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the Federal Trade Commission Act expressly excludes “air carriers and foreign air carriers” from the Commission’s Section 5 authority over unfair or deceptive practices.

And while several states are passing laws on the matter, those are expressly preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act.

Regulations don't apply to them for... reasons

The FTC is warning retailers not to use private consumer data to raise prices, but the Federal Trade Commission Act expressly excludes “air carriers and foreign air carriers” from the Commission’s Section 5 authority over unfair or deceptive practices.

bro, whut?

AI will identify a funeral traveler or stranded passenger and charge more.

The argument here is that AI will improve price discrimination (and therefore total revenue)

There's a whole lot of other words in the article claiming that this "actually can lower ticket costs for some consumers!" and "AI will increase productivity!" but it's all bullshit. Every single person that's bee forced to work with AI already knows it doesn't do shit right, and their only example of offering a lower fare is to a "leisure traveler that might otherwise stay home." Oh, OK, so a rich asshole that travels for fun?

FUCK THIS BULLSHIT AND FUCK DELTA

I used to be real hyped about self-driving cars. I thought it would be just the answer we needed to our profound lack of public transportation. But after they took off the LIDAR system, it just became a money grab. And what was I thinking anyway? Self-driving cars? the answer to no public transportation? As if you'd want one of these cheap systems in charge full of a BUS of people?

My ex-wife was right. Shoulda just went with fucking trains. But we can't, because an ego-maniacal billionaire wants to be a trillionaire. Reason #4,506 of why I hate living in the United States

I was working a new role at a brand new site for a company. Working really hard, putting in a lot of effort, really trying to prove myself. I had 5 years of experience in the role, and wanted to move up in the company. Then my supervisor got one of her friends hired in the same role as me, he had zero experience, never done this before.... and they were paying him $10k per year more than me.

I decided right then and there, I was never, ever, going to give a shit about work there again. I got a pay raise to match what he was making, but it took like a year, and my yearly raises since then have been far under inflation. I do not give a shit. I wormed my way like a parasite into the easiest position there, doing as little as possible, entirely remotely. and I still feel like a give too much of a shit. If the job wasn't so easy, and the job market so horrible, I'd probably have left by now but, eh. I'm making more than most, while doing almost nothing. I can't really complain.

but oh boy was I fucking pissed.

If you read the article, he talks specifically about that. The people using AI for real shit, like protein folding, can use it to improve their work, because they're experts at it, and know when the AI is fucking up. The AI helps, but could never, ever, replace them.

The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: "How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these AI users are "centaurs" – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves.

Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad.

My Samsung S10 has headphone jack and expandable storage 😎 7 year old phone, bought it used for $130

The company claims that it is allowed to operate the existing turbines without permits

xAI has been operating gas turbines that have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of smog-forming NOx per year.

the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

just another case of "I'm rich, therefore, the law doesn't apply to me." And the 1000% corrupt DOJ turning around and being like "yeah, actually, that's true."

This coming from the administration that thought transgenic mice were transgender 🙄 🙄 🙄

They did all that terrible shit to these journalists, because they posted one short article about how the Ebay CEO was earning 152 times that of it's employees.

What's MORE ridiculous, is that's from 2019. Now it's more like 300 times.

I feel like that intimidation campaign of sending live cockroaches and bloody pig masks should really be going the other way, dontchya think?

I was just postulating to a friend, that if we built a huge array of solar panels, set out in a pattern not unlike solar sails, and deployed them out in-between the Earth and the Sun, we could block an appreciable amount of heat, which might act as a way to slow down climate change on our planet. Additionally this array could be connected in a grid, making it a huge space station, and energy source, where we could potentially use it as a base to start collecting and mining asteroids.

And then I read about these dumb mother fuckers who want to redirect sunlight back at the earth, making climate change worse, all to replace a couple flood lights? How fucking stupid is the person who brought this to reality? Jesus fucking christ.

Might not be the best way to do it, but hey, they're doing something. I'm proud of them.

I downloaded this program called "Driver Easy," which scans my hardware, searches automatically for driver updates, downloads and installs them for me. If I could download a wizard that got rid of windows, installed a nice user-friendly version of linux, while keeping my old programs, files and junk... I'd do it in a heartbeat. All I want to do is play my video games from Steam, download shit to watch, browse the internet, write in Libreoffice... Can I do all those things with Linux? Can I download some install wizard to switch?

If that wizard existed, a shit ton of people would switch. It's just the idea of deleting my current OS and putting in a new one makes me thing I'm gonna brick my machine.