Sexism impacted both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and will be even harder for a GOP candidate to overcome.

What with the hypocrisy and shifting goalposts for MAGA/GOP types, a female Trump 2.0 would seem quite plausible to my eyes. These types don’t care for conserving anything in particular nor for standing up afor any fixed set of values. They are, quite literally going along with the flow.

I’m from Europe and it’s unheard of in my area. Although gas stations here work quite differebtly from US ones.

You drive up to the tanking machine. You take the gun and start tanking. No credit card terminal, no nothing on it. Just a display of liters pumped and amount owed.

When you finish, you enter the station, say the tanking plot number and pay that exact amount.

If you run off… I guess they call the police?

I’ve never had it happen to me, but if you were out of cash and all the cards you had failed for some reason you’d merely exchange contact info and pay in a few days via bank transfer, CC, cash or whatever.

If you don’t, you’ll get a court order within a year to pay the amount + some interest + court fees. That’s enough of an incentive for people to pay, I guess.

If you just tank up and leave, you could get booked for theft. Most places have cameras and cars have licence plates, so finding the offender is quite simple.

Therefore, no preauth.

The ban doesn’t need a 100% perfect AI screening protocol to be a success.

Just the fact that AI is banned might appeal to a wide demographic. If the ban is actually enforced, even in just 25% of the most blatant cases, it might be just the push a new platform needs to take off.

And when it fails, it fails spectacularily!

The mistranslations can be (and usually are) absolutely hilarious. Saying a part of me will be disappointed once they inevitably fix it is an understatement.

Their AI mode is duckduckgo.com. noai.duckduckgo.com is AI-free. Meaning, instead of a useless and common sense regurgitating AI response (or alternatively, completely made up shit), you get a Wikipedia infobox.

Yeah, that’s not it.

There’s this thing known as consent and purpose. For a GDPR violation, you need to lack either.

When your job has a noticeboard of names, emails and birthdays, they probably got your consent to post it up there. They didn’t get consent to post it onto Facebook.

Yeah, sharing a photo can be a GDPR violation. Because you need to prevent unneccessary processing of data. Like what Facebook does. That’s why most places require you to sign a waiver to allow photos and similar stuff being posted online.

It can be a lot of work. But so is writing a contract. You can’t just do some stuff willy-nilly, and for a good reason.

That being said, the GDPR is mostly unenforced. What it means in practice is “don’t ask, don’t tell”. Meaning, if you keep the info you do have under wraps, you should be fine. Just don’t go whoring your customers’/employees’ info out to your 18 356 “data partners”. Bonus points for having an “Accept All” and “More Options” button, but no “Reject All”.

1st prize for those whose “Reject All” doesn’t encompass “legitimate interest”.

I feel that learning cursive is important.

First you learn how to write ordinary letters. That trains your fine motor skills so you can write them reliably (try writing with your non-dominant yourself hand to see).

What cursive teaches you is how to write quickly. Of course, no one will write in pure, perfect cursive. Most people settle for a style somewhere in between. It teaches you the concept of “you can combine letters together to make you write faster” and “here are a bunch of ways to combine them”. It’s a good thing, Especially if they end up going to college.

Giving them a few more weeks of practice in reading and writing is a great way to avoid them being partially illiterate.