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Isn’t like more than half that number diseases like malaria spread through mosquitoes

This is very low in the world of government overreach. It doesn’t stop restaurants from having reservations, it doesn’t stop 3rd party companies from coordinating the reservations, it doesn’t even stop charging for reservations… all it does is stop 3rd party companies selling reservations from a restaurant without their consent.

These companies add nothing of value to consumers or restaurants and seek to harm both as they increase the cost of getting a reservation and cause people to have a certain disdain for the restaurant.

Sure the restaurants could make the process of getting reservations harder and more expensive with regular audits and authentications but this is literally what the government is for, nobody is harmed with these laws except scalpers

You need to amend the constitution which requires 38 states to agree to it that considering how many right wing states hate California doesn’t sound impossible

The civil war only happens if the U.S. attacks after a secession, but the state that single most funds the U.S. military is California, if you include Washington and Oregon in the secession you now end up with 19ish% of the countries budget and a sizable percentage of the military bases. With the American civil war there was somewhat defined lines of north vs south but this would be fights inside their own states.

Except Germany is in a formal treaty with France and the UK who both have nuclear weapons

If someone attacks Germany’s nuclear power plants the world as we know it won’t exist because nuclear weapons will launch ravaging most of the world.

Also you don’t need to attack every single solar panel, just the power distribution centers

They currently don’t affect digital goods but there is no actual reason they couldn’t make one that does we are in some truly interesting times

You can’t legally consent to things if you aren’t of sound mind and body.

Just about everyone can use help with sentence structure, like can you convey your point without help? Sure, but your point can be conveyed clearer and with less effort on your part.

It’s like the benefit of autocorrect you can reread your whole email a few times and double check a few questionable words to make sure everything is spelled perfectly or we can have this integrated tool that highlights words that should be fixed and lets you quickly fix those words.

For bullshit corporate emails I personally see very little negative in using a chatbot to make your words sound more professional besides just more of a brain rot

“AI” or as they were called for the longest time machine learning algorithms can do things like spell check and help with grammar.

The more modern algorithms that they started really calling AI can help format your ideas, can fix sentence structure, and can even translate into foreign languages

Email is probably the most useful place for AI as most of the ones we talk about today are really good at language formatting but don’t really have any intelligence

For example you can write an email cursing out your boss saying “as I fucking told you yesterday” and then ask the AI to rewrite your email in a professional tone so that it says “per my previous email” like sure you can obviously do that yourself but it’s a lot faster to word vomit your thoughts into a computer especially when it’s trivial work related garbage and save your mental energy for your personal time

By evil company standards that’s pretty benign

Like Hershey uses slave labor, Chiquita helped transport weapons for paramilitary groups, nestle well we have all heard about what nestle does.

Just about everything you listed that they do can be summed up as they vehemently protect their IP that while they are overkill they just aren’t even close to other video game companies like blizzard who protect sexual harassers

It doesn’t matter if it’s data, tariffs are meant to be protectionist so you could easily say that since Nintendo is headquartered in Japan or because the majority of their workers are in Japan or because their name sounds vaguely Japanese that all sales of their product in insert country here has to pay an additional 10% tax