So, they’re delusional.

OK, interesting, no draft. Is it PLA? Is the chamber being actively heated? What is the printer model?

The supports are only lightly connected to the object, to make them easier to remove. The force being exerted by the plastic as it cools is stronger than the light connection to the supports, especially over such a large area.

Probably there is a draft causing it to cool to rapidly. An enclosure, even just a cardboard box around the print area, would help.

Striking is a revolutionary act and it should be normalized

An action (any action) cannot be normal and revolutionary. These are antitheses.

inflation does this too given that the rich have access to investment vehicles that the poor don’t

This is true with the way that things currently are.

In theory, investing is participating in the economy, and functionally better (for everyone else) than simply keeping money in a static account (or just keeping it under your mattress). In a deflationary economy, everything beyond basic needs grinds to a halt because spending money is disadvantaged. This fucks over the poor who have to spend most of their money on basic needs, while the wealthy sit on their hoards like dragons.

I am… actually not clear on whether you are referring to my comment, or the comment I was responding to.

If you were referring to me, I want to say that I’m not looking down on the potential good, I am criticizing the framing of unionizing as revolutionary. I think talking about it this way is a mistake, the kind that is made by people who want politics to be exciting, who find discussions of good policy to be boring. This kind of framing supports the narrative of the owner class who try to imply that striking workers are unreasonable violent malcontents.

Good policy should be boring. Unionization should be as mundane as arranging direct deposit for your paycheck when you start a job. It should be just another form that you fill out for HR. It should be normal. Employers should expect that their employees will participate in collective bargaining, and should be treated as unreasonable nutjobs if they speak (or take action) against it.

This probably seems like it makes sense when you’re a teenager, but most people with children want a stable society and a reliable income.

If I give you my page and tell you to enter your credit card details in, why would you do it?

Because I’m paying for something?

Why do people need to tell everything to the agreeing website?

I don’t know, it’s probably circumstantial.

Probably a lot of the data being shared is from chats, but not necessarily all of it. We know that OpenAI scrapes the Internet at large for training data, which would include data sets of publicly leaked PII (such as the OPM breach). It’s entirely possible that the data OpenAI is sharing about users was not given to them voluntarily by those users, but has simply been aggregated, analyzed and correlated by their AI tools.

If that’s how they learn not to share intimate and personal data with the billionaires, then that’s how they learn.

Let’s not engage in blaming the victims.

There’s no reason to treat the behavior of these corporations as if it were normal and inevitable, like they were a force of nature or something. Put all the blame where it belongs, on the people running these companies.

I don’t like this take, because labor unionization should be seen as a completely normal activity for workers and not a form of revolution.

The core of the problem is that deflation encourages and enables wealth hoarding. The rich get richer by doing nothing but sitting on the wealth they already have.

Partially true. It’s also an attempt to run away from deflation, which destroys economies. Holding a stable position with no inflation or deflation is not really possible in the real world.

I mean, OK… Until every bank, government service, health care provider, etc implements this.

But as soon as money/gifts/favors are introduced, it’s automatically an uneven playing field.

Even if you discount or prevent direct bribes/corruption, there is still an imbalance when a particular group (e.g. the petroleum industry) can afford to employ people as full-time lobbyists, who spend their time and attention on nothing else. It’s much harder to write effective regulation against that, or enforce it.

The only useful response is to organize advocacy groups that can also afford to support full-time lobbyists (the ACLU, EFF, etc).

Yes.

Alternatively, donate to and/or volunteer for groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontiers Foundation (or equivalent groups in your country) which are already organized and employ lobbyists.

[…] or consult experts in the field before they enact legislation.

This is technically the justification for lobbying.

Foxconn employees in particular are very well protected:

…from the ground.

“Failing to meet a quota or making a mistake can draw public condemnation from superiors. Workers are often expected to stay silent and may draw rebukes from their bosses for asking to use the restroom.”

https://wonderfulengineering.com/story-life-death-apple-forbidden-city/

The installation of suicide nets reflects a broader commitment to employee well-being and mental health within the tech industry.

https://wheelermethodist.org/religion/suicide-nets-apple/

Yeah, say that with a straight face.

If this is true:

If you report the message it then the full text gets sent to WhatsApp.

That means there’s a software switch that dumps a plaintext copy of a supposedly encrypted message when flipped.

Therefore, all you need to read any WhatsApp message is the ability to flag the message as “reported”, and access to wherever the plaintext copies get sent.

Considering how often security is an afterthought for corporations, the access part is probably easy.

So… anyone with access to the report API can read any message they want?