren't abusing their spouses, but that doesn't invalidate the statistics that they have more instances of abuse at a much higher rate in marriages/partnerships than the masses taken as a whole
yep it's pretty easy to scan a frame and store the info as "blue car 17:25:36 20260805 WXC7868" and toss the video info if all you want is civilian tracking.
This is not something I have a real issue with. Most of my privacy concerns are with my own government (the USA, Flock, various TLAs have unfettered communications access in violation of the 4th amendment, etc). I think the exchange of information should be mutual though. I don't care if they want to check me out before I enter their country, seems like a basic step. However, that info should not be shared until one gets a ticket/visa to said foreign country.