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"EU bad! EU doing too much regulation!"
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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But you see, they're not regulating the corporations. That's the big difference.
AI surveillance. another method for LEO/palantir to get access to irl data.
Why don't we use this surveillance to nail the big companies that are polluting to the wall? (Because we are ruled by the worst among us.)
The engineers behind these things need to be heavily blacklisted. “Oh yeah, Justin. He was one of the software engineers behind the garbage truck cameras. Toss his resume in the trash. Erica worked for Flock, toss hers too.”
Employers are already doing this, but I’d love to see it become more prevalent.
You'd have to make engineer a protected title for that and enforce membership and chartership with your locally recognised engineering institutions to allow working under the title. They do that in Queensland Australia. It's not enforced in our other states, which is odd given Queensland is Australia's Florida ..
Getting a job as an engineer in the UK was hard work because every ridiculous job and it's dog was claiming to be an engineering role. The guy terminating a wall socket for your internet connection: telecoms engineer apparently. Rough gig for having burnt 5 years at university ..
I'd like this but for the news. Want to say your broadcast is news? It has to adhere to factual standards then. Otherwise it's entertainment.
Otherwise it’s entertainment.
Fox and Infowars (as under Alex Jones) already claim this
Yeah I agree with this
We have this in the states but the title is Professional Engineer. Which is the best way of going about it because making “Engineer” a protected title on its own makes no sense.
PE is a funny sore spot for me. It’s almost impossible to obtain if you’re not working with other PEs, which is unfortunately the vast majority of engineering roles. I think we have one in my company and he’s in a different state. I have a master’s degree in EE and 15 years working as an RF engineer, but I’ll still see a handful of people saying we’re not real engineers because we’re not holding a PE license we’ll never need.
I similarly roll my eyes when people complain about jobs like network engineers and software engineers because the PE guys don’t even like that they have engineer in the name when the word engineer just mean roughly “Guy who designs things”. Like the hubris needed to try and co-opt a generally applicable word to just a hyperspecific purpose lol
A professional engineer would be someone who's chartered with a recognised engineering institution (Engineers Europe and it's related Orgs in Europe, Engineering Council and related orgs in the UK, Engineers Australia in Australia etc) and the title would depend on the what the institution want to call them. The professional instution outlines ethical and behavioural requirements to maintain membership.
An Engineer usually refers to someone who does a job related to design and planning for a technical discipline (civil, mechanical, structural, electrical, software etc). The job role usually requires a degree in he engineering disciple, but if you were a particularly fantastic and experienced technical person you might be able to fill the role without one. There will likely be areas of knowledge where you'd be lacking in that case though.
I'm saying the job role could be made to require the chartership to help enforce adherence to the ethical requirements of those governing institutions.
The problem with that is that “Engineer” is too broad a term to require chartership in every single unrelated discipline.
These people need to be socially outcast full stop.
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I’m so tired, boss.
Can we stop with the dystopia for like…. A whole week?
The Schizophrenic who believes the garbage men are spying on him is going to fucking lose it!
Wtf, is there nothing that isn’t for sale anymore?
Capitalism!
Hahaha so true. Or is it socialist since the data is coming from a garbage truck lol 🤔
Garbage truck is gonna be new target practice for the pellet gun.
Will they take a picture before or after the fuckers in the truck somehow manage to fling my cans into the drainage ditch again
They’ll take a pic afterwards and then fine you for polluting the runoff
My city has them now. A friend of mine got flagged for overfilled bins. Before it only flagged you if the driver did, and the driver only would if it was egregious. The AI doesn't GAF and reports fucking everything apparently.
Yet another reason to move to the boonies where the only garbage truck is your own beater every couple weeks.
And you accidentally turn a whipped cream container into a steam rocket.
Good news, the flock camera on every corner will be tracking you and looking for any violations with your truck.
And by good, I mean bad.
Jokes on them I only use it on my property except for garbage runs and the plates are stolen
Lol. Lmao even.
A flock camera in a rural area will end up like a stop sign in a rural area. Full of bulletholes.
I thought so too. I live in the rural southeast. Those things are at every major intersection and about half of the rest of them.
Maybe the people that don’t mind shooting stuff will learn what they are and take them out. So far the only people I’ve heard about doing that are some kids from one of the local colleges getting arrested for it. Don’t know what happened after that tbh. But most country people are total bootlickers for the cops, as long as they keep the browns out
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I will only buy property in an area where every sign has bullet holes.
Lets me know my neighbors share my disdain for authority.
Some small towns councils/shires can be even more intrusive and nosy than those in the city, because they have fuck all else to do.
My dad lives in a small town of 30 people and the shire is nosy as fuck.
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Hmmm. A wall of those tall skinny evergreen topiaries run across the front edge of the lawn would be nice. Put in a little white picket gate with flowerboxes for effect.
Those evergreens will give my pigs a nice shade, and you’ll have to deal with the smell.
eh, code violations are a local government thing. If your town is a giant HOA then look in the mirror. Done properly code violations are serious things you do actually need to fix.
Good fucking luck seeing where i live from the street. I'd build a compound wall if i could.
How do you beat something like this with technology? It must be possible.
Need a clock-blocker.
This has been a thing for like 15 years. Just not using "AI"
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