[–] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

What exactly are ice going to do with robot dogs? Because I'm reasonably confident that they make for pretty bad law enforcement machines. As far as I understand it they're pretty light and I could just pick it up and run away with it if it became a problem.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    I think flock is a pretty egregious example though. The corrupt us police were using it for personal reasons most of which were nefarious.

    I'm not sure if Americans can really articulate this because they're kind of used to their police being the enemy, but I think the larger issue isn't so much the cameras themselves, it's mass surveillance by an organization that is barely one step above criminals.

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  • [–] 1 point 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    Well there's also the safety issue that the US actually does have, that a lot of people don't perform basic maintenance on their vehicles and drive around in death traps, with bald tyres, rusted axles, and wheels that are the barely attached to the vehicle. It would be fine if they only killed themselves, but they often take a few other people along with them.

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago*

    I suppose it's because there hasn't been any stories about the police abusing their powers and following their exes around. I'm sure it happens there's just not been any stories about it.

    Other one thing I will say is this, I used to actually watch the road traffic cameras so we could report in accidents and breakdowns on the motorways and trust me no one can track you using those cameras you could barely tell what colour of the car was, make and model you had no chance. You wouldn't have thought they would still make cameras with the resolution of 720i, but apparently they still do.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    I didn't realise Poland didn't use the Euro.

    The main reason the UK doesn't want to use the Euro is that the pound is actually more valuable than the Euro so it doesn't really make a lot of sense, and also because we're not part of mainland Europe so is not as if people can just drive down the road and suddenly they have to use a different currency, which is what it was like traveling through Europe in the past.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    It must be nice to have been born into money, so you have no idea how the real world works.

    When you go to a bank and ask to borrow money they often won't give you it if they don't feel like they're going to get their money back. If it didn't work like that then obviously everyone would borrow money and buy their own house.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago*

    But when I opened the website, there isn't a clear warning to say "hey, this font or image pack is AI" you have to read the fine print to know for sure.

    This is what annoys me on a lot of 3D asset websites as well. On steam you are supposed to declare if your game includes any AI generated assets and since there is pretty good evidence that that affects purchase numbers, I don't want to include any. Trouble is, you don't always know where everything is coming from.

    Most people probably wouldn't care if some background rock was made by AI rather than the human artist, but it still technically breaking the rules, and I suspect that if someone were maliciously inclined they could really make a big thing of it.

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