Voting with your wallet doesn’t work when you are the product. They don’t care about your money when google’s will dwarf any amount individuals could hope to raise, even collectively. Nothing prevents them from just taking both your money and google’s and changing absolutely nothing.

Email me the blueprints to your house, your address, name, and your favorite hobbies and I will tell you the answer.

my dude nobody is using a stolen identity to go to a bar. they’re taking out lines of credit and you don’t have to always present a physical, photo ID for those because there are entire industries of creditors that have no physical location. you don’t even seem to be aware of the reasons why someone would bother stealing someone’s identity so if you’d like to continue this argument I invite you to have it with yourself.

edit: and MAJOR lol at using a bar as your example. establishments well known for being sticklers about the quality of fake IDs you “sweet summer child”

this “you’d have to make a fake to use it!!” argument is especially ridiculous when you’ve posted on a story about submitting a picture of your photo ID in place of a physical one. and one of the pieces of info you say actually “matters” is literally written on said ID

once your basic needs are guaranteed you are free to stop obsessing about how to make it to the next meal and relax.

yeah, but you probably kept listening to those. if you hadn’t listened to it “since high school” there would likely be some reason you stopped

bats are fine, but I don’t want to be anywhere near them in the wild because they’re a rabies vector.

wait do you mean its not useful to try and sell me another fridge because I just bought a fridge?

Lmao they source the photos from LinkedIn profiles. I’m sure that didn’t bias their training at all. Yes sir there’s no chance this thing is selecting for anything but facial features.

Edit: double lmao they’re all MBAs

Edit2: they didn’t even train the AI!! this paper is them just feeding linkedin photos into a third-party black-box API and then nodding thoughtfully at the results. i cant tell you how stupid the AI is because I can’t find any information about it or even the API mentioned in the paper.

it wasn’t just the keyboard for me. phone browsers pre iphone were just absolute garbage with joke rendering engines. you were lucky to get a functional mobile site, let alone trying to render the desktop version. iphone was using the same rendering engine as desktop safari, which wasn’t perfect but miles better than whatever the hell blackberry or sidekick were using.

what? i absolutely wanted a cell phone with a decent web browser on it in 2007, are you high?