Midjourney, the ones being sued currently, are clearly the ones who should pay, and you're a shitty person for even making this argument.

The problem (as I see it) is that either you think people deserve help or you think people don't deserve help. If you think human beings have some kind of intrinsic value, then you may conclude that they deserve help when they have problems. Now if you expect charities to provide that help, you are basically saying "Good luck getting the help you need because you're going to need it." You basically have to hope that some charity exists with the resources to help you, that the charity is interested in your specific problem, and that you are lucky enough to get the help before other people who need the same help exhaust the resources of the charity. In theory there could be weird cases where charities are so "blessed" that they can help everyone, but in practice I've never heard of such a case.

Me? I think people do have intrinsic value and that there are lots of things that shouldn't happen to them. Easy example: Children shouldn't starve to death. But I think it should be the job of the government to address such problems for EVERYONE. Okay, it's nice if a charity can help prevent a few deaths from starvation, but it's really the job of the government to prevent all deaths from starvation. (And of course the details get messy, whereas a charity can just ignore the details 'out of its scope'.)

The only problem with all that is for it to work we would need to get rid of all our tribal tendencies and have a single government for the whole world. But then the rich that got rich by taking advantage of our tribal natures wouldn't like that and would do everything in their power to stop it. Leading to the shithole that is the world as we know it.

You don't get it. Apple has been doing this for a while, and it was sorely missed from Android phones. "Rebooting" means a thief or the police can't use the phone after that time, because they don't know your password.

Where Android is ahead of Apple is using accelerometers to log out on sudden acceleration, like when a thief on a bicycle grabs your phone out of your hand.

You do realize that they need your password to unlock it after they steal it right? Like even before the 72 hours. With a short screen lockout time or a good habit like turning off the screen when your not using it there is not a lot of chance for them to get it from you unlocked

The CVE system benefits everyone globally, and yet the US taxpayer is funding it alone? Hear hear! Even if we ignore who funds it, let's consider who runs it, who controls it...why would anyone in the world want all that power of information concentrated in the US? Especially when everyone in the world talks so much shit about the US on every front... Fine. Let's take our g'damn ball and go home. Nobody wants to be like that, but seriously, WTF? How much BS can anyone take before they finally just don't feel like playing anymore? "But, but, there's gonna be disruption while new alternatives are developed"...yes. Correct. Rip the f'king bandaid off cause that's the only way anyone is actually going to make a change. JFC you do realize the US has the biggest presence on the Internet right and the most to lose if this went away. Fucking idiot. I think its time to Glass the US too bad it will take the rest of North America with it

How how immigration gone catastrophicly worse? It's one of the only real wins he has Huh? Did you not read any of the posts you are replying to? I don't know that statistics but the US Population is aging just like the UK you aren't having 2.5 kids on average eventually the population is going to fall and the little social assistance you have won't be able to keep up when the workers are outnumbered by retiree's

"China burn coal so we burn coal" isn't really compelling to me ... Neither to me. By our hypocrisy and tolerance of China doing so encourages people to think climate accords are greenwashing farces, think if they can do it we can too, etc. It undermines things. They have more than 4 times as many people as the US and per capita produce less than Americans or Europeans because the majority of them live like in the 3rd world, but the businesses that lose out when we switch to cleaner alternatives don't want to pay for it so produce propaganda

Free Speech has consequences, and sometimes those consequences come from pissing off a rich asshole. No one is arguing that is wrong, but they are arguing that we as society should be calling it out because Dolan is an asshole, and his press guy is guilty of libel unless they have proof of those death threats.

Corporation starts its own Social Credit Score... Can someone in the UK, if possible, chime in how football teams are preventing known troublemakers from attending sporting vents for some time now.