You should be fine then. But if you want to be extra safe you should turn off Apple Intelligence since it’s just Google Gemini under the hood. Your location could still be tracked by which cell towers you connect to, but that information is generally not available to data brokers.

What mobile operating system do you use?

A great local author and publishing company has a great book on property taxes, called You’ll Pay For This. Well, it’s not about property taxes per se but its about how poor city planning + urban sprawl is stretching our resources thinner and thinner, inevitably leading to debt and higher property taxes. It’s a very illuminating read. Our current trajectory is not sustainable. I recommend this book to anyone I can lol

I agree that laws that you can’t enforce sort of just clutter up our legal system. And there are some contexts where this law would be hard to enforce, specifically when it comes to online shopping. In that context people won’t see how much other people are getting charged, so they may not realize that algorithmic pricing is at play. And it’s hard to enforce a law violation when no one knows that it’s going on.

But when it comes to shopping in person, this law would be easier to enforce, since in that context it would depend on people downloading an app to “see” prices. And that seems like something that is very easy to spot and prevent. So at the very least this law will be effective at preventing algorithmic pricing from creeping into physical stores.

Hard to say. I think there is strong public opposition to this practice though, so if there it occurs I think the chance of it being reported is pretty high. There is of course more follow up work that needs to be done after that, but thats still promising

He is very cool. Have you seen his old rap videos? The conservatives tried to publicize this during the election here to make him look bad, but it backfired because it just made him look based af

I wonder if this would mean that Uber and Lyft will need to change how they charge people in Manitoba. I think you could make a case that its not the same though, because basing price based off availability of drivers is not necessarily the same as using personal data about a user to tailor the price to them specifically. In the first case it applies to everyone using the service at that time, in the second case it still varies person to person

You’re so literal-minded it hurts

What did I say was wrong? Were the Uyghurs included in this poll or not? (Note that not every sampling bias is evidence of a communist plot)

Oh you’re just fucking exhausting aren’t you

Sure thing bud. Maybe for your next objective reality-based poll you could poll some Uyghurs

No, I just inferred you were a tankie by your lemmy.ml account and your defense of China

Like Ive said numerous times before, I don’t care if the system meets your standards of purity. All I care about is if the election was democratic enough to hold the American people responsible. And that doesn’t even seem to be something you are disagreeing with at this point. You’re just getting your panties in a twist because “America” and “democracy” seems to be some sort of tankie trigger word for you

You seem to be confusing “being able to vote for Trump” with “the system being democratic.”

Well, that makes it democratic enough for them to have not voted for Trump and, like I’ve said repeatedly, that’s all that matters in this context

If a driver doesn’t press the brakes because he was on his phone, but also the brake lines had been cut so it would not have mattered if he had, then would you say the driver is completely innocent?

Right. So your position is that the American people didn’t vote for Trump (even though there was no mass voter fraud, and they had another candidate they could have voted for) but they still would have voted for Trump even if they could have.

Gotchu.

Show me where I disputed that claim, ever.

Okay, so you agree. Great.

Tell me then: if America is not democratic, then why do Americans bear responsibility for the state of their leadership? Compare: I don’t blame Chinese citizens for Xi Jinping because the Chinese people literally have no control over his tenure in power. So if America is, like China, not a democracy, then why should I not give the American people the same grace?

Nice try. But this “goalpost” was introduced by you when you decided to take issue with my use of the term “en masse”. At no point did I ever assert that a literal majority of Americans voted for Trump. The actual goalpost I was forwarding (that Americans bear responsibility for the current state of their leadership) is something that you seem to be trying to divert attention away from, probably because you’ve realized that any argument against that position is going to sound silly

Right. So you’re talking about the voting habits of Americans, and I’m talking about the voting habits of Americans, yet we are still somehow talking about “completely unrelated” topics. Okie dokie then

Look at yourself. You are literally crossing out what I said then inserting your own words into your quote of me. Then you announce triumphantly that I’m wrong, due to this fictional quote that you just made up.

Maybe its time to put the phone down bud.

Sorry, having trouble finding the words “enough” or “flawed” in there.

So every time I talk about American democracy I have to explicitly qualify my statement to assert that it’s flawed, or else you assume I’m saying it’s perfect? Yeah okay makes sense

Completely irrelevant to what I said.

You said this:

you know that you can’t say “a majority”

You said I can’t say “a majority”, so I said “a majority”. Makes sense to me but I know Americans are notoriously bad at taking criticism so your mileage may vary