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gretch commented on Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage   expressnews.com/news/texa... · Posted by u/robotnikman
csense · 2 hours ago
There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property -- maybe some kind of "no trespassing" beacon that acts a machine readable "no trespassing" sign? -- and recourse to deal with unwelcome drones.

I was watching a YouTube bodycam video showing police interaction with a guy who got upset that a Walmart delivery drone test was being performed on his property without permission. He shot the drone with a shotgun. I forget if he was arrested on the spot, but I think he got in huge legal trouble -- apparently in the US, shooting at a drone is treated the same as shooting at a manned aircraft, and he might have ended up getting multiple years in prison.

Shooting a human trespasser has a pretty high legal bar, and rightfully so. Shooting a robotic trespasser seems like it shouldn't carry prison time, even if unjustified it should only carry financial penalties. Especially if the law doesn't specify any peaceful recourse to get rid of unwanted robots trespassing on your property.

gretch · an hour ago
> There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property

I agree. It should be the same one we use for helicopters and airplanes.

gretch commented on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers   blog.adafruit.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/ptorrone
tbrownaw · 5 days ago
> doing anything except addressing the grievances that lead to that.

Well yeah, it's not exactly easy to get everyone to understand that insurance isn't magic and money out has to match money in.

gretch · 5 days ago
According to this source, united healthcare profits were $14B in 2024. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/unitedhealth-unh-2024-re...

So yeah, money out not matching money in is exactly the problem.

gretch commented on I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored   nikolak.com/gdpr-failure/... · Posted by u/nikola-k
ejpir · 5 days ago
how is having NO law better? I'd say 12 out of 20, is better than zero.
gretch · 5 days ago
When enforcement is this shoddy, it’s easy to create corruption through selective enforcement.

“We don’t have the resources to go after everyone, so we must prioritize” - but it turns out there’s a bias to the selection process…

I believe that justice is only true when we are all treated equally under the law.

gretch commented on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words   forkingmad.blog/wordle-cr... · Posted by u/cyanbane
hyperbovine · 7 days ago
It’s this. There are many five letter words that are not “wordley”. Words such as, idk, bokeh, are technically part of the lexicon but would never appear as a solution. The wordle bot will even tell you this if you guess them — “good guess, but unlikely to appear as a solution”. The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear.
gretch · 7 days ago
> The crossword has a similar sort of unwritten rule, maybe not as strict, but really hard technical words seldom appear.

Not my experience at all.

Ask me how I know what an EPEE is

gretch commented on Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game   latimes.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/proposal
gretch · 12 days ago
No evidence or supporting material, just continued insistence that the author is correct.

“I can’t crawl inside your skull and prove you wrong. But this is how it works for most people, including most who insist it does not.“

Consider this direct excerpt of 2 back to back sentences and how 1 contradicts the other.

You can’t crawl inside my skull, but you can crawl inside everyone else’s?

gretch commented on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
nathan_compton · 13 days ago
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gretch · 13 days ago
Yup make up something I didn't say to take my argument to a logical extreme so you can feel smug.

"totally disregard"

yeah right, that's what I said

gretch commented on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
themafia · 13 days ago
> and has the potential to debase shared reality.

If only.

What it actually has is the potential to debase the value of "AI." People will just eventually figure out that these tools are garbage and stop relying on them.

I consider that a positive outcome.

gretch · 13 days ago
Every other source for information, including (or maybe especially) human experts can also make mistakes or hallucinate.

The reason ppl go to LLMs for medical advice is because real doctors actually fuck up each and everyday.

For clear, objective examples look up stories where surgeons leave things inside of patient bodies post op.

Here’s one, and there many like it.

https://abc13.com/amp/post/hospital-fined-after-surgeon-leav...

gretch commented on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android   androidauthority.com/goog... · Posted by u/_____k
hypercube33 · 14 days ago
The old saying goes a fool and their money is soon departed.

Why should the rest of us be punished?

gretch · 14 days ago
You are punished one way or the other.

These scammers are parasites on society, they add nothing while draining resources away from honest people.

If you participate in society, that net drag will affect you in subtle ways. Like if you have money invested in something, that thing doesn’t go up in value as much as it would have if x% of society isn’t simply parasitic.

gretch commented on I'm addicted to being useful   seangoedecke.com/addicted... · Posted by u/swah
calcifer · 19 days ago
You are missing the point, though. The complainer decides whether it's a solvable problem or not, not the listener. So "I'll listen if it's unsolvable (to me)" is a non-starter.
gretch · 19 days ago
Well I decide if it’s annoying to me and I’m going to tolerate it or lend support.
gretch commented on I'm addicted to being useful   seangoedecke.com/addicted... · Posted by u/swah
jpadkins · 19 days ago
> It took decades for my wife to finally get through and explain not every problem she voices is something that needs a solution.

There is a great YT video on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

It's not about the nail!

gretch · 19 days ago
Yeah so far there's not enough nuance in the discussion.

I also like to separate between 1) solvable vs unsolvable problems: e.g. you cannot solve a deceased relative.

Also 2) first time vs multiple repeat problems

If find it very irritate someone is venting to me repeatedly about solvable problems.

But if it's a 1 time unsolvable problem, then it's important to be in listening mode.

u/gretch

KarmaCake day2770July 27, 2018View Original