Its simpler than that. Texting is asynchronous you always know the person will be able to respond without having to coordinate availability with you.

Its just a straight up more polite acknowledgement that the other person’s time is valuable abd you dont have a right to it.

its more closely aligned with dark humor than being terminally online. ‘The get suicided hotline’ is a complete sentence. its just mocking the tendency for dictators killing people and then claiming suicide. similar to how trump claims they’re only going to arrest and deport criminals and yet we see an indiscriminate attack on all immigrants. including those who are here legally.

the fun aspect of their comment is that suicide is a voluntary act, you cant ‘get’ suicided and that dichotomy is what you’re suppose to pick up and infer from there that this hotline is dangerous. just like windows in russia are dangerous.

really? okay lets help all the confused people here: shinkan is saying that the hotline is essentially a honeypot for those in power to identify and remove problematic individuals. Whether that is true for this particular organization is outside my my personal purview.

they’re asserting its similtar to saying ‘go to HR with your problems about the company’s behavior’ which is a fools errand.

I believe thats what apnews/reuters do and a lot of newpapers piggy back off them for national/international news but add their own spin to it.

Id upboat this but that might be used as evidence of libel.

Lol thanks for that, i stopped watching after minute 5.

Im not stuck on anything. Im simply pointing put the fundamental flaw in your understanding. Your just too dense to grasp it.

Bribery of governmental officials is also illegal, and yet an entire industry exists around it.

The video cameras in stores literally contradict your position that its illegal and yet you hold on to the premise.

The fact facebook just added two lines to their ToS and suddenly their ‘illegal’ behavior was changed to legal demonstrates just how fucking dense you are.

Your issue is you havent yet demonstrated any instances of these laws being upheld in any meaningful manner.

And yet with using grocery stores as a simple example ive entirely dissembled your entire position.

So yes you found a law in a single state, that is entirely ineffectual, doesnt apply to the TSA, and has a ‘this law does not apply’ workaround bigger than the fucking sun for everyone else.

Good job champ, let me introduce you to your need special needs counselor, I’ll leave the rest of your education to them.

😂 you’re just clueless. Literally every store with security cameras puts up a sign on the entrance doors that allows this behavior and there is plenty of case law that supports this. Your wonderful facebook case is a laughably retarded example. Its not even remotely applicable to this conversation.

• its a state law which has 0 impact anywhere except Illinois.
• its not applicable to the tsa or any state/federal agency (aka public entities) which are explicitly excluded from that law.
• nor did it in anyway prevent Facebook from continuing the practice. They just needed to put up a clear and visible notice of the functionality as I explained with the security cameras.
• nor did it have anything to do with individuals in public spaces.
• finally it was settled for a pittance, probably less than the court case would have cost facebook just in lawyer and engineering labor it would have had ro dedicate to the discovery phase.

Im sorry but reality doesnt jive with your reading of laws. Feel free to get laughed out of court attempting to prove me wrong. Its almost like you just googled ‘facial recognition lawsuits’, grabbed the first case that seemed remotely related to this fantasy in your head and ran with with it.

Until you win that magical court case that doesnt exist, stop wasting mine and everyone else’s time with your drivel.

Tl;dr wasnt for you. ;)

Hilariously idiots like yourself are never able to justify their support for genocide and are reduced to insults.

So get bent. Enjoy your fascism you’ve earned it.

Tl;dr: to all the genocidal apologists and enablers - you are the crazy fucking extremists.

That part is probably a coincidence. It was pretty clear last election democrats have entirely lost the thread to the point they’re basically just as dangerous as gwb was in the early 2000s.

A year of watching the entire party defend the actions, support a genocidal regime followed by the complete suppression of Palestinian members from the platform, suppression of student activists. Followed by completely ignoring the economic issues of the middle class was basically their version of taking the mask off and hollowed out what little remaining support they had from people like myself. Nothing made me happier than watching them lose an election the thought they could phone in because trump was running again. Not particularly happy with the result but happy they face planted.

No point in wasting time on them anymore.

This was on full display during the last election. Genocide is apparently okay now. Long as a black woman or senile old man enables it.

Clearly its not since you dont understand it. The law doesn’t prevent you from being filmed or it being stored. If it did security cameras wouldn’t exist for example. Nor does it apply to governmental agencies.

Feel free to enter any private business with security cameras and you’ll discover they have a wonderful sign on the door informing you of this fact

That is a dynamic rate by definition, not saying its perfect. But its available to any dev whos game hits those numbers.

So is valves. Shrug. Simply using the publicly available information.

Jfc dude get a clue. Security cameras are not illegal have never been for private or public spaces. And guess what? They record and store your face. Check any grocery store 7/11, etc, entrance they fucking tell you they’re recording and monitoring you via a security camera system. dropping facial rec software into the mix doesnt change this. You clowns need to stop acting like you know wtf you’re talking about.

Thought i responded to this, but oh well will do it again.

Epic, EA, Microsoft, sony, ubisoft all have a long history of poor worker conditions or anti-consumer practices.

Valve and gog have 20+ years of decent but not perfect history of worker and pro gamer practices.

The contention in this thread is from people who think valve cant be trusted because capitalism and those who say as long as they continue good behavior they’re a better choice than any of the others in the space. While epic has never shown this procommunity behavior.

Basically gog is valves only real competitor and since they dont support linux or provide many of the game featurss valve does for developers its no contest.

Gog doesnt support linux or id look at them. But they also charge 30%

1. Jfc you literally claim they do t have a db of your face and then list a bunch of government entities rhat have… A db of your face. Jfc.
2. Feel free to go to a park and take all the photos of peoples faces you want. Its not illegal.

You of course can continue to bury your head in the sand on this it wont change reality. The terms are what they are and no amount of crying by you will change this.

And some of us took these issues seriously ages ago and there are not photos of us on social media linked to our (non-existent) social media accounts.

If you wanted to take it seriously the time was a 2 decades ago.

The key factor here is that the TSA is a government agency, they are not a private entity. None of the laws apply to them w/ respect to biometrics.

Nor do they apply to private spaces you will fully enter. Trust me the lawyers took care of this in terms and conditions.

I can walk up to you in a public space and take your photo and you cant do shit about it as long as i don’t use it in specific ways. Its public data.

Public data does not mean the data can be used in any manner. It means its available to anyone in the public space.

There are literal court cases about this. Finally the government isnt a private entity, so none of your cases/law examples apply to this situation.

Look up any case about someone being pissed their photo was used for a news piece or journalism or artwork.

If you walk into a public space and that public space has cameras with facial recognition software, congratulations! Your face can and will be scanned!

And nothing about that act violates the laws you referenced for the government or any other protected use, such as say journalism.