matlag
@matlag@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
I lived in China for 6 years. I experienced smogs dense enough you couldn’t see a building 10m away.
I’ve been travelling to Shanghai on several occasions and went there again last year.
The improvement now vs 10years ago is dramatic! I’m not saying it’s all fine, but I will say this: now I live in Canada (Québec) and forest fires make the air here worse than what it is in Shanghai on a regular basis.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
The trend is what matters. China: electrification is going so fast it’s hard to follow. Pollution is going down very fast. The USA: cancel all plan to promote EVs and weaken regulation on gas cars: pollution is to go up. And that’s not including public transportation offset on the cars density, where China is basically 40 years ahead…
The cross-point on air quality might be much closer than you think.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t, but it has an unapologetic mass surveillance. In China, you use apps on your phone for absolutely everything and anything: all payments, use of public transport, shared bikes, ordering food, etc.
If you say something wrong, or if you’re just in a group chat where someone repeatedly say the wrong thing, your account can be suspended and suddenly you can’t do shit for several days. That keeps people in line, or they find other tricks to communicate, like swapping key words to trick the algorithms, or use VPN, though it’s also forbidden.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 4 weeks ago:
When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 4 weeks ago:
Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 4 weeks ago:
I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends. - Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 1 month ago:
Actually the reason is the US uses 3M$ anti-missile missiles to intercept 20k$ drones. It was obvious from the start they would run out of them way while Iran would keep producing more of their drones (plus the ones they get from Russia).
It’s quite unbelievable they the US were so confident in their capabilities they didn’t bother to learn anything from the war in Ukraine, where swarms of cheap drones have replaced advanced but costly missiles for years now.
So the money may be genuinely used on weapons (and well, lobsters and steaks…). It’s just spent stupid.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Facebook introduces private messages. They’re private. Ah, no! They sold these messages to Microsoft, Amazon and Huawei! – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Facebook has all interest to work for the benefits of its users. Ah, no! They literally experimented on people to see if they could make them more depressed or more happy. – They trust me, dumbfucsk!
Facebook has an active moderation. Ah, no! They knowingly let disinformation spread and lead to a genocide because engagement numbers were good. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Instagram minds kids and their sensitivities. Ah, no! They have algorithms to exploit their insecurity because engagement numbers were good, who cares if a few of them end up depressed and kill themselves. – They trust me, dumbfucks!
Whatsapp has E2E because they value privacy. Ah, no! The app sends home a copy of the private key on demand, rendering the whole thing pointless. – They trust me, dumbfucks.Meta’s glasses would never take a picture without their wearer’s explicit consent.
Fortunately for them, some people are really really really dumbfucks to a point Forrest Gump would look like a genius next to them.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m totally going to chill because I can’t see a LED… not. Hell yes, I’m still going to call out creep-glass wearers.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Go ahead and test yours. Repeat after each update and check if it’s location and/or time dependent.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
If you orientate your phone with cameras towards people, they’ll assume you’re taking pics or filming. Otherwise, it’s a general purpose device.
If you wear creep-glasses designed to secretly take pics or film people, a lot of people will assume you’re secretly taking pics or filming.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 1 month ago:
I’m wondering if it’s really the vaccine or if what makes you vulnerable to the antivax idea also makes you more prone to neurodegenerescence.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
You still fail to understand you don’t need to be continuously filming to monitor what’s going in front of a camera.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
You’ll understand when you’ll be surrounded by parents wondering if you’re secretly filming or taking pics of their kids.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
You obviously know nothing about fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
In this case, the ratio is probably of 100:1 or 1000:1 people in my favor. So if it comes down that, see you outside!
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Let’s say hypothetically that he assaults you, you sue him, then he raises 200k$ for his defense through crowdfunding because I bet the majority of people don’t want creeps to record them secretly. You’re still confident in your odds?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
When you say “fascist”, you do realize that fascism involves crowd control and these glasses are a dream for a fascist regime? All the speech about “cameras everywhere is ok” falls right in the authoritarianism thinking, that’s just a step from fascism.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
It’s absolutely legal to film them as you said, and it is absolutely legal to speak up. If that makes them uncomfortable, that’s entirely their problem, isn’t it?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Nope. These things can certainly take pics regularly and still last.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
But everyone here advocating violence seem to have forgotten how to do democracy.
A lot of changes in democracies happen following violent events. Violence is unfortunately one of the very few effective method to raise attention on an issue.
The law hardly change spontaneously.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
If you use a Meta smartglass, the “sharing” is out of your control.
It’s actually going to be interesting when a smartglass wearer has to explain a judge they didn’t know it was recording and uploading pictures or videos.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
He won’t even know he’s doing it. Why would anyone assume wearers have any control on these smartglasses and what they upload?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
If I spot one in a public place, and I start filming them while shouting “Are you recording a video right now with these smartglasses?”, I guess that would be totally fine, right? No reason to make them uncomfortable, because they’ll be in their right.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
The proliferation of cameras in public is not a good thing. I am yet to see data showing it reduces criminality (supposed to be the intent), meanwhile it’s a massive surveillance system.
And the fact that a given situation is bad is hardly a good argument to promote making it worse.
Meta collects data on everyone: from contact info in cellphone through their apps, uploaded photos, videos etc. If you don’t have an account nor consent to anything, they will just not show the data, but will still build the profile combining different sources and feed it to its algorithms.
It has been a well known practice for many years.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 month ago:
Most likely either the glasses are in a state of recording, or the wearer has no idea what it’s doing. Damned! After so many scandals, people still assume Meta will do what it claims and not trick its users! Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me! Fool me 42 times, more, please MOOOOORE!
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 month ago:
YoU wOkE tRaItOr! IrAn iS 2 wEeKs aWaY fRoM hAvInG nUkE! aNd WMD! aNd iNvAdE IsRaEl! aNd tHeY eAt bAbieS!
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 month ago:
Sometimes, as leader, you need to make some hard calls! (hard for others, of course!).
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 months ago:
No technical rational explanation will ever get to them.
Most are there because they want to belong to a community, and because they like the idea of being right where everyone else is wrong, so that they’re the important ones for once.
That’s how you get to them: feed their need to belong, and their need to find enough self-esteem some other way.