uralsolo

thinking you'll get to retire

lmao

To be fair, in the US we did ban admission of polygraph evidence in court, but that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of problems they and other psuedoscientofic "investigation" techniques create.

I think that while a lot of reasonable people know that lie detectors are bunk, a surprisingly large number of people don't know that at all - and many of the people who seemingly know better still haven't actually confronted what that knowledge means. Like if you say to someone, "I took a lie detector test", it lends credibility to what you're saying for a lot of people even though it shouldn't lend any at all.

Take this out to the whole world of phony pauedoscientific criminal investigation techniques, and the number of people in a world poisoned by shows like CSI who would rightly support banning such things is going to be shockingly low, even though everyone with knowledge on the subject can probably tell you that's what should happen.

So that's why there's no public pressure to do it really. Add to that the fact that law enforcement doesn't want their psuedoscience taken away from them because they see it as a useful tool in getting convictions, and any politician who tries to take this issue on is going to be acting alone against entrenched power for basically no political gain.

DF is also free and there's fan made installers to run it on Linux, the Steam version just has an enhanced UI and other features.

AFAIK the ruling about serving same sex couples specifically relates to "compelled speech", which means it definitely doesn't apply in this context and Amazon is hoping that right wing courts will expand the ruling (they might).

This is something I've thought was true for a while, but your comment made me go back and look for decent sources and while I found a few articles bemoaning tech in schools I also found a lot of good-looking scientific studies saying that it's fine or even beneficial, so I deleted my comment.

AFAIK now, the negative outcomes are when it's home schooling or COVID-era distance learning and the kid is only doing work on an ipad, so the problem isn't the tech itself it's the absence of a structured school environment with a teacher.

AFAIK it's just something that hasn't been tested, but that goes for basically all digital "shrinkwrap contracts" from your iTunes EULA to the license on your github repo. Good luck being the first person to test it if you're not a major corporation, though.

If the designation of "open source" is such that any open source project can be used by massive corporations or militaries or anything else like that, then the designation "open source" isn't worth protecting and we need a new one that allows for free use by enthusiasts and other free projects but that is blocked or paywalled from profit-seeking ones.

At some point I just accepted that I've become one of those "I don't really watch TV" people, although I also accept that watching youtube videos and listening to podcasts isn't much better.

I feel like the holodeck probably has a "private browsing" mode. It would be like the first thing they implemented.