Sounds like a pretty weak-ass regime tbh

By young they meant candidates that are only in their 60’s

Term limits and age limits plz

Also kill Citizens United thx

Watch any Trump speech from the last whenever and watch him struggle with the concept of a coherent narrative in general

Ah shit, appreciated and duly noted for the future lol

The idea being that anything near the face emitting enough IR could potentially affect the meta glasses and obscure your face. I think IR LEDs draw less power than red LEDs but dont quote me Im not an engineer.

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-plain-sight/

Yes thats exactly what I meant by inverse

Yep Ive heard that and agree. By inverse, I was implying that conservativism causes brain damage… not that brain damage causes liberalism lmao 🤣

brain damage leading to conservatism

Always wondered if the inverse is true as well 🤔

I think you’re unfortunately right on that point. There’s probably a higher chance of those types of devices being outlawed than Meta glasses and similar products being outlawed, knowing how our legal systems love to defer to corporations.

Theres also the whole deal with being able to legally film and photograph in a public space, which I support for sure, but this is very much not the same as that when a whole team of people overseas are reviewing everything along with AI analysing it, and with these glasses still operating in not-public spaces. Even the act of having to pull out a phone and physically hold it up to film is a small protection of privacy, because at least others can recognize that that person is filming. The passive always-recording nature of these glasses is truly frightening.

At least they are chunky and kinda stupid looking enough to be recognizable… for now. It will be scary when there are dozens or hundreds of variations that look no different than any style of regular glasses.

Dont they make glasses that blind cameras with infrared to obscure facial recognition? Im thinking a whole line of accessories (necklaces, earings, hats, etc) that fuck up these glasses ability to record you without consent. Not sure how technically feasible that all is but would love to see something like it to counteract these.

Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.

It may have legitmately sounded interesting and futuristic to some people a decade ago, but with the way tech companies are trending this type of tech will become an absolute surveillance and privacy nightmare. I mean it aleady is really, but it will get so so much worse.

Regulate and legislate these into oblivion. At the very least tech companies need to be punished financially for trying to speed run dystopia but I fear we’re already sliding down that slope and it’s too late

Well as far as concrete actions I’m not sure what they will do. But I do know Russia is certainly a big fan of taking advantage of chaos, and this strike works in Russia’s favor by helping delegitimize international order and rule of law even more, because the US (and Israel) acting unilateraly, illegally, and hypocritically weakens their ability to meaningfully call out Russia for similar behaviors later on.

Even if they are tied up now in Ukraine this makes it easier for them to act with less constraint when they see fit (yes I know, they have been acting without constraint already but they can always get worse)

Also wondering how this will change the plans and behavior of other big global players like China and India in the longer term. Preamble to WW3 or just a new era of heightened millitarism worldwide?

He’s so peaceful, he’s definitely getting the Nobel AND getting into heaven now guys

This is going to spiral out of control. The whole Middle East is going to suffer from this. How is Russia going to react? What are the domestic repercussions going to be during an election year?

No love for the Ayatollah’s regime but this is a disaster. This admin has such limited forethought they will make the Bush admin look like geniuses in retrospect

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This is true, but it will be a real miracle if we even end up with AOC vs Vance instead of Newsom vs Vance

CBS is simping for fascists