the board probably asked IT for suggestions, and they said, “just go with gemini, we already have it in our gsuite.”

I work in IT and your reasoning is solid but there’s a better chance that conversation went more like the board said “here’s every AI option but the one already in our platform” and then IT asked what the AI needed to be able to do and got a ¯\(ツ)/¯ back.

Then IT said “just go with gemini, we already have it in our gsuite."

Probably want to add it on to the ever growing measles outbreak.

How about i take it as ghoulish and worry mongering.

I guess you’ll have to forgive me for thinking jokes about dead children through adult negligence and malfeasance isn’t funny.

cars and guns should be your target to ban.

Okay, but if you look all the way up at OPs post the discussion is about a measles outbreak.

It would be kind of an odd non-sequitur for me to randomly shoehorn my thoughts about cars and guns in America into a conversation about a measles outbreak and anti-vaxxers…

I’d prefer less dead children.

If you think Trump is the problem your not paying attention. He’s just a puppet of his oligarch masters and they are feeding far right movements all over the globe.

He’s the American symptom of a global problem that is humanity’s responsibility.

I don’t. Nuclear bombs are very non-discriminatory weapons.

He’s everyone’s problem.

No, no, no, haven’t you seen the posts all over? He’s America’s problem and it’s their mess to clean up.

There’s absolutely no global impact on the rise of far right ideology and it’s certainly not trending up in pockets around the world.

The puppet regime that is the Trump administration isn’t an indicator of a larger global oligarchy problem at all.

I’m aware. As I said in the linked comment, I’m more concerned about the data being collected than I am about being recorded.

In the long term people need to control the collection and use of the data and establish some significant penalties for misuse. It would be nice if, in the US, we could establish that any data gathered by ALPRs is covered under the 4th amendment and require a warrant for starters.

I also think the data should be required to be stored by the government agency utilizing it, no third parties.

Saw this coming…

For example, all consumer automobiles in the US require front-facing collision avoidance cameras by 2029 under federal automotive safety laws. Tack an ALPR system on, use the built in cellular and satellite collections and all of a sudden every vehicle becomes an ALPR camera on wheels.

Please post the link for Keyana’s site so they can be supported directly. They’re doing some amazing write-ups detailing how different things have gotten worse and why.

Worse On Purpose

Sure, but a couple of months after? And if that was th le case it backfired because now there’s case law precedent that shows:

The Court has now made clear that this kind of defiance cannot stand, that the Attorney General has the authority to intervene when sheriffs take improper action, and that voted ballots belong in the custody of elections officials

And

Newsom on Saturday signed a bill that would prevent anyone from seizing ballots, as Bianco did.

Seems more like a MAGA targeted campaign stunt:

At the time of the ballots’ seizure, Bianco was one of two prominent Republicans running for governor in a crowded June primary. He did not advance to the general election and later announced plans to run for reelection as sheriff in 2028.

If it’s tried again in California it’ll be interesting to see if charges/penalties are applied.

I doubt it

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election

It isn’t good or okay but seizing ballots after they’ve been counted, tallied and several months have gone by wouldn’t do much against the initiative would it?

The farmers are using all kinds of growth hormones, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and GMO that are considered unsafe for human consumption in Canada, Mexico and the EU.

Sure, but they’re not in the US where they are and where their market is.

US food standards were a fucking joke before this administration that fired everyone enforcing anything.

No, they weren’t. They were not comparable to other similarly developed nations and had a lot of room for improvement, but they weren’t a joke. Not having any standards, which is where America is heading, would be a joke.

For particularly weak food standards you’d want to look at Kenya or Nigeria.

You cant even drink the tap water in some places.

You are correct, though that’s regulated by the Environmental Protection (the irony of using this word in the name!) Agency and is unrelated to food regulation.

I assume your using butchers to refer to the same businesses I’m calling processors; the commercial plants that slaughter livestock and then process it for distribution to retailers.

Is it farmers?

I would think the farmers grow the crops and the ranchers raise the livestock but that the processors and distributors are where food safety gets dropped.

There are probably some farmers/ranchers who try to get away with using unapproved products on their crops/livestock but, again, that should be getting caught at the screening.

Seems like in this case the inspection stamp was faked. Are farmers/ranchers responsible for getting their product inspected and certified or is that elsewhere in the chain?

Now if we’re talking about those complaining about no workers, or expensive diesel/fertilizer/seed/feed etc. then I only have on question for them: who did they vote for?

https://www.ibtimes.com.au/australia-faces-billions-economic-pain-us-iran-war-gas-prices-soar-market-loses-over-300-1864381

But in this country our electoral system keeps the wackos contained.

For now, but far right ideology shouldn’t be contained, it should be quashed. The US is a great example of what happens when it isn’t.

Also, the rise in far right ideologies across multiple countries should be a global concern. If one country under fascist control can cause significant damage to Australia imagine the effect of 4 or 5 scattered across the world.

Because they weren’t appropriately punished at the time.